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4''Flight-Plan'' 『フライト・プラン』 was a Japanese game developer established 30th September 1989. They made mostly {{Strategy RPG}}s and had two flagship game series of that genre (''VideoGame/BlackMatrix'' and ''VideoGame/SummonNight''). The company closed down sometime in August 2010. Most of its members went on to form Creator/{{Apollosoft}} and have worked with fellow SRPG developer Creator/NipponIchi to create the [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]] game ''Blue Roses ~Yousei to Aoi Hitomi no Senshitachi~'', with another PSP game, ''[[http://www.siliconera.com/2011/04/19/ragnarok-onlines-world-comes-to-psp-as-a-strategy-rpg/ Ragnarok ~Hikari to Yami no Koujo~]]'' to follow after that.
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6Not to be confused with the 2005 film ''Film/{{Flightplan|2005}}''.
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10!!Games developed by Flight-Plan:
11->(release dates and platforms given are those of the first Japanese release)
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13[[folder:Black/Matrix Series]]
14* ''VideoGame/BlackMatrix'' (Sega Saturn; 27th August 1998)
15* ''Black/Matrix AD'' (Sega Dreamcast; 30th September 1999)
16* ''Black/Matrix Cross'' (Sony [=PlayStation=]; 14th December 2000)
17* ''Black/Matrix II'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 28th March 2002)
18* ''Black/Matrix Zero'' (Nintendo Game Boy Advance; 30th August 2002)
19* ''Black/Matrix 00'' (Sony [=PlayStation=]; 13th May 2004) [[note]]Excluding re-releases, this was the last [=PS1=] game released in Japan.[[/note]]
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22[[folder:Summon Night Series]]
23* ''VideoGame/SummonNight'' (Sony [=PlayStation=]; 6th January 2000)
24* ''Summon Night 2'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 2nd August 2001)
25* ''[[VideoGame/SummonNightSwordcraftStory Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari (Summon Night: Swordcraft Story)]]'' (Nintendo Game Boy Advance; 25th April 2003)
26* ''Summon Night 3'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 7th August 2003)
27* ''[[VideoGame/SummonNightSwordcraftStory2 Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari 2 (Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2)]]'' (Nintendo Game Boy Advance; 20th August 2004)
28* ''Summon Night Ex-These: Yoake no Tsubasa'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 4th August 2005)
29* ''VideoGame/SummonNightCraftSwordMonogatariHajimariNoIshi'' (Nintendo Game Boy Advance; 8th December 2005)
30* ''Summon Night 4'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 30th November 2006)
31* ''[[VideoGame/SummonNightTwinAge Summon Night Twin Age: Seireitachi no Kyoumei (Koe) (Summon Night: Twin Age)]]'' (Nintendo DS; 30th August 2007)
32* ''[[VideoGame/SummonNightX Summon Night X: Tears Crown]]'' (Nintendo DS; 5th November 2009)
33* ''Summon Night Gran-These: Horobi no Ken to Yakusoku no Kishi'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 11th March 2010) [[note]]This was Flight-Plan's last game before they went under.[[/note]]
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36[[folder:Other Games]]
37* ''Dragon Shadow Spell'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 18th Janurary 2007)
38* ''Poison Pink'' / ''VideoGame/EternalPoison'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 14th February 2008) [[note]]Flight-Plan's sole SRPG to make it out of Japan[[/note]]
39* ''Sacred Blaze'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 19th February 2009)
40* ''[[VideoGame/ShiningForce Shining Force Feather]]'' (Nintendo DS; 19th February 2009) [[note]]Outsourced from Creator/{{Sega}}.[[/note]]
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43[[folder:Console Ports]]
44With the exception of ''Chiki Chiki Boys'', these are [[SelfCensoredRelease cleaned-up]] [[{{Eroge}} eroge]].
