I watched this live but didn’t have time to write a big post until now. Overall I felt like this was a weak show that failed to give updates on games we’ve been waiting on (where’s Stellar Blade, Lost Soul Aside, the Last of Us multiplayer, KOTOR etc.) nor did it paint a clear and inspiring vision for the future (the much needed phase 2 of PS5) with too many similar looking games (no narration/pacing hurts), the dreaded CG / vibes only trailers, and a frustrating lack of dates.
It did however have some cool games tucked in there. Finally seeing Alan Wake 2 was awesome even though I’m bummed out it won’t have a physical release. Seriously, please change course here Remedy. I’m also really excited for Spider Man 2 which feels like the closest thing Sony has to Uncharted still in terms of a fun, more light hearted, single player epic. Not thrilled about Venom, but I’m so glad Miles is back. Dragon’s Dogma II was an excellent surprise since that previously felt years away. Both The Plucky Squire and Assassin’s Creed Mirage had some good showings too. There were a few other games that have my interest, but I don’t think made much of an impact here. I have both Street Fighter VI and Final Fantasy XVI preordered so these last trailers didn’t do much for me. Another one was GranBlue Fantasy which I’m already excited about and feel like I learned nothing new about (a release date would have been huge) except its cool they got some of the VAs back from Versus like SungWon Cho.
So yeah weird, disappointing show even if I still walked away with stuff I was excited about. One last bonus thing, not planning to pick up the up game, but I love that there was a game called Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purrabean. That’s a 10/10 video game name there lol.