Assuming you are not an import fanatic who has actually played all of the Front Mission games, chances are you've only experienced the series in its tactical turn-based SRPG form. So it becomes that much more of a dramatic shift to see the series "Westernized" by turning it into a 3rd-person shooter, making it not that all different from Armored Core and Chromehounds games. Square's designated North American studio Double Helix is not new to Japanese properties, having produced Silent Hill: Homecoming. While that game received lukewarm reviews, there are many positive signs that Square Enix and Double Helix have gone to great lengths to make sure that the aesthetic appeal and the spirit of the series is not lost in Front Mission Evolved. We spoke to Double Helix design director David Verfaille and Square Enix project manager Koichiro Sakamoto to shed more light on Evolved.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
