Saturday being my birthday, I decided to go to the Tokyo Game Show. It was my first time to go, and was something I had been wanting to go to for several years, but for some reason never went. We waited about 15-20 minutes to get in due to the massive amount of people wanting to get their game fix. Upon entering we were immediately greeted with a FMV for the upcoming Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma. Now I haven’t really gamed or been hardcore for a while now, so I found it impressive even though it’s an updated version for a 1+ year old game.
New Lunar! Kinda...
The floor was rather crowded and could be a challenge to navigate. One of the first things I saw was a booth for the upcoming “new” Lunar game. Again I was captivated with an upgraded version of an already released game… However, I sold my old Playstation Working Designs LUNAR: SSSC years ago for a hefty price. I may have to crack down and buy a PSP finally.
We ran over to the food court to grab a quick snack. I had curry. It was kinda crap, but whatever. I don’t think convention halls are known for their gourmet meals. So anyways, after lunch we perused the merch area. I would have liked to look at the Square Enix stuff, but they had quite a line. I’m moving in with my girlfriend, so she was giving me warnings ad nauseam about buying crap I don’t need. I did buy one thing for a friend for Christmas. I’ll post a pic now. I think one of my friends knows its for him.
A Japanese driver; better turn damage off.
We soon moved over toward the Xbox area. We played a round of the new Dragon Ball Raging Blast for the girl, and Forza 3 for myself. Forza was setup with 3 screens (front and side windows) with a wheel and pedals. It was pretty fun and had an interesting feature where you could rewind if you spun out or wrecked your car adding some clairvoyance to the game. I wanted to play the demo for End of Eternity, but the line was rather long so we moved on. It looks pretty badass, and I will probably have to pick it up.
Giant Gundam head
We went by the Final Fantasy XIII booth, but they had already stopped letting people get in line to play, so I had to miss out on that. Bummed about long lines I went to the International area and played some Chinese MMO, Bounty Hounds. I got some cute Taiwanese/Chinese girl to help me play, so it wasn’t all that bad. I can’t really comment if the game was great or not, since I had someone telling me which keys to push most of the time. I ended up taking on some raid boss by myself. Since they had like unlimited potions turned on for the demo, I was able to spam that and stay alive. Eventually I got distracted and died. The girl asked me if I played WoW and if it was similar. I said kinda, but I know how to play WoW.
One of our last stops was over to the NTT Docomo area. I got in line to play a Gundam mobile game. For a cell phone game it was pretty fun and had decent graphics. My game was up on the big screen and I won, so I felt happy about that since the guy in front of me lost. Gaijin 1, Japanese 1 Million. Speaking of Gundam, the head of RX-78-2 was at TGS. The same one from Odaiba.
There was lots of stuff to see and it was rather crowded, so I couldn’t play it all. I’ll have to work on becoming a freelance writer or something and getting a press pass for next year. We’ll see how that turns out…. And now for your viewing pleasure a few booth babes for you.
 Winning Eleven babe |
 Alienware babe |
 Lunar babes |
 Imaginary babe |
