Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm our host, Rob Zakene.

Tonight, I'm joined by John Balding.

Howdy, howdy.

Hope everybody's doing pretty good.

Not too bad.

So we're tardy getting to this, but I think we were both slow to climb aboard, Constantine

Chusufin's High Fleet, which is yet another entry in the crowded Lunarlander, Bullet Hell, Naval Wargame,

rogue-like visual novel genre.

No, but John, I think this like brings us to maybe the first issue we encounter with this game,

which is what is High Fleet, or more accurately,

if you play the tutorial, the sort of opening prologue tutorial,

what does High Fleet appear to be?

And then what does High Fleet reveal itself to be?

High Fleet looks like a game of sort of

tactical action combat where you are

controlling these

not so agile flying battleships

and cruisers and interceptors

and you are engaging in this sort of real-time

combat with them and so there's a lot of

aiming and skill and prediction involved.

And then at the other end of the game,

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