Yoko Taro RPG 404 GAME RE:SET Turns SEGA Games into Cute Girls
How can you make the classic SEGA video game library even better? Turn them all into cute anime girls!
Game designer Yoko Taro and artist Yuugen are doing just that in 404 GAME RE:SET, a new mobile RPG made in collaboration with the video game studio. The world-famous game creator and illustrator appeared together in a launch video for the title, in which they discuss the game and reveal some of the character designs:
So far, four girls inspired by classic SEGA properties have been announced:
Out Run (1986): CV Ai Kakuma (Cure Prism in Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure)
After Burner (1987): CV Akari Kitou (Nezuko in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Virtua Fighter (1993): CV Fairouz Ai (Power in Chainsaw Man)
Virtua Cop (1994): CV Aoi Yuuki (Tsuyu in My Hero Academia)
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There will likely be many other SEGA girls showing up, as evidenced by this quick glimpse at a character named “Crazy Taxi” in the top left of a gameplay sample:
The game is described thus:
Video games turned everything upside down.
This is a world by SEGA, for SEGA.
From infrastructure to entertainment, SEGA reigns supreme in all areas. The player, who lives in this world, one day encounters a mysterious being called “X.”
“The world you live in is not as it should be.”
The player, who learned that this world has been warped by SEGA, must throw themselves into a battle with SEGA in order restore the world to its true form.
It sounds like the story has shades of SINoALICE, Yoko Taro’s twisted fairy tale mobile game, at least in terms of a world and its inhabitants influenced by fiction. What will the game hold? We’ll find out sometime this year.
404 GAME RE:SET (read “Error Game Reset”) goes live in Japan for iOS and Android in 2023. There’s no word yet of a global release.
Source: Gematsu
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