Front Mission 1st interview at RPGamer.

"During E3, we got the opportunity to sit down with Square Enix's Koichiro Sakamoto, who just recently served as the producer on the company's Front Mission DS, due for release in the US this October 23. Mr. Sakamoto very graciously discussed the game, his love of the Front Mission series, and answered the questions we had on it.

Firstly, Mr. Sakamoto was asked if there were any difficulties in porting the game to the DS. On the contrary, he said, it wasn't difficult at all. He stated that he felt that the dual screen setup of the system could provide much more information to the players, which would make for a much smoother gameplay experience. There was additional discussion on the system's capabilities. When asked if the team considered adding multiplayer via the WiFi Connection, he responded that they would have liked to, but the truth is that it would have been too difficult to properly rebalance the game, which simply offers so many customization options through equipping different Wanzer (mech) parts. Sakamoto didn't want the game's original balance to be forcibly adapted for the sake of wireless. The producer was also jokingly asked about using the microphone; his response was laughing that this thought never occured to him, but that it's an interesting idea."

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