Takes place in Front Mission, openly steals from Dead Rising and Resident Evil, cover from Metal Gear Solid... Does anybody know what this is? Besides garbage? Shnick's TH-cam Page: / @shnick1990
I somehow missed the ending speech that Shnick had prepared on Front Mission surviving this travesty. Here's the (accidentally) deleted scene on Shnick's channel: th-cam.com/video/mstJM62TO1E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SwoX5keOkz9JwUgj
Thanks again for having me be part of the video! It still makes me mad that this game was the first exposure to the Front Mission series for many people. Thank god for the Forever Entertainment remakes giving the series a new lease on life, and exposing the series more to Western audiences, even if they can be a bit rough around the edges.
Front Mission 3 was/is the only game in the series I played but oh man I loved the hell out of it I remember first playing a demo, part of a sampler disk that came with Vagrant Story, and I dumped HOURS into playing that demo over and over. Eventually I got the full game and was just blown away by the amount of customization and combat options (capturing enemy wanzers, etc). Just an amazing experience
The sad part to me, is that on paper, a spin-off of a mech series where you control a soldier or a squad of soldiers who are basically forced to try to avoid/deal with mechs without one of their own would be interesting, (Like if a Halo game existed where you played as the Marines and made you feel how much more vulnerable you are compared to a Spartan.) to show how utterly bonned regular infantry has become in a psuedo-horror way. Too bad the game basically became a very bad stealth game with possibly one of the worst implementations of New Game+ ever it seems.
Yeah like Mech warrior or something where you have to get around highly advanced sensor modified mechs like its escaping Kaiju. Which would be utterly awesome as a concept, but instead we got this.
@@salmonchurro ODST is fun but it doesnt really commit. The Rookie just feels like a slightly weaker Spartan as opposed to a very vulnerable soldier amd the gameplay isnt too different from normal halo
This kind of reminds me of a game called "Run Like Hell". It was supposed to be a horror game similar to Doom 3, and was released on the original Xbox before said game. The story of the game, while not amazing, is actually fairly well designed. It focuses on a former soldier turned researcher on a space station with various alien species who goes out to do his research stuff. When he returns, the station is infested with a fleshy substance that is sort of like John Carpenter's The Thing mixed with the Prototype games: It can mimic the speech and appearance of others (although it never does this to trick anyone, just to gain their knowledge) and it grows in size the more biomass it eats. The main character teams up with numerous survivors (including an alien who is a part of the species that was on the opposite side of the war), and the entire group tries to save his wife and stop the infestation. The game ends on a cliffhanger implying a sequel. The game is horrifically bad in gameplay for four reasons 1. Some guns you can never find ammo for, so when you use them up, they're done 2. Enemies have simplistic AI and just run at you. Some big guys can even get stuck in doors. Some don't even have death animations, they just shatter like glass 3. Bosses are broken, hitboxes are a mess, and your inventory crafting allows you to accidentally craft duplicate guns. 4. The textures, and some models, are just so poorly made. The reason the game's story works but the gameplay sucks so bad is because Interplay (the publisher) got Breaking Benjamin (Yes, the band) to do some of the soundtrack. They didn't feel a horror atmosphere would fit BB's musical style, so the devs were forced to change the game in a single year, toning down the horror elements, introducing more enemies with less health over stronger enemies but fewer in number, altering the gameplay to include a worthless dodge mechanic, and including numerous high-action gameplay sequences. The publisher effectively screwed the game over in its entirety in an effort to sell the game with Breaking Benjamin attached. Needless to say, the game is a flop. I remember playing it when I was a teenager and liking the story but slogging through the game itself.
Sounds like an early attempt of the game Prey where you had to deal with a Symbiote like shapeshifter that could mimic objects and attack you on a space station. But Prey did it way better from what I've heard.
That's interesting, a lot of that story sounds similar to the plot of the original trilogy of Halo games (hell, even Breaking Benjamin did a song for the soundtrack of Halo 2). The story and atmosphere sounds really good, almost like a cross between Halo and Dead Space. Too bad the game plays like garbage from the sound of it.
@@mattboy5296 Yeah. Concept wise it sounds awesome but execution failed horribly. Likely due to the hardware at the time. A combo of Halo and Dead space would've been VERY interesting!
At least one good take away from this review was learning more about the Front Mission series. I only ever owned 4 on the PS2 but didn't play much of it but had no idea that so few of the games actually came over to the US and even more so for Europe. I can't get over how they had to patch in a tutorial and basic things like headshots 😆
I am glad my segment succeeded at educating some viewers! 😁 And thankfully the Forever Entertainment remakes have also done a good job exposing the franchise to new audiences.
This game feels like it was designed by people who hate stealth games. Fun fact about Resident Evil item boxes real quick: there's a special mode in the RE1 remake called Real Survival that makes them work exactly like they do in this game, with no interconnection between them. Which they explain as being a nod to early prototypes of the original game. It ended up being changed because testers went "this kinda sucks". So Left Alive is aping off of a *rejected* idea from a more popular series.
