PaigeFTW: Tokyo Game Show 2015 Recap
E3 may be where the big bombs drop, but Tokyo Game Show is generally the last big hurrah of Japanese developers before the holiday AAA-title maelstrom begins. Here are a few nuggets of note:
Gravity Rush 2 — While the PlayStation Vita tends to fly under the radars of just about everyone ever, it has produced some gems, including zero-G platformer Gravity Rush, which is now seeing a HD remaster for PS4 and a sequel … also for PS4. Not for Vita. Make of that what you will.
NioH — This almost-vaporware title (announced over 10 years ago for PS3) has reappeared on the PS4 and looks like a delightful romp through feudal Japan with demons aplenty. More intriguingly, the story is supposedly based off a lost Akira Kurosawa movie script.
Kingdom Hearts II.8: Final Chapter Prologue — Even as a longtime series fan, I can’t deny that Kingdom Hearts is off-the-rails ridiculous in how it titles its games and drags everything out. “Final Chapter Prologue”? Good god. The new fact of life is that you can’t say you own a Kingdom Hearts game until you’ve bought it twice for two different platforms. The Nintendo 3DS title Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance finally gets the HD treatment, along with remastered scenes from the mobile Kingdom Hearts: Unchained and a brand-new game in Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep – A Fragmentary Passage. But, the next title in the series should be the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III.
Microsoft Didn’t Even Show Up — Microsoft has given up on Japan, it seems, as the publisher didn’t bother much with a presence in Japan’s biggest gaming convention of the year. (Sony, meanwhile, announced a price drop for the PS4.) This doesn’t signal the downfall of Microsoft or anything, but it does indicate where Japanese developers will likely be throwing their development resources for this console generation.
