Playstation 5: The Top 5 Japanese Games

The Playstation 5 is here already? It feels like only 60 frames ago the Playstation 4 burst into our living rooms with a motherboard full of new graphical capabilities and immersive experiences. But as the new decade begins, so must a new era for gaming.

With a wealth of new games being developed for the Playstation 5 across the world, we’ve honed our list down the top 5 releases coming out of Japan.

1. Pragmata (2022, Capcom)

Capcom have two titles already announced for the PS5. Their first, Pragmata, raises many more questions than it answers. In the preview we follow a clunky spaceman through a desolate Times Square, where he meets a young girl and the hologram of a cat with see-through skin (yes, you can see its brains). Of course, a satellite crashes into the air above them and the girl uses psychic powers to teleport them to the moon. It all happens very quickly.

Like Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding (Kojima Productions) announcement trailer in 2016, there’s no hope of knowing what this game is about, or what the gameplay will be like. But strangely, that’s not a bad thing. Intrigue fills the knowledge gaps: what was the spaceman was doing in New York? Why was a satellite attacking him and the girl? What was wrong with that cat?

2. Ghostwire: Tokyo (2021, Tango Gameworks)

Directed by Shinji Mikami (creator of Resident Evil) Ghostwire: Tokyo is a first-person action title charging through the haunted streets of Japan’s capital. The Playstation 5 announcement trailer shows the city’s 37.4 million residents vanishing into thin air, leaving normally bustling streets deathly silent and subway stations littered with office attire. We can only hope that wherever the well-dressed city-folk vanished to is warm enough for their birthday suits, because even their high heels were left to clink against the top of abandoned escalators.