One of the best State of Plays ever.

It would've blown the doors off if Sony didn't reveal anything in the blog post lol. Great showings from Stellar Blade, Death Stranding 2, Judas and the Silent Hill demo. Got to say though, Silent Hill 2 looks underwhelming, especially the combat which looks clunky for today's standards. Concord missing in action is a little unexpected, based on some of the leaks, but there is a chance it shows up next week.

The state of play was fantastic. Especially as a big Kojima fan.

Was a pretty solid State of Play this time around. I'd give it a 7.5/10; Stellar Blade, Death Stranding 2, and Judas looked great. The only downside was no new announcements still from Sony's 1st party studios (would like to see what Sucker Punch, Bend, and Bluepoint are working on). 

Edit: Also new MGS-style game announcement from Kojima is nice.

Kojima didn't disappoint and in fact the announcement of the new game was a positive surprise... shadowed by the fact that it's not even in (full) production, but I guess that makes sense consider everything else they're working on.

Rise of the Ronin was also cool, although graphically it was quite disappointing. Still, I liked what I said, and I like the theme, so I'm definitely interested. I have no experience with Team Ninja, so I don't have very high expectations per se for the game, but it'll probably end up quite an enjoyable game, even if it doesn't stand out in all ways.

Overall a solid show and I was pleasantly surprised with the release date of Stellar Blade. Death Stranding 2 looked good, but is not releasing for a while. We still have no idea what most first party studios from are working on though. Though this first half year is already stacked with third party exclusive content and Death Stranding 2 seems to be one of the heavy hitters of 2025.

Will check out Stellar Blade, Judas, Silent Hill 2 and Death Stranding 2. Good show.

I'm surprised by the lack of Lost Soul Aside and Convollaria. But I suppose alongside Concord, these games are probably 2nd half 2024, so i think we can expect at least another SoP then (after the FF7 one) to show off those titles (and more on Until Dawn).

Stellar Blade reminds me a lot of Nier Automata and that's a good thing. Of course, I was sold on DDII a long time ago. Everything else can fuck off esp Kojima. God, I'm so sick of people jerking him off.

Nothing new for me I think... 

Maybe I can try Stellar Blade if the reviews are good

Otherwise I will just play Persona, Final Fantasy and my backlog this year

Without Kojima doing his thing, this SoP proved already miles better than the usual we had. Solid showcases of upcoming 3rd party games with some exclusives.
Of course there wasn't going to be 1at party ones in the mix.
Kojima as usual talking about how he wishes to be working on movies but instead making the narrative interactive pieces to satiate his mind. DS2 had a good showcase which makes the turnaround for this one much faster than the original.

Also a minus for the announcement of a project that's not going to be there until the PS6 but a MGS like is finally coming so I guess people into it can rejoice.