Front Mission - Manifold Irons

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Published on June 2, 2023 4:30:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGT73Xkpd8

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Front Mission (1995)

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Front Mission (フロントミッション, Furonto Misshon) is a Mecha based Tactical RPG developed by G-Craft and published by Square (Soft) for the WonderSwan Color, this version was a direct port of the original Front Mission released on the Super Famicom, other ports were made to the PlayStation 1, Nintendo DS, as well as a full remake for the Nintendo Switch. This version was originally released in Japan on July 12, 2002.

Square and G-Craft worked together making the title, including aspects like the games graphics and sound. Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy), Shinji Hashimoto (Final Fantasy), and Toshiro Tsuchida (Front Mission) all loved robots and did a lot of brainstorming to discover elements that could be in the game.

There was debate about whether the games imagry would be too graphic, out of concern for children, but the decision was decided that the game should be more adult, and have heavier themes than a Final Fantasy game, because of this decision when Yoshitaka Amano painted the illustration that was intended to be used as the front cover of the cartridges packaging they had to scale it back out of concern.

Hironobu Sakaguchi love for building plastic models led to hiring Kow Yokoyama, who had a reputation for building high quality figures, because of this Yokoyama helped design the wanzer mechs and was able to help design them as though they were real weapons. (Though apparently Sakaguchi just wanted to have his own personal Wanzer because of his love of models).

The games soundtrack was composed by Yoko Shimomura, and Noriko Matsueda.