Rule of thumb... With VERY few exceptions, never trust a stealth game that's not part of the Metal Gear, Tenchu, Splinter Cell, Hitman, or Thief series. (I'm talking about games where stealth is the point, not those like the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy where stealth is optional.)
I agree. I learned this the hard way with Dark for Xbox 360. I thought a stealth game where you play as a vampire would be fun. I was wrong, very wrong. Tenchu deserves a comeback. Sekiro Shadows Die Twice doesn't count.
This reminds me of Terminator: Resistance, since both have stealth, crafting, a hostile world, robots disguised as humans, and is part of a franchise (though from different mediums). The difference is that T:R is good. Stealth has a detection meter, perks to reduce detection speed, and the ability to see enemies through walls. It has a mini map that clearly lays out usable routes (if something is blocked, story progress will unblock it), items of interest, and hostile enemies. And while it does have reused maps, they're used sparingly and rearranged in good ways. Don't be fooled by the bad review scores. Despite being made by the devs behind the Rambo game, it's a complete 180 in terms of quality. There was actual passion and respect for the series in it, and it shows. Taking the overwhelming majority of inspiration from the first two films helps.
Does make me more curious to try Parasite Eve sometime. All I knew about it previously was that fan artists loved to horn over its lead character. The same is all I know about Gurren Lagan, come to think of it...
@@Darklordjadow1 Well I can't blame them. If you put a curvy babe on screen in a dress or a bikini, people are going to get horny for her. Particularly if the developers lean into their attractiveness. Look at Bayonetta for example.
@@Darklordjadow1 the first 2 parasite eve games are great, and then we have The 3rd Birthday, a game so offensive and creepy that it would be a great adition to the channel
29:30 Ratchet and Clank 2015 later got that due to the movie that came out a year later due to it being delayed. Which had a brief period of the cutscenes that used movie footage NOT being blocked until the next year. Yeah it’s stupid.
So square took front mission a rpg series and turned it into a stealth, and many years ago square took parasite Eve another rpg and turned it into a 3rd person shooter in the 3rd birthday. It’s astonishing how out of touch square is with their audience
That, or they’re so tired of their old franchises that they’re actively killing them. Still a better strategy than the End Times. At least in Metal Gear Survive and in this game the world doesn’t just explode.
12:38 Not only did you lose a deluge of Health from that blast, but got an additional chunk chipped away while unable to move, just to tick you off further. For all of Resident Evil 6’s flaws (and there are a TON), the game allowed you options when being knocked back such as rolling back to your feet, staying on ground and opening return fire, rolling to the side to possibly avoid more punishment, etc. It didn’t just force you to eat additional crap to follow the initial turd that sent you on your hide. Granted you have to learn this yourself and not from tutorials. But this game just has any basic soldier tank your bullets, shred you with your own, all while approaching to knock your rear into Zimbabwe with one melee attack and continue emptying his magazine while you’re unable to move for a disconcerting amount of time. It’s like this game enjoys curb stomping you at every turn.
I had a 9 dollar copy of this sitting in my Amazon cart when this video premiered. I'm a front Mission fan- 3 is one of the best games ever made- and I'd heard about this game for years but thought it's 9 dollars and surely it's been patched enough to be playable by now, right? Well, thanks for saving me the 9 dollars...
Oh yeah to you're friend who likes the series! I noticed he didn't bring up the fact FM1 and FM2 go Remakes (more like SUPER Remasters) for the Switch! I do hope they become available outside of it to expand the series more! But oh well! Hopefully that remake/Super remaster for FM3 on the Switch is this year! I do love that one and hoped it got fixed HEAVILY as it was SLOW on the PS1 (even when emulated on the PS3 LOL) But at least Left Alive didn't KILL the series outright for long! Hopefully the Suits at SE get their HEADS out their asses (Hope FF7 Rebirth Sells well! For the OG FF7 who want the remake to die! I remind them if the remakes fail! The suits get scared and you get something WORSE then what FF16 ended up being! It was an okay game, same as 15. But you feel alot of "we're doing this to be SAFE" then "experimenting" which the series was great at (Hell even Bravely Default 2 which was "Safe" out of fear because of how Second did badly was still a good game! Hopefully the next is more experimental as Second WAS a good game, just not advertised WELL! But the point was it wasn't "too safe" that it became BORING in a bad way! 16 isn't TOO safe, but it's getting TOO close to that "safe for greed" sake which can be a BAD omen!)
Well, I did bring up the remakes, but that part was accidentally left out of the video. It was supposed to go right before I thanked Jadow for having me on the video. I was sort of building up to the series having a happy ending after Left Alive nearly ruined it. It can be seen here: th-cam.com/video/mstJM62TO1E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Mig_76OC9gfGNT1S Also, the first remake has since gone multiplatform, so ideally the 2nd remake will do the same later this year…
@@shnick1990Hopefully! And yeah I noticed Darklord Pinned Comment pointing this out AFTER I commented so I goofed LOL But yeah I'm starting to be happy that whatever idiots were pushing the STUPIDER decisions stupider over at SquareEnix have either grown more brain cells to make LESS dumb ones! Or they've retired (or whatever) that some more common sense is starting to leak into the meeting room at least MORE then usual!
