Table of Contents

Summer Game Fest 2021
Koch Primetime
IGN Expo Livestream
Guerrilla Collective Day 2
Wholesome Direct 2021
Ubisoft Forward
Devolver Forwarder
Gearbox Entertainment
Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase
Square Enix Presents
PC Gaming Show
Future Games Show
Limited Run Games
Capcom
Nintendo Direct

Limited Run Games

Today was the day Limited Run Games had its E3 presentation, so they announced physical print editions of a wide variety of games, starting with Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol, Superhot, and Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle.

After that, they not only announced a physical run of River City Girls, but also River City Girls Zero and River City Girls 2. I believe Zero is a new localization, while 2 is a completely new game.

The next game shown for a physical run was Strife: Veteran Edition, and then they got my attention by going through a series of trailers for all the Shantae games. I thought this was going to be the announcement of a Shantae collection, but it was actually for PS5 releases. The first Shantae is also coming to the PS4. As far as I can tell, they’re going to be separate releases, not a collection.

BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites was next, and I didn’t even know BloodRayne was still around.

Then came Haven, Skatebird, Huntdown, Axiom Verge 2, The Takeover, Dusk, and one game near and dear to my heart – Republique: Anniversary Edition. Why am I so fond of Republique when I haven’t actually played it? Because the Republique Kickstarter is one of the first things I ever blogged about. Hey, maybe I’ll get the Limited Run release!

Going Under, One Step From Eden, RWBY: Grimm Eclipse Definitive Edition, and RetroMania Wrestling came next, followed by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night & Rondo of Blood for the PS4 and an unexpected announcement of the original Rondo of Blood for the TurboDuo, being localized for the first time.

They followed that with the Contra Anniversary Collection and ended with Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties.

Capcom

Capcom had an E3 show this year, and they’d announced ahead of time that it would include Resident Evil Village, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Monster Hunter Rise, and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. Since two of those games are actually out, I figured they’d announce some new content.

Well… they confirmed Village is getting DLC. They didn’t show anything, just said they’ve started working on it. The multiplayer game Re:Verse is also launching next month.

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin got a nice new trailer and confirmation that a demo is coming on June 25. It’ll also get an update adding Palamute on July 15.

The Monster Hunter Rise section featured information about its next update, due out on June 24.

Finally, it was time for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, and while they didn’t announce anything new, they provided a new trailer as well as a lengthy look at the gameplay. In fact, that was the most positive thing about this show for me – they spent such a long time on Ace Attorney that maybe they really do consider it one of their big series now.

I’m honestly pretty surprised that they spent that much time on Ace Attorney.

Anyway, then they talked about eSports for a while before ending. So… that was a pretty lackluster show, even with the expectations I went in with.

But hey, we still have Nintendo’s E3 show tomorrow, along with Bandai Namco’s! Maybe they’ll bring some surprises. Stay tuned!

Table of Contents

Summer Game Fest 2021
Koch Primetime
IGN Expo Livestream
Guerrilla Collective Day 2
Wholesome Direct 2021
Ubisoft Forward
Devolver Forwarder
Gearbox Entertainment
Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase
Square Enix Presents
PC Gaming Show
Future Games Show
Limited Run Games
Capcom
Nintendo Direct

Square Enix Presents

I was looking forward to Square Enix’s presentation quite a bit, especially since it was confirmed that we’d be seeing Babylon’s Fall and there were all those intriguing Final Fantasy rumors floating around.

Well, they started with Guardians of the Galaxy. And… it went on for a long time. A very long time. So much time was devoted to Guardians of the Galaxy that I started to wonder if it was ever going to end.

But it finally did, with the announcement of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series, the rumored re-release of the first 6 Final Fantasy games… for PC and mobile devices only. That decision confuses me. I would have expected Switch or PS4 at the very least to be an obvious choice for them, but apparently not.

It also got only a tiny slice of time in the presentation, followed by another tiny slice of time devoted to the upcoming Legend of Mana remaster.

Then they talked about updates to their Avengers game, and then went through a quick series of trailers for mobile games: the upcoming Hitman mobile game, Nier Reincarnation, Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, and the latest content coming to Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius.

After that came the moment I was waiting for – Babylon’s Fall! And… my feelings are mixed. On one hand, it looks pretty interesting and the combat seems like it has potential. On the other hand, while you can play solo, it seems to have co-op as a focus. Worse, it’s a live service game. That’s not exactly what I was hoping for.

Life is Strange was the next focus, with them first talking about the upcoming Remastered Collection and then focusing more on the new game, True Colors.

I thought that might be where they would end things, but that other report was fulfilled – Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin was officially announced! This is an action RPG spin-off being developed by Team Ninja, and I’m pretty intrigued. A demo is available now, but only for the PS5 despite the game itself being multiplatform.

And that was it for Square Enix’s show!

It wasn’t as exciting as I’d hoped, but Final Fantasy Origin is intriguing enough to balance my mixed feelings on Babylon’s Fall. Anyway, today’s E3 festivities are far from over, as we still have two showcases left today! Stay tuned!