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E3 2018 Press Conference: Square Enix

The third day started with the press conference of Square Enix, so let's do that next! The games are:
  • Shadow of The Tomb Raider
  • Final Fantasy XIV Online: Stormblood
  • Final Fantasy XIV Online Patch 4.3 - Under The Moonlight
  • Final Fantasy XIV Online x Monster Hunter World
  • The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
  • Dragon Quest XI - Echoes of an Elusive Age
  • Final Fantasy Brave Exvius x Dragon Quest
  • Babylon's Fall
  • Nier: Automata - Become as Gods Edition
  • Octopath Traveler
  • Just Cause 4
  • The Quiet Man
  • Kingdom Hearts III
For Final Fantasy fans this was probably a great  press conference, I on the other hand could skip about 80% of it...

Shadow of The Tomb Raider got a more extended look this time, even with some nice stealthy gameplay in the Mayan jungle. I can't really add much that I didn't already mention in the Microsoft post, so I'm just gonna say: looking good! ;)

Just Cause 4 - same as Tomb Raider. It was already announced at the Microsoft conference and I'm still wondering if it isn't too short in the lifetime of Just Cause 3. The new weather (more like natural disaster) concept looks solid, but that's about it.


The only new announcement which got me really excited was The Quiet Man. While PC Gamer calls it "the worst trailer of E3 so far" I think it's quite the opposite. It was well made and made me want to know more. That's exactly what a trailer should do.

That's it for Square Enix. Like I said, it's not much, because most of their stuff was Final Fantasy (or something fantasy-related like Dragon Quest). Next up will be Ubisoft.

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