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I recall Hashimoto-san saying he wanted Double Helix to create a Front Mission game for the West, but aside from the story did Square Enix ever come to the table with ideas and gameplay suggestions?ĭefinitely. They player has to develop a plan to best utilize his offensive and defensive capabilities based on the enemy composition. Combining those enemies, with a variety of weapons, backpacks, and battleskills that all have unique mechanics, further enhances the tactical nature of combat. This forces the player to consider the composition and spacing of the enemies they are fighting. To accomplish this we made enemy types with very diverse behavior sets. We wanted combat to be about more than just mowing down enemies. What was the toughest part about changing Front Mission from a strategy RPG to a mecha action game?ĭavid Verfaillie, Design Director at Double Helix: The most difficult part about transitioning Front Mission to a real time action game was maintaining the tactical feel of combat.
#Front mission evolved series#
In this interview, David Verfaillie, Design Director at Double Helix, discusses transitioning the Front Mission series to Front Mission Evolved and how the studio collaborated with Square Enix. Front Mission Evolved is a third person shooter following in the footsteps of Front Mission Online and Front Mission: Gun Hazard, a Super Famicom side-scroller from Culdcept Saga developer Omiya Soft. Unlike other Front Mission titles, this isn’t a strategy RPG.
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One of these on the USN side is destroyed at the beginning of the game and Dylan Ramsey, an engineer who also proves to be a capable fighter, stumbles into the army. Front Mission Evolved takes place after the events of Front Mission 5 where mankind use orbital elevators to explore space.