The Downfall of Fossil Fighters: One of The Best DS Games

I've played fossil fighter champions three times

The ONLY thing I might give him in credit on is The BB Bandits were kinda obviously a parody of Team Rocket (Though not a rip off, but they were still fun and good)

I love all 3 games no mater what

I just beat Dynal without using Orno >:D

Champions is what I would call the perfect sequel. It amped up the gameplay without changing the core features, it added new vivosaurs while keeping all the originals, new characters with a few returning characters, ways of upgrading your vivosaurs with special fossils, Super Evolvers, more open-world, side quests, amazing music, a genuine difficulty curve and an awesome, climatic final battle, oh my God, it's just perfect!

Then Frontier happened, and this awesome game series died.

Frontier is that bad compared. It has a good Opening song, good characters, and Nibbles.

I legit put 210 hours into a single game file ?

I grew up with the first FF game, being around 10 or 11 at the time. I played both sequels and was very disappointed with the third game. Love this video though! Great work ^^

I had way more fun in EVERY fossil fighters than any Pokémon game I played.

Edit: Does anyone else realize that rotation battles in Pokémon were literally just Champions but worse.

god I really wish they'd make another one of these. ine of my favorite franchises of all time

I know this series is most likely dead beyond dead but….I still hope for a new one.

I miss this game so much

I really wish they would do more with this franchise. I loved it. It was so fun.

Frontiers was my first Fossil Fighters, so naturally I had zero interest in checking out the previous two ?

Idk if this is a personal experience, but dynal would always whack me right into the game over screen, but when I fought guhnash, I destroyed his team.

Thanks for the SMT shout out.

I came here bacuse of jaiden animations

I’ve had the original fossil fighters since it first came out

Personally, I loved Frontier, even though it went through a drastic change, it still was a good game. In my opinion, they did better with frontier.

And this is just opinion, don’t argue with it.

I beat this game three times, each with my Spinax. Good times

A part of me is holding out hope for the series to make a return despite all the odds stacked against it

I loved champions, but I hated the stupid anime clothing on the characters

I loved the first two games it's upsetting that the original companies split if they hadn't we would probably still see the fossil fighters series around to this day

Man I remember the Stego I had that I was so proud of in the original game!

#DunaForSmash

I found a copy of this game at a local GameStop for 3$

I guess I'm one of the lucky few that was able to enjoy Frontiers. Storytime: I played Fossil Fighters on my DS when I was 10 or so, less than a decade ago. I loved it. I had seen commercials for Frontiers on Tv and thought "Cool, a sequel!", not knowing Champions existed. I didn't get the game, though. About three years later, I picked up Fossil Fighters and loved it all over again, and wanting more, I looked up the sequel. This is where I discovered Champions and decided to get and play that first. So I did. And I loved it just like the first, fir every way it was the same, and even more for every way it had changed. Then last year, the first summer of quarantine, I go digging (hah) through my old games to find something to pass the time, and I find these two. I decided to complete them to 100% percent, and then finally finish the trilogy. Playing Frontiers was unsettling, to say the least. Not because of the driving system, I had expected that, and not because of the fossil cleaning, as that felt factually better to me, but man oh man, the battle system. For starters, swapping Air and Earth on the type wheel took some getting used to. And then there was the turn order. A far departure from the past games, but with the Speed Plus booster, felt far from inconvenient. Quite the opposite. I often found myself spamming it on my Vivosaur at the end of one round to destroy the entire opposition at the beginning of the next. I did this using the stance system, something I believe can be universally agreed as one of this game's finer points. I've the game's main and post stories, and am now left digging every fossil, and leveling every Vivosaur to max. It could be the nostalgia, it could be my own personal love and aptitude for change, but I certainly enjoy Frontiers, and I'm sorry many others could not.

amazing how video game journalism is a big joke and no one holds them to any kind of standard

“Shattering with just the touch of a hammer” has to be my favorite thing I’ve heard all day.

I never played the first game but I played the second and loved the second but I know the first is an amazing game. But the third was one I hated due to the mechanics and how they did it

Frontier looks like they fell to the trap of being "more serious"

Personnally it's more like dinosaure king than pokemon

This game had so much potential to be a kid's Pokemon or Digimon

Just snagged a copy CIB for 15 at a local Disc Replay. I've been wanting to play it for a while but wasn't willing to spend the 80-100 they wanted for it. Now I have it Wooot

Fossil Fighters and Fossil Fighters Champions were my 2 favorite DS games when i was young. My favorite character overall was and still is Duna.

honestly if they made a new fossil fighters made for newer consoles and pc. i'd be down to play it

Sadly I never completed the game, I left it on an airplane.

The line: "Pokemon gets away with this because it's, well, Pokemon…" makes me want to stab someone

OwO

Please, don't judge spike chunsoft based on this, they are normally great developers that have made critically acclaimed (and some of my favourite) games like the amazing Danganronpa series (BTW I mean the main 3 not the spin off 'Another Episode' because I haven't played that and it is a different genre to the others).

god i used to play this game all the times as a kid. i want it back ?

I hope qe get remakes of the first 2 games(im a huge fan of the series going to get frontier even though its not as good)

If they remastered the first one on switch I’d buy the console just to play it

Probably the worst part of frontier is that, you honestly just rely on your partner vivasaur for the entire game, and when you get to the climax it gets taken away from you, and because you're only allowed to use 1 vivasaur in battle, you have no trained vivasaurs to use and basically just have to either grind a new one to a decent level and rely on your teammates until you get him back.

we are truly living in the darkest timeline

No joke I am still Playing this game over and Over and Over again this game the best game I had since 2009 and more because this game has so much stuff in it to make it POP plus I understand why it is close to Pokémon but really Fossil fighters only has 100 Dinosaurs plus secret ones making it 113 while Pokémon just has millions of Pokémon that are alive