News: Quick TGS impressions

September 17, 2005, 12:17 AM

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Quick style -

Matrimelee is a bit choppy right now, but is still in development. Hopefully it'll smooth out. It's still matrimelee though, and still a pretty good game. It's coming for PS2, and I'll buy it when it does.

Bleach DS is a bit odd - not 100% sure if this is the only way to do it, but you have to press the touch pad to do your special moves. This is rather obnoxious. I did manage to do some sans touch though, so if it's possible to ignore the touch pad altogether, I'll be happy. You can choose auto or manual facing (since it's a 4 player game) - manual is a bit rough, but auto works well enough. It's on two planes, and you switch between them with the L button. It doesn't feel like a treasure game whatsoever - just a dimps game with four players, at this stage.

The miniskirt police just has you running around, beating up yakuza-looking guys. When they hit you, your clothes gradually fall off. Good game.

The D3 all-stars fighting game is really slow, doesn't control that well, and is largely on a 2D plane in spite of the 3D graphics. It's fun to see all of the characters in the same place though...

Gears of War for 360 plays pretty well. It certainly does have some nice graphics, and that 360 controller plays well. Apparently the demo they were showing has only been running on real hardware for two weeks, so that explains the slow-ish framerate. You can blow stuff up, which is never bad. Designer Cliffy B cried while playing Lunar as a teen, so the game must have something to it.

I know a lot of you people like Metal Gear, so I'll say that the trailer is pretty interesting. PS3 graphics out the wazoo, with a 60 something year old solid snake, who says, when asked if he's given up smoking: "no - I've just been looking for a light."

Genki has a Dynasty Warriors clone called Ikusagami, which is quite cool actually - after being bored by Mizuguchi's 99 nights (not that it's really his - it belongs more to Phantagram). It's got a HUGE number of enemies, looks really nice, good story sequences, and a demo was given out - more impressions later, but I think it's going to beat that 99 nights thing.

Chaos Field and Trizeal still play like Chaos Field and Trizeal, but on the PS2. That's about where that is. Sega seems to be releasing lots of shooters and dating sims now...not sure what they're aiming for, but these games do make a quick buck. They're cheap to port (arcade for shooters, PC for ADV games), and sell about 15k copies - not a lot, but as NEC's Norman Evangelista said, it's just printing money.

That's all I've played and seen for now, I've been doing lots of interviews. More tomorrow!? Who can say!

P.S. I dropped my camera in the toilet. FUCK.