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The PlayStation VR booth at Tokyo Game Show 2015. Chris Kohler/WIREDHere in Tokyo, Sony hasn’t just brought around the same old batch of PlayStation VR demos. What it has on display is very clearly crafted to engage the Japanese gamer audience. Will it work?The line to play PlayStation VR (formerly Project Morpheus) at Tokyo Game Show was packed within minutes of the doors opening to Japan’s big game show on Thursday. Inside the booth, the first game your eyes fall onto is a VR version of Dynasty Warriors, the long-running series of action games based on Japanese and Chinese historical battles. It was a first-person demo that began not with a battle but with a scantily-clad woman walking up beside me and speaking with me. I knew that the monitor in front of me was displaying to all visitors exactly what I was looking at in my field of view, so it was almost like its own mini-game trying not to glance down at her mostly exposed breasts. I think I won?VR Dynasty Warriors is exactly what you think it is. Hordes of identical enemies rush up at you and you press the square button to mow them down in large batches. They get up behind you as well, so you have to swivel your chair around to get everyone. At first I thought this was not very impressive as a use of VR, but then I used one of my super mega attacks, and when giant blue explosions of power surrounded my field of view, I started to get it a little bit more.Across the way was another highly Japanese experience—Joysound VR. It’s a karaoke app with a virtual reality twist; the videos are filmed with 3-D, 360 degree panoramic cameras, so when you’re singing into your microphone, you see yourself on stage with a band of peppy Japanese schoolgirls. Or, in the other song, you’re alone in a wide-open city park as cherry blossom trees bloom all around you. In your field of view below, you can glance downward to see the lyrics of your songs on a virtual screen.A VR game based around “virtual idol” Hatsune Miku lets you experience being on the other side of a stage performance, as a member of the audience—you wave your PlayStation Move controller around like a glowstick as you listen to Miku perform her songs.Other games on display were more attempts to tweak popular game genres in Japan to work with VR: a VR version of Final Fantasy XIV Online, a game called Summer Lesson in which you tutor a schoolgirl, a VR game based on the “visual novel” adventure game Danganronpa. In short, Sony seems to really be trying to push VR to the Japanese gamer audience here at Tokyo Game Show. Whether they’ll pay up for the experience when PlayStation VR launches next year is an open question.

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