With the release of the Switch 2, fans of their handheld hybrids will be relieved to hear that, compared to last year, there were many more Nintendo games to play at the Tokyo Game Show. This time around, the massive displays put up by the likes of Capcom and Square Enix had a lot for Nintendo fans to experience, while dotted throughout mid-sized and small booths alike, there were plenty of games to discover. Many of the games, like Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, were launched during or around the time TGS ran from 25th to 27th September, with others having playable demos you can experience at home, like The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. As such, I’ve gone ahead and curated this list to 10 games from mostly big to a couple of smaller ones that were more or less exclusive to TGS. Let’s start with the big boys.
Resident Evil Requiem (Switch 2)
I raised an eyebrow when Resident Evil Requiem was announced for the Switch 2 during the last Nintendo Direct; it seemed too graphically cutting-edge to make it onto less powerful hardware. However, after sitting down with the game for a run-through of protagonist Grace Ashcroft’s escape from a haunted hotel, Capcom thoroughly impressed me with this port. It was so impressive, in fact, I wrote a full hands-on with some offscreen S2 video footage.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection (Switch 2)
Capcom didn’t disappoint when it came to Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, either. I also played this handheld on a Switch 2. It quickly became my personal Game of the Show, though I’m a bit biased because I absolutely loved Wings of Ruin and can’t wait for another iteration of what I consider the best creature-battling system out there. Ditching the customizable protagonist, Twisted Reflection instead stars a man named Leo, the Captain of a group called the Rangers and also royalty of some sort, as his Palico buddy kept calling him Your Highness. In the demo, he’s tasked with showing a young recruit named Thea — and by extension, me — the ins-and-outs of a complex battle system by taking down some Velocipray and later a Paolumu before a frenzied Chatacabra served as a boss fight that almost wiped my team of a Rathalos, Yian Kut-Ku, and Tobi-Kadachi.
Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection (Switch 1)
Let’s get the final Capcom game out of the way: Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection brings together all three Star Force games and their respective versions; at TGS, I could only sample the first Mega Man Star Force from the Nintendo DS and not the second or the third, which were on 3DS. I played through the opening moments of the Dragon version where Geo receives a Vizualizer headset that allows him to see the Wave World and meet Omega-Xis, an alien lifeform that helps him take out other aliens invading the Earth. While much of the demo was spent mashing through dialogue — learning about Geo’s missing father, the BrotherBand system, and arguing with classmates — I played on a comically large TV for a port of a DS game and came away impressed with how crisp it looked.
