We only have Front Mission 1st, 3, and 4. Sadly, the vast majority of media related to Front Mission hasn't made it outside of east Asia. Your heroes are typically ordinary soldiers who pilot Wanzers (essentially highly functional human-shaped tanks), who get dragged into conflicts as soldiers do. ![]() There are a few others as well (a reunited China and Taiwan, a neo-USSR, an African coalition) but those two are the main players, it seems.Īs one would expect, wars and revolutions break out over territory, failed economic policies, scientific discoveries gone wrong, and whatever else you may have. Australia, New Zealand, and Japan head off the Oceania Cooperative Union with Southeast Asian and Pacific Island membership. Canada, U.S., and Mexico banded together and took control of South America and most of the Caribbean, forming the United Continental States (alternatively United States of the New Continent). The setting is really interesting, a believable future-earth, where the world's nations have grouped together into various coalitions. ![]() If you like the strategy RPG genre, and if can overlook some flaws derived from old age, you should give it a go. I don't know exactly how I stumbled upon Front Mission 1st for the DS, but I think I was just looking for an RPG of some sort that involved cool robots or mechas and this was the top result. Third, does this franchise have a future?įor those of you who haven't played the games no spoilers follow: Side question: what about the other Crows? We see Ryuji and Keith being scumbags as well (why?), but anybody else? Second, I'm only on Front Mission 2nd so forgive me, but what the bloody blue fuck happened to Royd in the 12 years since the Second Huffman Conflict? How did he go from a competent mercenary leader fighting against government conspiracies to a completely psychotic, mass-murdering, true terrorist? I don't think I've seen a less ceremonious change in characterization (and subsequent death) in any form of entertainment. First, is there anything available in English except for the numbered, main series games? Have there been (fan) translations of any of the manga, novels, or the game 2089? It's too bad Square hates this series - the worldbuilding is phenomenal. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who would like to discuss the sorry fate and/or maybe-greatness of the Front Mission series, and also hoping I could inform some folks who aren't in the know about the series.įor those of you who have played the games spoilers follow:
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