29:10 Kingdom Hearts 3 blocks out its opening, possibly for copyright like with Godzilla? And it blocks off its ending cutscenes, probably to prevent people without recording software from spoiling the game.
Thanks for playing this cr4p, so I don't have to. 👍 I was almost being tricked by the low price, the MGS-style cover art and the Square Enix logo... Guess I'll invest my 10 bucks in laxatives instead. A much better use of my hard earned money. 😅
This was an incredible review and honestly really lights a fire under my ass to start the Front Mission games that I have been putting off for a long while now! Thanks for this :)
Another case of amazing cover art housing lies and disappointment. Also gotta love how basically every basic enemy in the first level has the health pool of a late game grunt leader, apparently.
Man this game is just another example of Taking a popular game series and flushing it down the toilet but in 4 more days and the people who got to pre order the game to play it now we will be able to find out if suicide squad kill the justice league is good or not and I have heard that it actually gotten better but I don't think it's true until it comes out or if you decide to give it a review and I have heard that it's going to get free apology DLC and the first event is with the joker that is not voiced by Mark hamble and doesn't look like Jerrod leto
It's set in the same world and features Wanzers somewhat prominently, but otherwise it doesn't connect with the other Front Mission games all that much. Probably because it takes place after Front Mission 5, the game that was sort of the series grand finale.
Am I the only one who thinks this game's story is super cursed given that Russia did invade Ukraine 3 years later. I mean that map at 29:47 is literally just Ukraine but split into two countries, obviously based on the real world ethnic division between West and East Ukraine, the latter of which is partially controlled by Russia today. Doesn't that kind of imply that the majority Russian population of Eastern Ukraine is in Cahoots with Russia, even though nothing since the actually war begun in February 2022 has show that to be the case. Really dates the game and adds another strike against it doesn't it.
I don’t understand how you can play a game from 30/40 years ago which couldn’t get patched or updated and it was totally playable and yet nowadays we get saddled with unfinished, buggy trash like this.
Honestly, the unforgiving stealth and unbalanced mechanics remind me of another really poor stealth game. That being Vampire Rain (which was made by Naoto Oshima, no joke). Ever gonna review that one?
Makes me HAPPY Forever was able to make the remakes of FM1 & 2 (And hopefully FM3 this year and a possibility of FM4 getting a Remaster at least and FM5 FINALLY leaving Japan as they no longer have the excuse of "Oh FM1 & 2 never came out in America so people might get lost with the story" BS to justify never giving us FM5!). I was not happy with FM Evolved being a POOR MANS Armored Core (I came to Front Mission BECAUSE it was Armored Core in a Tactics RPG format! If I want Armored Core I'll PLAY Armored Core! This is ESPECIALLY bad because "Front Mission Gun Hazard" exists and even if it was Action, it still had enough stuff in it to feel RPG! Evolved and THIS mess did not have EITHER!) But imagine my RAGE after hearing about this game, seeing it sucks and felt like a poor man's Metal Gear (Even got my FAVORITE Artist "Yoji Shinkawa" on this MESS! Hell I can forgive Death Stranding cause even with it's problems "it was a game that WORKED" but this! FUCK YOU SQUARE ENIX) then to find out THIS WAS A FUCKING FRONT MISSION GAME really pissed me off cause NOW I can see a reason WHY those asshats Suits kept trying to BURY the FM series for so long! They used the bad sales & hatred of this one and Evolved to justify screwing us over! Likely thought it would quiet those still wanting a Release of FM5 (I STILL to this day refuse to accept that "you need to have played the entire series excuse cause they need to stop lying on that! FM3 felt like it took place in a different universe with how the Super Nations got some MAJOR name changes and it felt more like a REBOOT to the series then the THIRD GAME! And FM4 got SLIGHTLY screwed because of this when Maria and Frederick BOTH show up in the game! And Fred's case was to continue the plot point of Zaftra from the first game! Where so the part of the story Maria was in was a continuation of the plot points FM2 brought up! Frankly FM3 felt like it was a Spin-off painted as a sequel taking place in the same world! Ironically we could have STILL gotten FM5 and a Codex could explain those plot points! Honestly I think there WAS a codex like system in FM5 so that just means the Suits at SE were too yellow belly to take the RISK of advertizing! Well these are the SAME fools who thought Americans wanted the shit shows that were FM Evolved and THIS Game) So the moment I see my favorite Dark Lord upload this Video! I KNEW I was going to have a good time watching him tear this shit show apart as I do when my OTHER favorite youtubers "got around to this game!" (Despite ALL of them being negative! It's just the fun of seeing their DIFFERENT negative reactions that make this enjoyable! Beating a dead horse isn't ALWAYS a bad thing LOL)
Fair enough there. It is something you have to get super uncomfortably close to the enemy to do. Only easier with the ninja skill in New game+. Which goes into how you said the game was designed to weirdly only be more competent and work as it should by purchasing skills to use to make the game playable.
