Front Mission 1995

Is it still worth playing?

G-Craft's tactical role playing game for the Super Famicom, released in Japan in February 1995, the first Front Mission. It progresses in a linear way: you watch cutscenes, complete missions, set up your units during intermissions and sortie for the next mission. You travel on a point and click world map where new locations appear as the plot advances, and towns and cities are intermission points to organize your units for the next mission. You use wanzers, mecha with four modular parts: body, left arm, right arm and legs. Losing an arm or leg does not remove a wanzer from play but cripples it, by loss of weapon use for the arms or by slowing movement to a single space for the legs. Every battle is still a tactical question, with a mecha you assemble part by part and lose part by part.