![]() It’s quite easy to see that this game was released at a time when Squaresoft was developing many RPGs that were outside the conventional mold of the genre. The action is the backbone of the game, and it’s as good as any side-scrolling shooter released at the time, but the RPG elements, cutscenes, beautiful sprites, story, and electronic music all add another layer to the game. Gun Hazard’s plot, like many of of the other games in the series, revolves around political intrigue, and the use of large robotic war machines, mecha, or as the series calls them Wanzers. ![]() The game doesn’t take place in the main continuity of the Front Mission series, which allows it to do its own thing without getting caught up on consistency with the rest of the series, or the series’ spin-offs (Front Mission has a lot of games, and other related media that can make understanding events, and sometimes entire game’s plots difficult). Nowhere is this blending of the genres more apparent than in the game’s story. These elements separate it from many other side-scrolling shooters of the day, because this game feels like an RPG first, and a shooter second. The game offers that same gameplay, but it also adds in many RPG elements, such as experience levels, allies in battle, as well as equipment for your mech. The game was created by many of the same people who worked on Cybernator, which was originally released in Japan as Assault Suits Valkain (which also has a completed translation). The translation was done by AGTP towards the end of 2004. Better recognize! Translation Description:įront Mission: Gun Hazard is a side-scrolling mech shooter/RPG hybrid. Sometimes I wonder why Uematsu gets all this overwhelming adulation just for composing music for a particularly popular RPG series, but God damn his music rocks. The soundtrack, provided by a variety of Square talent (but mostly the heroes Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda) is fucking excellent. Hey, do you want your normal gun or this shotgun? Stuff like that. It isn’t the exhausting overwhelming chore like in the other FM games, though. Just to remind you that yes, you’re playing Front Mission, you’re given a wide assortment of equipment you can use to equip your mech however you see fit. At the start your duty is to protect the President from a coup at the hands of a powerful general, but I’m sure that All Is Not What It Seems, as is usually the case. You walk around in your Wanzer and shoot things. This is why I actually enjoy Gun Hazard.Īpparently the same team who did Cybernator/Assault Suits Valken did this game, and it’s pretty apparent from playing them both. And as a sidescrolling action game, it has nothing to do gameplay-wise (or story-wise, debatably) with the other Front Mission games. ![]() If you like Cybernator, Contra, or Metal Warriors, you'll get a kick out of this game.Front Mission: Gun Hazard is a sidescrolling action game. I'll be honest I mostly got this game because I'm such a big fan of the Front Mission Series, and it has been pretty fun, though it plays nothing like the other games in the series. It's definitely one of the prettiest ga mes on the SF, especially the cutscenes. Since it's an action game you don't really need to know the language, but there's lots of story between missions, dialogue in missions, and menus to navigate so if you want to play on an actual SF cart maybe go to GameFaqs first. I have an actual cart so I've been playing in Japanese, I don't know Japanese, so I can't say much more about the story. ![]() Gameplay-wise it looks, plays, and controls very much like Cybernator (Assault Suits Valken), however it's a slower paced game that requires a little more strategy, there's quite a few more levels ,and it get's harder. Storywise it has a whole new set of characters, it takes place in the same universe, but it's non-canon. Gun Hazard is a Japan exclusive 1996 spinoff to Front Mission, for the Super Famicom. ![]()
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