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Forbes
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Front Mission 3: Remake' Switch Review: Wanzers On A Budget
'Front Mission 3: Remake' has had a substantial makeover compared to the original PlayStation game. Originally, the first Front Mission game to come Westward, this remake of Front Mission 3 has a lot to live up to. If you're not unfamiliar with the Front Mission games, these are tactical role-playing games where you control 4-5 meter tall mecha called wanzers. Each map is grid-based and has a large variety of locales and enemies you face, from tanks to helicopters, and of course, enemy wanzers. Despite the fact that the name for mecha in this setting is the obviously comical wanzer, its influences are very clearly from mecha anime such as Armored Trooper VOTOMS. Like the ATs in that anime, the wanzers can also zoom along the ground at high speeds and are roughly the same height. Your wanzer customization options are extensive. The big difference with wanzers is that you can customize their bodies as well as their weapon loadouts, which is closer to the setup in Armored Core, although arguably Front Mission got there first. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder In this iteration of Front Mission series, you can also target the pilot and force them to eject and surrender. It's a neat little thing, and naturally, your own pilots can jump out of their wanzers, too. The only oddity with specificity in targeting is that you can't target specific limbs in this game. It seems like a very obvious omission and would actually be very useful in combat from a strategic standpoint. Instead, we are left with a random chance of what limbs will be attacked, which can be a tad frustrating. As for this remake, from a visual standpoint, it's not bad. The game is using Unity, which is arguably better suited for 2D games, but the wanzers and the environments here look good in their updated form. Some of the game's 2D art appears to be AI-generated. However, it seems that a chunk of the 2D art has been AI-generated or modified by AI in some way. This feels like a budgetary constraint more than anything else, but it does make the game feel cheap in places. Which brings me to my main point: this game feels like it was done on too tight a budget. Not only in a visual sense, with the use of AI-generated art, but also some of the obvious quality-of-life features, such as targeting of specific limbs, that could have been added in if the team had had more time. The other thing here, and this is more of a criticism of the developer when it comes to their library of remakes, is that they are in many ways too faithful to the host material without thinking of what modern gamers would expect. If this were a straight-up retro port of the original game, of which many exist, that would be fine. However, this is meant as a remake, and that means taking into account the games that were released after the original game and potentially implementing functional features that modern gamers would naturally expect to be there. Overall, Front Mission 3: Remake is a solid update to a classic mecha tactical role-playing game from the PlayStation era. It does feel rushed in places, and here's hoping the game receives some patches to fix some of those issues, much like the previous remakes in the series have. Front Mission 3: Remake Platform: Nintendo Switch Developer: MegaPixel Publisher: Square Enix, Forever Entertainment Released: 26th June 2025 Price: $34.99 Score: 7/10 Disclosure: Forever Entertainment sent me a copy of this game for the purposes of this review. Follow me on X, Facebook and YouTube. I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.
Metro
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Front Mission 3: Remake has updated its graphics with AI slop and fans are angry
The remake of PS1 game Front Mission 3 has replaced its 2D artwork with generative AI images, that have made a mess of everything. Even before the first Front Mission remake came out, Polish publisher Forever Entertainment committed itself to also remaking the second and third games for the Nintendo Switch. This was a big deal, since the first two games had never seen a European release (the second game never even left Japan), while Front Mission 3 hasn't been re-released since the original PlayStation version in 2000. The first two remakes were fine enough updates, albeit skin deep and just as old-fashioned as the originals, but any excitement for the third has evaporated due to what seems to be AI generated artwork. The Front Mission 3 remake only launched today but screenshots have already been making the rounds on social media, comparing the remake's visuals to the original game. These screenshots come courtesy of RPG Site and when shared side-by-side with the original version, it does appear that a lot of 2D artwork wasn't simply upscaled to be less blurry but outright replaced. Aside from background art, photos from the Network (an in-universe web browser that provides extra worldbuilding and lore) have been recreated and the results are frankly horrendous. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. Even without comparisons, a lot of these photos simply don't look natural, like one man's bizarre hand gestures or the example at the top of this page, of a soldier holding an already weird looking gun like a camera. Some of the new images don't even accurately depict the original illustrations. One especially egregious example is of what's meant to be a crashed Wanzer, a type of mech in the Front Mission series, being turned into a parked helicopter. Everything points to the original art being fed into an AI algorithm and, since the originals are blurry and pixelated, creating hallucinations and things that were never there to begin with. At least we hope that's what's happened, because if these were designed by actual humans, with no AI involved, it'd be extra shocking they were ever approved. There's no mention of generative AI being used for the remake's development in the credits and we can't recall ever spotting AI art in the first remake when we reviewed it. Although that was based on a SNES game, whereas Front Mission 2 and 3 are PS1 titles. As you can imagine, fans are not happy, with CheeseGX on X describing it as a 'a new all time low when it comes to video game remakes.' 'It's a damn shame to see that the remake team apparently used s***** AI art upscalers to replace a lot of the lower resolution 2D art assets with completely bizarre looking people, tech and landscapes. Definitely won't be buying this!' says JCP Designs on Bluesky 'This isn't even AI upscaling like I assumed, they went and gen AI'd wholly new images using the originals as a base. Legit worst case scenario outcome for this game,' adds Matt B on Bluesky. We've contacted Forever Entertainment for clarification on whether any generative AI was used and will update this article should we hear back. More Trending Despite enthusiasm for using generative AI for game development amongst some companies, including Microsoft, it remains an extremely contentious subject with gamers. Just yesterday, it was discovered the new Everybody's Golf game, which launches this in September, is using generative AI for leaf and tree textures, which is enough of a dealbreaker for some to swear off buying it. The upcoming Jurassic World Evolution 3 came under similar fire for advertising the use of AI generated scientist portraits, but fans must've kicked up enough of a stink because those portraits will now no longer be included. 'Thanks for your feedback on this topic. We have opted to remove the use of generative AI for scientist portraits within Jurassic World Evolution 3,' reads a statement from developer Frontier Developments on the game's Steam community page. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Xbox AI plans already getting roasted by devs: 'Nobody will want this' MORE: As Xbox triples down on generative AI, multiple indie devs reject it MORE: Leaked Sony AI video makes the future of PS6 and next gen Xbox plain
Forbes
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Front Mission 3: Remake' Finally Comes To Switch This Summer
'Front Mission 3: Remake' is out this June on Switch. Followed by the already excellent remakes for Front Mission 1 and 2, the third game in the series will be getting the same treatment on Switch this June. Front Mission 3 is the last of the original PlayStation games. I had hoped we'd see a remake of Front Mission Alternative, but it's still great that the mainline releases have been remade in the first place. Personally, I've really enjoyed the remakes of the first two Front Mission games on Switch. They are very faithful to the original games, despite the graphic overhaul, and can be quite a challenge. The first two remakes have also received a lot of patches over the years, so the games are being supported in the backend, which is always reassuring. As for this game, many regard Front Mission 3 as one of the best games in the series. I somewhat agree with that, but preferred some of the later PlayStation 2 instalments. Whether we will get a remake of Front Mission 4 remains to be seen, but it would be interesting to see how it would be updated for modern hardware. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder In any case, Front Mission 3: Remake will be released for the Switch on June 26. Follow me on X, Facebook and YouTube. I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.
