To give that impression of a different genre of game, we changed the name." The name Front Mission is very closely tied to the idea of the traditional simulation strategy style of gameplay. People who know Front Mission will get straight away that this is a Front Mission game. The names, the Wanzers, the locations, the historical events in the series are all there. All the lore is still very much the Front Mission universe. We know that some know and love Front Mission. "We thought it was a way to show the newness of the franchise, and it would help to have a different name to show that it's a new direction. First of all, Hashimoto-san explained the change in direction, but confirmed that it will also prove familiar to Front Mission fans: Producer Shinji Hashimoto and Director Toshifumi Nabeshima talked about it during a chat with DualShockers at Gamescom 2018. That's the main reason why the publisher opted not to call it Front Mission. Square Enix's Left Alive is set in the same world as the Front Mission series, but it's a rather radical departure from the tactical JRPG genre of the original games.
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