Front Mission (video game)

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Front Mission

Developer(s)	Square Co., Ltd., G-Craft
Publisher(s)	Square Co., Ltd.
Release date(s)	^JP February 24, 1995 (SNES) ^JP July 12, 2002 (WSC) ^JP October 23, 2003 (PS1) ^JP March 22, 2007 (DS)
Genre(s)	Tactical role-playing
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Super NES, PlayStation, WonderSwan Color, Nintendo DS
Media	Cartridge (SNES) (WSC) CD-ROM (PS1) 256-Megabit flash card (DS)

Front Mission (フロントミッション, Furonto Misshon^?) is a strategy video game developed and published by Square Co., Ltd. in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom in Japan). Front Mission is an ongoing saga intertwining the storylines of various heroes and their epic battles involving mechs. The games feature a very broad range of mech customization, where each individual part of the mech can be tweaked for the greatest possible performance.

1 Gameplay
2 Front Mission 1st
3 Story
4 Cast
5 Trivia

[edit] Gameplay

The gameplay of Front Mission is very similar to other Squaresoft strategy games such as Final Fantasy Tactics. There is terrain of different heights, and each attack is turn based. Players can use various attacks based on their range from their enemies and their equipment.

[edit] Front Mission 1st

Seven years after its first release on the SNES, in 2002 the game was released for the Wonderswan Color. In 2003, the game was remade as Front Mission 1st for the PlayStation. A remake of the PlayStation game is currently in development for the Nintendo DS and will be released on March 22, 2007 in Japan. If the game sees a Western release, it will be the first time the original Front Mission game is officially published in English. An emulated English-language ROM of the game is available online.

Front Mission 1st will include a character from Front Mission 5: Scars of the War. Battle sequences are being tuned to use the DS's dual screen setup for an easy view of the action.

[edit] Story

OCU army members Sakata, Lloyd, and his fiancée, Karen, entered a place prohibited by the USN. An USN officer, Driscol, caught them and killed Karen. Sakata and Lloyd were discharged for breaking the treaty and causing war between the OCU and USN. Later, they are hired as mercenaries by Gen. Olson for a special mission, and Lloyd seeks revenge for his loved one. Front Mission First has a large cast with over 32 playable characters. The player can find them in the bars and colosseums, or sometimes they need to be rescued.

[edit] Cast

Lloyd
Sakata
Natalie
Keith
J.J.
Frederick Lancester
Seeker Hans
Yang
PeeWee
Paul

[edit] Trivia

In Front Mission 4, news reporter Frederick Lancester is a playable character after he is saved in Stage 3.

In the black and orange screen that appears at nearly every town of the game, we can see two particular signs of three letters each : LSD and XTC. It may be a joke from the designers, or an indication that the island of Huffman has special drugs laws.