Summer season Recreation Fest 2024 is lastly up and operating following yesterday’s Opening Showcase. Geoff Keighley’s two-hour present featured an excellent number of video games, massive and small, beginning off with a shock for Swap house owners within the type of a flagship Sony sequence making its debut on a Nintendo platform. Positive, LEGO Horizon Adventures is a enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek spin-off of Guerrilla’s sequence, however we had been nonetheless a bit bowled over to see that Swap emblem on the finish of the trailer.
Elsewhere, Swap players noticed bulletins and trailers for Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, Neva, Civilization VII, Battle Crush, Monster Hunter Tales, and Sonic X Shadow Generations, plus the ‘Outersloth’ indie dev initiative from Amongst Us dev Innersloth will certainly yield some fruit on Nintendo’s console, too. Not an enormous quantity of Swap information, then, however we have come to count on as a lot.
For our cash, this opener was an enormous step in the appropriate course, with a way more diversified palette of sport sorts and an apparent effort from Keighley to deal with criticism for previous reveals. The industry-wide layoffs had been addressed very briefly proper in the beginning (and the rapid swap to, ‘Hey, however INDIE GAMES, although, proper?‘ got here throughout as a tactical distraction from the tyre hearth), however the nod to the appalling state of issues was there.
And there was a wholesome mixture of video games on present. The dudebro army shooters and farm sims had been current and proper, however there was a much better mix of genres and devs, massive and small. Add in a number of thrilling friends and an Alan Wake II growth which had us crossing our fingers for a ‘Swap 2’ launch and an excellent time was had. We fairly loved the little Inside Out 2 clip, as properly.
And the Day of the Devs showcase which got here instantly after is at all times a pleasure — undoubtedly value testing if you happen to clocked out after Keighley.
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