Same perspective, same location, different year. It’s the Tokyo Game Show!

Whew what a tiring weekend, went there for two days in a row. And today I’m going to Hakone with my mom, so forgive me for the short write-up.

An annual event not to be missed by gamers and game makers worldwide, an exhibition of games that are yet to be released. The theme of this year’s Tokyo Game Show is 「Gameは、元気です。」 or “Game, it’s energetic”. It must be because this show drains my energy, I’m so dead tired right now!

Dzaid could easily be mistaken for one of the employees. Shirt courtesy of Uniqlo.

Game characters that are gonna change your life (i.e. steal your money) for months to come.

Entrance to game paradise.

The BAM-in-your-face booth that welcomes you to the show is the huge Koei-Tecmo booth.

Woohoo, I get to touch bewbies in TGS this year! This is in line with the commercial of boob-physics-frenzy game Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2:

Next to it was the Capcom booth.

Entered the theater and watched a bunch of cool trailers. The one that I anticipate the most is Ghost Trick, blogged about it earlier. It’s by the maker of Phoenix Wright. You are dead and you’re a wandering spirit investigating your own murder. You can control objects around you and play tricks on living characters. Here’s the trailer:

Ookami Den for the DS had an impressive booth space, even came with falling Sakura petals! As for the game, I dunno, the stylized graphics don’t seem to translate well to the DS. Have to wait and see, I’m gonna buy it anyway :)

I waited in line for an hour for Lost Planet 2. It was well worth it, everything was awesome :)

At the Alienware booth (!), Daim and Dzaid battle it out in Street Fighter IV. Nude mods not present :P (Link not safe for work, duh)

Next is another favourite company of mine, Level 5.

A bunch of people trying out the Level 5  games on the DS.

A game to watch out for is Ni no Kuni, a collabo between Level 5 and Studio Ghibli. Experience the Ghibli magic first-hand in this trailer. Ok, second-hand if you were not in TGS.

Level 5 had more than just games to show off ;)

Sega, a company that I have rooted for for years (come on, there’s still hope for a good Sonic game… rite?).

Still haven’t played Valkyria Chronicles on the PS3 yet. Oh wait, I still haven’t bought a PS3 yet. ARGH

Daim looks similar to the Ryu ga Gotoku main guy amirite? And beside him in the banner on the left is Dzaid!

If this is what a Yakuza’s life is like, sign me up NAO.

One of my favourite RPGs, Lunar SSS is having a remake for the PSP. Oh the joy!

Kojima was on stage, but we were too busy taking cosplay pictures to care about him :P

MGS4 is Kojima’s last MGS game? False alarm! Another MGS game, Peace Walker, will be coming out for the PSP. It has a cool coop feature called the COOPS ring. You have a ring around you, tag with a friend and share health and ammo. Also, you can tag enemies so both of you could see the same person, and come up with a strategy to fool him.

We stood for 10 minutes in front of the projection to watch this trailer. Superb presentation, though the trailer can tell you that Kojima did what he does best: self-indulgence (syok sendiri).

My favourite wait-in-line game demo this year is definitely Peace Walker. Felt like those Disneyland rides where there’s lots to see on the way there. First there were monitors showing an impressive demonstration of game controls.

Then we had this American black soldier (or look-alike) briefing our mission in super fluent Japanese! He was very sporting too; You know that many game booths don’t allow cameras? Knowing this he said “Hey you there! Taking pictures huh? Well take more soldier, put them in your blogs!” LOL That’s exactly what I’m doing!

As with any other year, Sony had an impressively HUGE space.

Another game that I would love to have, The Last Guardian. Ueda Fumito is a genius.

The biggest announcement here is the release date of Gran Turismo 5, which is around March 2010. Also came with an impressive ride. Ah, forgot my keys, left it at home.

All I could say was WOW. How much wow?

This much.

How does your game face look like? One of the most impressive Sony Playstation campaigns, imo. Here’s the CM, and check out the webbie too.

Another big hoo-ha was the display (and a bit of demo by the booth babes) of the PSP Go. It has a smaller screen but its price reaches that of the PS3 slim O_O

I was very, very impressed with the Wipeout demo of the 3D software plugin for the PS3, which enables ALL PS3 games to be viewable with 3D glasses. Released sometime next year. Click here for the Engadget writeup.

You know what’s everyone waiting for in the Squeenix booth. FFXIII trailers, obviously. But they also showed a bunch of other RPGs that I never heard of but were equally imaginative.

Who do you wanna drink today? ;)

Another RPG expert, also fighting game expert and music game expert, Bandai-Namco. Two Tales Of game series were featured: one is the improved Tales of Vesperia for the PS3, which is currently riling up Xbox 360 users. And the other a Wii-exclusive, Tales of Graces.

I took a picture of the Gundam headpiece on exhibition, but the picture turned out blur _orz

After two days of waiting in line and standing in awe, the show was finally over.

This was actually a good time to take picture of booth babes bowing their farewells. I was too tired to join the crowd ^^;;

Outside the halls, it was far from over.

Girls in military uniforms <3

Finish Peace Walker with 100% stealth and you unlock these two characters.

The spoils of war (first day). You can leave it to my cousins and I to make full use of them: