History Creator / FlightPlan

** Flight-Plan's general love of this mostly averts SpellMyNameWithAnS as most characters will have a Latinised transliteration.

* NintendoHard: Particularly if you're going for an [[RankInflation S-Rank grade]].

* 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.

''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 [[UsefulNotes/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.

With the exception of ''Chiki Chiki Boys'', these are [[BleachedUnderpants cleaned-up]] [[{{Eroge}} eroge]].

* DatingSim: Many of Flight-Plan's games contain elements of this as a result of their earlier work doing [[BleachedUnderpants console ports of such games]].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The final battle in most games have something that makes it different from normal battles. The FinalBoss tends to have his/her/its stats and abilities partially or completely hidden.

* SequelDifficultySpike: Flight-Plan's fanbase prefers their games to be NintendoHard. After fans were disappointed with the relatively [[ItsShortSoItSucks short]] and [[ItsEasySoItSucks easy]] ''Black/Matrix II'', Flight-Plan responded with this in ''Black/Matrix 00'' and ''Summon Night 3'', both of which are generally considered to be the best games in their respective series.

* ''Black/Matrix'' (Sega Saturn; 27th August 1998)

* ''Summon Night'' (Sony [=PlayStation=]; 6th January 2000)

* ''Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari'' (Nintendo Game Boy Advance; 25th April 2003)

* ''Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari 2'' (Nintendo Game Boy Advance; 20th August 2004)

* ''Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari: Hajimari no Ishi'' (Nintendo Game Boy Advance; 8th December 2005)

* ''Summon Night Twin Age: Seireitachi no Kyoumei (Koe)'' (Nintendo DS; 30th August 2007)
* ''Summon Night X: Tears Crown'' (Nintendo DS; 5th November 2009)

Not to be confused with the film ''Film/{{Flightplan}}''.

* ''[[VideoGame/ShiningForce Shining Force Feather]]'' (Nintendo DS; 19th February 2009) [[note]]Outsourced from {{Sega}}.[[/note]]

'''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 [[UsefulNotes/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.

'''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 {{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.

* ''Black/Matrix Cross'' (Sony Playstation; 14th December 2000)
* ''Black/Matrix II'' (Sony Playstation 2; 28th March 2002)

* ''Black/Matrix 00'' (Sony Playstation; 13th May 2004) [[note]]Excluding re-releases, this was the last PS1 game released in Japan.[[/note]]

* ''Summon Night'' (Sony Playstation; 6th January 2000)
* ''Summon Night 2'' (Sony Playstation 2; 2nd August 2001)

* ''Summon Night 3'' (Sony Playstation 2; 7th August 2003)

* ''Summon Night Ex-These: Yoake no Tsubasa'' (Sony Playstation 2; 4th August 2005)

* ''Summon Night 4'' (Sony Playstation 2; 30th November 2006)

* ''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]]

* ''Dragon Shadow Spell'' (Sony Playstation 2; 18th Janurary 2007)
* ''Poison Pink'' / ''VideoGame/EternalPoison'' (Sony Playstation 2; 14th February 2008) [[note]]Flight-Plan's sole SRPG to make it out of Japan[[/note]]
* ''Sacred Blaze'' (Sony Playstation 2; 19th February 2009)

* ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' (Sony Playstation 2; 26th October 2006)

* 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 NipponIchi, who does have some overseas distribution capabilities.

'''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 {{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.

!! Games developed by Flight-Plan

With the exception of ''Chiki Chiki Boys'', these are [[BleachedUnderpants cleaned up]] [[{{Eroge}} eroge]].
* ''Chiki Chiki Boys'' (PC-Engine; 15th July 1994) [[note]]console port of a {{Capcom}} arcade platformer[[/note]]

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The final battle in most games have something that makes it different from normal battles. The FinalBoss tends to have his/her/its stats and abilities partially or completely hidden.

* GratuitousEnglish: Black/Matrix games like to put this in the intro screen of a story battle; Summon Night games like to put this into the intro screen of a chapter.