Project Sylpheed. The intro to the first mission has you, your love interest and another pilot, Brandon, in a mock-dogfight with the squadron leader. When the leader gets behind Brandon, he quite literally freaks out, even though its only a training flight.
This, and the rather wimpy way he behaves after the dogfight and when your asked to investigate some unidentified fighters made me mentally tag the guy as 'dead meat'. Sure enough, the guy doesn't even make it out of the first cutscene. All through the mission there's pilot chatter of 'oh no, why did it have to be brandon?' as if its supposed to make us care that this sacrificial lamb character died... every time I heard one I had to fight the urge to grin at the narminess of it.
The funeral that follows is largely nicely done... just about everybody there is acting professionally... except your love interest, who's sobbing like a small child, even though she's in the military as a fighter pilot!
Which nicely leads into the next mission where the enemy launch an all-out assault on an allied planet... and amongst other gems she comes out with 'Oh no - this feels like a real war.'...
Again... shes in the freaking military as a freaking fighter pilot, and she can't seem to understand she's now on the bloody frontline in an ACTUAL SHOOTING WAR where people will die. What was she expecting when she joined the army?