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Front Mission came out for the Super Nintendo in 1995, developed by G-Craft and published by Squaresoft. It was part of that later wave of SNES games that really pushed what the system could do with strategy and presentation, offering a more serious, mechanically dense alternative to the platformers and RPGs common at the time.

You control a squad of pilots in customizable mechs called wanzers, fighting through a series of turn-based battles on grid-based maps. Your main goal is to survive a corporate war in the near future, completing missions that advance a politically charged narrative. The signature mechanics are deeply involved; you spend a lot of time between battles in a hangar menu, buying and equipping individual parts for your wanzers' arms, legs, and bodies, and you can specifically target enemy mech parts in combat to disable their weapons or mobility. The pacing is deliberate, with missions that require careful positioning and resource management, and the difficulty can be punishing if you neglect your pilots' skills or your mechs' configurations. It feels like commanding a small, personalized army where every decision in and out of combat has tangible consequences.