the hand drawn art in the corner with the rendered cockpit is soul. I had by far the most fun in arcade mode since there was an interesting space to maneuver around in and lots of fellas to shoot at. Every weapon except the gatling and grenade has such a slow rate of fire that i ended up just swapping weapons each shot to keep up with the enemies. The side dash didn't feel like a meaningful change in speed. and the quick turnaround i only ever activated by accident trying to back-dash.
The campaign with other characters was cool too but i had no idea what was going on or how the levels were connected. Reminded me a bit of Ace Combat missions but without the between mission briefs. The tower map was really fun but the other ones were pretty damn sparse on the enemies. Overboost in the big map was really cool (especially boosting into the skybox to drop in on buildings) but I wish I had some control over it.
its a fun experience and im looking forward to more Hawken kino