Square Enix’s confernce was alot smaller than the others, and in this event they simply focused on announcing projects that have started development, so there’s a few new IP’s announced, rather than games like FF XV.

The conference started with a nice Just Cause 3 intro,which you’ll see below, they proove how once again they are going crazy, with unlimited C4 and awesome set pieces.

CEO and Square Enix America/Europe boss Phil Rogers took to stage, and he spoke about how they’ve changed over the years, their collective program and also how they are taking risks on new fresh games like Life is Strange.

 

Over the next hour, he outlined how all the developers will be here to introduce there to share their enthusiasm and passion for their game, like I said, the conference seemed a bit dulled down compared to others and it had a podium to speak at, rather than a fancy walk around untethered.

 

Roland Lestlin Game director for Avalanche Studios took the stage for more information on the game Just Cause, and he certainly let loose. He spoke about their ambitions, and mentioned how the next generation consoles made this new goals possible, here were the new things he announced:

• There will be a wingsuit
• New and improved parachute, use weapons while using parachute.
• Upgraded grapple hook
• Infinite C4 and grenades
• Map
• 80 vehicles ranging from F1 to Tractors, to Speedboats
• Release Date: December 1st

Cinematic/Gameplay trailer featured with narration, which obviously featured tons of explosions – once of which was a him driving off a plane, jumping out and using his wingsuit. The story was outlined and your goal is to tear down the current empire in the land which is under strict control by a dictator.

 

Business Division 6 Producer came on to announce a new game, the next addition to the NieR series, there was not much to show, some concept art and a short video, as they mentioned it is pretty early and the game has just begun development. So early there isn’t even a subtitle for the game yet.

The producer said that they purposefully enlisted the help of Platinum to ‘breath new life’ into the series, the Producer and Project manager took to stage, one of which was wearing a mask, which was somewhat annoying, but there was a translator who was pretty clear, of which you could hear the rustling of his papers behind his microphone.

Here was the accompanying video:

 

Essentially, as they said, it’s a sneak peak. They’ve enlisted the help of Platinum Games to work on this game, and staff included developers, composers from the likes of Tekken, Dragon Quat and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

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Tomb Raider was next ,and the trailer we saw was pretty similar to what we saw at Microsofts conference but without gameplay, unfortunately.

Game Director Brian Horton took to stage, who did gameplay at the conference, instead this showcase they showed a behind the scenes dev diary, showing all the finite details that are in the game, modelling the eyelashes, I much preferred the Microsoft showing, and am only hoping that it gets on to PS4 as soon as possible as I really enjoyed the PS3 one. I didn’t purchase the definitive edition though.

 

The beautful platform, Mobile was spoken about, and they came on to announce a new game, and they took on the Tom Raider franchise for another installation with the ‘Go’ theme.

Named Lara Croft Go, take a look at the trailer below, where you’ll see her sporting her original playstation clothes:

 

After which a nice trailer for the new FF 14: Heavensward came on, which glimpsed into a Life is Strange, Then Dragon Quest. The montage was pretty nice with a cool soundtrack to it, but nothing new or noteworthy.

 

Shinji Hashimoto joined the stage, and this guy is the executive producer for the kingdom hearts series, you’ll recognise him from previous Sony conferences and such and the ‘please be excite’ meme,  and at this point the translator who was speaking over all the japanese, actually forgot about this part, so I have no idea what he said. Just before the begining of the trailer for Final Fantasy 7, You could here him mumble ‘sh*t’ down the microphone after he realised  he missed this section, so it was a bit confusing when the director for Kingdom Hearts introducing the trailer which featured on the Sony conference, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, at the end the trailer mentioned more information to come in winter.

 

There was also an update for the PC port of the game, is that it is now coming to iOS as well, and this will be releasing in summer. As a result of this, the PS4 version has been delayed until Winter.

After this and a successful translation, he said:

and now time for a new trailer on kingdom hearts

Queue a few cheers from the crowd a single guy going  ‘Oh my God!’

Yes!

 

Little did they know that this was a mobile game. Not the Kingdom Heart 3 we were all expecting:

Kingdom Hearts Unchained – Now in development along with announcement for localisation for the west!

After this confusion, they moved on to kingdom hearts 3 to show a special video message from a special person, it was  a couple of producers from Walt Disney Studios and they announced that this game will feature the Tangled universe.

 

Kingdom Hearts 3 demo looked truly fantastic, from the details in the trees, but more awesomely, it was the fire effects and spells that looked most beautiful, there wasn’t oo much to it though. but I’m glad we finally got to see some more footage:

World of Final Fantasy was introduced at the Sony conference, and once again they showed the same trailer.

The game director for the game spoke up, talking about the challenges he wanted to overcome for players:

1. A game for anyone can play
2. To create a new game system that was simple and also deep
3. A completely new visual experience

This game, although I am happy about it, and that something somewhat high profile is coming to the Vita, as in an actual publisher game rather than an indie game which we continually see, makes a nice change. The game is certainly interesting, with a release window of 2016, take a look at the trailer:

 

reative Director for IO interactive, the studio behind the new Hitman noted how this is a reboot, with a surprisingly enough digital only release of December 8th, the developer mentioned how they will be releasing continual updates, with new assassinations, locations, from Paris to Spain, and also challenges for you to take part in, the gameplay video they showed featured all the different ways of Assassinating your target, and there was quite a few, from disguising yourself as bar staff  and poisoning your target, making your way into his apartment and killing him there, or even making a platform collapse ‘accidentally’, or maybe even just Sniping him from afar.

 

Square Enix and developers Tri-Ace have teamed up once again, to speak about the previously announced Star Ocean 5, now with the full title of Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, along with a new title, Square Enix announced that the game will be localised for the PS4.

 

The gameplay trailer they next showed was pretty awesome, although the somewhat cartoony graphics the environments were once again amazing. Combat was also shown, which looked really fluid and smooth. The producer on stage spoke about how this entry has more characters than any prior game.

Technically speaking, he mentioned how the demo on below is running in 30 fps, but the plan is to have the game running at 60FPS on release.

Regarding a release date, in Japan the plan is Winter 2015 if you plan on importing it, and for us in the west who fancy listening to  language we recognise, we are looking at a 2016 window. Historically it takes 6-10 months for such tasks, so I  presume a Q2/q3 release date.

 

Take a look at the gameplay below,  bear in mind this game is still in development, at everything in it is subject to change like the UI and character design!

Eidos Montreal Head of studio  and Game Director took to stage to speak about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the story for this game focuses on Adam Jensen, who works for an anti-terrorist company:

 

The President and CEO of Square Enix took to stage, and he introduced something rather interesting. A Final Fantasy Portal App, which has information on everything final fantasy, from the 1st game to 15th.

 

One more thing…

Then filled the screen. and this nice new announcement is a new IP, and a new games studio founded by Square Enix named  Tokyo RPG Factory – What came next was a few pieces of concept art. The name of their new game at the moment is Project Setsuna and actualy has a nice sounding global release in 2016 – Take a look at the snippet below:

 

So really, the whole conference was ‘look at what’s coming’ in the near future.