Coronation - Jose Pavli | Project Wingman Soundtrack (2020)

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[CorporalRoman]

Crimson 1’s ultimate move that actually got everyone when using this:




Depressing second thoughts

[leo]

As a lot of people noticed, Monarch's emblem represents more of a butterfly, than an actual crown. The alleged "crown" is doubled, and the underline beneath acts as a body of the said butterfly. Once you are able to see a butterfly out of it, you will never unsee it again. The emblem will remain a butterfly for you, not a crown.

Yet try to retrace the steps of Monarch's and Sikario's journey through Cascadia. Literally every non-associated (including other mercenaries) callsign sees only a crown. Hell, even the members of Sikario also refer to Monarch as the "Crown". All of them see Monarch as a man of great ambition, some see him as a man of arrogance ("You don’t name yourself after a King without knowing what’s what. Either that, or he’s full of it."). Crimson-1 claimed, that Monarch called himself after a king.

And Monarch remained silent. Because possibly only he knows (or remembers?), that he got his callsign... After a monarch butterfly. And like all butterflies, Monarch sought contentment in motion and flight. He never wished to be a top dog, he never made any claims for a metaphorical throne, he never spoke a word to anyone about power. He just did his job, and he did his job good. Perhaps, originally Monarch was an adrenaline junkie, that with time became mature enough to stay leveled, but too good at his job to try anything else. Just like a regular butterfly, he is destined to stay in the skies as long as his "wings" can hold him. Because that is what keeps him happy.

Now look upon his colleagues and friends. Kaiser, Prez(ident), Diplomat, Comic. Literally all of them have names somewhat correlating with king's court. It is fairly possible, that Kaiser got his callsign just to mark himself at least on the same level as Monarch, mistaking his butterfly for a crown. And you have to admit, that in such a "high place", it is fairly easy to only see the Crown.

Finally, here is the tradegy of Crimson-1. The Federation's posterboy, allegedly the best pilot in the world, the most known King of the skies. Until Monarch flies along. Crimson-1 from Day 1 saw a threat to his "throne" in him. He gnashed and mocked just to feel superior, just to calm down. Deep down below, after every encounter with Monarch, his inner voice at first whispered, then eventually began screaming "He is stealing your throne! The usurper, the false king! How dares he claim your birthright of Cascadian skies?! He doesn't belong here! Kill him! Kill him!" Crimson-1 became the victim of his own fame and glory. And the fact, that the one "challenging" him is not even national, but just a damned merc? An insult of highest regard.

The irony is... The self-proclaimed king destroyed his own kingdom and lost his mind over an extremely evasive, but calm and unbothering butterfly. Just because he thought, that this butterfly named Monarch came here to become the King in his stead. Whereas it was simply... Flying. And in his final act of arrogance, befitting a fallen king, he performed his Coronation upon Monarch, admitting his self-imposed defeat.

It wouldn't be much of a surprise at this point, if Monarch would take the metaphorical crown of a dead king off of his head, tumble it in his hands for a moment... And throw it aside, not interested in making his own court and entagling himself into the very same web, that Crimson-1 weaved for himself. Perhaps, this is where his final words with some additions would really take hold. "Remember me and my kingdom I destroyed to spite you." Only for the "usurper" to shake his head in mourning of innocents caught up in one man's madness. With a very simple question...

"Why?"

[fear]

Ace Combat: War is bad, but we can work together for peace.
Project Wingman: Everyone suffers for the glory of a few. Your Contract is fulfilled.

[phantomwraith]

When you seen Monarch's emblem on the screen for the final phase, and you realize that the final boss.... is you

[jacplac]

The ending gets even more depressing, when you realize one fact.
Both Crimson 1 and Monarch, are Cascadian, yet neither of them flies under the Cascadian flag.
Crimson is a fanatical loyalist to the Pacific Federation.
Monarch is a Sicario mercenary.
Both fighting over the ruins, of their past homeland.

[trigger]

"When you hear the thunder... When the storm comes for you... Remember me." -The last words of Crimson 1 above Presidia, 432 AC.

[CaptainKapitan]

Damn...game went from
*AC Alternative*
to
*Project Wingman: The Line*

[Mark-fctu]

As someone who's played AC6, AC7, Assault Horizon, AC3, and Project Wingman... to me, this was one of the most somber endings in a flight sim, rivaling AC3 in that regard.

