E3 is full of murder, yay!

[spindizzy]

Hey everyone! (I swear, the inclusive language thing I struggle with most has been excising "guys" from the beginnings of my posts.) I found a site that lists ALL of the E3 trailers without commentary and lets you filter it for specific consoles! (I'm gonna be honest, I can't guarantee that it's not run by gamergators, but that's mainly because the only gaming related site that I'm confident about on that front is Sidequest.)

But yes! I have been recovering from adulting by watching trailers, and here are the things that I actually had opinions on!

• Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin — It looks like Harvest Moon and Odin Sphere has a tiny grumpy baby who doesn't want to grow crops, and I'm kinda here for it? Or at least I'm here for putting it in front of Jill and watching her lose a month of her life to it in my place.


• Rune Factory 4 — SPEAKING OF RESKINNED HARVEST MOON: they're up to Rune Factory 4 and now I need to lie down because I keep going "But they only just released the first one!" and no, no, that was 2006. It looks like a Rune Factory game but with weirder minigames than the one I played!


• The Sinking City — I have no idea what this game is actually about, but it looks like a game that I would play with splend for its 1920s Lovecraftian aesthetic. (Although, am I still fundamentally suspicious of any Lovecraft-inspired narrative that centres a white dude? SURE AM.)


• Alien: Isolation — WHY IS THIS COMING TO THE SWITCH OH MY GOD. Also I suspicious, because that looks quite action filled and my impression of Alien: Isolation was that it was a game where your goal was to hide and pray, because you were not going to win.


• Spyro Reignited — OMG, listen, I have SO MUCH nostalgia for Spyro because it was one of the first video games I remember playing (This and Crash Bandicoot, apparently this is the year that ALL my nostalgia properties get rereleased.), so I KINDA want this? But the last I heard about it, they'd stuck a blonde wig on the kangaroo because they needed everyone to know that She Is A Girl, so I'm suspicious of at least three people on the development team.


• Pokémon Sword & Shield — Oh no, I need it, it looks so cute! I am confused by all the wide open spaces and the fact that we can now have GIANT POKÉMON but I kinda want it. (SPEAKING OF: did you all see the Five Minute Pokémon tag on twitter? Because omg omg it's amazing.)


• Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Listen, I don't go here, but I know a lot of people who do, so I am happy for all of you that you have a cute new game that has apparently turned off gender-locking and cancelled crunch! May your game companies not be milkshake ducked, and may the extortion raccoon(?) pass your houses without entering.


• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 — I go here only slightly more than I go to Animal Crossing, but I'm happy that all of you have a short-haired girlfriend and desiccated horror boyfriend!


• Cadence of Hyrule — I'm sorry, Crypt of the Necrodancer did a crossover with what now?


• Astral Chain — This looks like a Digimon game and a Persona game had a weird dystopian baby, so I'm looking forward to heckling while sithe plays!


• I really wish I was into mecha as a genre, because it feels like it's the scifi reskin of magical girls, but I just haven't found a way into them yet.


• Fire Emblem: Three Houses — I have never finished a Fire Emblem game in my life, but apparently this one is "Isn't it lovely being a teacher a magical school and encouraging your students to be friends and form alliance and SYKE NOW IT'S FIVE YEARS LATER AND ALL OF YOUR STUDENTS ARE AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER" which sounds like it has good potential for drama?


• (Listen, I love turn-based strategy games. I love them. I will lose entire weeks of my life to turn-based strategy games. Unfortunately, I will also get distracted at the end of those weeks and never finish them, so my expectations that I'll buy new turn-based strategy games are LOW.)


• I'm looking forward to Gooigi showing up in Mario Kart.


• Final Fantasy VIII Remaster — I NEED IT I NEED IT OMG OMG OMG


• Final Fantasy XIV — My twitter feed has been cryptically exploding about this all week, and what I have finally learned from this trailer is THE FIRE NATION ATTACKED.


• Final Fantasy VII — TIFA. Squeenix, I was gonna give you the money for this anyway, but thank you for giving me Tifa and Aeris to keep my heart warm while I wait.


• ... I am so hype for the people who only know FFVII through cultural/fandom osmosis to play it and realise how weird and dorky it is.


• I forgot straight people existed again.


• Falcon Age — Listen, I can't play VR games, but I support this tiny anti-colonial falcon.


• Lost Ember — This looks kinda soothing, and like you can maybe be different animals as you head to wherever you're going? Considering short games like that are the only games I ever manage to finish, I'm up for it!


• Watch Dogs: Legion — You know what? It's 2019, our heroes are dead and our enemies are in power. YES I want to play as the anti-fascist grandma cleaning up London.


• Cris Tales — Okay, this appears to be a magical girl game with cute art AND time shenanigans. TAKE MY MONEY.


• Fling to the Finish — I can never buy this because if I did I would want to play it with madebyjenni, jilliferium and captainraz, and there would be NO SURVIVORS.


• Lucifer Within Us — This game doesn't look very pretty, but I am cautiously intrigued by a game that wants me to use time shenaniganry to solve a murder.


• Superliminal — I'm sure I remember seeing a concept of something like this a million years ago with all of the perspective based puzzles, but this has a layer of unreality that I didn't know to expect.


• Roller Champions — I'm not as excited for this as I was when I thought it was a game about roller derby, but the trailer DOES look pretty cool. It kinda reminds me of Dreadball on skates.


• I don't bother watching the trailers for FPSes, because they have to come specifically recommended, which means that a lot of the trailers that I'm bailing out of early are trailers that are very artistic or pretty or cool, but they tell me nothing about either the story or the gameplay. You need to give me one of these! Ideally both, but at least one!


• El Hijo — I can't do stealth games, not even ones where the stealth aspect is "sneak around monks to avoid getting in trouble" but I am cautiously intrigued by the story about a child escaping from a monastery to track down their family.


• Death Loop — This looks SO COOL. Time loops! Murder! Two people on DIFFERENT TIME LOOPS with polar opposite goals! Oh no, my kryptonite. (I do see N.K. Jemisin's point about "Why are the only games where we have two Black protagonists set in prisons?" though.)


• Way to the Woods — Another game where we get to explore as animals! I like the light and the looking after your baby deer in what looks like an abandoned city, but I'm a little worried that the part of me that found Shelter too stressful is going to get twitchy about it.


• 12 Minutes — Another game with time loops and murders! This might be one that I'd have to play with splend because thrillers are stressful (and this one looks EXTRA stressful!), but also I don't trust any game advertising itself as an "interactive thriller" because that usually means that it doesn't do very well at being a game.


• ALL IN ALL: this was a good year for me specifically! Lots of investigating and time loop games! Some cute games! Some exploration games that I am probably going to finish once!

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I'm excited to see more additions to the Time Loops and Murder genre! Even if I watched the Deathloop trailer and went 'wow, this looks really cool' and then scrolled down to the description and had my heart broken by 'first-person'.

Spyro Reignited is a fantastic remake - it looks exactly the way the original games looked in my head! - but the Sheila redesign was definitely weird and unnecessary. Female kangaroos are distinguished by a pouch, not a ponytail!