Awesome thread, so much love for the series.
FM3 remains my most played title of all time
A friend gave me the US NTSC copy of
Front Mission 4 as a present, but I no longer have any means of playing it aside from emulation.
FM4 was never released in Europe. Though I did not play a whole lot of it, I fondly remember its ruthless difficulty spike once you were confronted with
Wagner and his epic white wanzer.
Front Mission 5 was a game that eagerly waited for. What a massive disappointment it was for me when they said that the game would never be released in English. I hunted for a Japanese copy for a long time, but every time I had the money, it was not available. When it was available, I was poor as fuck. I know the translation patch exists, but I also know that the fifth game was already so difficult, I would have never been able to enjoy it.
However the track
Defenders is still present in much of my gaming playlists, awesome music:
http://youtu.be/hlx5Xk-KdN4?hd=1
I refuse to mention
Front Mission Evolved in this context, because it is not a proper
FM game. I completed it once on PS3 and I have never gone back. It was horrid.