Fossil Fighters Frontier Retrospective: A Man Loses All Coherence Over DS Classics

Fossil Fighters is one of my favorite little franchises that doesn't get enough credit or recognition. Fossil Fighters Frontier however, is offensive to the senses.

I have a lot of opinions about this and I know a thing or two about game design, so I talked about it for way too long.

I actually went to the Fossil Fighters Discord server to gauge interest in Frontier and it was surprisingly mixed. If you like this game, honestly I envy you, but I also beg that you raise your standards.

Jaiden Animations has a video on the first game in the series, mostly a story breakdown but it's pretty entertaining.

RPGMonger has something on the series but I haven't watched that one. It's probably fine.

Thanks a heap to ChuggaConroy for letting me use some of his Pokemon Platinum footage. Saved me hours. You're a legend Emile!

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:30 Style
6:54 Story Pre-Spoilers
14:32 Story: Frontier Spoilers
27:35 Story: Original and Champions Spoilers
31:52 Characters
39:08 Core Loop
56:39 Combat
1:00:14 Combat - Elemental Circle
1:03:25 Combat - Stances
1:06:25 Combat - Moveset Variation
1:09:24 Combat - Boost Skills
1:10:07 Combat - Support Shots
1:14:05 Combat - NightmareNightmareNightmare
1:21:21 Miscellany
1:27:27 Conclusion
1:32:23 Outro



Music Used (In order of introduction)

Fossil Fighters Champions - Ribular Town Theme
Earthbound - Choose a File
Earthbound - Pokey's House
Earthbound - Welcome Home
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky - Guildmaster Wigglytuff
Mother 3 - Mr Saturn Theme Z
Earthbound - Franky
Animal Crossing - 2AM
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky - On the Beach at Dusk
Earthbound - Sanctuary Guardians
Fossil Fighters Frontier - No Turning Back
Earthbound - Peaceful Rest Valley
Earthbound - Unsettling Opponent
Earthbound - Apply Kid's Theme
Earthbound - Opening Credits
Fossil Fighters Champions - Future Remixed (SilvaGunner remixed it. Be careful)
Fossil Fighters Champions - Battle Etude
Disgaea 4 - Opening Theme
M&L Bowser's Inside Story - Dr Toadley