Infinity Nikki Needs A Dress To Impress Mode

Posted by By our-little-miss-is-home January 2, 2025 3 Views 7 Min Read
Infinity Nikki Needs A Dress To Impress Mode

Since playing the Infinity Nikki closed beta together back in October, my colleagues and I have been sending one another screenshots of our most stylish outfits. I’ve long been just barely staving off the desire to play gacha games (despite my best friend’s constant insistence that Genshin Impact would be right up my alley) because it’s exactly like Pringles: once I pop, I truly cannot stop, so it’s best that I just don’t start.

But with daily gacha pulls offering fabulous new fits and enough free ones to get me going, I’ve been dutifully logging in to see what cute new clothes I can grab that day.

A screenshot of Nikki catching a whim butterfly to obtain a whimstar.

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I’ve talked before about wanting a more legitimate multiplayer mode in Infinity Nikki, something more than just taking cute photos next to poses established by other players around Miraland. It’s amusing to jump into beautiful, scenic shots snapped by players far more serious than I, with my Nikki appearing to rub their chin or poke them in the face depending on the pose. – I’ve seen plenty of amusing ones, but it’s not enough

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Walk The Mira Crown Runway With Nikkis

Talking to the Infinity Mirror about the Styling Challenges.

I’m not the most style-savvy either in real life or in gaming, but the bits of fashion-oriented games I’ve played feel like they got it right. Over the summer, I was introduced to the various fashion-centric game modes in Roblox – IRL designer brand Coach debuted a collaboration with the digital dress-up games and brought me and a few other journalists to New York City to try out these game modes ahead of their official launch.

With their products added to both Fashion Famous 2 and Fashion Klosette, I settled in at one of the stations they’d assembled amid racks of designer goods, excited and unsure of what I was getting into.

What followed was a half-hour of going head-to-head in fashion battles against the other attendees, with the game letting us loose in a mall with a few minutes on the clock and a general theme we were trying to match for our fashion show. We’d race our avatars across all sorts of digital storefronts to assemble the best outfit possible before, one by one, strolling down an extremely stylish runway to model our looks. The winners are chosen based on participant votes, but we wound up voting for whose outfit made us laugh the hardest instead of who nailed the theme. This led me deeper into Roblox, and the Dress To Impress mode – which is basically the same but without the ties to Coach.

Nikki is showing off her style in a Style Challenge in Infinity Nikki.

Infinity Nikki already has the groundwork laid for adding a similar feature. Not only is the game inherently fashionable, but the Mira Crown Tournament – a strictly-scored fashion challenge Nikki can choose to take on wherein a lavish mirror on the wall gives her a theme to which she must dress – is practically the same thing, just without the multiplayer. Adding a layer to these challenges is the fact that you can (and eventually will need to) upgrade the stats of your outfits to meet higher score requirements. Your clothes become fresher, sweeter, cooler, and sexier, and more elegant as you spend in-game currencies to upgrade them after reaching requisite player levels, which means you’ve got even more ways to show up your friends in your runway looks.

Stylist Battles, But Against Your Friends

Not only that, but Nikki must consistently prove her stylish self in a series of fashion battles against other stylists around Miraland. Each area introduces her to a new clothing-based gang that she’ll need to earn the respect of before she can challenge their leader to the ultimate style contest, all in exchange for new outfits and currencies to use elsewhere in the game.

They’ll reward her with new outfit pieces and bits of lore that expand the world, all allowing us to choose outfit pieces to model for these established fashionistas so they can decide our fashion-worthiness. Sure, battling our friends wouldn’t peel back layers of the oddly dark story in the game or lead us to the mythical Sovereign fashion queens, but it would be pretty fun to see the intricate looks my friends would put together for the same theme.

Nikki winning a fashion battle with pieces from several different outfits that don't match but that add up to the right score in Infinity Nikki.

The game ranks clothes by highest scoring in the menu, so it’s just a case of having the ‘best’ clothes (usually meaning upgraded in-game) rather than the most daring or stylish fashion choices. A Dress to Impress mode based entirely on audience preference would make taste a factor for the first time. If it’s decided based on scoring, scoring would need to find a way to be more specific to each piece’s coordination with the rest of the outfit, but basing the victor on a group vote a la the Roblox games would alleviate the problem altogether.

Everything that Infinity Nikki would need to give us Roblox-esque fashion battles is already baked into the game: we’ve got the clothes, the tournaments, prizes for winning, head-to-head style battles, and tons of ways to customize everything in an outfit before we take it to the runway. Maybe it’ll come a bit further down the road, but until I can challenge my friends directly, I’ll have to settle for photobombing their stunning screenshots with the photo mode.

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