Pragmata's Early Concepts for Diana Included a Robot, Animals, and Even a Talking Dog

At Tokyo Game Show 2025, we had different accidental to cheque retired Pragmata, Capcom's upcoming caller IP starring a spaceman and an android companion successful the signifier of a small miss named Diana trying to flight a rogue AI connected the moon. We besides got a accidental to speech to the game's creators and larn immoderate absorbing stories from the game's development, including that Diana was once, among different things, a talking dog.

This comes from our interrogation with crippled manager Cho Yonghee, wherever I asked him however the characters of Diana and Hugh were conceived. First, helium told maine that Diana wasn't ever riding connected Hugh's back. At 1 constituent she walked adjacent to him, but this caused issues with the gameplay arsenic 2 characters moving separately was tricky to manage. So she hopped connected board, making Pragmata's premix of gunplay and hacking possible.

But erstwhile I pressed Yonghee connected the characters' origins, helium told america an absorbing communicative astir Diana's conception:

"So aboriginal on, Diana wasn't this young miss android," helium said. "We'd gone done assorted ideas with it being a carnal oregon a robot oregon assorted antithetic things earlier we landed connected thing that we felt that would click. So it's not that it's conscionable we wanted to person a small girl, we wanted person conscionable a small kid fundamentally you tin support and you tin travel astir basically. So that's however it began."

I asked him what sorts of animals were considered, to which helium said "Dog." And erstwhile I asked if the canine could talk, similar Diana does...

"Yes, a talking dog."

So determination you go. If we usage our imaginations, we tin representation a mentation of Pragmata wherever pugnacious spaceman Hugh is clomping astir the satellite with a talking canine riding connected his back. How that talking canine got connected the satellite is anyone's conjecture - possibly it's amended that Capcom went with the small miss android way for this one.

We precocious got different look astatine Pragmata astatine Capcom's Online Program alongside TGS, and we had a hands-on preview of the crippled astatine Gamescom earlier this year. It's retired sometime adjacent year.

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