



Unlike its predecessors, the game features new gaming elements and makes it the first survival game genre in the Front Mission series.

While the success of the franchise is not as overwhelming as the aforementioned game titles, Front Mission managed to build its own name, expanding to various installments, spin-offs and has spawned numerous products in various media outside of video games including a successful manga series, novel adaptations and even a toy line.Īlmost ten years after the attempted reboot via the Front Mission Evolved, Square Enix released Left Alive in 2019. Another notable tactical RPG produced by Square Enix is the Front Mission series which has been around since 1995. The Western styles that were criticized in the previous test for the Front Mission mobile game have been replaced with a more realistic style of mecha and 2D-live characters in Mecharashi.īlackJack Studio specializes in developing Strategy RPG mobile games and is well-known for Langrisser Mobile and Kalpa of Universe, two mobile game adaptations with authorized IPs.Want to Know When Front Mission 2089 Borderscape is coming?Ī day is probably not enough if we talk about all the successful video game franchises by Square Enix from the well-loved RPGs like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts to some action-packed games like Tomb Raider and Chrono series. In the meantime, the studio has announced a highly similar mecha game project named Mecharashi, which began a beta test on December 16th that ends on December 29th.įrom some media reports, we found that people who participated in the two game tests explained that there was not much difference in the two games’ gameplay, but there were some changes in the plot. BlackJack Studio also deleted related videos on Bilibili and the associated YouTube and Twitter accounts. The former Front Mission mobile game’s Weibo has changed its profile photo and deleted all relevant videos. Half a year ago, Chinese developer ZlongGames and its subsidiary BlackJack Studio announced Front Mission 2089: Borderscape, a brand new mobile game project that has an IP authorization from Square Enix and takes place in the same world as Square Enix’s classic strategy game Front Mission.īut now, BlackJack Studio has stated on the project’s official website that "after careful evaluation of the current version, they respect the Front Mission series" and “the two sides have canceled the cooperation on the mobile game for the Front Mission IP.”īlackJack Studio’s announcement for Front Mission 2089: BorderscapeīlackJack Studio did not explain the reasons in detail, but on the mobile game website TapTap, they said it was "in order to have more continuity and control in content creation".
