To be fair, this one is just a spin-off. As for the main series, they did try to make the series more serious with Force, but we all know how that turned out...
Someone knows if Force is still on indefinite hiatus? I guess we can consider it pretty much dead and not canon anymore, anyone have some idea if japanese fans didn't like it either?
In my opinion the problem was not try to make it more serious but to put a male main character, which from what I remember had some romantic subtext with the two girls that travel with him and one of the villains, making it look a little like another cheap harem, other problems, making him as strong or if not stronger than Nanoha cast, because of course only a male protagonist could be stronger than them, and last but not less important, a villain almost killing Signum, of course the good side is that althought she failed at killing Signum she at least killed the manga, so I guess in the end something good happened after all, I know it had other problems that made it shit, someone remembers them? Of course it's okay if no one remembers, in the end it had so many problems it's not even worth remember it, I only remember those cause they're probably the biggest problems it had, I really hope that shit stays dead and they never do those mistakes again in Nanoha.