Summer Game Fest 2025

[dhaabi]

I skimmed through trailers again (albeit much more liberally), but this time from yesterday's Wholesome Games direct.

Is This Seat Taken?
I don't think this kind of seating arrangement puzzle game is all too common, but I know I've played one like it in the past. This looks fun for a casual puzzle experience, along with an expected cute art style.

Milano's Odd Job Collection
This was quite the surprise announcement. This game was originally released for PlayStation only in Japan, and this is the first time it's been officially translated (and voiced, even) in a language other than Japanese. I actually just recently learned about this game within the last few months, and it looks fun for a simple life sim game with plenty of minigames.

[kamikazekeeg]

Somehow I completely missed that Beast of Reincarnation was a Game Freak game and I now know that they aren't actually owned by Nintendo, I just always assumed they were since 90% of their output since inception has been Pokemon games lol

It's a weird situation where I'm curious to see what they can do going all out with something, but then their Pokemon output has been so bad during the Switch era, it also makes me very unexcited because I'm primed to expect a half-assed game lol Hopefully it's good though, always like to see a company try and break out to do something different.

[telekill]

Adding The Blood of Dawnwalker to my list of potentials. New trailer was shown with a longer gameplay showcase scheduled for June 21st. Comes from Witcher 3 devs and it looks on par with it.

[dhaabi]

Adding The Blood of Dawnwalker to my list of potentials. New trailer was shown with a longer gameplay showcase scheduled for June 21st. Comes from Witcher 3 devs and it looks on par with it.

This was one of the few trailers I actually chose to not watch because neither its name nor video thumbnail looked interesting, so it helped that you highlighted it here. It seems okay and is something I'll be casually monitoring, but there seems to be considerable overlap between this protagonist and The Witcher's Geralt. Hopefully it can stand out enough from that franchise.

[telekill]

Adding The Blood of Dawnwalker to my list of potentials. New trailer was shown with a longer gameplay showcase scheduled for June 21st. Comes from Witcher 3 devs and it looks on par with it.

This was one of the few trailers I actually chose to not watch because neither its name nor video thumbnail looked interesting, so it helped that you highlighted it here. It seems okay and is something I'll be casually monitoring, but there seems to be considerable overlap between this protagonist and The Witcher's Geralt. Hopefully it can stand out enough from that franchise.

That's a fair assessment and also why I'm interested in it. The game gives off a very similar vibe to Witcher 3. If the next Witcher game won't let me be Geralt, may as well play the game that basically will.