Square Enix’s E3 2021 showcased featured a big first-look at a Guardians of the Galaxy game, a good look at Babylon’s Fall, and the reveal of several Final Fantasy games.
Here are all the trailers and everything we saw at the Square Enix E3 Showcase.
As the rumours had suggested, Eidos Montreal has been working on the Guardians of the Galaxy game. It is a single-player, story-driven game, and you’ll be playing as Star-Lord.
The developers explained that the decisions you make as Star-Lord will have small to significant decisions on the story and how characters treat you.
Combat is a mix of shooting and hand-to-hand combat, with the ability to use team-based moves initiated by your teammates.
A hefty gameplay demo showed off both the combat and how your decisions will shape the story.
Guardians of the Galaxy is releasing October 26, 2021, on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC.
The collection sees Final Fantasy 1-6 get a “pixel-perfect” remaster.
Each game in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection will release separately or together in a group on mobile and Steam soon. Unfortunately, there’s no console release date.
A very short trailer for the Legend of Mana remake was played.
The game is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Steam on June 24, 2021.
A roadmap of upcoming content was outlined for Marvel’s Avengers.
Cosmic Cube launches later this month, with Wasteland Patrol with Hawkeye coming this “summer and beyond”, along with the War For Wakanda update.
The main focus was the War of Wakanda expansions which, of course, introduces Black Panther to the mix and takes the story to Wakanda. In addition, there was a nice cinematic trailer played which introduced this game’s version of the Black Panther.
In this mobile game, you play as one of a crew of snipers who are investigating the disappearance of Agent 47 for The Organization.
A NieR mobile game is on the way, and it’s coming to Android and iOS.
There’s a limited timed cross-over event coming.
The battle royale set inside the Final Fantasy VII universe is coming to mobile devices later this year.
The highly-anticipated Babylon’s Fall from Platinum Games got a much-needed explanation and gameplay video today. As you’d expect, it’s an action-RPG game, but it’s also a 4-player co-op that you can also play solo and a live-service game. According to the Youtube description of the trailer, the content that will be added for free includes “game modes.”
Babylon’s Fall is coming to PS5, PS4 and PC.
The remastered collection first gameplay trailer shows updates to the character models, lip-syncing, lighting and other details.
The collection includes both Life is Strange, and Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
Life is Strange Remasted Collection will be launching on September 30, 2021, for PS4, Xbox One, Stadia and PC.
Life is Strange: True Colours was up next, and a video showcased Alex’s psychic empathy powers in a new gameplay video.
Life is Strange: True Colours launches on September 10, 2021, for PS5, PS4.
CHAOS. CHAOS. Have some more CHAOS.
Square Enix Japan with Tetsuya Nomura & Team Ninja has teamed up for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin.
The story here seems to take place sometime after the events of the original Final Fantasy game. Although he has transformed into Chaos, Garland is revealed as the villain, the final boss of the original game. However, as was teased in the epilogue of Final Fantasy, it seems Garland didn’t transform back into an honourable knight at all and instead had been awaiting the Warriors of Light.
Look, there will be jokes about this for quite some time, but I’m keen to learn more about Stranger of Paradise.
A demo will be coming soon to PlayStation 5, and we can all find out how it plays.
That’s everything from the Square Enix E3 2021 Showcase, but if you’d like to watch the show in full, you can find it below.
What was your favourite trailer or announcement from the showcase? Let me know in the comments section below.
