![]() I guess my question in all of this is "Why? Why do this? Why greenlight the development of a game and commit so few resources toward it? Why slap an RPG series in an action game costume and toss it in the gutter to die?" The verdict is simply that it's a "kusoge", a shit game, in its current state. These all seem like valid, concrete reasons not to like Left Alive. It seems player complaints are the same no matter where you are, as many of the qualms Steam players have basically line up with the qualms Japanese players have: The controls are hard to work with, the story isn't engaging, the characters move and look like they're in a PS2 game, the cover system is poor, and the game is not well optimized. In reality, it's not like saying anything would have magically made the game into something else.Īs it stands, it's hard to even find reviews for Left Alive in English outside of Steam, and those are not good. ![]() If forum and Reddit posts are any indication, many already thought it was going to be terrible based off of its limited trailers. Maybe I should have said something earlier, maybe I should have written an article highlighting some of the reviews from Japan as a warning to other Front Mission fans. "I would recommend it for people who like staring at the backs of huge robots, but not for those who want an action game, third person shooter, Metal Gear, or Armored Core. The reviewer makes one statement that's hard to ignore: For example: Left Alive doesn't have the action of Metal Gear or Armored Core, the cover system is unintuitive, the character animations look like a low-budget PS2 game, it takes forever for the game to let you pilot a Wanzer. The review from the player above has a few choice statements. So what's so bad about this thing? I really can't tell you from personal experience the dearth of review codes around the game was an alarming indicator of its quality, even before I took a gander at .jp on the game's release day in Japan. Now we've gotten Left Alive, a game set in the Front Mission universe, but not really Front Mission.įans of the series on both sides of the ocean know Front Mission won't be left alive after this, as if it was even kicking after Evolved came out. ![]() We saw Front Mission 3 on the PlayStation, Front Mission 4 on the PlayStation 2, and Evolved on the PlayStation 3 in North America. Of course, it would be fair to say that Front Mission is an obscure series in the West. That went about as well as expected considering Evolved just tossed everything that made the series memorable aside to go for those action game bucks. You see, Front Mission is traditionally known as a strategy RPG series, but Square Enix changed up the formula and attempted to reboot it as an action series in 2010 with Front Mission Evolved. In leading up to its release, I've had the hope that Square Enix would give the Front Mission series some much-needed respect despite continually trying to force the series into the action genre. Such is the case with, Left Alive, one of a handful of games I've been actively looking forward to this year.
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