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Square Enix’s not-that-well-received JRPG The Last Remnant is set for release on PC on the 20th of March. Word has it that the game will use Steamworks for its savegame system, and it will, naturally enough, be available to buy on Steam at the time of its release. Whether or not you decide to invest in this stylish fantasy prettiness may well depend on this 1Gb demo, which apparently lets you mess about with a chunk of the game, as well as the PC benchmarking tool. Perhaps unsurprisingly, none of the RPS Four have actually played the original game, so we’ll have to shrug and let you tell us how it is in the comments.

Launch trailer after the jump.

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The beautiful but poorly-received Square Enix turn-based action-RPG The Last Remnant is set to arrive on PC in “spring 2009″. The game hasn’t done well at review om them there consoles, criticised for typically long and rambling cutscenes, and poor battle mechanics. There’s no word on any PC-specific features, other than the Unreal 3 engine looking even more sparkly on high-end systems. I’ve posted the most recent – and rather attractive in that plastic JRPG way – trailer after the jump, although it’s neither PC-specific, nor particularly illustrative of in-game activity…. Or perhaps it is.
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