Does it matter. In The Flash Review he all but stated it was shaping up to terrible right? Given Lost Kingdoms Rotten Tomato's score that seems to hold true.
I know it is absolutely nowhere near your radar, Jadow, but please play Wanted Dead at some point and make a video on it. I wanted to like that game. I really did. I got basically 90% through it, but by that point, the game literally just straight up started cheating and I just couldn't be fucked to care anymore.
@@Darklordjadow1 also Ratchet and Clank 2016 ablocked the cutscene. But the cutscenes were taken from the movie which the game released a few days before the movie
If you think that's depressing, you're going to HATE the 3 entire episodes I made playing with action figures to re-enact and review The Predator, X-Men Dark Phoenix, and The Flash movies!
@@Darklordjadow1and tdb fully died a week ago, so you can now focus on stuff like the fmv game where you try to escape a spider in a mall like its a nextbot or something
This game just reminds me why I adore Dishonor as a stealth game. Good controls, the powers make you very mobile and capable of covering huge amounts of distance rapidly, and you aren’t a pathetic little weakling. Sure Corvo, Daud and Emily arent built for frontline battle, but you can kill enemies in one hit, use guns and crossbows to attack from a distance and you can use your powers to escape, distract or turn things to your advantage
9:42 The land covered by Ruthenia and Garmoniya is literally Ukraine (inc. Crimea). Their flags are also clearly heavily based on both the current blue & yellow and historic Black & Red flag varients. Paper thin indeed.
I somehow missed the ending speech that Shnick had prepared on Front Mission surviving this travesty.
Here's the (accidentally) deleted scene on Shnick's channel:
th-cam.com/video/mstJM62TO1E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SwoX5keOkz9JwUgj
Thanks again for having me be part of the video!
It still makes me mad that this game was the first exposure to the Front Mission series for many people. Thank god for the Forever Entertainment remakes giving the series a new lease on life, and exposing the series more to Western audiences, even if they can be a bit rough around the edges.
Front Mission 3 was/is the only game in the series I played but oh man I loved the hell out of it
I remember first playing a demo, part of a sampler disk that came with Vagrant Story, and I dumped HOURS into playing that demo over and over.
Eventually I got the full game and was just blown away by the amount of customization and combat options (capturing enemy wanzers, etc).
Just an amazing experience
"Mom can we get Metal Gear?"
"But son we have Metal Gear at home."
*Metal Gear at home*
My pet bird just passed yesterday, and this is exactly what I needed. Thanks for making content, Jadow. It genuinely brightens my day.
Sorry for your loss
@larrysanchez7952 Thank you, it genuinely means a lot.
Sorry for your lost
@@scullstationstudio8511 Thank you so much.
I'm sorry for your loss. Glad that my videos can help in some way
This is just another step for me to watch Jadow review Metal Gear series
The sad part to me, is that on paper, a spin-off of a mech series where you control a soldier or a squad of soldiers who are basically forced to try to avoid/deal with mechs without one of their own would be interesting, (Like if a Halo game existed where you played as the Marines and made you feel how much more vulnerable you are compared to a Spartan.) to show how utterly bonned regular infantry has become in a psuedo-horror way.
Too bad the game basically became a very bad stealth game with possibly one of the worst implementations of New Game+ ever it seems.
Yeah like Mech warrior or something where you have to get around highly advanced sensor modified mechs like its escaping Kaiju. Which would be utterly awesome as a concept, but instead we got this.
@@salmonchurro ODST is fun but it doesnt really commit.
The Rookie just feels like a slightly weaker Spartan as opposed to a very vulnerable soldier amd the gameplay isnt too different from normal halo
This kind of reminds me of a game called "Run Like Hell". It was supposed to be a horror game similar to Doom 3, and was released on the original Xbox before said game. The story of the game, while not amazing, is actually fairly well designed. It focuses on a former soldier turned researcher on a space station with various alien species who goes out to do his research stuff. When he returns, the station is infested with a fleshy substance that is sort of like John Carpenter's The Thing mixed with the Prototype games: It can mimic the speech and appearance of others (although it never does this to trick anyone, just to gain their knowledge) and it grows in size the more biomass it eats. The main character teams up with numerous survivors (including an alien who is a part of the species that was on the opposite side of the war), and the entire group tries to save his wife and stop the infestation. The game ends on a cliffhanger implying a sequel.
