Análise do Nintendo Switch do Front Mission 1st Remake

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Happy gaming! Glen

I like 4 the most, shame we never got 5 in NA

Remaster and Classic modes are pretty sick

Hi dude . I love this game !!! However , this New remake of the game is less difficult in comparison of the ancient version…for me , this remake IS a gem !!! I Hope that the second game come to the west in physical édition for the first time ? Thanks for the review dude . PS : sorry for m'y poor english man . i'm french…

i will skip this one i just don’t like the game play loop and graphics are not appealing to me but i want to like this so bad but i know myself and this will just collect dust like the ps1 version i disliked years ago.

Gues they tried to stay a close to vanilla + added campaign which was delivered on PSONE and NDS. Pure graphics and sound update which seems a bit overpriced. Then again, it's Square Enix. Most of their old games & remakes and are overpriced.

Is it on the ps4 / ps5 and series X too?

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Heavy RNG and difficulty spikes? That doesn't work well together. I think, I pass on this one.

Ah Thanks for this SwitchUp people. I really do love the original Front Mission 1st. My dad, brother and I played it 1st on SNES and I understood the story by playing the US version on the NDS later on.
On a visual and artistic viewpoint, the original is really good for its time and I can even say it aged well since pixel art is still prominent today and probably will be in the future. The sprites still holds up today. Its gritty but clean, and it doesn't even try very hard to be realistic but the simplistic sprite movements, theme and color palettes used to set the mood convinces you otherwise. And that is paired with masterfully crafted OSTs that sounds militaristic but classical on a freaking SNES soundchip and it blends damn well with the visuals overall.
That's the charm of the original. It's modern classical take blends so damn well that its beautiful.
This remake on the other hand falls very short especially in the art direction and it is quite disappointing.
One of the main issues on this remake is the wanzer animations. If you've played the later installments of main Front Mission titles (4&5), you'll know the animations on this remake is below decent. They're aiming for a faithful remake but changed it to 3D, meaning, they were aiming for a more realistic approach to the wanzers. The wanzers however are very janky, looks weightless and the idle animation moves like a cranked toy on the brink of exploding, which is very far from realistic. If that was their goal, they could have easily used Front Mission 4&5 as reference for the wanzer behaviors.
Another one is how crazy the inconsistencies of the scaling of 3D assets are. its ridiculous, some of the passenger cars are just too big that a wanzer could almost drive that car lmao. The original fared better in that regard.
I also agree on the annoying ambient sound effect especially the crow squawking. they thought it would be cool to add this quality of life feature but its just annoying and It's unnecessary. They could've instead made the arm parts get destroyed when the HP reaches 0.
There's also a missed opportunity on the navigation on the shop. All of the shoulder buttons are used for scrolling up and down. ZL and ZR could've been used to scroll to the next wanzer instead making the setting up more streamlined.
Music, they're okay, but It could've been better if Square Enix made the remake instead , with the Yoko Shimomura involved.

I wished the remake was handled by Square Enix themselves…
Overall, this looks more of a fan remake. I really wished it was and it would actually be decent fan passion remake project but no… This is official and a lot of things could've been better if Square Enix actually gave it a little chance. If they gave Live A Live a chance and Tactics Ogre a remaster, why Front Mission didn't?
I'm just sad at the fact that they seem to disown this IP.

Into the breach is my favorite game on the Switch… so I look forward to play this game! I hope I dont regret

armored core coming soon

Wait a minute…when did this release? I preordered it a long time ago for the Switch and I quite literally picked it up today. I got the Front Mission 1st Limited Edition *physical copy that comes with a 1 Lintocular, 2 Lithographs, and an honest to God full color instruction book (like the original game came with when it released in the 1990's for the Super Famicom). The instructions are actually shaped like the kind you would get in a Super Famicom game and that is pretty freaking sweet.

The no voice acting is so lazy…

The one thing that threw me off was that this version doesn't tell you what arm is carrying what weapon. You just have to remember that the weapons are listed in order of:

Left hand
Right hand
Left shoulder
Right shoulder

It was a strange oversight to me considering how important this information was in choosing which arm to use (you don't want to use a badly damaged arm to fight because it could be destroyed before you can even fire).

The good thing is they included a map that showed the movement and attack range of every unit, which didn't exist in the original.

nice 20 years ago my favorty game !

mine says 46.55CAD