Chapter #8: Ganlon's Betrayal/Radcot's Attack, Part 2.Chapter #20: Battle for Tomorrow, Sadira's Ending.Chapter #20: The Journey Begins, Ending.Chapter #16: Refuge in Nordilain, Last chance voting!.
Chapter #10: Clashing in the Snow, Part 2.Chapter #10: Clashing in the Snow, Part 1.Chapter #9: Logan's Test, Part 2, Ending Voting Begins Here!.Chapter #20: Light and Darkness, Good Kingdom Ending.Chapter #20: Light and Darkness, Part 1.
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Chapter #18: Zulwarn Unleashed, Part 2 and Final Status Update.Chapter #14: Faulkner's Ambition, Part 3 and Status Update.Chapter #14: Faulkner's Ambition, Part 2.Chapter #14: Faulkner's Ambition, Part 1.Chapter #12: The Deadliest ATAC, Part 2.Chapter #12: The Deadliest ATAC, Part 1.I'll get around to all three branches and all five endings in time. It's probably the hardest branch, and certainly the oddest. The Ruin Branch requires that you have beaten the game at least once and then make a particular choice after a certain mission. You get many fewer units, and most of them aren't very good. The Empire Branch requires that Bastion be level eight by the end of chapter 3, which can be a pain in the ass. You get party members by the bushelful, and most of them are actually useful. The Kingdom Branch is the default path of the game. There are three different branches in the game, leading to five different endings. That was about 16 years ago, and the Empire is still trying to crush the last remnants of the Pharastia Kingdom.īranches? What are you talking about? What's going on? Where am I?! Answer me, damn you! Then, one day, the leader of one of these vassal-states, the Junaris Empire, decided they'd rather be the ones ruling the continent and conquered most of the Kingdom's territory. Once the entire continent was ruled by the Pharastia Kingdom and its vassals. Most of the important things will come out in the course of the game, but here's a brief summary. Okay, then, what about the game's backstory? Quite how they managed to do this is never addressed. They somehow reverse-engineered these machines to make new ATACs, albeit not as strong as the excavated ATACs. Centuries later, some less advanced people arrived on the continent and found 10 ATACs in ruins. Anyway, the story of the game is that once upon a time, there was a rocking past civilization advanced enough to create mechs for warfare, but then they all died off. They aren't mechs, they're ATACs.which are essentially the same thing. Why are there mechs in what otherwise appears to be the medieval era? Not exactly the most sustainable business model in the world. Finally, they kept including feelies in their products long after the rest of the industry had stopped due to the cost. They also basically only were able to localize games that no one else wanted, i.e. That in and of itself should have killed them. They started out working on games for the Sega CD and then the Sega Saturn. They're also famous for injecting their translations with humor that would be appreciated, at least in theory, by American audiences.Īs for why Working Designs folded in 2005, well, it's really more a question of how they lasted so long.
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Anyway, Working Designs most famous projects were their releases of the Lunar series to the Sega CD, and later, to the PlayStation. Remember, this was back in the day when Square thought they couldn't sell Final Fantasy V to Americans. Working Designs was an American studio that localized Japanese games that no one else wanted to bring over in the '90s and the early part of the '00s. It's kind of like Front Mission crossed with Fire Emblem crossed with a hefty pile of disappointment.
'Bandits' means 'bandits.' Put them together and.you know, what, I'm not even sure who the titular Vanguard Bandits are supposed to be, and it's not clear that Working Designs did either. Well, 'Vanguard' means the leading formation in army, or, more generally, something at the forefront of a larger movement. Working Designs released it in America two years later as Vanguard Bandits. In Japan, it was released in 1998 and known as Epica Stella. Vanguard Bandits was a strategy RPG for the PlayStation.
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