AC4? Mobius 1 succeeds in taking down Megalith... and receives a letter from the narrator, who saw Yellow 13 as a friend.

AC5? Blaze and Razgriz Squadron destroy the SOLG while Harling helps to negotiate peace, but Chopper was lost in the war.

ACZ? Cipher stops Pixy from unleashing V2 upon Strangereal. Pixy recovers and is forced to re-evaluate the meaning of boundaries. PJ was killed by Pixy's assault, and Cipher vanishes from history.

AC6? Talisman and the Emmerians bring down the Chandelier thanks to Voychek's change of heart. Pasternak gave his life so that Toscha and Strigon Team could retreat. Melissa lost her husband, and Shamrock lost his family. But Ludmila and Toscha got their happy ending, while Shamrock goes to meet Melissa and Matilda for lunch.

Assault Horizon? Bishop succeeds in saving the White House from Trinity. Guts manages to beat the odds and survive, and Markov threw his life away in his scheme to get revenge for his wife's death.

AC7? Trigger takes down Hugin and Munin and prevents the drone uprising, but there were many causalities along the way. Brownie, High Roller, Champ, Full Band, Wiseman, Tabloid, and Wit. Mihaly is forced into retirement due to his injuries. And despite everything that Trigger, Avril, Count, Huxian, Jager, and Cosette did to save the world... it all inevitably comes undone in AC3, thanks to Schroeder's successor.

AC3? The world is ruled by mega corporations. Technology is on the rise, and everyone uses it to kill each other. Nemo inflicts catastrophic amounts of damage to Strangereal, and it was all part of a simulation created by a mad scientist who wanted to kill one man for the sake of his dead colleague.

And then there's Project Wingman. The Federation and Cascadia broker a truce, but Crimson 1 nukes the entire country with Cordium missiles just to force a final duel with Monarch. After a harrowing fight, Monarch emerges victorious, as the newly-crowned king above a molten inferno in the sky. Prez, Diplomat, Comic, Galaxy, Stardust, and Kaiser are all fine. Monarch collects his payment, as the deal as been honored.

What affected me about Project Wingman’s ending was how quiet it was, with the burning atmosphere and the haunting music. You have the satisfaction of killing the maniac who blamed you for his destructive actions… and then you’re left with only your thoughts for company.
There's Prez, but she passed out during the fight.

I'd like to thank the developers at D2 for the amazing game they've given to the community.

And I'd like to thank Jose Pavali for his work on Project Wingman's music.

Project Wingman was one hell of a ride, and I'm looking forward to whatever you make next.

[gzerx]

Where everyone saw a crown, I saw a butterfly. “I see no kings up here, ” because Monarch never never claimed to be a king, it was a Rorschach test that everyone craving power failed. His wings were small but would stir Cascadia into a hurricane, one that he could only pray would put out the fires after he was gone.

[jivasche]

Me: "Alright. I beat him, music turns somber, and the hud is gone. Must be some playable cutscene where he just trying to shoot me down."
Crimson 1: "Predictable"

[hello-hbll]

I love how PW treats war differently than Ace Combat.

In AC, once the war is over, it's like all the deaths were nothing, and "the world is perfect once again" (for the next 6 years until another war comes, of course)

In PW, there is no such thing. Crimson, driven by pure insanity and egomaniac attitudes, commits genocide in an entire city, just so he could be proclaimed the "king of the skies". The game ends with this sad tone as he gets more and more insane. It's kind of like a message to the player, saying "you did this. It was your wish not to have your wings clipped (not lose AC) that did all this". In AC, the last mission is almost always (if not always) a victory, but not here. This makes you (or rather, Monarch) question: *was it worth it?*

In AC, war is reversible.
In PW, was destroys everything.

[peepeepoopoo]

As crimson 1 fell out of the sky and fizzled out like a sun, only one man was left flying above the hellscape that was once Presidia. Only one man was there to witness his own coronation as the king of the now empty skies.

And thus, Monarch bore his crown in the burning ruins of cascadia, ruler of the dead, owner of riches as cold and vast as the millions of ghosts that scream his name.

[Ikcatcher]

“Was it worth it? How many points did you get?”
-Max0r

[advanced]

Crimson tried so hard to be king of the skies. In his last moments, after desperately trying to steal the crown, after realizing he was the king of nothing, he looked to Monarch, the one who carved out his spot on the throne that Crimson sought after, and asked that when the day comes that Monarch should fall; not to another rival, but by some grand force of nature, that this Nameless, Borderless King would remember this man, as the man who almost beat him.

