The Last Remnant PC Demo Released

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Guess I'll copypasta my response to the squenix-on-steam thread in here

Pretty interesting game, but I'll probably not pick it up at full price. I really liked how the characters take care of themselves, and only occasionally ask you for general pointers in how they should level. In the loot screen they even call dibs on items which they use to craft and upgrade their gear.

Ran pretty decent with all details maxed on my 8800GT, but with noticable slowdown in the big battles. Not really an issue since it's turn-based.
 
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I just tried it out... I didn't have a damn clue what I was doing, but the game looked nice and ran almost flawlessly on my radeon hd 4850 and athlon 64 X2 4200+.
 
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It just kind of thrusts you into somewhere in the middle of the game, without telling you the controls if you didn't bother to look. All the button glyphs onscreen are for the xbox controller, so you need to look up what buttons are mapped to what keys in the settings menu.

The battles are pretty cool, even though I can't really tell how to work things to my advantage :p
 
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SirTahngarth said:
All the button glyphs onscreen are for the xbox controller, so you need to look up what buttons are mapped to what keys in the settings menu.
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It recognised my logitech rumblepad just fine, and even displayed the correct buttons onscreen for it. I think it's a first that I've seen a game display them correctly since the technical name for my "1" button is actually "0", so most games have it all skewed.

As for the combat, it's pretty simple once you figure it out. Press up/down to select action, then you can toggle a display to show exactly what it does (was 1 on my gamepad, leftmost face button). Press left/right to choose target, there is an overview of them in the lower right corner.
A group shares their health bar, so if you crit a dude for a billion damage you will kill the entire group.
 
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Just played it.

Graphically it's great. I also love how fast the battles go, always one of my pet peeves in FF games (I know this isn't FF).

The controls in this demo are HORRID!!! The mouse doesn't work at all, you have to use arrows for turning. The key hints are impossible to translate for a keyboard.... I hope these issues are hammered out for the final release. I'm really liking the game based on the demo.
 
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Just played it.

Graphically it's great. I also love how fast the battles go, always one of my pet peeves in FF games (I know this isn't FF).

The controls in this demo are HORRID!!! The mouse doesn't work at all, you have to use arrows for turning. The key hints are impossible to translate for a keyboard.... I hope these issues are hammered out for the final release. I'm really liking the game based on the demo.
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Mouse worked fine for me (though I set 'mouse camera settings' to 'standard' before I played, dunno if that's the reason).

Overall I thought it was a kinda weak demo, really wouldn't know whether or not the full game would appeal to me based on it. Liked the music though.
 
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Sir_Brizz said:
Just played it.

Graphically it's great. I also love how fast the battles go, always one of my pet peeves in FF games (I know this isn't FF).

The controls in this demo are HORRID!!! The mouse doesn't work at all, you have to use arrows for turning. The key hints are impossible to translate for a keyboard.... I hope these issues are hammered out for the final release. I'm really liking the game based on the demo.
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I just found this myself:

In settings, go to the Gamepad section. The very first setting (Key Signal Display) controls what symbols are displayed for the buttons. If you set it to keyboard, it will show the keyboard keys that control things, instead of the xbox button icons. This made it much much easier to figure out how to play.

Also the mouse can be used for some controls if you set them up in the mouse settings, though it appears the mouse can't drive the menus because there's no mouse cursor.
 
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I'm excited about this game coming to PC, definitely going to be buying it over Steam. Hopefully they'll clean up the porting issues though.
 
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I like the race of those giant guys with the fish heads that stand on their tiptoes. :p
 
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Coming from SE, who pretty much never gives out playable demos, this is a pretty nice and generous demo, it gives you enough to get a feel for the game, and it actually made me want to pick it up when it comes out.
 
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It's partly because the demo doesn't put you at the beginning. It basically just starts you in the middle of something without telling you how to play. It took a little while but I did figure it out and enjoyed it.

My only gripe about the battling is the camera cuts around too fast (like some of today's action films that are on speed).
 
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hmmh, when i put it into fullscreen mode, the game minimizes over and over again after 1 sec, and the XBOX360 controller is NOT recognized, but alle the button-helpers are XBOX ones o_°
 
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The button helpers can be changed to gamepad buttons or keyboard keys on the Gamepad options menu. Change the "key signal display" setting.
 
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