![]() Unlike say Suikoden, Xenosaga, or Shenmue, all Japanese franchises with ambitious storytelling designs that unfortunately will remain incomplete, Front Mission achieved its original vision. Keep those comments and opinions coming, everyone! Speaking of Front Mission, it’s been interesting reading up the comments on the “The End” and the “Testimonials” sections. It’s a bit of a long story, so we’ll explain this some other time. These glitches were then “fixed” in the History re-release. In a series of interviews with Dengeki GAMES in February 2004, the developers admitted to deliberately crashing parts of the video game so certain plot details would remain secret until they had released more pieces of the puzzle. In terms of the event scenes, they’re not really “new”…rather, they were “blocked” from being seen by the player. The team didn’t get to test out where all of the triggers for these dialogues occur, but we found it intriguing how there was a fair bit of new content that wasn’t announced in public. A lot of these dialogues are character-related and further fleshes their personalities. Without getting into too much detail, we noticed that many event scenes had new dialogue sections in the coding. the wanzer Heil is renamed Hayle).Īlso, there are new dialogues or event scenes which only occur in the History version. Gameplay data naming conventions fixed (ie.Programming changes for loading time optimization, ensuring faster load times.The addition of a Quick Battle option, a feature also seen in the PlayStation version of Front Mission First, to skip the battle sequences.As mentioned earlier, there are some significant changes from the original to the History version (which the Ultimate Hits version is based off of) that make the latter the definitive Front Mission 2 experience. I would highly recommend any users who own physical copies of the original Front Mission 2 to do the data conversion. As promised, we found a solution to the compatibility issue between the original, History, and Ultimate Hits versions of the video game. And once it’s all done, Front Mission will finally come to a close.Īside from that, please check out our newest patch updates on the Front Mission 2 project. The critically-acclaimed series began back in March 2007, so it will have been in circulation for a little over five-and-a-half years. And it is official – Front Mission Dog Life & Dog Style will be ending on October 5, 2012, with the release of the tenth and final omnibus volume shortly after on October 25, 2012.
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