At first, I got my hopes too high after being surprised by the Sega titles and Visions of Mana and it took until Monster Hunter Wilds to really get back my attention. Not that there weren't any other interesting titles like Metaphor Re Fantasia by the Persona team, No Rest for the Wicked by the Ori team, Light No Fire by Hello Games and the Jurassic Park Survival horror game. But I think I got my hopes a bit too high after the Sega and Mana announcements.
Yeah, I'm also cautious with the Sega games, especially regarding the rumors with JSR and Crazy Taxi, but Shinobi was the one I popped at and re-looking at it, it has some very fantastic visuals and looks decent gameplay-wise too. Easily the one I'm looking forward to most.
Golden Axe I'm not going to harp on too much since it really didn't show off any gameplay aside from movement and one attack. By what was shown, it's a 3D Hack'n Slash and visually, it looks okay. But aside from the fireball attack and the characters moving around, it hardly showed any gameplay aside from it so I'll hold my judgement until we get an actual showcase of the gameplay.
Yeah, Streets of Rage looks fine visually and the gameplay looks just okay, but the shift from 2.5D Beat'em-up to 3D beat'em-up is eye raising. I'm not against developers trying something new with games and series, but it's definitely risky with a series like Streets of Rage that came back after a long period and managed to find a footing that was rewarded with SoR4, but is already deviating with this new game.
And visually, JSR and Crazy Taxi look fine and the gameplay looks good for now. But yeah, with rumors about them possibly having a GAAS deal, I'm being very cautious with them.
Basically, my thoughts so far are Shinobi > Jet Set Radio > Crazy Taxi > Streets of Rage > Golden Axe. Shinobi is easily the game I'm looking forward to while the others I want to see more of first before deciding. Basically, for fans of the series announced, all I can hope is that Sega is in a listening mood and will try to listen for feedback regarding the games they announced and give demos for them for players to send feedback. Cause with some of these games coming back from a long hiatus, I hope for the sake of the fans of these series that Sega will listen to feedback and try to make sure these games are good on release.
All that said, I'm very curious what else Sega has in store when at the end they said, "And More." What other possible old series are you hiding from us, Sega?