The game is horrifically bad in gameplay for four reasons
1. Some guns you can never find ammo for, so when you use them up, they're done
2. Enemies have simplistic AI and just run at you. Some big guys can even get stuck in doors. Some don't even have death animations, they just shatter like glass
3. Bosses are broken, hitboxes are a mess, and your inventory crafting allows you to accidentally craft duplicate guns.
4. The textures, and some models, are just so poorly made.
The reason the game's story works but the gameplay sucks so bad is because Interplay (the publisher) got Breaking Benjamin (Yes, the band) to do some of the soundtrack. They didn't feel a horror atmosphere would fit BB's musical style, so the devs were forced to change the game in a single year, toning down the horror elements, introducing more enemies with less health over stronger enemies but fewer in number, altering the gameplay to include a worthless dodge mechanic, and including numerous high-action gameplay sequences. The publisher effectively screwed the game over in its entirety in an effort to sell the game with Breaking Benjamin attached. Needless to say, the game is a flop. I remember playing it when I was a teenager and liking the story but slogging through the game itself.
Sounds like an early attempt of the game Prey where you had to deal with a Symbiote like shapeshifter that could mimic objects and attack you on a space station. But Prey did it way better from what I've heard.
Did it ever occur to them to not have Breaking Benjamin on the soundtrack?
That's interesting, a lot of that story sounds similar to the plot of the original trilogy of Halo games (hell, even Breaking Benjamin did a song for the soundtrack of Halo 2). The story and atmosphere sounds really good, almost like a cross between Halo and Dead Space. Too bad the game plays like garbage from the sound of it.
@@mattboy5296 Yeah. Concept wise it sounds awesome but execution failed horribly. Likely due to the hardware at the time. A combo of Halo and Dead space would've been VERY interesting!
Makes me glad that the Switch remakes of the original games exist
I just found those today
“Caution, the enemy is approaching.”
I think we just found Generator Lady’s sister.
At least I don’t know who this actress is. 😒
At least one good take away from this review was learning more about the Front Mission series. I only ever owned 4 on the PS2 but didn't play much of it but had no idea that so few of the games actually came over to the US and even more so for Europe.
I can't get over how they had to patch in a tutorial and basic things like headshots 😆
I am glad my segment succeeded at educating some viewers! 😁
And thankfully the Forever Entertainment remakes have also done a good job exposing the franchise to new audiences.
@@shnick1990 That's great to hear. Gonna have to look into that :D
39:09: At least you convinced me to get around to actually playing Dead Rising fairly soon. If there's one good thing that Left Alive did, it's that.
The one game that made me aware of Front Mission... out of spite.
This game feels like it was designed by people who hate stealth games.
Fun fact about Resident Evil item boxes real quick: there's a special mode in the RE1 remake called Real Survival that makes them work exactly like they do in this game, with no interconnection between them. Which they explain as being a nod to early prototypes of the original game. It ended up being changed because testers went "this kinda sucks".
So Left Alive is aping off of a *rejected* idea from a more popular series.
Rule of thumb... With VERY few exceptions, never trust a stealth game that's not part of the Metal Gear, Tenchu, Splinter Cell, Hitman, or Thief series. (I'm talking about games where stealth is the point, not those like the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy where stealth is optional.)
I agree. I learned this the hard way with Dark for Xbox 360. I thought a stealth game where you play as a vampire would be fun. I was wrong, very wrong.
Tenchu deserves a comeback. Sekiro Shadows Die Twice doesn't count.
@@Gruntvc Tenchu 2 is still my favorite stealth game, even over the original MGS.
Assassin's creed anyone
@@tylerbertram7065 Damn! I knew I forgot one!
@@JoeCool7835 don't forget Manhunt too.
This reminds me of Terminator: Resistance, since both have stealth, crafting, a hostile world, robots disguised as humans, and is part of a franchise (though from different mediums). The difference is that T:R is good. Stealth has a detection meter, perks to reduce detection speed, and the ability to see enemies through walls. It has a mini map that clearly lays out usable routes (if something is blocked, story progress will unblock it), items of interest, and hostile enemies. And while it does have reused maps, they're used sparingly and rearranged in good ways.
Don't be fooled by the bad review scores. Despite being made by the devs behind the Rambo game, it's a complete 180 in terms of quality. There was actual passion and respect for the series in it, and it shows. Taking the overwhelming majority of inspiration from the first two films helps.
Thanks for info/advice. Didn't trust the title, but now I'm intrigued. Guess I'll get it used for cheap and give it a try 👍
Oh, Krystal is Tails mother? That’s actually kinda funny... I had a story idea where it turned out Fox McCloud is movie-Tails’ stepbrother.
Interesting point actually did get the artist behind Metal Gear solid to do the artwork for this game.
I guess I know why Parasite Eve doesn't have a modern remake. That level of gore is like John Carpenters The Thing!
Does make me more curious to try Parasite Eve sometime. All I knew about it previously was that fan artists loved to horn over its lead character.
The same is all I know about Gurren Lagan, come to think of it...
@@Darklordjadow1 Well I can't blame them. If you put a curvy babe on screen in a dress or a bikini, people are going to get horny for her.
Particularly if the developers lean into their attractiveness. Look at Bayonetta for example.
With Dead Space's remake existing, there's no reason we can't have a faithful The Thing game.
@@MegamanXfan21xx That would be the ultimate survival horror game!
