Awful, every fucking weapon does one of just three things (not hyperbole) but you have to replace basically everything between every mission because they get power crept like crazy, which means that if you don't get enough money you basically get softlocked and if you do you spend more time going through menus than actually playing the game, every enemy has five body parts, it's random which one your unit targets which makes every fight horribly RNG-reliant, nothing's worse than blasting away at an opponent and only hitting their legs or just not doing significant damage to any part, then they retaliate and destroy your best weapon arm or hull, it's really unclear how character-building works (I think I accidentally built some of my characters wrong but the game doesn't really tell you that they even have unique biases and specializations, you just have to fucking guess), most mechanics are never communicated to you (did you know that the lighter your mech is, the higher its movement? i sure didn't, i just learned it in a fucking gamefaqs post), and at the end of all of this the actual gameplay just breaks down to "make all your dudes attack one of the bad dudes at once until he dies"

Maybe I'm mad cause bad or whatever and all of this is par for the course for an a game of its time but that doesn't make any of Front Mission any fun at all.