Category: Games

I went to Kaihin Makuhari in Chiba City for the Tokyo Game Show with my dad. It took 2 hours to get there. When we got there it was a Friday so there weren’t that many people there. We went to a curry restaurant for lunch and we both had the buffet. The food was quite good and I ate a lot.

Then we went to queue for the Tokyo Game Show. The queue was quite long but we got there early so it didn’t take longer than 20 minutes. After queuing for a while there was a bag check for security. We opened our bags and there was a rough check and the security staff didn’t look that well. After that we showed out tickets but my mum had put HER name instead of MY name on the ticket so we thought we couldn’t get in. As we got closer I got more and more nervous. When they did check the ticket they didn’t worry about the name so that was quite lucky.

When we entered TGS my dad was so shocked at how big it was. First, we just walked around getting some free bags, pens and notebooks. When we took in the whole place we looked at some booths. There were lots of famous companies like Sega and Konami and FaceBook Meta Quest.

When we went to the Sega booth there was a new samurai game. It was called: Like a Dragon: Ishin! 

and it was an adventure/quest game where you fight people and go to shops and explore Japan in the 1880s.

We didn’t try the Meta Quest because of the super-long queue. It was an Among Us game in 3d. There was a model of the emergency button from Among Us as well.

The show finished at 6pm. We bought some dinner at a Family Mart convenience store.

We had some Mc Shakes at a Mc’Donalds and I had a sweet potato flavoured one.

We stayed at a business hotel. It was 3 stops away from Kaihin-Makuhari, at Inage-Kaigan.

The second day was a full day so we played a lot more.

We put our stuff in a locker in Makuhari Messe. My dad used a pasmo card and it was 300 yen approx: $2/£1.8. It had an interface that talked to you and told you how to use it. My dad got a code on a receipt to unlock our locker later.

We played Wanted: Dead in an American diner. There was no food but you could sit and play there game. It was hard to aim and I don’t like TPS games so it was a 6/10.

I played an indie Pinball game called Infinity Pinball. It was quite fun but a bit hard. My dad talked to one of the translators for the game.

We went to a Gaming Chair section with a lot of gaming chairs. There were a few that I liked and a few that I didn’t. Most of them where red or black but some were green or pink. After looking at some gaming chairs I tried out some RealForce keyboard and mice. They were quiet and didn’t make a nice sound. I prefer custom linear keyboards. Some tactiles are nice but they don’t sound as good as linear ones. Tactiles are easier to lubricate because even without being perfect they sound quite good and when you press them they click smoothly and are good for accurate typing.

For lunch I had Tonkotsu Ramen from a cafeteria. I quite liked it and the soup was quite good as well.

The Indie Games area was my dad’s favourite section. He really liked how you could actually talk to the people who made the game. He played a Japanese learning game called “So to speak” where you go round cities and towns learning new Japanese words. It was a bit complicated but was easy enough for a normal foreigner learning Japanese.

I played a skiing game where you control it with the gyro sensor in the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons. It was quite hard because the controls weren’t very good. You put on a harness on your shoulders and the controllers fit into that.

The Steam Deck was my favourite thing because you could play a lot of games. I played Stay and StarDew Vally. I liked both of them very much. Stray was a game where you are a stray cat and explore a little city. It had some puzzles and parkour. The graphics were really amazing so I loved it. StarDew Valley was very fun as well. I made a little farm and gathered some wood, stone and some grass. It was my first time to play it but I can easily play it for hours. The Steam Deck itself was really good. You could play a lot of pc games like Apex Legends and Cyber Punk 2077

I looked at the Asus ROG gaming gear. It was okay but I prefer Roccat or Razer. I played Apex Legends and Valorant but it was very hard because it was my first time to play it on pc.

There were a few Competition/Giveaways at TGS like a Steam Deck giveaway and some others. I only registered for the Steam Deck one but there where many others.

At the Monster Energy x Apex Legends booth you could get free Monster Energy drink. I got free Monster Energy drinks both days. I don’t love the taste but it was still pretty good.

After that we went on the train home.