@@Darklordjadow1 the first 2 parasite eve games are great, and then we have The 3rd Birthday, a game so offensive and creepy that it would be a great adition to the channel
oh boy I've been waiting for this
29:30 Ratchet and Clank 2015 later got that due to the movie that came out a year later due to it being delayed. Which had a brief period of the cutscenes that used movie footage NOT being blocked until the next year. Yeah it’s stupid.
So square took front mission a rpg series and turned it into a stealth, and many years ago square took parasite Eve another rpg and turned it into a 3rd person shooter in the 3rd birthday. It’s astonishing how out of touch square is with their audience
That, or they’re so tired of their old franchises that they’re actively killing them. Still a better strategy than the End Times.
At least in Metal Gear Survive and in this game the world doesn’t just explode.
On pc its really easy to remove the "caution the enemy is approaching" audio file.
29:22 Persona 5 Royal blocked The New ark To Prevent spoilers.
12:38 Not only did you lose a deluge of Health from that blast, but got an additional chunk chipped away while unable to move, just to tick you off further.
For all of Resident Evil 6’s flaws (and there are a TON), the game allowed you options when being knocked back such as rolling back to your feet, staying on ground and opening return fire, rolling to the side to possibly avoid more punishment, etc.
It didn’t just force you to eat additional crap to follow the initial turd that sent you on your hide. Granted you have to learn this yourself and not from tutorials.
But this game just has any basic soldier tank your bullets, shred you with your own, all while approaching to knock your rear into Zimbabwe with one melee attack and continue emptying his magazine while you’re unable to move for a disconcerting amount of time.
It’s like this game enjoys curb stomping you at every turn.
I had a 9 dollar copy of this sitting in my Amazon cart when this video premiered. I'm a front Mission fan- 3 is one of the best games ever made- and I'd heard about this game for years but thought it's 9 dollars and surely it's been patched enough to be playable by now, right?
Well, thanks for saving me the 9 dollars...
Oh yeah to you're friend who likes the series! I noticed he didn't bring up the fact FM1 and FM2 go Remakes (more like SUPER Remasters) for the Switch! I do hope they become available outside of it to expand the series more! But oh well! Hopefully that remake/Super remaster for FM3 on the Switch is this year! I do love that one and hoped it got fixed HEAVILY as it was SLOW on the PS1 (even when emulated on the PS3 LOL) But at least Left Alive didn't KILL the series outright for long! Hopefully the Suits at SE get their HEADS out their asses (Hope FF7 Rebirth Sells well! For the OG FF7 who want the remake to die! I remind them if the remakes fail! The suits get scared and you get something WORSE then what FF16 ended up being! It was an okay game, same as 15. But you feel alot of "we're doing this to be SAFE" then "experimenting" which the series was great at (Hell even Bravely Default 2 which was "Safe" out of fear because of how Second did badly was still a good game! Hopefully the next is more experimental as Second WAS a good game, just not advertised WELL! But the point was it wasn't "too safe" that it became BORING in a bad way! 16 isn't TOO safe, but it's getting TOO close to that "safe for greed" sake which can be a BAD omen!)
Well, I did bring up the remakes, but that part was accidentally left out of the video. It was supposed to go right before I thanked Jadow for having me on the video. I was sort of building up to the series having a happy ending after Left Alive nearly ruined it.
It can be seen here: th-cam.com/video/mstJM62TO1E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Mig_76OC9gfGNT1S
Also, the first remake has since gone multiplatform, so ideally the 2nd remake will do the same later this year…
@@shnick1990Hopefully! And yeah I noticed Darklord Pinned Comment pointing this out AFTER I commented so I goofed LOL
But yeah I'm starting to be happy that whatever idiots were pushing the STUPIDER decisions stupider over at SquareEnix have either grown more brain cells to make LESS dumb ones! Or they've retired (or whatever) that some more common sense is starting to leak into the meeting room at least MORE then usual!
42:20 it funny because Rerez also did an episode on the game for their "It’s Just Bad" series, and said as much too.
Yes, I know. It's the one episode of Just Bad Games I haven't watched yet so it wouldn't influence my own video.
Now I can finally watch it.
JUST BAD GAMES reviewed this first, But you reviewed it BEST!
High praise, and thank you very much!
29:10 Kingdom Hearts 3 blocks out its opening, possibly for copyright like with Godzilla? And it blocks off its ending cutscenes, probably to prevent people without recording software from spoiling the game.
1-5 are SO damn good tho
Front Mission has always deserved better
You should check out Mark of the Ninja. A stealth game that’s actually good
Agreed.
Thanks for playing this cr4p, so I don't have to. 👍
I was almost being tricked by the low price, the MGS-style cover art and the Square Enix logo...
Guess I'll invest my 10 bucks in laxatives instead. A much better use of my hard earned money. 😅
Good call. Laxatives at least expel the shit from your life instead of adding to the pile.
The points after beating the game kind of remind me of the bouncer but at least you gain points while playing the game.
Good video. he gives me AVGN nostalgia lol
Reminds me of NES games where they made it way too hard so people wouldn't know how bad the rest of the game is
I feel like a game like this should be reimagined by another dev who actually has experience working on stealth and mech combat games
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!
