Infinity Nikki was chopping it shut, however it seems the comfortable open-world recreation will sneak out proper in time to shut out 2024. The sport appears to be like like Simply Trigger inside an anime cottagecore feed and it’s popping out on December 5.
That’s the discharge date for the PlayStation 5, PC, and cell variations of the sport which brings the Nikki Up2U dress-up RPG collection right into a Genshin Affect-style open world. Infold Video games first revealed Infinity Nikki again in 2022, and has been touting the involvement of former Nintendo director Kentaro Tominaga who occurred to be a designer on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
The sport revolves round Nikki and her chatty cat Momo as they discover the whimsical Thomas Kinkade-looking world of Miraland. Gamers gather Miracle Outfits to realize new talents like flight and fishing that they’ll use on their journey, fixing puzzles and accumulating supplies. Gamers can even face off towards a “suspicious gang of stylists as much as no good” as they examine an odd situation making the locals populace flip mysteriously comatose.
The sport already has 30 million gamers pre-registered on smartphones, and it has the potential to be big on PC and PS5 as effectively. Whereas the franchise has been fashionable in China for years, Infinity Nikki’s cross-platform timing and new mix of fashion-oriented gameplay and open-world exploration has the potential to make it one in all this yr’s larger hits. Lengthy-time followers, no less than, really feel just like the recreation, hailing from a traditionally underserved style, has the potential to make Nikki go mainstream.
Whereas I haven’t previewed the sport or participated within the current closed beta, the bucolic fields and discuss of rival stylists battling it out is giving me main Pokémon coach vibes, simply with outfits as a substitute of magical creatures that reside in your pocket. I do not know if Infinity Nikki will end up to essentially have the key sauce, however for now I’m positively not betting towards it.
