One the final day of PAX East, we got to hit up the booth from Rising Star Games where they had several games on display for us to try, the first of which was an action RPG title called Decay Of Logos.
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One of the shorter but friendlier visits we got to have at PAX East was when we checked out the booth for Cygames, who were basically there to show off all the titles they were bringing to the states from Japan and looking ahead to the future.
We, unfortunately, didn't get to book much of anything with Nintendo this time around at PAX East inside their booth. The one appointment we were able to secure was with inside developer Henchman & Goon who wanted to show off their game Pode on the Nintendo Switch.
While Blizzard was on the scene at PAX West, their primary focus (which we'll discuss later) was on World of Warcraft, while Overwatch was more of a featured attraction this time around for fans to have fun with.
During our visit to PAX East last week, we got to check in with a few people here and there that we've chatted with before. One of those groups was the team behind DropMix, as they had a few things to pass out and show us.
Monopoly, in general, gets a bad rap for being a game that causes a lot of fights. And it should to a degree, because the goal of the game is to be a capitalist and put everyone else in the poor house. Which is why we enjoyed seeing a new version stray away from that in Monopoly Gamer from Hasbro, which we saw at PAX
Limbic Entertainment GmbH and 505 Games' Memories of Mars is a sci-fi survival open-world game with a decent bit of tower-defense mechanics thrown in there.
One of the few racing titles we came across at PAX East came to us on the final day of the convention as Wired Productions showed off their new futuristic title GRIP. One of the first things we were asked before playing it was "Do you remember F-Zero?"
So knowing the stigma that the original Shaq Fu has on it, (as well as our own memories of playing it) we went into our demo of Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn at PAX East with a little bit of hesitation but still kept a space open in our minds for some home.
The last game we got to check out from NIS America while they visited PAX East was another dungeon crawler title with a bit of a twist to it called Dungeons with Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk.
One of the games we got to try out from NIA America at PAX East was SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, and I knew the minute I picked it up that it didn't matter what I wrote about this game, those who are going to buy it will buy it no matter what I write.
Another game from the NIS America library that we got a preview of over at PAX East was The Lost Child, which will eventually be coming out in June 2018 as well.
We're not going to see Happy Birthdays from NIS America on the Nintendo Switch for about two more months, but that didn't stop the company from bringing the game to PAX East for us to check out.
Have you ever just wanted to call it quits on the rock we're standing on and try over again in the clouds? That's what you get to attempt to do in Volantia from Tangled Mess Games which we tried out briefly on the PAX East floor.
It isn't often you're given a floppy disc with a hidden USB inside it from a company, but that's what 3D Realms gave us to show off the game Ion Maiden after we tried it out at PAX East.