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No, wait...the weapon is lame. Sorry I brought it up.
This was an incredible review and honestly really lights a fire under my ass to start the Front Mission games that I have been putting off for a long while now! Thanks for this :)
Another case of amazing cover art housing lies and disappointment. Also gotta love how basically every basic enemy in the first level has the health pool of a late game grunt leader, apparently.
Man this game is just another example of Taking a popular game series and flushing it down the toilet but in 4 more days and the people who got to pre order the game to play it now we will be able to find out if suicide squad kill the justice league is good or not and I have heard that it actually gotten better but I don't think it's true until it comes out or if you decide to give it a review and I have heard that it's going to get free apology DLC and the first event is with the joker that is not voiced by Mark hamble and doesn't look like Jerrod leto
How is it related to the Front Mission series? Thank God for the remakes.
It's set in the same world and features Wanzers somewhat prominently, but otherwise it doesn't connect with the other Front Mission games all that much. Probably because it takes place after Front Mission 5, the game that was sort of the series grand finale.
Am I the only one who thinks this game's story is super cursed given that Russia did invade Ukraine 3 years later.
I mean that map at 29:47 is literally just Ukraine but split into two countries, obviously based on the real world ethnic division between West and East Ukraine, the latter of which is partially controlled by Russia today. Doesn't that kind of imply that the majority Russian population of Eastern Ukraine is in Cahoots with Russia, even though nothing since the actually war begun in February 2022 has show that to be the case. Really dates the game and adds another strike against it doesn't it.
Also square block the last Section in ff7 remake 😵💫
35:15. Would love to know what kind of conspiracies Neil Breen makes in his films that look good in comparison to Left Alive.
Miles will make this Review an hour long
Anything Square touches that isn't a 160 hour long JRPG ends up being total crap
It's like they made a giant check list of every bad game design possible and used ALL of them
Well with that intro, I'm now wondering if Jadow could review Parasite Eve at some point.
Man i know the feeling im at 3200 watch hours in the last 365 so close...times ticking
I don’t understand how you can play a game from 30/40 years ago which couldn’t get patched or updated and it was totally playable and yet nowadays we get saddled with unfinished, buggy trash like this.
They really thought they cooked with this game😂😂😂
Honestly, the unforgiving stealth and unbalanced mechanics remind me of another really poor stealth game. That being Vampire Rain (which was made by Naoto Oshima, no joke).
Ever gonna review that one?
Square Enix disrespecting Front Mission
Nothing new there 🤣🍻
Don't have much to say. Knew the game was garbage. Good review. Feeding the algorithm.
Immediately clicked on the link when it popped up
Oh this is gonna be fun
Makes me HAPPY Forever was able to make the remakes of FM1 & 2 (And hopefully FM3 this year and a possibility of FM4 getting a Remaster at least and FM5 FINALLY leaving Japan as they no longer have the excuse of "Oh FM1 & 2 never came out in America so people might get lost with the story" BS to justify never giving us FM5!). I was not happy with FM Evolved being a POOR MANS Armored Core (I came to Front Mission BECAUSE it was Armored Core in a Tactics RPG format! If I want Armored Core I'll PLAY Armored Core! This is ESPECIALLY bad because "Front Mission Gun Hazard" exists and even if it was Action, it still had enough stuff in it to feel RPG! Evolved and THIS mess did not have EITHER!)
But imagine my RAGE after hearing about this game, seeing it sucks and felt like a poor man's Metal Gear (Even got my FAVORITE Artist "Yoji Shinkawa" on this MESS! Hell I can forgive Death Stranding cause even with it's problems "it was a game that WORKED" but this! FUCK YOU SQUARE ENIX) then to find out THIS WAS A FUCKING FRONT MISSION GAME really pissed me off cause NOW I can see a reason WHY those asshats Suits kept trying to BURY the FM series for so long! They used the bad sales & hatred of this one and Evolved to justify screwing us over! Likely thought it would quiet those still wanting a Release of FM5 (I STILL to this day refuse to accept that "you need to have played the entire series excuse cause they need to stop lying on that! FM3 felt like it took place in a different universe with how the Super Nations got some MAJOR name changes and it felt more like a REBOOT to the series then the THIRD GAME! And FM4 got SLIGHTLY screwed because of this when Maria and Frederick BOTH show up in the game! And Fred's case was to continue the plot point of Zaftra from the first game! Where so the part of the story Maria was in was a continuation of the plot points FM2 brought up! Frankly FM3 felt like it was a Spin-off painted as a sequel taking place in the same world! Ironically we could have STILL gotten FM5 and a Codex could explain those plot points! Honestly I think there WAS a codex like system in FM5 so that just means the Suits at SE were too yellow belly to take the RISK of advertizing! Well these are the SAME fools who thought Americans wanted the shit shows that were FM Evolved and THIS Game)
So the moment I see my favorite Dark Lord upload this Video! I KNEW I was going to have a good time watching him tear this shit show apart as I do when my OTHER favorite youtubers "got around to this game!" (Despite ALL of them being negative! It's just the fun of seeing their DIFFERENT negative reactions that make this enjoyable! Beating a dead horse isn't ALWAYS a bad thing LOL)
Never heard of this
Fuck. This. Game. Single handedly killed the series on next gen consoles
This game looks like as if death stranding front mission and the day before had some kind of premature baby
Tails is Krystals Son!!??!?!?!?!?!?!? so sonic is part of the star fox universe!?!?!?!? MY BRAIN HURTS!!!!!!!
