So after our first day at EGX, Joe and I are both very tired and very ready to head back into the fray and get some proper filming done. Tomorrow is a day filled with interviews and attempts to make light, while trying to avoid letting ourselves become too cynical about the entire event. Today, however, we got to grips with the show floor and played some games and this post is largely about relaying our experiences with them so if you were interested in a title have a look through and see if we covered it. If we haven’t, we’re back tomorrow and Sunday so please come back and check out those posts as well.
The games we tried out today were Bloodbourne, Splatoon, Fall Man, Hook Ball, Super Smash Bros Wii U and Alien: Isolation on the Oculus. We’ll probably go into more detail on these titles later, or not at all, but for the moment let me outline our initial thoughts.
Bloodbourne is a title to be exited for, it’s got the right atmosphere and it controls and feels like a true Souls successor, we’re very exited. Splatoon is bonkers fun, we didn’t spend a great amount of time on it but that will likely change when it comes out and we get our hands on it because what we did play sold us on the concept. Fall Man is a fun little mobile title, and we’ll be talking to the creator Juho tomorrow in our first booked interview. Hook Ball is much the same, an addictive little game for the iPad and we will be talking to the creator, NachoBeard, tomorrow. I thought it was something I could pick up and spend a lot of time with, and I managed to get the top score from the day which netted me a t-shirt. Not bad… Not bad…
Super Smash Bros Wii U wasn’t actually on the show floor, but I briefly got to play it at the end of the day on the ‘big screen’ of the Nintendo zone. Let me put it this way, we walked past the big screen several times during the course of the day and every time we did I assumed it was actually Super Smash Bros Brawl. To it’s credit or discredit, it looks strikingly similar to it’s predecessor.
Going up on stage was a fun first hand way to try the game and I competed against three other people from the crowd in a brief scoring match that started off with everyone but one person picking “random” on the character selection. Staying the course, I got matched up with Pit, so there was never any hope for me to win (but I did come second). The game is Smash Bros. Seriously, it plays exactly like the last two, which is kind of what I hoped.