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Evolution Does Not Imply Improvement
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/17/2021
‘Front Mission’ is a long-running series of Tactical Role-Playing Games developed by Squaresoft starting back in 1995. Since that time, only a handful of ‘Front Mission’ titles received official localizations outside of Japan. Moreover, Squaresoft demonstrated a disturbing preoccupation with adding Action to a turn-based franchise, starting with 1996’s “Front Mission: Gun Hazard.”
“Front Mission Evolved” (“FME”), the topic of this review, is only the third ‘Front Mission’ game to officially make it States-side, in 2010. And, of course, with 2010 being smack in the middle of the 7th Generation’s Shooter Domination epidemic, it is not a TRPG like most of the franchise, but is an example of Squaresoft’s (now Square-Enix’s) other fixation: Becoming a …
