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Makuhari Messe was in full swing in Japan right now, and the hall was filled with the quiet excitement of the Tokyo Game Show. It feels weird to watch it all unfold from afar.One of the great perks of my job in the years before the pandemic was attending Eurogamer’s show.To celebrate the gaming industry It was really great being in Japan, as you can imagine.
To protect the dignity of those involved and myself, I have enough anecdotes to fill a rather snarky book over the years. Don’t let the stress when they try to drag me out.)
At the moment, it’s always been difficult to get there this year, thanks to the overzealous bureaucracy surrounding border controls. At Woolwich, Square Enix put on a great show highlighting the rest of 2022’s frankly ridiculous slate – Diofield Chronicles! Harvestera! Crisis Core! Tactics Ogre – Koei Tecmo just released a demo of the curious Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, a charming hybrid of Musou Legacy and Nioh’s Soulslike action.
The demo is quite a bit, and I swallowed it several nights this week. I’d go so far as to say it’s appropriately generous and its walled area.experience. This is a promotional beat that I would love to see more of and the fact that demos made for the show floor are now reaching a larger audience is a testament to this new situation we are facing. A welcome twist. For Team Ninja, getting this little slice is a chance to gather some serious feedback. This is the first area the team has developed as a proof-of-concept and where we can see Waron’s brand of soul-like action incorporating martial arts. In front of millions.
I appreciate being able to experience what the Tokyo Game Show show floor looks like from the comfort of my hut. Square Enix’s Harvestera dropped a wholesome demo on the eShop this week. This also stole a few hours of my time. In fact, the only thing I actually played this week was the public demo that came with TGS. My formative gaming years when demos were pretty much everything. When money was tight, he didn’t have to throw £40 into a new one.
I was saving up for a PlayStation, but didn’t have enough money for games, so almost my entire experience with that console was through demos. I never did, but every piece of that level is indelibly imprinted on my mind (along with the lone Primus track that accompanies the demo). It’s one of my favorite gaming memories, and he cherishes it as much as a special trip to Sega or Treasure’s Japanese headquarters when he was lucky enough to be at TGS.
So it’s a bit heartbreaking that it’s not over in Tokyo for this year’s show, especially since it’s something that’s been telling us so many things – from Radiant Silver Guns to the news, Miyamoto was the first to tell Tom it. Almost seven years after we talked about Pikmin 4… at least we got a little bit of the show here thanks to the demo. EGX in Excel starting next Thursday, of course. Find me at the Street Fighter 6 booth immersed in another demo culled from the TGS floor.
