Late era Super Famicom was filled with gems like this. Hope more get translated.

For my money, this is the best Super Famicom game we didn't get. It's absolutely fantastic.

Oh man I LOVE this game! I played this game so much as a teenager, it was incredible and when I got my SNES mini it was the first game I loaded onto it. You didn't mention this in the video but the character designer was none other than Yoshitaka Amano of Final Fantasy fame! And I personally think he did a stellar job. Thanks for covering this, it brought a smile to my face

Just recently discovered your channel, it's fantastic. Thanks so much for the original content and the well written scripts.

Great video. “my friend Clark” LOL

Man, this game's visual style looks amazing!

I feel like the Front Mission series as a whole doesn't get enough love. I've always wanted to give this one a shot. Square actually did release an official localization of the original SNES Front Mission on DS in the late 2000s, and they finally localized Romancing SaGa 2 and 3 for modern consoles, I was always kind of hoping they'd get around to this one xD

Great video. I’m new to the channel and love this type of obscure content. I’d never have known about this game if not for videos like these.

It's kind of funny because in the beginning, when I first started Final Fantasy 6, there was this brief moment in time where I really wanted it to have more giant mech combat in the game, have an upgradable mech system, and imagined a whole RPG experience with giant mechs in it and a deeply immersive storyline. Little did I know that that game that I dreamed about playing actually existed it just didn't exist in the U.S. The story of my life. I know exactly what I want, but I don't know how to get it until I'm so old that I don't even want it anymore.

This game definitely belongs to the better looking ones on the console. Not only in terms of mecha sprites, backgrounds and such. Menu and overlay design fit perfectly into the overall look of it. And of course it has Yoshitaka Amano character designs going for it. Really sad that it never got released in the west. But that holds true for a bunch of games back then. Great video!

This looks amazing!! Thank you for spreading the word on this, and a great job as always on the review 😁

"The name's Albert, Albert Borland." This would be great as an actual 2P. The animation looks nice and I appreciate your historical perspective, as a student of war history.

Thanks to your tweet and this review, I Just found another SNES/SFC game I was previously unaware of. I love discovering hidden gems like this that we didn't get in North America. Thank you!

I planned to play through this game years ago and installed it on a couple of devices I own..but never got around to it despite it obviously being pretty fantastic. Today I see this title in a completely new light because I've been obsessed with it's developer OmiyaSoft's previous & debut game - Lord Monarch on Mega Drive - for the past six months, an adaptation of a Japanese PC real time strategy game which is truly like nothing else and utterly brilliant.

I love that you got me playing this.

Im floored im just learning about this game now. It looks interesting as frig! Thanks for this video, ill be getting a hold of this game for sure :)

Well done! I like this review. I've never heard of this game. It looks very interesting.

I enjoy this game. I prefer the original and honestly I've only played thru this once but I did have fun with it and I thought it looked great. I love the visuals. The color palette in particular was a real highlight for me. I enjoy games with different visual sensibilities. I'm glad you had fun with it too. It's an underrated game. I don't love it as much as a lot of people but I did enjoy it and I might play it again So, this game reminds me of a story. I was a very young boy in the late 80s and early 90s so I grew up with a lot of robots in TV/games/film and I was fascinated by them. So when I was eight I had one of those Tomy robots that talked and blew smoke and it scared the HELL out of my lil brother. He was four. So a couple times I snuck the robot into the living room and suddenly turned it on when my brother was watching TV or something. He would scream and run away and everybody just died laughing. Eventually my dad said "Okay, would you stop terrorizing your brother please?" I told him if I showed him that it was just a toy it would be good for him. He wasn't buying it. We still laugh about it. My brother was so scared of that robot. Anyway, just a funny aside. Hopefully it made you chuckle

Oh neat! I have never been good at strategy series, but I also wanted to get a feel of the Front Mission universe. Now there's something I can play without suffering. Thanks for sharing!

Looks great!

As much as I loved the typical turn-based RPG style of the Front Mission series, I remember loving this game as much as well. It reminded me of a cool mech game called Cybernator. Another awesomw vid; thanks!

Might be interested in checking out Metal Warriors for SNES. It came out 3 years after Cybernator and was obviously VERY inspired/lifted from it. But in my opinion it did a way better job of polishing the feel and gameplay. The story is paper thin and it's a pure action game with no RPG elements, but it's definitely still Cybernator in its soul. It also has some of THE best head to head competitive 2 player on the SNES.

If this was a psx game no one would complain about the graphics. Amazing.

I looked all over for this game when I was in Japan. It usually fetches for a smaller price there, but it looked like it had increased recently. Funny thing is, I was almost certain this game was a grid based strategy? If I had known it was more like this, I probably would of looked harder. But then again I probably couldn't understand so plot heavy! Great review!

