If you squint just right, it looks like Metal Gear Survive with no base building and a stronger story. The B-grade Metal Gear feeling is only added to by the character designs and the general user interface. The muscles of Left Alive have some life in them, it's the bones that are brittle.Īt heart, Left Alive straddles the line between stealth action and a survival game. And the maps are generally pretty open, giving you freedom to sneak around and cause some havoc while you make your way to your objective. Left Alive's graphics prowess aren't completely up to snuff-the textures look bad in places and some objects simply float above the ground-but a once-vibrant city reduced to rubble in the midst of some sort of Christmas-like festival? That's a great setting. I can also offer some praise to the environments. You'll make story choices that will also decide who lives and dies. Areas on your map show hotspots in the ongoing occupation, which are probably best to stay away from due to increased enemy presence. While you're playing as each character, scrounging for materials to build makeshift first aid and traps, you also have the chance to save survivors. And this ties into gameplay, where you have to decide who lives and who dies. They're a bit heavy-handed, sure-the Garmonian soldiers shoot innocent civilians for no reason and then just go about their business-but they largely get their point across. These three stories are probably the strongest part of Left Alive, focused as they are on showing the outcome of the war on the average person. Unlike the other two, Leonid has a less nebulous reason to survive: he's trying to get revenge on who framed him for an assassination. Finally, there's Leonid, a battle-hardened mercenary who uses to work for a resistance movement in Novo Slava. Olga is a former pilot of the Garmonia Republic, turned police officer in Nova Slava. Mikhail, who I lovingly call "Russian Leon Kennedy", is a young Wanzer pilot in the Rutenian army. Left Alive picks up in the ruins of the occupied city as three survivors try to stay alive. Given the lack of warning and the military might of Garmonia's Wanzers, the city easily falls.
The Garmonia Republic has declared war on the country of Rutenia, starting with a surprise attack on the city of Nova Slava. It's a stealth action game that takes place in the middle of an active warzone. Sadly, Left Alive has all the charm and polish of a mid-range PlayStation 2 game. Sure, it wasn't a proper Front Mission game, but at least it could be interesting. Director Toshifumi Nabeshima produced several games in the Armored Core series. Shinkawa was joined by Takayuki Yanase, mecha designer for Metal Gear Rising, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Xenoblade Chronicles X.
In fact, the staff on Left Alive hinted at something potentially exciting. A remake of Front Mission 2 is also in the pipeline, even if we don’t know when that will come.What we were shown instead looked a lot like Metal Gear Solid, and it even included former Metal Gear Solid character designer Yoji Shinkawa on its staff. On the other hand, a remake of the original game titled Front Mission 1st will come this year for Nintendo Switch, courtesy of Forever Entertainment. Recently, Square Enix tried to bring it back with Left Alive, which is set in the same universe, but it certainly wasn’t what the fans wanted. If you’re unfamiliar with Front Mission, it’s a classic tactical JRPG franchise that debuted in Japan in 1995 on Super Famicom. The game is slated for worldwide release on multiple platforms, including mobile. By depicting the developmental process of the powerless under the fog of war, players will witness this world’s evolution together, using their understanding of helplessness to explore the roads to an inevitable tragedy.įront Mission: Borderscape is head-produced by BlackJack Studio, the successful developers of Langrisser Mobile. The vision for this new entry, Front Mission: Borderscape, focuses on the eve of the Second Huffman War and the escalating secret regional conflict. Supervised by Square Enix and developed by BlackJack Studio, “Front Mission: Borderscape” is a brand-new project set in the world of Square Enix’s legendary “Front Mission” series. The stories about humanoid weapons and their pilots will unfold through battles intertwined with blood and tears. In this world, society is secretly puppeteered by a large federation composed of various countries, and constant regional conflicts have become the destructive norm.
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Here’s how Square Enix describes Front Mission: Borderscape:įront Mission is a futuristic dystopian warfare-themed game series produced and published by Square Enix.
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