Square Enix have announced that they’re de-listing offbeat RPG The Last Remnant from Steam quickly. Mysterious stating no cause in their announcement, the writer and developer say the game shall be leaving the storefront on September 4th, though present house owners and those that choose it up now will nonetheless be capable of play the game after elimination. Personally, I’m unhappy to see it go. While the game was not with out challenge (and frightfully opaque at instances), I all the time thought of it one of many studio’s extra artistic and experimental games, and vaguely harking back to their SaGa sequence.
Originally launched for the Xbox 360 again in 2008 and 2009 for PC, The Last Remnant is a really completely different beast to Square Enix’s regular RPGs. Set in its personal fantasy world with a wierd assortment of races (together with four-armed cat-people and lumbering fish-lizard folks), it was most notable for its strategic fight engine. Rather than management particular person characters, you assemble a small military with a number of events, and slightly than have absolute management over their actions, you gave every get together broad ‘game plan’ orders every flip, like “Intercept enemy group D” or “Cast support magic”.
While there was a important path to comply with in The Last Remnant, it was extra open than many JRPGs of the time, and with quite a lot of elective quest chains that might be by accident damaged or missed fully when you went off exploring within the incorrect course. It was uncommon to see every thing the game needed to provide in a single playthrough, and had an odd issue curve resulting from a tiered issue scaling system that sometimes made issues tougher than they need to be. It was additionally ferociously complicated, with its phone-book-sized (and Japanese solely) technique information not even protecting all of it.
The PC model added some helpful quality-of-life options too, like a Turbo button that permits you to fast-forward by means of fight animations. While a notable enchancment, it nonetheless couldn’t do something to repair folks desirous to strangle teen protagonist Rush, who matches in awkwardly amongst an in any other case extra mature solid. While The Last Remnant was a divisive game (and considered one of Square Enix’s weirdest since Vagrant Story) we will all no less than agree that it had a improbable soundtrack, proper? Especially the very prog-metal battle themes, considered one of which you’ll be able to hear beneath.
The Last Remnant shall be de-listed on Tuesday, September 4th at 5pm GMT. It at the moment prices £8/€10/$10 on Steam.