Thanks for another great video HG. This game reminds me of Mech Warrior and Valkyria Chronicles. The art style looks amazing but I don't have a Super Famicom, sadly. It's great to see your Twitch and KZfaq channels growing. I hope you have a great day. Edit: I forgot to say I never liked the idea of using a item or skill levels it up but it makes sense the more you do something the better you get at it right?

I’d really like to play this. Looks fantastic.

I love your channel!

Never played this, but it does look good! Shame they really screwed up the Front Mission franchise with Left Alive, what a terrible terrible game. But why does a giant mech need a shield? why not make the entire robot out of the metal the shield is made out of? :D

This is such a cool looking game. Perhaps I missed you saying this, but was this a translation or is the original game English-friendly? The manual would lead me to believe it was the former.

GREAT game, great review 😁👍 I own that game and I've finished it twice and it has a lot of content. I think that game and Assault Suit Leynos 2 are my favorite mech games and Gun Hazard is Numero Uno.

Absolutely a cracking dive in. It's one I keep meaning to sit down with, but priorities get it lost. Certainly one I wish would get some love (seeing Square-Enix is doing a bit of that of late). A nice alternative to some of the other Mecha games on the SNES.

I was fond of Front Mission 3 back when it was new, so I've always been curious about the earlier games. Looks like this one plays very much like Target Earth (the prequel to Cybernator) on Genesis, but with RPG stuff on top. I really have to check it out one of these days.

One of the best SNES/SFC games I ever played. I'm not an RPG guy but the gameplay mechanics similar to Valken and Leynos were the main reason I got into it. It's even better than Leynos 2 for the Saturn which also tried to do something similar but a shame the game is so short in comparison to Gunhazard.

god if this had released in the US I would have been ALL over it. what an idea... god it looks so cool!

hey this is a great review, i tried getting into this game but it was tough and i gave up, i should give it another try though it's a neat rpg can't go wrong with a nobou soundtrack

Very interesting! I'm watching at work, so I'm very sorry if I missed it, but are you playing an English patch or is it natively in English?

I love this game so much. Lots of good memories. By using the game's only input cheat (hit "Down" + "L" + "R" + "Start" on the second controller), player two can take control of the AI wanzer.

the game is soooo goood. the depth and the amount of effort I can feel is endless.

Did you ever play “Metal Warriors” on SNES? This game looks... eerily similar. Even more so than Cybernator. Regardless, Metal Warriors is a brilliant and gorgeous game (intro cutscene for first level is jaw-droppingly cool), and if you liked this, you’ll like Metal Warriors!

Really loved this game! Especially the mechanic of leveling up equipment by simply using them.

As I watched the vid, I kept thinking to myself, "Is this a mech-centric Final Fantasy?" lol

The translation has been out for a while and I've been wanting to play this all the way through. Making time for it though....

This is a top 10 best SNES game and no one knows about it.

Awesome game. This is what blaster master should have evolved into.

It reminds me of Metal Storm for the NES. If Famicom did a remake.

I thought that was a 2D PS1 game! Awesome graphics!

Art direction is amazing.

Playing this in Japanese has been challenging to say the least. I'm still making my way through. Had it for 3 years and just now started playing it

Is there a proper translation rom? *edit, saw the description, THANKS!

This looks an awful lot like one of my favourite snes games, Metal Warriors. Another game I’ve got to try out, brought to me by Hungry Goriya

Probably the best SNES game we never got in the west.

I was really impressed with this one; the story was very deep and intricate, and the mech gameplay didn't feel as clunky and unwelcoming as a lot of them do. Since I'm terrible at Strategy (Real-Time or Turn-Based), this is the only game in the series I'm able to play, but at least it's a good one!

Hm, would it make sense to import the SFC version (it's pretty cheap) despite not knowing any japanese?

Apparently, Front Mission 1 & 2 Remakes are coming to Nintendo Switch.

I just started playing this and got stuck. I went back to the port and launched a sortie and now I cannot leave the in-game port area.

Clark = wiener. I forgot you had streamed this.. man, what a pretty game! You clearly put a lot of effort into this script and it shows. Well worded and interesting to listen to.

I was going to dismiss this game because my SNES list is long enough. Much like Terranigma, Romancing Saga and Tale Of The Rudras, it feels like a game we should have had in the 90s.

Is this related to Cybernator?

The ejection would absolutely screw me over. I don't do well with screens getting busy and I'd totally not notice the character had ejected. Probably not a big deal if the button is somehow moved to something less prone to mistapping.

sad there isn't an option to have player two control who you take down with you, that would have added a TON to the game.

You should try Ranger X if you haven't done that already. Also, you have a very cute voice :)

With a few exceptions, it seems like they got a lot of the details right in this game. I would also be hitting the wrong button and popping out of the mech all the time :-D .

This is painful. No doubt it would have been my favourite SNES game if it was released here.

This looks fun but I would rather play the First Front Mission, that one was a blast with so many different wanzers and characters.

I always thought this was just a platform shooter How wrong i was

Hey is this game in English?

I can't get past the name. It's like they just pulled four words out of a bag. :)