I never really cared for the Legends games, but this is yet another sad example of what Kenji Inafune was talking about... The Japanese game industry is in decline. The businessmen running these companies are avoiding creative risk and stifling innovation --not to mention skunking the fans. These fools need a heavy handed reminder that they are in the business of selling art.
^^^ That's sad, actually, because that's where Hollywood is right about now. I just heard they cancelled the Dark Towers movies(which seemingly was going to be head by Ron Howard). A bit back, they also cancelled Guillermo Del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness", which Del Toro said was one of the movies he always wanted to do, and wanted to keep as true to Lovecraft's original story as possible. It really IS sick how suits think. Del Toro mentioned, prior to getting James Cameron to help him produce(which STILL resulted with the project being canned), when he'd pitch his story to the studios, they all said, "We'll only greenlight the project if you add a romance, make it PG-13 and set it in modern times!!". Del Toro basically said, "Fuck you, this movie HAS to be set in the era Lovecraft wrote it to be, no romance and Hard-R!!! No exceptions!!". Really, is this what art and enjoyment has become? It's really kinda sad. I'd totally be up for a major revolution on art and entertainment. Burn the suits, remove their influence from the equation. I know someone will say, "But it's a business, and business's sole purpose is to make money!", which is seemingly the default excuse post hippie-PC world. Of course, pimps and drug dealers are also out to make money, and you can justify it by saying, "Hey, they need to eat and put food on their table!". Sure, it's deemed "illegal" and the businesses are doing it legally, but either way, someone's getting screwed. Just because someone's screwing you legally doesn't make it any better.

Like I say, no one has the balls to do anything anymore. The sole trend of rebooting things is proof of that.