Capcom Remixes Its Past With Exoprimal and Path of the Goddess

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Capcom didn’t reveal any bombshells at its dedicated Summer Game Fest showcase; many titles were earlier revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase. Considering that the company published two five-star masterpieces (the Resident Evil 4 remake and Street Fighter 6) back to back, it could afford to coast a bit. However, Capcom took the opportunity to shed more light on upcoming releases. Curiously, two of those games, Exoprimal and Path of the Goddess, appear to be spiritual successors to past Capcom hits.

We first saw Exoprimal last year, and got our best look yet at Capcom’s 2023 showcase. It's a co-op shooter that sees your character wear powerful, custom exoskeletons to fight evil, time-traveling dinosaurs. The past and future collide in gloriously dumb ways as technological warriors take down T-rexes.

As bonkers as that all sounds, Capcom already has a franchise about stopping a crisis involving dinosaurs. The original Dino Crisis games took the Resident Evil survival-horror formula, and swapped out the zombies with big reptiles. This franchise became progressively more arcade-like as the series went on: Dino Crisis 2 was a third-person shooter, and Dino Stalker was an on-rails arcade blastathon.

Exoprimal has more sci-fi flair than those titles, but I don’t think anyone would complain if Capcom marketed it as a next-gen Dino Crisis. We’ll see how much DNA they share when Exoprimal drops on July 14.

Meanwhile, Path of the Goddess is far more mysterious. The samurai game debuted at this year’s Summer Game Fest, and offered a glimpse at its stylish, mystical, somewhat scary action set in ancient Japan.

Path of the Goddess' samurai action recalls the Onimusha series' combat, and the game's divine cherry blossoms make one