Xbox Tokyo Game Show: Persona 5 Royal, Wo Long Fallen Dynasty, Exoprimal and more

Xbox’s appearance at Tokyo Game Show was not insignificant, and although it went live far before most of us west-coasters normally wake up (around 5am EST), there’s still tons to talk about and much to share.

The stream opened with a Rakugo storyteller introducing us to the show before Phil Spencer made an appearance, introducing himself in Japanese and explaining how much of an honor it was to meet with the best Japanese developers out there. Spencer explains how he wants to bring the joy of gaming to everyone around the world, shortly before it jumps into our first announcement of the showcase.

Persona 5: Royal

The Xbox Tokyo Games Show presentation opens with a first-look at Persona 5 Royal coming to Xbox Game Pass. It shows off each of the main characters, some of their key story moments, and many of their personas.

It’s available for sale on October 21, but it’s also coming to Xbox Game Pass on Windows, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. It was also briefly teased that Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden would be coming to Xbox Game Pass as well, but no official release date was shown off.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

The next announcement gave us a deeper dive into Team Ninja’s Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. If you’ve ever played Nioh, you probably have an idea of what this intense and brutal third-person action game looks like.

It opens with how the developers wanted to evolve the Nioh series, but not in a way that would keep it limited to Japan, instead focusing on the Three Kingdoms. It’s largely based on Chinese martial arts and incorporates “thousands of years of Chinese myths,” which sounds absolutely awesome. 

If you’ve played Nioh 2 and got a taste of its incredible character creator, you’re probably hoping Team Ninja’s next game keeps the trend going. For a while, I was worried that Wo Long wouldn’t feature a character creator, but it was actually shown off during the show, which makes me even more excited for the game.

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is coming to Xbox Game Pass, although there is no set release date for it just yet.

Exoprimal

Exoprimal received a slightly more story-focused trailer, with snippets of dialogue referencing the state of the world, interactions between crew members, giant AI-women, and of course, tons of action combat of mecha-suits slaughtering dinosaurs.

It’s a little surprising to see that Exoprimal has so many cutscenes when the game is PvEvP focused, meaning it likely revolves around matchmaking with other players. It’s certainly interesting that a seemingly multiplayer-focused game has this much of a story, and I’m interested to see how it’ll play out in the actual game.