GamingShogun.com interviews Front Mission Evolved developers from Double Helix Games...
"Q) What are some of the dev team's personal experiences with the Front Mission series? Are many of you long-time fans, or, are you coming to this with fresh eyes?
A) The whole team has played at least one of the past Front Mission games. The two most popular games on the team are Front Mission 2 and Front Mission 4. There are a few people who joined the team later who never played a Front Mission game before and their unbiased opinions have been useful, but for the most part the game is being driven by fans of the series. And this goes from the development staff all the way to the marketing groups and testers... (cont.)"
Jerry from BagoGames says, "Harker would most likely have been one of the better vampire games out there, sadly it got sidelined for another staple franchise."
TDS' lone Asian writer talks about an entry in the mech strategy series that never left Japanese shores.
"Double Helix has been killing it lately with all of these sweet, and we mean SWEET remakes they’ve been pumping out lately. Coming off the heels of the surprisingly successful Killer Instinct, Double Helix collaborated with Capcom to usher the return of their ruthless super assassin, and man, did they do it with style.
Coincidentally, as we just finished talking about Metroidvania, we talk about how Strider utilizes traits of the sub-genre, and we go on to talk about how it’s still a pretty good game, despite it being rough around the edges, in the weirdest of ways…"
-Presspauseradio.com
I am concerned of the lack of joystick support, being that I loved the rudder pedal/stick combo in MechWarrior 3. However, the game looks very promising.