45* ''Chiki Chiki Boys'' (PC-Engine; 15th July 1994) [[note]]console port of a Creator/{{Capcom}} arcade platformer[[/note]]
46* ''Dōkyūsei'' (PC-Engine; 23rd November 1995)
47* ''Dōkyūsei 2'' (PC-FX; 9th August 1996)
48* ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' (Sony [=PlayStation=] 2; 26th October 2006)
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52!!Tropes that are commonly found in Flight-Plan games:
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54* AntidoteEffect: Items are useless in story battles if you're going for an S-Rank clear (or Brave Clear in the ''Summon Night'' games) since using items lowers your rank (and completely disqualifies you from a Brave Clear in the ''Summon Night'' games). ''Summon Night 3'' had a partial aversion where it allowed you to use the fishing bait items and the "Pirate Bentō" item without being disqualified for a Brave Clear. The lure items weren't exactly great when used as healing items though. With the exception of the Golden Lure (the rare [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Bait]]) which removed all abnormal status effects, they were laughable as since they healed for no more than 10 HP.
55* AntiGrinding: Free battles don't give as much experience or money as story battles.
56* {{Cap}}: The level cap in most games is 50. You'll generally reach the end of most games at about level 25.
57* DaddySystem: Flight-Plan was well known for continuing to make games for older consoles late into their life-cycles.
58** ''Black/Matrix 00'' was the last [=PS1=] game released in Japan that was not a re-release. It came out in May 2004, four years after the launch of the [=PS2=].
59** ''Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari: Hajimari no Ishi'' was released on the [=GBA=], one year after the launch of the [=NDS=].
60** Their last game was a [=PS2=] game in March 2010, four years after the launch of the [=PS3=].
61* DatingSim: Many of Flight-Plan's games contain elements of this as a result of their earlier work doing [[SelfCensoredRelease console ports of such games]].
62* GoodBadBugs: [[invoked]] Earlier games checked wait stance during counterattacks. This meant a player could set a unit to the defend wait stance before attacking and later change to counterattack after if so desired. This was eventually fixed in later games.
63* GratuitousEnglish:
64** ''Black/Matrix'' games like to put this in the intro screen of a story battle.
65** ''Summon Night'' games like to put this into the intro screen of a chapter.
66** Flight-Plan's general love of this mostly averts SpellMyNameWithAnS as most characters will have a Latinised transliteration.
67* HeroesPreferSwords: Most heroes will be using a sword of some kind unless they're spellcasters. [[TheGunslinger Millet]] of ''Summon Night Gran-These'' is a notable exception.
68* HubLevel: Most of games will have a map with a couple of points on it to go to.
69* MultipleEndings: Again, as a result of porting dating sims in their early days. And like some dating sims, some of the endings might only be available on a subsequent playthrough.
70* NewGamePlus: Exactly how much gets carried over depends on the game. {{Character level}}s tend not to get carried over. Some games even feature new dialogue after the first playthrough.
71* NintendoHard: Particularly if you're going for an [[RankInflation S-Rank grade]].
72* NoExportForYou: Very few of Flight-Plan's games made it beyond the domestic market despite them [[http://www.rpgfan.com/features/interviews2007/index1.html very much wanting to]]. Flight-Plan's tendency to make games late in a game system's life-span in their native Japan, which tend to have longer life-spans than their overseas counterparts, didn't help things. Ironically, for a developer known for making mostly [=SRPGs=], only one of their [=SRPGs=] managed to make the jump. And it wasn't from either of their flagship series and only made it to North America. In the end, Flight-Plan managed to get four of their games to North America and a whopping zero to Europe. Their successor, Apollosoft, is 0 for 1 with regards to both NA and EU as of 2011. Made all the more strange that their first game was done with Nippon Ichi, who does have some overseas distribution capabilities.
73* RankInflation: Player performance in story battles are graded from C -> B -> A -> S.
74* SlidingScaleOfTurnRealism: Flight-Plan's games tend to be either "Action by Action" or [[TurnBasedTactics "Turn by Turn"]].
75* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Due to GratuitousEnglish, most characters in Flight-Plan's games have an official spelling (usually found in the respective game's official website). Place names, minor characters, and last names (where applicable) in general aren't as lucky. The tendency of Flight-Plan's games to not make it out of the domestic market both helps (no multiple transliterations) and hinders (minor stuff don't get an official spelling) against this.
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