{"id":13948,"date":"2026-09-09T22:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=13948"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:17:01","slug":"ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Combat 8 Dev Says Tasha Was the Game&#8217;s &#8216;Most Expensive&#8217; Character to Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve brand director Kazutoki Kono joked that developers spent so long working on Tasha that she ended up being the \u201cmost expensive character\u201d in the entire game.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Kono visited China for the first time to answer questions in a group interview with the media following a hands-on demo for the game, where he opened up about how popular Tasha has become over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The pink-haired pilot is a fan favorite, and the game hasn\u2019t even come out yet; set to release on October 2, oodles of future players are already obsessed with Tasha Severskaya, a former \u201cstar pilot in Yuktobania&#8217;s acrobatic team, Zvezda.\u201d Tasha hopped aboard the Endurance to capture publicity footage, but the ensuing war kept her on the vessel, and now she\u2019s part of the Joker Flight squad.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve &#8211; June 2026 Screenshots<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Speaking with the media, Kono admitted that he was surprised by how popular Tasha had become on social media, revealing that he\u2019s personally on \u201cTeam Kate Evans,\u201d the Lieutenant Commander and leader of Queen Flight. He also revealed that Tasha took the longest to develop out of any other character in the game, since the team kept tweaking different aspects of her design to make sure they got her just right.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cWork on Tasha started relatively early, and she was originally designed by a different artist. She is also the character that took the longest to finalize. Her story and direction were already set, but we kept modifying various aspects afterward, making her the character we refined the longest during development. That&#8217;s why inside the development team, we jokingly call her &#8216;the most expensive character,&#8217;\u201d he said, per Invenglobal.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">As for why she\u2019s so popular, Kono thinks it has to do with her fashion sense, saying her pink hair and outfits reflect trends that are currently popular among fans.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cI think elements like her personality, outfit, and especially her sense of fashion in wearing military attire so uniquely happened to fit current trends well, which contributed to all the attention she received,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">We got the chance to preview Ace Combat 8 this summer, with IGN\u2019s Will Borger saying it was a &#8220;very grounded game&#8221; that left him \u201csatisfied, but knowing [he] still had so much more to do.\u201d He also got to speak with the devs about their ambitious plans for the game\u2019s multiplayer, which will include 100-player lobbies, several different mission types, and a co-op warfare mode.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve releases on October 2, 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC via Steam.<\/p>\n<section class=\"author-sign-off\" data-cy=\"author-sign-off\"><span class=\"stack jsx-59817748 jsx-1927875859\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-444076027 jsx-4218469134 profile-thumb jsx-2141281959 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-1-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Virginia Glaze Avatar\" class=\"progressive-image profile-thumb-img jsx-249361588 jsx-2338608387 expand\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design.jpg\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-2509706801 jsx-3630940851\"><span class=\"stack jsx-2959124702 jsx-702910195 author-sign-off-header\">Virginia Glaze<\/p>\n<p>IGN News Editor \/ Cat Rescuer \/ Martial Arts \/ Fighting Game Girlie<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-2509706801 jsx-1220387432\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"interface jsx-1132626198 sign-off-text\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at <\/em>@TheeMissGlaze<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ace-combat-8-dev-says-tasha-was-the-games-most-expensive-character-to-design-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-13948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13950,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions\/13950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}