badgenome said:
I definitely still like it, but I've gotta say, now that I've played the first Front Mission (thanks for taking 12 years to bring it over, Square!) FM3 doesn't really hold up for me by comparison. You're much more limited in terms of how you build your wanzers. It feels a lot more like Final Fantasy or something where you get to the next town and there's a bunch of new, better gear to upgrade to, and that's it. You had a lot more tiers of gear in FM1, so you can always find the balance between performance and weight if you want to try a particular set up. Plus FM1 lets you field a ridiculous amount of wanzers at once, and I prefer the larger battles that come from that. (It's a testament to just how spoiled for choice you are in terms of equipment that no two of my 20 something wanzers were built the same, versus FM3 where you have six units and I just used a few different builds). Although this part is purely a matter of taste, and I can certainly see why X-COM fans might prefer the smaller, tighter battles of FM3 where you have much less room for error. The one PS1 game that seems to get better every time I play it is Castlevania: SOTN. 2D forever! |
Yeah, i actually do prefer FM3 to FM1. Though I was never a huge Wanzer customizer. More often then not I found it more fun and intesting to tool out the existing wanzers the best ways i could.
FM4 is in the middle.... and yet worse then both. I've yet to fully play through FM3... everytime I do, I stop what i assume is a third of the way through and play FM3.
I Liked the story a in FM3 a lot better though.
