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   With just a few days left until the big Square Enix Party 2007 from May 12-13, over in Japan, we're starting to see some interesting reports regarding the new game announcements that are likely to be made at the event. One of them is The Last Remnant - a completely new IP created by Square Enix with a more global audience in mind. The first hints about it emerged several days ago, when it became apparent that Square Enix had registered the name "The Last Remnant" for an upcoming project.

   We only had to wait a few more days for the story to start making some sense, and by now we know that The Last Remnant will be a next-gen fantasy RPG built on the Unreal Engine 3 technology, targeted both at Japanese and Western gamers. How's that? Well, imagine having two main characters to choose from: one is Rush Sykes, your usual Oriental hero, and the other one is a darker, "Western" kind of hero, generically called The Conqueror (pictured above). Furthermore, Square Enix intends to launch the game simultaneously in Japan and in North America, which should be a welcome change from the oh-so-late release of Final Fantasy XII outside of Japan.

   As for the game's title, those "Remnants" are said to be a key part of practically every element of the game's world, that humans came in contact with about 1000 years ago. Remnants vary in shape and size, and they can take various forms, such as machines, beasts or weapons. It's still a bit confusing how they will "work" in the game, and even what kind of... things (or beings?) they are, but Games Wank Game Swank has a couple of examples that you might want to look at.

   They also say that The Last Remnant will include 4 races - Mitra (humans), Yama (large fish-like beings), Qsiti (small humanoid lizards), and Sovanni (four armed cat like creatures) - and more importantly, they have the first scans from a magazine preview of The Last Remnant, giving us a much better - albeit blurry - image of how the game will look and play like.

   We still don't know what platforms The Last Remnant will be released on, but the general consensus is that it will be a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 title. And apparently it's coming as soon as 2008.