The Sky Crawlers was pretty awful.
>press X to dogfight
>you don't want to use our QTE bullshit? fuck you, here's a boss who uses dogfight mode to zoom away at Mach 2 whenever you get behind them
>controls in general are terrible, even with a GC pad
>so bad, in fact, that every weapon in the game needs massive autoaim just so you can have some hope of hitting something
>tuning system is so imbalanced that most late-game planes are differentiated only by their weapon selection
>3/4 of said weapons are just machine guns with slightly different stats
>WW2 fighters handling like an F-15, complete with >200km/h stall speed on planes that cruise at less than 400km/h
>200km/h crosswinds
>200km/h crosswinds, with no warning, at the bottom of a narrow canyon, near the end of what was already a long and frustrating level
>I'd complain about it being shorter than AC6 but that's probably for the best
>every level is incredibly underwhelming, even the final battle is just a few regular planes followed by a regular plane with a speedhack
>I could write an entire second post about just how bad the writing is