E3 Thoughts: Sony, Nintendo

Sony

The Indian opening was reminiscent of the God of War orchestra from last year, and I immediately guessed right with the correct game; Uncharted Lost Legacy will be some kind of spin-off title featuring a former partner and rival of Drake teaming up in India, looking good! That is, the ladies and the game.

The Frozen Wildlands is your frozen DLC for Horizon Zero Dawn, a highly successful new IP that will surely be an irresistible with it's content, but as many AAA games get DLC nowadays, I will patiently await for the right moment to dive back into this.

Unfortunately there were audio isues during the trailers of these adventures, but around Days Gone's lengthy gameplay trailer, it was gone. That game is trying to look smart and manipulative with the hordes of zombies, so I wonder how that will turn out.

Monster Hunter World from Capcom is a slap in the face for Nintendo's position on this third party franchise, and it looks like it will perform easily and just fine on the PS4. The Shadow of the Colossus remake/reimagination/remastered is perhaps the only true surprise during this conference.

Marvel VS. Capcom Infinite will surely bring back the solid 3V3 fighting gameplay, but it seems that plenty of old characters have been cut, or reserved for DLC. It's nice to see Call of Duty returning to it's root settings in a modern fashion.

Skyrim in VR felt like a joke, while I wasn't excited for the rest of the VR trailers shown, including going fishing on a bromance with my bro's from Final Fantasy XV. God of War's trailer was awesome, but I'm still not sure if this is a sequel or a reboot.

Detroit: Become Human's theme seems to have changed more towards revolution and rebellions rather than identifying and surviving as androids againsts their masters, meaning more action was shown, but I'm still interested in the narrative and plot qualities of Quantic Dream's development here.

I will easily skip Destiny 2 as the 10 year promise of the first Destiny was easily exaggerated, and I still stand by my "Korean grind festival" argument in my review of it. Spider-Man however is easily the highlight of this shown and it looked epic, entertaining and beautiful with gameplay surely inspired by the Batman Arkham games.

Sony's conference was great stuff in general, purely focused on gaming itself! Although there were no true surprises, I am very content with what I saw, and there still is plenty of interesting upcoming games coming for the PlayStation 4.

Rating: A

Nintendo

Will Nintendo save E3?

An intro montage including Rocket League was shown, and then the Nintendo Spotlight started!

Confirming a Holiday 2017 release, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is looking dazzling with a new artstyle and familiar British voices, yet the gameplay is intact and the world remains massive to explore! I'm sure that Monolith Soft knows what it's doing and that the story and music will be improved upon.

A new Kirby is announced and frankly it looks like yet another traditional platformer but with partners returning, but at the same time, Kirby never dissapoints with it's overall quality! The same could almost be said with a new Yoshi in development, both coming in 2018.

METROID PRIME 4 IN DEVELOPMENT, FUCK YEAH! Nintendo just won E3 in my opinion in this shortest announcement ever, but it's exactly what the fans have wanted, and I hope that it will sit along the trilogy just nicely.

I don't care for Musou's so Fire Emblem Warriors is not interesting for me.The DLC's for BOTW look like good fan service, I wonder if Nintendo will consider their first GOTY edition of this game? We'll see what will happen.

And then Nintendo throws in the best and most wacky trailer of the show, with Super Mario Odyssey mesmerizing with a jazzy song, gorgeous and varied worlds, and apparently everything turns into mustached Mario's, including a MOAI MARIO!

Better yet, after the Nintendo Spotlight, I saw ANOTHER Metroid announcement, a 2D remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus, appropriately named Samus Returns! I can't believe that Nintendo is pulling off the same double punch again, just like with Prime and Fusion back in 2002! And this is also the reason why AM2R, a fan remake of Metroid II, got taken down.

Honestly, I will definitely get a Nintendo Switch this holiday, especially if Super Mario Odyssey is bundled!

Rating: A