Ahh... concrete.

KiraKira Music Hour was fun - once you got to play it.

The 3 minutes of text at the front end of the demo was... less than charming.

Seaman2 was ... appropriately inexplicable.

PS3 was looking pretty hairy.

Super aliased backgrounds in many games due to fill rate issues.

Despite said problems, Julian's game (Lair) was pretty nice to look at.

Gundham... not so much.

To Whom It May Concern: I want one of these. Badly.

New crate physics demo in Heavenly Sword.

Ok, that's a lie.

But if you had such rave reviews at E3, would you bother showing new stuff? I wouldn't!

Kelley and Jenova's production of FLOW (for PS3 download) hidden away in the back corner of the floor.

"Very Zen," said Tim. "It reminds me of Spore's cell game."

Cute graphics in an RPG called Trusty Bell.

An illustrated and cozy storybook look.

Look! One more to go and Winning Eleven will be tied!

Turbine, educating TGS showgoers on RPG classes (huh?)... in English. With English slides. Inexplicably.

PS: Fishing game peripheral - not so great.

Papermanam: a paper-look multiplayer shooter that's... really just a standard 3D shooter with flat characters.

The design and costuming aspects were certainly cute.

And who knows... perhaps this window dressing on conventional shooter gameplay will engage the Japanese audience.
 

Despite the strange-sounding name of PuppyOn (an online chat game where avatars have a pet companion) the art style was quite nifty.

A little less illustrative than the Trusty Bell look, but similarly storybook inspired.

And then there was Viva Pinata.,,

I really want to believe that this game will open up a new, kid-friendly market on the Xbox platform.

But that is hard to believe - especially given how difficult it is to control.

It felt slow and tedious. Even when you smash pinatas! How is that possible?

Check out the loner goth gal!

"Soooo depressing to be surrounded by all these perky pink-haired wonders!"

Time to go home!

Eventually, we headed back to Shibyua to meet up with Keita and Fumito for dinner.

Nick and I got lost 3 times before agreeing to meet "In the Mouth of Hachiko"

I took pictures from the same spot, turning in a circle... to avoid getting lost again.

Dinner outside, in a cool breeze - a rarity in Shibuya.

Everything was wonderful - even the natto!

Time to dream.