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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 4d

Tokyo Game Show 2025 Tour!

I made a video tour of some of the major booths at TGS 2025! Including PlayStation, Square Enix, Koei Tecmo, Bandai Namco, Capcom and more! A small taste of Japan

WATCH: youtu.be/7TyS3dWaXE8

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 14h

Yoko Taro said he has become a person that is only able to write at night.

He says that it is okay recently because during the day he usually has many meetings and calls with producers and other staff etc.

via Archipel Caravan Game Edition Event

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 14h

Astro Bot was made in about 3 years of full development with a team of 30 developers at the start growing to 65 by the end!

Timeline:
• 2021: 1 year of prototyping
• May 2021: Pitch to Sony
• 2022 - 2023: About 2 years of production
• 2024: 6-9 months of polishing & finalizing
• Sep 6 2024: Release

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 15h

Prototyping was a big part Astro Bots's development

Team Asobi spent 1 year prototyping. Even during development they would continue to prototype ideas outside of platforming. Some ideas get used like a sponge prototype that became a power up

Other ideas never get used but may be used later!

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 15h

Yoko Taro says Neon Genesis Evangelion and Aliens are some of the works of fiction that inspired him!

via Archipel Caravan event

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 15h

Nicolas Doucet thanked the 3rd party partners that leant their characters to Astro Bot at the Archipel Caravan event!

They got almost 100% of the characters they asked for (they hoped to get 1/3rd of them)

He says PlayStation would not exist without the support of all the other game companies

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 15h

Ghost of Yotei was the #1 best selling game in Japan this week!

It sold 120,196 physical units at launch on PS5

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 2d

Former Capcom Director Hideaki Itsuno said Capcom vs SNK 2 really came together and improved a lot in the final 3 months of development!

He says they were given the extra 3 months they needed but these days it is much harder to get extra time to work on a game.

via Archipel Caravan Game event

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 2d

Devil May Cry Director Hideaki Itsuno says he designed DMC5’s pacing with potato chips in mind!

He designed scenarios so players know when they can take a potato chip break. He wanted to make it clear when a cutscene was coming & give enough time to take a small break to eat some potato chips!

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 2d

He also said he planned the game with the idea of players only having about 1 hour a day to play when they get home so tried to pace the game so that a 1 hour session of gameplay would be entertaining

Via Archipel Caravan Game Edition event

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 2d

Devil May Cry Director Hideaki Itsuno says he designed DMC5’s pacing with potato chips in mind!

He designed scenarios so players know when they can take a potato chip break. He wanted to make it clear when a cutscene was coming & give enough time to take a small break to eat some potato chips!

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 4d

Tokyo Game Show 2025 Tour!

I made a video tour of some of the major booths at TGS 2025! Including PlayStation, Square Enix, Koei Tecmo, Bandai Namco, Capcom and more! A small taste of Japan

WATCH: youtu.be/7TyS3dWaXE8

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 5d

A Japanese man was so excited for Ghost of Yotei he flew to Hokkaido to climb Mount Yotei and fully immerse himself in the world of the game before it’s release!

It was a 4 day trip (including 1 night in the mountains) and it took him 7 hours each way to climb

www.famitsu.com/article/2025...

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 6d

I won the Square Enix store lottery to buy a Yoko Shimomura signed Super Mario RPG vinyl OST!

Yoko Shimomura is the GOAT! 🔥😭✨

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 8d

Big thank you to @SquareEnix for the Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles code! 🙏🏽🔥✨

I have been looking forward to play this with the new enhancements and added voice acting

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 8d

Ghost of Yotei got a near perfect review score from Famitsu - 9/10/10/10 [39/40]

t.co/3Fhns144Wh

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 8d

I got to see a private presentation of Lost Hellden by @StudiosArtisan at TGS!

- Indie JRPG made in France
- Inspired by PS1 / PS2 JRPGs
- “Turn based action combat” choose either style!
- Hand drawn BGs you can move around in 3D
- Art style like Arcane mixed with anime
- Fantasy story
- 2026

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Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 8d

Final Fantasy VII Remake Director Naoki Hamaguchi says the FF7 Remake trilogy is a rebuild, not a rewrite of FF7!

"'It’s a rebuild, not a rewrite.' — this philosophy guided our entire approach."

via @nhamaguc