So, the front mission 3: The remake is finally out today, 26 June 2025, and it should be a festive day for fans of PS1 origin, right? Well, sadness, because it seems that remakes have replaced several game 2D art assets with AI-Janred and AI-Usscaled versions. And some results are very terrible.
RPGSITE Kuleen BlackWho also reviewed the game Nintendo InsiderHas put a piece together, with several backgrounds of the game, the in-game landing pages and the 1999 original and Forever Entertainment and the 2025 remake from the Megapixel Studios than the character images than the character images.
All the results in the article are from the beginning of the game, and the results speak for themselves. As a black status, it seems that the publisher and developer – who also worked on the front mission 1: remake – “decided to feed all the original 2D art assets of the game in some form of the Upskale algorithm in one way or the other”.
Some pictures look completely different from the original, which you can see for yourself below.
Hands look controlled, the shadow appears in places where they appear out of place on buildings, and in some examples, a completely new property is added, which look out of place. Even there is an image where it looks like a car and a plane is merged together.
Fans are not quite happy about this, especially given that the original game is dear by many, And There were various issues with both remakes of front missions 1 and 2; The previous criticism was done to have control issues, RNG, and slightly “straight” or a remake, while the latter (developed by a separate studio) received a bad localization.
Just look at this aircraft. This flight does not look safe, is it?
Currently we are working on our review of Front Mission 3: Remake, so we will report back when we make a full decision. But this is not a great look. And, as a reminder, here the publisher – Forever Entertainment – is the same studio that works at the donkey Kong Country, which returns HD on the switch.
Front Mission 3: What are the idea on the remake? Are you disappointed with potential AI use? Tell us in the comments,
