Back at Tokyo Game Show I caught with Ryoei Mikage, the President of Imageepoch, and Hideyuki Mizutani, Operating Officer at Marvelous Entertainment. We talked about a lot of things. You already know about one of them. We touched on Arc Rise Fantasia’s story, the Arc Rise Fantasia series, and Imageepoch’s future projects. Yes, the [...]

Visually, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep looks like the PlayStation 2 games with less textures. The combat system isn’t the same though, it’s better. I played a demo with Terra, the keyblade bearing hero who sort of resembles Zack Fair. Terra is quickly thrown into combat with blue unbirths. You can start swinging the [...]

 
At Tokyo Game Show I spent a good amount of time with the Wii version of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes. I started out playing with Ryu since I imagined he handle similarly to the Street Fighter games. For the most part Ryu has the same moves. Good old reliable Ryu, but not [...]

According to a representative who walked us through several of the titles on display at the Tokyo Game Show, The Last Remnant represents a concerted effort by Square Enix to position the game developer as a global company. Central to the aim of creating “an RPG for the world” is figuring out what kind [...]

Down in the depths of the Tokyo Game Show sales area Cospa had a booth with prototype Persona 4 school uniforms to show. These outfits go on sale this winter so they won’t be any help for the Atlus-O-Weenie contest. I wouldn’t expect them to be cheap either since Cospa’s Elizabeth costume runs for 47,000 [...]

Skies of Arcadia and Wind of Nostalgio both have airship battles, but the way Tecmo / Matrix does things makes airship encounters just like regular turn based combat. I jumped into a few random airship fights in Wind of Nostalgio at Tokyo Game Show and saw turn based menus. In the sky there are [...]

If you loitered around Square Enix’s Tokyo Game Show booth long enough you may have seen a Dragon Quest IX trailer which was sandwiched between clips of other Square Enix games not worthy enough to be shown in the Closed Mega theater. A shaky camera phone recording snuck out earlier in the week and this [...]

Now that Tokyo Game Show is a memory the trailers from Square Enix’s closed mega theater are making their ways officially on to the internet. Here’s an abridged, gameplay heavy clip of the Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days trailer Square Enix showed us last week and you don’t have to wait an hour in line to [...]

When I had a chance to play Monster Hunter 3 at Tokyo Game Show I went straight for the bowgun class. Theoretically, this class should be a natural fit for the Wii remote since you could point at the screen to aim and shoot, but that’s not how things are done in Monster Hunter [...]

Prope’s first project, Let’s Tap, is a collection of mini-games and artistic visualizers with the gimmick of tapping controls. You aren’t supposed to hold the remote to play Let’s Tap, it sits on a nice cardboard box branded with a Let’s Tap logo.
 
Only one game in the collection was shown at Tokyo Game Show [...]