The June issue of Game Informer magazine announced Square-Enix’s new RPG franchise The Last Remnant. It will be directed by Hiroshi Takai (game planner on The Bouncer) and uses the Unreal Engine 3. It’s a turn-based RPG with Quick Timer Event gameplay. Siliconera says the game is more than likely a multiplatform game for PS3 and Xbox 360.
The game features two characters:
1. Rush (traditional Square-Enix hero) who will appeal to the Japanese gaming audience.
2. The Conqueror (dark/anti-hero) will appeal to the Western gaming audience.
This wide appeal means the game will be released simultaneously in America & Japan.
With Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy party coming up on May 12 & 13 there are bound to be more news bits popping up. Like them launching of a teaser website for the upcoming PSP title Final Fantasy: Dissidia. It’s not an RPG, but instead being called a “dramatic progressive action game”.
1UP mentions that Tetsuya Nomura of Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy Versus XIII fame is handling the character designs of the new PSP game.
Updated May 9th with first screenshot. Final Fantasy 4 will be remade in 3D on DS by the same Square-Enix team that did Final Fantasy 3 for DS. A rough Neogaf translation says: “FF4 becoming full 3D, is being done for Nintendo DS. FF4 development position of the staff and that time when you take charge of DS edition FF3 participates in development, when it re-constructs world from the basic and decides also the addition of new episode is! The reason is because FF1 and FF2 are on PSP.”
Time for a confusing Japanese Square Enix Party trailer!