

Square Enix’s Team Asano developed all three titles and is therefore responsible for the growing popularity of HD-2D video games in the publisher’s lineup. Based on generally positive review scores, Triangle Strategy will soon join Bravely Default and Octopath Traveler in Square Enix’s growing lineup of retro-style RPGs with “weird” names. But for one reason or another, the name stuck.

Asano tells Inverse that including “Project” was a way for developers to hedge their bets and create “a little bit of room to be able to change the name” should fan reception be too negative. “Is the name Triangle Strategy not really unique, but kind of weird?” he asks us at the tail end of an interview about the game’s development. Producer Tomoya Asano has been asking himself, and us, the same question. It’s a question that we’ve all been wondering since before developer and publisher Square Enix confirmed the final title during a September 2021 Nintendo Direct. Is the name Triangle Strategy kind of strange?
