Last Remnant PC demo now available

By Robert Purchese Published 26 February, 2009

Gearing up for late March launch.

Square Enix has released a demo for action role-playing game The Last Remnant.

You can grab the 1GB sampler over on Gameplanet. The FileShack file, incidentally, has mysteriously disappeared.

That snippet of The Last Remnant should offer enough of a glimpse to decide whether to buy on 20th March.

Square Enix will also be hoping you notice the PC-added choice of Japanese or English voice overs, better character animations and option for multiple leaders to form unions.

The Last Remnant appeared late last year on Xbox 360, and took home middle-of-the-road scores. The game certainly looked nice, but dragged and needlessly muddied what was otherwise an impressive strategical underbelly.

Head over to The Last Remnant review to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Goodfella #1 3 years ago

    Shame it's yet another mediocre JRPG. Nothing this generation has stood out as of yet.

    *Fondly remembers the glory days with games such as Secret of Mana, etc*

  • Domstercool #2 3 years ago

    *joins in the fondling by stroking the hell out of Persona 4*

    PS2 still showing those big boys what RPGs are about.

  • ChaK #3 3 years ago

    bha, link doesn't work

  • UncleLou #4 3 years ago

    The hysterical battle camera is driving me mad. I don't get motion sickness at all usually when playing games, but after a few battles in the demo last night, I felt dizzy. It's constantly, automatically changing perspective, panning, turning, and whatnot.

  • Kryon #5 3 years ago

    I will never understand the love for Persona....I thought it truly sucked, it's a game for hardcore Japanophiles only IMO. Also, yeah the download doesnt work.

  • Goodfella #6 3 years ago

    God yeah. I tried one of the Persona games and although the combat was good the rest was tedious at best. Going to school and socialising and stuff, what the...!

  • ZuluHero #7 3 years ago

    was there ever a 360 demo of this?

  • penhalion #8 3 years ago

    @Doomstercool

    Where the hell did you get hold of a euro version of Persona 4?!?

  • Optimaximal #9 3 years ago

    Common sense would be too give us a Steam demo.

  • Vertius #10 3 years ago

    Do you know what's awful in a PC game? 360 button prompts. And absolutely no mouse support? This isn't a PC game; it's a 360 game on the PC.

  • UncleLou #11 3 years ago

    Do you know what's awful in a PC game? 360 button prompts. And absolutely no mouse support? This isn't a PC game; it's a 360 game on the PC.

    Do you mean in the menus? I haven't noticed because I had a 360 pad plugged in and was using that, but mouse/kb definitely works in the game itself.

    If it really shows 360 pad buttons prompts if you haven't got one plugeed in, that is of course ultra-lame.

  • marilena #12 3 years ago

    The mouse works? It didn't do anything for me.

    There seem to be options that make it work better, but the menu is convoluted and confusing, like the rest of the game.

    I exited the demo in less than 5 minutes. Not that it didn't seem interesting, but it was completely overwhelming and confusing and I had no idea what to do and I just couldn't be bothered. I started with no introduction and no quest, but with a huge party and some people around me (except none of the them had anything relevant to say). Very weird beginning.

    Edit: and it most definitely does show you Xbox pad prompts by default, even if you don't have one.
    Edited by 1 at 26/02/09 @ 14:48

  • Vertius #13 3 years ago

    @UncleLou: No, I wasn't using a 360 controller, and still it had the prompts. Every time I walked up to someone, it'd give me an A button prompt. I could hardly navigate the menus because it wanted me to push the Right Bumper! During battles, there'd be quick time events where I was being told to push A, B, X, or Y...AND THERE WAS NO EXPLANATION!

    I was fairly livid last night, I tell you. I repeat: it's not a PC game; it's a 360 game on the PC.

    It ran really smoothly, though, unlike the 360 version...

  • Darren #14 3 years ago

    @Vertius - "It ran really smoothly, though, unlike the 360 version..."

    That's a big plus really, although the game itself is sadly nothing special.

    Both this game and Mass Effect highlight the increasing gap that is forming between the consoles and high-end PCs in terms of graphical capability. My own PC can run both games with ease at 60 fps with 4X anti-aliasing at almost 1080p (1680x1050) and without ANY screen tearing. The Xbox 360 would instantly red light at the thought of achieving that! ;)

  • EmiliasHorse #15 3 years ago

    @Darren

    Great you have a fast PC.

    The 360 is 3 years and 3 months old. I think it does bloody well as does the PS3...You cannot compare the console version to a modern PC.

  • Nill #16 3 years ago

    @Emilia'sHorse

    Well, my PC is nearing two years old, and it cost about the same as a PS3 did back then. Still, it pretty much manages what Darren's does.

    So I am indeed pleased that this looks and runs well. Now, if we could only get something a bit more worthwhile from Square.


    I agree with what's been said though: It's definitely a console game on the PC. Nothing wrong with that though, there's plenty of console titles that I would've loved to have on the PC. Just get a pad, or if you're a little more of an enthusiast, hook up your PC to your TV/sound-setup and you're in for a blast!

  • viper_h #17 3 years ago

    Square + PC = LOL.

    From their terrible ports of FFVII and FFVIII, and the PS2onPC-game that was FFXII, I'll never trust another square PC game again.

  • hiddenranbir #18 3 years ago

    Atleast it runs super smooth on the PC.

  • jkrodal #19 3 years ago

    Ugh... Is it required to buy a xbox controller to play the full version as well ? The demo seems unplayable.

  • Olemak #20 3 years ago

    Tried the demo on steam, it was laughable. Not in a good way. I don't think it's even possible to call this a game, I could not really discover any gameplay to speak of. Plenty of weird looking critters tho.

  • Saxo #21 3 years ago

    yet another shameless console to pc conversion. they simply just took the game and ported it to pc, they didnt bother reworking the controls or menus, it pretty hard to play a game that is telling me to push buttons i dont even have. also i couldn figure how to exit the game, since escape apparently didnt take me to the main menu, which i had to navigate using the keyboard. unistalled it after 10min just cant be bothered with a game the puplisher cant be bothered with either, they are just trying to earn a few dollars.