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[[File:PAL-Xbox_360-Project_Sylpheed.jpg|frame|This is the ''least'' amount of [[More Dakka|dakka]] you can equip.]]
''Project Sylpheed'' is a space shooter developed jointly by Game Arts (famous for the ''[[Lunar]]'' and ''[[Grandia]]'' series) and SETA Corp, and published by [[Square Enix]] exclusively for the [[Xbox 360]] as part of their platform diversification program.
The game takes place in [[The Future|the 27th century]]. Earth, better known as Terra since their colonial expansion movement, has [[Terraform|terraformed]] and colonized over a dozen systems across a vast reach of space. However, because of the distance between Terra and her colony worlds, their is a strong movement in the outer colonies towards independence from the Terra centralized government.
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Tensions reach an all time high after the Acheron incident, during which Terra [[Colony Drop|sterilized a rogue colony]] and [[Government Conspiracy|disguised the event as a terraforming accident]]. This event caused several other colony worlds to band together in a coalition dedicated to securing their freedom from Terra (naming themselves ADAN, after the first letter of each member colony).
Players take on the role of [[Rookie Red Ranger|Katana Faraway]], a cadet training to be a pilot in the Terra Central Armed Forces. During a routine training exercise, his flight wing is attacked by ADAN fighters, which inadvertently spoils the ADAN surprise attack on Schlos Base, the in-system defense platform of the colony world Lebendorf. The carrier Acropolis is deployed with Katana's fighter squad to fend off the encroaching ADAN forces.
Project Sylpheed suffered mixed reviews, with critics citing cliche characters and predictable combat as detriments, as well as the fact that there is a hidden time limit on missions and that the persistently hard to see targets took away from the dogfighting experience by forcing the player to rely on instruments. Alternately, people praised it for being an accurate representation of a space shooter, containing distinctive characters, [[Hey, It's That Voice!|voice actors]], a deeper integration of gameplay and story, and an ''[[Scenery Porn|extremely]]'' [[Cool Starship|colourful]] [[Bishonen|design]] ethic. While critically average, it did [[Your Mileage May Vary|enough things right for enough people]] that it went platinum November 1st, 2007.
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* [[Ace Pilot]]
▲* [[Ace Pilot]] - Katana's training squad destroys an entire fighter ''wing''. ''And that's only the first level''.
** Also [[Worthy Opponent|Margras Mason]], whose piloting skill is even better than that of Katana.
* [[Anime]]
* [[Anime Hair]]
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]] - Subverted: Vice-Admiral Vieira, commander of the flagship Caliban. Responsible for the defense of Schlos Base and Operation Nebula Blaze. Bravely runs away at the first sign of real trouble. Handled quite reasonably: the good Admiral is [[Reassigned to Antarctica|demoted and transferred to the farthest and coldest reaches of space by the end of the game.]]▼
** Katana Faraway, space cadet. {{spoiler|Singlehandedly destroys half the invading fleet. Is promoted to Lieutenant and becomes flight leader of the White Griffons}}.
▲* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]] - Played straight with the rest of the cast.
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▲* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]
▲* [[The Atoner]] - Margras Mason, after he witnesses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] crossed by ADAN.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]
* [[Boring but Practical]]
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]
* [[Escort Mission]]
▲* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]] - Averted. Every awesome maneuver Katana and his squad mates execute can be done in game.
* [[Expy]]: Margras is [[Gundam|Char Aznable]] the [[Red Baron|Red Comet]] and [[Gundam Seed|Athrun Zala]], obviously!! The whole story is basically a miniature version of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', and the gameplay is ''[[Macross]]''!!▼
▲* [[Escort Mission]] - Every single mission in the game requires that you keep certain capital ships alive, along with offering bonus upgrade points for keeping other ones alive. Considering that your capital ships are [[Point Defenseless|apparently devoid of any point defences]] and the other friendly fighters focus on destroying enemy fighters instead of the attackers and bombers like they should this becomes even more of a [[Scrappy Mechanic|annoyance]] than it usually is.
▲* [[Expy]]: Margras is [[Gundam|Char Aznable]] the [[Red Baron|Red Comet]] and [[Gundam Seed|Athrun Zala]], obviously!! The whole story is basically a miniature version of [[Gundam Seed]], and the gameplay is [[Macross]]!!
** And we have Doris Egan as [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Haman Karn]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Gihren Zabi]].
** Katana is [[Gundam Seed|Kira "Jesus" Yamato]], in that both have the quality of [[The Messiah]].
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
* [[Good-Looking Privates]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice
* [[Hot Librarian]]
* [[Idiot Ball]]
** It's really hard to see a small fighter in space. Wouldn't it be a great idea to try to cover up those HUGE glowing exhaust trails?
*** Possibly justified, as they're not going for stealth, and you'll mostly be relying on radar anyway.
** There's a frigate in the Lebendorf missions who comes under fire from bombers. After you save it, it deploys its fighters to assist the main fleet. ''Why did you not use said fighters to repel the bombers?''
** Averted at the end with Katana and Margras. {{spoiler|Margras is screening Katana's run on the Prometheus Driver with his shields, but when they go down, he refuses to let Katana take over ''despite the fact that shields can regenerate''. He does this because after he realizes he was partly responsible for destroying an entire planet in a fashion similar to Terra's destruction of his own, he lost any will to live beyond his goal of destroying that horrendous weapon. Margras ''[[Fridge Brilliance|committed suicide]]''
* [[In Name Only]]
* [[It's Up to You]]
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]
** Some missiles shoot ''[[Recursive Ammo|other missiles]]''.
* [[The Messiah]]
* [[More Dakka]]
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]
* [[Old School Dogfighting]]
* [[Point Defenseless]]
** Also played straight. Point defence systems on friendly capital ships can't seem to take down a single one of the attackers that are quite rapidly tearing them apart, forcing you to save them.
* [[Rule of Cool]]/[[Rule of Drama]]
* [[Scenery Porn]]
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]:
* [[Space Is an Ocean]]
* [[Space Opera]]
* [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet]]
* [[Stupid Sacrifice]]
* {{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop|Suicide By Childhood Friend]]}}
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]
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