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 Arc [...]

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 keyblade [...]

  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 [...]

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 of [...]

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 some [...]

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 3. [...]

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 [...]

This might be because the Tokyo Game Show demo only allowed attendees to use the Classic Controller, but my overall feel from Bleach: Versus Crusade is it’s more of a “game” than Bleach: Shattered Blade. Treasure’s take on a Wii Bleach game could still have remote/sword shaking though. Bleach: Versus Crusade makes an interesting use [...]

Like we mentioned before Square Enix had a mini Chrono Trigger museum tucked inside their Tokyo Game Show booth. There weren’t any artifacts in glass cases to see like the very first Chrono Trigger cartridge or a Satellaview with saved Radical Dreamers data. The Chrono Trigger museum was really an art gallery which would have [...]

Square Enix’s Dissidia: Final Fantasy demo skipped the full motion video cutscenes, ignored the chessboard mission system, and went straight to the fighting. The demo had The Warrior of Light, Frionel, Onion Knight, Squall, Zidane, and Tidus all set at level 20. I played with half of them. Before I get to their styles I [...]

Sony is going an entirely different direction with Bleach: Soul Carnival. The screenshots make Bleach: Soul Carnival look like a cutesy 2.5D fighting game, but it’s actually a Double Dragon style beat ‘em up. Bleach: Soul Carnival starts with players picking an area and partner characters to join Ichigo. So, this is how Bleach: Soul [...]