Save the world and look good doing it. The latest showed off all the familiar genres you’d expect to see at a premier gaming showcase — , survival horror, third-person action, more shooters, and of course, dress-up games. Okay, that last one is a little bit of an outlier, but that’s exactly what made stand out from the rest of the crowd.
Developer Papergames first showed off back in December 2022. The game will mark the first console release for the long-running series of dress-up games, and it looks like a major evolution in terms of gameplay as well. Unlike earlier games in the series, adds a full open world full of platforming challenges to explore alongside its .
You can look at as meets dress-up game, and not just because of its open world. game designer Kentaro Tominaga is serving as executive producer for after leaving Nintendo to join Papergames in 2022. So what does an open world dress-up game actually look like? Well for one thing, it looks gorgeous.
Its trailer shows off some exquisitely detailed outfits, which makes sense given that they’re some of the game’s biggest draws. While most of the trailer consists of pre-rendered cutscenes, small bits of gameplay show off some pretty stunning effects on in-game clothes, from frilly dresses that move realistically when its wearer jumps and glides, to the no less impressive models of simpler fabrics on outfits like overalls. The game’s environments are likewise beautiful, particularly the rolling, flower-fille.
