When The Last Of Us Part IIs new trailer debuted at this years E3, protagonist Ellie enjoyed a slow dance and kiss with another woman. My queer friends and I confessed to one another that we were assuming the worst. That happy girl will probably die, because while games allow us to be many thingsspace marines, mages, and tenacious heroesthey rarely allow queer people to be happy.
Hardcore Gamer: If you came away from this latest trailer with your appetite fulfilled and your excitement evermore greater, well good for you and I sincerely, genuinely, hope that the final product matches (maybe even succeeds) your now-lofty expectations. For me however, I can only come away from E3 with something of a damp and rather deflated state of mind. Not just because it looks like this game is years away from releasing if the brief and monotonous offer of gameplay was any indication but because it seems like Kojima may be going the way of a particular number of AAA developers/studios whose artistic vision and self-gratifying longing for a given message, narrative or agenda, overtakes the logical and reasonable need for unhinged substance.
When Tetris Effect was announced during E3 week, I knew it would be something special. Yes, it's yet another Tetris game, but it's Tetris by Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Now I've seen gameplay, I'm pretty confident Tetris Effect is going to be one hell of a wonder. The video, below, shows off gameplay. The psychedelic visuals look great, but I love the way the audio is tied to the player inputs. Each movement of a tetromino creates a sound that is in key with the background music, no matter when it occurs. And then there's the cool slam noise that comes from pushing down a tetromino. Lovely!
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has some big shoes to fill lore-wise as the next big FromSoft game. Studio president and game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has packed the Soulsbourne games with their own arcane myths and legends, and it looks like this time around he’s weaving that approach into a story that’s borrowing heavily from the history of Sengoku-era Japan.
The best place to go for breakdowns of Miyazaki’s lore is YouTuber Vaatividya, who has produced a video that pieces together the scraps of information about Sekiro that we’ve seen so far, along with some leaks, and assembles them into a pretty educated guess about what Sekiro is about.
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While some of his information is admittedly based on leaks, key elements were confirmed by press at E3 who got to see a hands-off demo of Sekiro that showed more of the game than the trailer did. Vaatividya also sources the , which provides some additional backstory on a few of the main characters.
The video, which you can view below, explains the setup for Sekiro’s story: You play a shinobi charged with the defense of a young prince, the heir of an ancient clan that’s somehow been driven off or annihilated. The prince is kidnapped by ‘The Commander,’ the leader of the Ashina Clan, who believes the prince’s royal heritage is the key to protecting the area from the advance of a hostile invading force.
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