Front Mission impresses in this department painting a rich tapestry as it takes your crew around location after location in the Asiatic, picking up new members along the way and entwining their histories in the ongoing battle. Developments are played out using a combination of realtime 3D for action and static location images overlaid with character graphics for the weightier conversational moments. The game does suffer though from the usual fate reserved for Japanese translations. The dialogue is definitely B-movie grade and even the most poignant moments can become comical. Sudden emotional swings and incomprehensible plot twists are prevalent throughout, denying you any real emotional attachment to Kazuki and his friends.
Irrelevant vignettes designed to round the edges of team members also plague the middle chapters.
Its not uncommon to find 20-30 minutes of dialogue slipped in between battles on topics of no importance before the momentum eventually gathers toward a suitably epic finale.