After months of silence about its upcoming cozy life-sim HoYoverse lastly set a Petit Planet launch date. Petit Planet launches Dec. 4 for PC and cellular units, with pre-load beginning on Dec. 1; HoYoverse hasn’t introduced plans to launch Petit Planet on consoles but.
The information comes nearly a yr after the primary Petit Planet beta, and HoYoverse introduced it alongside a brand new trailer highlighting the intensive prep work concerned in planning a picnic for the locals.
It is a good excuse to indicate off simply how far more expansive Petit Planet guarantees to be in comparison with that preliminary beta. The trailer reveals off much more of the sport’s customization choices, which, fortunately, cowl a broad number of kinds. The check model skewed closely towards floaty, ethereal, female clothes, which is ok, however a bit restricted in scope. Right here, we see sweaters, cargo pants, sweatshirts stylishly tied across the waist, T-shirts, attire of a much less ethereal selection, aviator outfits, trenchoats, boots that Doc Martens wearers would really feel proper at house in, Mary Janes — just about any look you would hope for.
The trailer additionally reveals a participant character fishing and farming in a heavily-but-tastefully terraformed village. They diverted a river to run by means of the center of it, which, aside from including to the bucolic appeal, makes for handy fishing. And there is a huge agricultural patch close to a few of the properties the place impossibly gigantic ears of corn develop. Exterior customization appeared like a giant draw through the preliminary check model, and it seems to be like HoYoverse has solely expanded the probabilities since then.
The identical goes for inside design. The participant character’s house is rocking a powerful earthy vibe that wasn’t current within the construct we performed final yr. There is a brick oven with a sunflower motif operating up the aspect within the kitchen, earth-toned cookware and worktops, and a few actually cute furnishings with bug-shaped pillows as an added contact.
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The trailer closes with the occasion itself, a neighborhood-wide celebration the place everybody, human and speaking house animal alike, brings a dish and spends the night having enjoyable. There is a fast glimpse at a card recreation — although whether or not it is only for present or a novel, playable recreation HoYoverse developed is unclear — fireworks, and a bunch of different little methods to spend time collectively. We known as it HoYoverse’s Animal Crossing final yr, and it definitely is wanting like that also holds true.
HoYoverse will broadcast a particular Petit Planet livestream on Nov. 1 with a deep-dive about what to anticipate from the sport.