I’m watching the Sony State of Play 2025. This is the first time I’m actually sitting down to watch a showcase of upcoming games, so this is all new to me.

• Trailers:
  • Lumines Arise: Puzzle game by the developers of Tetris effect.
  • Pragmata, looks like a sci-fi action game.
  • Romeo is a Dead Man: animation and humor at the beginning reminded me a lot of Jerma’s Rat Movie. The in-game aesthetic wasn’t the same though, which was disappointing.
  • Silent Hill f*: Horror game with creepy human-doll things? seems pretty cool.
  • Bloodstained: The Scarlett Encampment: Some kind of side-scrolling beat-em-up action game?
  • Digimon Story Time Stranger: Oh hey, a Digimon game. I don’t think I’ve seen a Digimon game in a while.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles: Pretty hand-drawn art style at the beginning, but apparently it’s just old-scool isometric sprites; it’s an enhanced remake of the original game.
  • Baby Steps: Literal walking simulator I remember the developer of this being weird about their game on Twitter. Can’t find it. I think I misremembered.
  • Past this point, the trailers went by faster and focused more on showing off mechanics quickly.
  • Hirogami: Action game inspired by origami
  • Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots: Another golfing game
  • Nonja Gaiden: Ragebound: 2d pixel art side scroller
  • Cairn: Survival climbing game. This is the only game I’m interested in. I hope it involves Bivuoacs.
  • The trailers went back to being longer and returned to spending more time on story/vibes
  • Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection: Love to see game preservation happening here.
  • Official Playstation wireless fight stick ad
  • Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater I still need to play one of these games…
  • Nioh 3 I don’t know anything about this series. Ninja action game?
  • Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow The disjointed hands are interesting, And there
  • Tides of Tomorrow I really like the visual style of this. I also like how the story seemingly takes place in the great garbage patch.
  • News about a free update for Astroboy
  • Sea Remnants: Pirate game? Art style reminds me of Borderlands, but not gritty.
  • Sword of the Sea: Another game that looks a lot like Journey, from the people who made Journey!!! I’m very excited about this. They also made Abzu, which I didn’t like at all actually but I would still play it. I guess I’m still trying to catch the high I got from Journey
  • Past this point they just mentioned a bunch of games really quickly, not enough time to write notes. Most of them were older games being added to their “classics” collection
  • Back to longer trailers again
  • First Light: James Bond movie. The facial animations are a bit stiff, but I like the style of it feeling like an american movie. i would actually try it i think. i’m interested to see how well the gameplay meshes with the story and cinematics.
  • Ghost of Yotei - Complete vibes, no gameplay footage
  • Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Marvel fighting game? Come to think of it, how come I’ve never heard of a superhero fighting game? They did a pretty long commentary after the trailer talking about the game.
  • Ended with a sizzle reel including footage from all the games.
• Some of the trailers were followed by developers commenting on or selling their game.
• these kinds of trailers are VERY different from the kinds of good trailers you’d see on Steam store pages, they have a lot more fun with showing off cinematics and storytelling