
The Front Mission series of tactical rpg’s by Square Enix is great! They are tactical rpgs but they are set in a futuristic setting where you control huge giant robots called Wanzers and fight in wars. Here’s information on the games…
Front Mission (series) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Mission)
Front Mission 1 – Super Famicom, Feb 24th 1995
Front Mission: Gun Hazard – Super Famicom, Feb 23rd 1996
Front Mission 2 – Playstation 1, Sep 25th 1997
Front Mission: Alternative – Playstation 1, Dec 18th 1997
Front Mission 3 – Playstation 1, Sep 2nd 1999
Front Mission 4 – Playstation 2, Dec 18th 2003
Front Mission Online – PS 2/PC – May 12th 2005
Front Mission 2089 – Cell, Aug 15th 2005
Front Mission 5: Scars of the War – Playstation 2, Dec 29th 2005
Front Mission 2089-II – Cell, Upcoming!
This game rivals the tactical rpg’s made by the Yasumi Matsuno/Ivalice/Ogre teams, e.g.: Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, etc. It also rivals the tactical rpg’s made by Nippon Ichi Software: Disgaea 1, Phantom Brave, Disgaea 2, etc.
I’ve beaten Front Mission 1 and Front Mission: Gun Hazard(action rpg) for Super Famicom, courtesy of fan translation patches. They were great!! Front Mission 3 and Front Mission 4 are the only FM games released in the Usa. I don’t know if any fan translation patch exists for Front Mission 2 or Front Mission Alternative, or other newer games.
Square Enix is releasing Front Mission 1st on October 23rd in Usa for DS. Maybe they’ll release other FM games like FM: GH, FM 2, or FM: A after that. Maybe I should wait and hope that the Front Mission series will be released by Square Enix in Usa so that I can play a version of it. Or maybe I should just learn Japanese and play this game.
If a rpg game is so amazingly good enough that people are offering to learn Japanese to play the sequel, you best take notice! Who else here is huge fans of the Front Mission series? It’s one of the six rpg teams I like best! 🙂
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/frontmission4
75% from 39 critical reviews, 88% from 8 user votes
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/918883.asp
75% from 43 critical reviews, 77% from 178 user votes
For averages of critical reviews, those are the two websites. What are the top websites where you can see an average of user votes? Gamespot, Gamespy, and Ign are the first ones that come to mind for me. I don’t know what else is good though.
Beat Front Mission 1 first! You can buy it for the Super Famicom. I’ve heard people have made a English fan translation patch for it also.
But then again… I haven’t followed up on the FM series that much… 🙁
Just follow a walkthrough so you can fully understand what’s happening.