Our fanon is that Krystal escaped the Star Fox universe during one of its many reboots and Tails is her adopted son.
@@Darklordjadow1 thats actually pretty sweet
Metal Gear Solid this game was not.
Fun fact. Clicking the right stick makes you do a weak melee attack. If you have a single enemy, you can spam this on them to eventually kill them.
Tried that; I could never land a hit because the range is so abysmal.
Fair enough there. It is something you have to get super uncomfortably close to the enemy to do. Only easier with the ninja skill in New game+. Which goes into how you said the game was designed to weirdly only be more competent and work as it should by purchasing skills to use to make the game playable.
@@robertkovarna8294 so if you slap people with a broken metal stick, nothing happens
but if you punch them they eventually die?
Yes. I know because I did so several times in the game.
@@robertkovarna8294 it should be the other way around to where punching should just stun
Or as I like to call this "The OTHER Front Mission game nobody asked for"
And rather embarrassingly, Left Alive makes Front Mission Evolved look good by comparison
11:48 you tried a screwdriver? :)
Hey Jadow, have you seen Aquaman 2 if you have what did you think of it
Does it matter. In The Flash Review he all but stated it was shaping up to terrible right? Given Lost Kingdoms Rotten Tomato's score that seems to hold true.
@@lewiswebster2089 I just wanted to know what his thoughts on movie are even if doesn't like it I'm just curious
I know it is absolutely nowhere near your radar, Jadow, but please play Wanted Dead at some point and make a video on it.
I wanted to like that game. I really did. I got basically 90% through it, but by that point, the game literally just straight up started cheating and I just couldn't be fucked to care anymore.
1:35 like fear and hunger
a disgrace to the front mission series there i answered your question :)
An INCONIC game.
Ayyyyyyyyyy1 Left Alive! A great game imo. Even if it is pretty iffy.
29:15 Sonic Forces also blocks the cutscenes for some reason
Huh... odd... I didn't see that because I played it on Switch.
@@Darklordjadow1 also Ratchet and Clank 2016 ablocked the cutscene. But the cutscenes were taken from the movie which the game released a few days before the movie
@@jakeconer Actually the movie was delayed a year so the game came out in 2015 while the movie was 2016.
@@shcdemolisherthat’s just not true. The game itself was done in 2015, but didn’t release till 2016
Left Alive, a crappy Gundam fanfic with a stupidly high budget
I don't need your to scream. WTF
Glad I never bought this.
Mgs peace walker work better than this and i played that twice in my psp and ppsspp emulator.😮
What's this on the box?
"Do not resistate if this game bombed."
Fair enough.
Glad they sold all the "Western" IPs off 'cause I wouldn't think of how they gonna fuck up franchises like Tomb Raider, Deus Ex or Hitman.
Hitman seems to be doing quite good these days.
Square Enix is basically the new Konami at this point.
@@tylerbertram7065 Pretty much! With all these games they make that just flop like crazy.
Deus Ex I think is dead.
They killed it with all the pre-order crap tainting Mankind Divided. They just sold a corpse
Trying to be mgsv copycat.😮😂😂
Well that's depressing 2 grown ass adult men playing with stuffed animals then making creepy ass fan fic 😮 wow what a world.
If you think that's depressing, you're going to HATE the 3 entire episodes I made playing with action figures to re-enact and review The Predator, X-Men Dark Phoenix, and The Flash movies!
so what game is next on the shit pile to review
There'll be an announcement in the coming days. You'll understand why when you see it.
@@Darklordjadow1and tdb fully died a week ago, so you can now focus on stuff like the fmv game where you try to escape a spider in a mall like its a nextbot or something
this game is garbage.
Narration is irritating
This game just reminds me why I adore Dishonor as a stealth game.
Good controls, the powers make you very mobile and capable of covering huge amounts of distance rapidly, and you aren’t a pathetic little weakling. Sure Corvo, Daud and Emily arent built for frontline battle, but you can kill enemies in one hit, use guns and crossbows to attack from a distance and you can use your powers to escape, distract or turn things to your advantage
9:42 The land covered by Ruthenia and Garmoniya is literally Ukraine (inc. Crimea). Their flags are also clearly heavily based on both the current blue & yellow and historic Black & Red flag varients. Paper thin indeed.
Ahh, the "you buy enough copies of this crap and Square will probably consider making another Front Mission" game
42 min??! Hell yeah
Godzilla is approaching the generator!
Caution! The enemy is approaching!