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Kaan Serin

After Square Enix cancelled the first new Front Mission in years, it’s suing the developer behind it for releasing another very similar mech game

A big mech's lost its limbs in a screenshot from Mecharashi.

Tactics game Mecharashi is pulling a Dark and Darker - in the sense that its developer is being sued for allegedly using assets originally made for another company's game.

Square Enix had been trying to revive its mech-stuffed series for years when it announced Front Mission 2089: Borderscape in collaboration with BlackJack Studio in 2022, months before cancelling the project for unknown reasons. Years later, in October 2024, that same studio released Mecharashi in China and Japan, a very similar sounding turn-based tactics game featuring - you guessed it - lots of mechs.

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