New Square RPG Unveiled - The Last Remnant

1up is reporting on content from Game Informer magazine from this month, talking about Square's next big non-Final Fantasy RPG. Entitled The Last Remnant, it sounds like an interesting blend of the old and the new. While the action will stick with traditional turn-based mechanics, several elements reflect the changing landscape of the games industry. Square/Enix intends to release the game worldwide, localizing the game to an English audience as the game is created. Additionally, the game will have two selectable protagonists: one is to be a traditional heroic Square character, and the other more of an anti-hero for the American market. "The Last Remnant's been designed on Unreal Engine 3, and we should see the first official media come from [Square/Enix's announcement party] on May 12 and 13. Going with Epic's technology isn't too surprising considering the company's emphasizing the focus on Western gamers ... We don't know much about combat, but it's turn-based, more action-oriented and has a cinematic flair."

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Need more cofee

[Chris Burke]

New Square RPG -- The Last Laundromat.

Hmmm, intriguing, but I'm not so sure it'll work out.

Re:Need more cofee

[earnest murderer]

Come on, it's a tragic story of how the aristocratic management raises dryer rates while lowering the temperature to get more money out of their customers. Eventually you'll discover the purpose isn't just to make more dough, but to fund their super secret Laundro-Bot that will subjugate the entire human race before summoning METEOR to rain bloody vengance upon their competitors! Mostly because the owner was jilted by a girl that worked across town at another Wash & Dry. You will eventually prevail over the mad manager, but it will be too late to stop Laundro-Bot.

All of this because long ago the owner was jilted by a girl that worked across town at another Wash & Dry. A woman who turns out to be... YOUR MOM!

There will be a side quest involving a giant chicken and a homeless man with his own rocket.

Re:Need more cofee

[Ngarrang]

Not having played the game, I was wonder how an RPG could be square, let alone the possibility that one could then also be circular, hexagonal, etc.

Re:Need more cofee

[shotgunsaint]

Don't forget that to power the Laundro-bot, they need YOU to collect lint from every dryer in the shop to form some kind of super-lint. Just before you collect the last piece, you'll stop (in a grand cinematic), renounce your manager, and refuse to take any more lint. That's when he'll attack you from behind.

Re:Need more cofee

[Hotawa Hawk-eye]

Before you're able to collect the lint from the dryers (even though you'll have had access to the dryers, with the lint inside, since the beginning of the game) you'll have to take this shirt to the owner who mistakenly picked up someone else's shirt. You'll then have to take the shirt they took and return it to its owner, and take the shirt _that_ person took, and *skipping the stories of a few dozen people who each took someone else's shirt and then moved to different cities or countries* you'll finally get to the last person, who hands you your shirt (which they took) that contains the Brush of Lint Retrieval that will allow you to collect the lint.

Mmmm ... oh yeah, the oh-so-enjoyable "errand boy" quest.

Re:traditional heroic Square character

[C0rinthian]

Nah, the americanized anti-hero will be 'buff' to the point of anatomic impossibility, scarred, tattooed, and posess trendy yet intimidating facial hair. He will also posess a brash personality and mysterious past.

Rediculous body armor is also a possibility, as are very, very large guns.

Re:traditional heroic Square character

[Dachannien]

disaffected youth with spiky hair, and the other a disaffected youth with long hair

But will they have gigantic forearms?

Re:traditional heroic Square character

[zerocool^]

Mysterious past?!?

What kind of Square RPG Fan are you!

Obviously one of the lead characters will have AMNESIA. It's a requirement!

Re:Huh?

[myowntrueself]

What other indicator of market success is there? Are people making money without selling things?

Well according to a certain Nigerian Barrister of my acquaintance, yes.