Personally i think it may appeal to a new group of people just from the aesthetics, besides that group of Suda51 fans and those who liked the game from NMH1
but maybe i'm being a little too optimistic
And the day after that announcement, there was a post in the Valkyria Chronicles 4 updates page with a bunch of sheeps
it wasn't even captioned, its title was just "Baaaaa"