MIRESI Devs Discuss Hyulla's 3D Character Art And Time-Based Battle Design
The interview puts CONTROL9's art direction and its time-themed battle system in the same conversation, framing how a NIKKE-lineage studio plans to differentiate a free-to-play time-travel RPG from the character-collector field it grew out of.
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MIRESI: The Unseen Future is a free-to-play time-travel RPG developed by CONTROL9, the studio founded by former Goddess of Victory: NIKKE and Seven Knights 2 staff, with NIKKE illustrator Hyulla as art director. Smilegate Megaport ran a booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026 from September 17 to September 21 with playable demos, character animations, and cosplayers. In an interview, director Cho Seung, creative director Kwon Se-eun, and Hyulla spoke about character expression and the real-time turn-based battle system built around time.
CONTROL9 was founded by staff from Goddess of Victory: NIKKE and Seven Knights 2, and it brought MIRESI: The Unseen Future to Tokyo Game Show 2026 with playable demo stations, character episode animations, and cosplayers on the booth's main stage. The game is a free-to-play time-travel RPG set in a world where multiple timelines intersect; players take the role of a Council Member and travel with characters including Ende, Tierra, and Itsuka.
In an interview, director Cho Seung and creative director Kwon Se-eun described a real-time turn-based battle system built around time, where character placement and movement determine the outcome. Art director Hyulla, credited on Destiny Child and NIKKE, discussed how the character designs are reproduced through 3D modeling in Unreal Engine, and how far the art can push the character proportions.
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