[crow--x]

When I beat this game I honestly asked myself "... did I win?" Never did victory taste so damn bitter, and this somber tune goes perfectly with it... Amazing

[midorifox]

Ace combat's endings: Everyone walks away holding hands and skipping around.
Project Wingman's ending: The country you were supposed to liberate is dead. Everything is in ruin. Take your payment. (Yeah the cast survives, but that's beside the point.)

Crimson 1's "remember me" sound both as someone being angry at monarch (because he snagged some title from him), but also himself after, maybe, he realizes how he led to his entire country to be wiped out, and his comrades' deaths. But it also sounds as some sort of request, from him to monarch, for hitman 1 not to become like him, and destroy everything he worked for, when, eventually, someone will come for monarch's spot. At this point, victory really meant nothing. Nearly everybody (in the city, as in civilians and troops) died.

[maximv.krieken]

I'm going to be honest, this was a perfect slow-tune to finish with.
The only sounds you're able to hear are just this slow, almost sad tune, the missile warning and the near-breakage clicking of your Controller/Stick/Keyboard.
What a theme.

[AstralStar.]

Pretty much everyone will disagree with me but this is in my opinion the best song out of the soundtrack. A hollow song for a hollow victory.

[CoolGamer-qzzp]

It's over. He's been beaten. His craft is a flaming wreck he can barely keep stable anymore, and soon he'll crash down into Presidia. Or, at least, what's left of it. He destroyed it all, all to beat that man, and he failed. Everything he had done, everything he had *sacrificed* for, amounted to **nothing** in the end.

All to beat the man who bested him.
Him, the poster boy of the Federation, leader of the invincible Crimson Squadron, the best fighter pilot in the skies...bested by a mere mercenary.

He looked to his right to see the man now. The king of the skies, Monarch, flying in his F/D-14. He could make out the figure of the WSO, passed out from G-LOC judging by their slumped over posture, and then the man himself. Hitman 1, now the ruler over the skies, hero to Cascadia. What was left of it anyways.

His plane had nary a stratch on it. He had bombed all of Presidia to lure him out, was given the single best plane ever built by the Federation, loaded with enough armaments to end a war on its own, and the man's plane didn't even look like he had been touched at all! All while his plane was now starting to dip downwards, unable to keep altitude anymore.

He looked left now, to see the orange sky beside him. A geothermal storm, with the remnants of Presidia still burning beneath them. As he looked to the wasteland he had created, he realized how little it had all mattered. The Federation, something he had joined with aspirations of peace for his former homeland if it just gave in, had lost the war. Cascadia would flourish from this, with Monarch as their leader, while the Federation would stagnate, before finally being snuffed out, just like him. Two sides of the same coin, Crimson 1 and Hitman 1.

"Monarch..." He said into his helmet, communicating his last words to the man who had bested him and claimed both crown and throne as the single best pilot of the skies. This was his Coronation. His hand was pressed against the cockpit glass of his jet.

"When you hear the thunder...when the storm...comes for you..." In his last moments, he regrets everything. His betrayal of his homeland to the Federation, when all he wanted was peace and prosperity, his habit of picking fights with Hitman Squadron, who decimated his friends, and his nuking of Presidia, all to settle a grudge against one man. He had gone too far in his obsession to be king. And he would die regretting everything that had led up to this fateful moment.

"Remember me."

His last words to a man he once hated, but now saw as a reflection of who he once was. The greatest pilot of all. And his words were a warning to the man to never repeat the same mistakes he did, in case he ever faced someone just like him someday. To never again let another Calamity happen again. And to watch over his home while he was gone. He did not wanted to be remembered as a madman, but as the man who was once the greatest ace of the sky.

And with that, he let the joystick go, letting his ship plunge down to the bombed out ruins of his home. He let himself relax in his seat, accepting his death. He didn't expect Monarch to listen to him. The man was a mystery who never said a thing. But he hoped the newly crowned king would at least grant him this one last, final request.

And in his last moments before his plane blew up in the sky, he remembered how proud he once was, to be called King.

[VeeTOHFan]

prez: *Wakes up in a medical tent after monarch lands at an airfield somewhere in magadan federation*
monarch: Hey you, your finally awake