Square Enix had a great opportunity: to relaunch a niche brand that had been dormant for several years but still had a strong core of fans who had grown up on bread and Japanese robots, but it largely squandered it by offering a title that is too similar to the original one, which does not correct any of its flaws and instead slavishly repeats them. Considering that almost thirty years have passed since the first publication, many of the design and interface limitations are even more difficult to digest today than they were when it debuted on the market, given that the reference genre has been able to modernize itself and offer, even if only limiting the analysis to the last five years, at least five or six top-notch exponents. Today, therefore, Front Mission 1st Remake proves to be as much of a niche product as the original, unfair in level of challenge, fascinating in setting and story, and disinclined to open up the franchise to any newcomers, who would do well to first try many better congeners in terms of learning curve and audiovisual presentation.