A photograph roundup from Japan’s greatest online game celebration.
By nature of the online game medium, when you go to the Tokyo Sport Present you’re going to be spending plenty of time taking a look at screens, whether or not watching introduced previews or making an attempt out playable demos of the newest and biggest video games. If you happen to’re wanting solely at screens, although, you’re actually lacking half the present, because the cosplayers are one other wonderful visible part of the occasion.
Our Japanese-language reporter Seiji Nakazawa was at this yr’s TGS on a enterprise day, and whereas asking some hard-hitting investigative journalism questions, he additionally turned his digicam to the official cosplayers on the presenters’ cubicles, beginning with essentially the most well-known cosplayer of all, Enako.
Enako, who as soon as once more drew an enormous crowd, was on the sales space of developer SNK cosplaying as Hotaru Futaba to advertise Metropolis of the Wolves, the long-awaited newest installment within the Deadly Fury franchise which followers have been ready greater than a quarter-century for, together with a number of different cosplayers portraying different members of the sport’s solid.
There was a good greater cosplay contingent on the sales space of Tencent model Degree Infinite.
Degree Infinite’s greatest present hit is cellular sport Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Like plenty of cellular video games, it makes use of a free-to-play format and randomized gacha mechanic by which gamers purchase new characters, so for TGS, the Degree Infinite sales space has a real-life gacha pull.
Guests stand at a podium, press a button, and a random collection of Nikke cosplayers emerge from an array of cubicles.
Creating the right sense of gacha immersion required an enormous cosplay group, with greater than two dozen members.
Over on the Sega/Atlus sales space, the 2 tightly linked firms have been hyping folks up for Metaphor: ReFantazio, a brand-new IP created by a number of key members of the group behind the Persona video games.
▼ Sure, the ears are about as large because the ax blade.
The sales space for Kuro Video games’ Wuthering Waves featured a monster lurking within the background…
…however there was some super-deformed character cuteness too.
Duet Evening Abyss isn’t truly out but, so we’re undecided what the importance of the enormous hourglass crammed with what seems to be blood is, however it positively caught our eye.
And earlier than heading dwelling, Seiji additionally stopped by the cubicles for Strinova…
…and Neverness to Everness.
An enormous due to everybody who posed for our digicam and serving to unfold the enjoyable of TGS 2024!
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