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Fossil Fighter: Frontier(JP) is the 3rd entry in the Fossil Fighters series and the first for the Nintendo 3DS. It has also launched with a companion manga going weekly in Corocoro magazine. It was announced for localization on Jun 11, 2014 during E3 2014.

Gameplay[]

The gameplay is like the previous entries where the player collects fossils of Vivosaurs and revive them to do battle. The more pieces of them you collect can be added to the vivosaur and made stronger. Unfortunately, ocean and mammalian vivosaurs have been removed. The new gimmick is the Fossilmobile, a vehicle for traversing the land to collect Fossils that are customizable and equipped with guns to handle dinosaurs.

Plot[]

The story starts with an incident that is referred to throughout the game. In it, INTERFOL agent Stryker has cornered the brilliant but terribly malicious scientist Dr. Baron von Blackraven in his submarine lair. Since Blackraven has no intention of being arrested quietly, a Fossil Battle ensues, with Stryker winning when his vivosaur defeats Blackraven's corrupted vivosaur with a terribly powerful attack. Just as Stryker prepares to take Blackraven into custody, however, he sees something horrible.

Five years later, Stryker becomes the head of the Wardens, an INTERFOL department of Fossil Fighters which travels the world investigating vivosaur activity. Eight teenagers arrive at the Warden HQ in Fossil Park Asia to take the final test to become Wardens themselves, having shown promise in earlier tests. One of the youths, the protagonist, has held a lifelong dream of joining INTERFOL. After the driving lesson, where the protagonist also learns how to excavate fossils and jewels, they are called over by Nate, one of their fellow recruits. Nate meddles with some machinery at the HQ's laboratory and releases a small and odd looking vivosaur. The pair chase it down, but the vivosaur runs into a rogue Gorgo. Ignoring Nate's call to back off, the protagonist battles the Gorgo, but is overwhelmed and only saved by Stryker's timely intervention. After this, the eight recruits are paired up for the final test. The protagonist's partner is an overweight young man named Roland, and at his suggestion, the two leave Fossil Park Asia to prepare for the test.

Characters[]

Development[]

This game was first announced exclusively in Japan during a Nintendo Direct on December 18, 2013. The release date was also announced then.

Localization of this game was announced subtly at E3 2014. The release date was later announced in January 2015.

Reception[]

Fossil Fighters Frontier receives "mixed or average" reviews on Metacritic getting a metascore for 57/100 based on 25 critic reviews.[1]

Sales[]

On the first week, it sold 60,216 copies according to Famitsu. This is the best first week sales of any entry of in the series.

Credits[]

Gallery[]

  Main article: Fossil Fighters: Frontier/gallery

Videos[]

Videos
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E3 2014 trailer
Main Page: Fossil Fighters: Frontier/videos


References[]

  1. Metascore for Fossil Fighters FrontierMetacritic, Retrieved February 19, 2020

External links[]

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