I've been playing this demo for the past few days and I am in awe! You get no missions, just a map, and can fly around doing whatever.. it's an open world (?) dogfighting game. Wow. I didn't know I needed this in my life.
The feeling of finding and fighting the named enemies for the first time was both scary and exciting, and just like one of the previous commenters said, I feel the names really add something special to the encounter. And I love the naming theme, I think it fits and I even hope it stays!
Exploring the map feels really good too, and I think this is the point that I find the most interesting. The current demo at times makes me feel like I'm playing an exploration focused dogfighting game, I fly around an island, looking for interesting terrain, secrets and tunnels, and challenging fights, and on the way there will often be an enemy that crosses my path that I end up fighting, or evading.
It's really exciting to think of the possibilities if this is the kind of direction the game is going in the long term. Makes me wonder, will we get to explore a larger map in the future and find surprise named encounters that don't show up on the sortie map screen?
Oh also I love the photo mode, it really gives the art style a place to shine, I've already taken so many screenshots...