There is a surprising amount of great cosplay at PAX. People walk around in some pretty elaborate and sometimes beautiful outfits.

While all impressive, most of it is the same thing you normally see: a Lara Croft here, a Master Chief there. As I rode up the main escalator onto the show floor, though, two people stood out from the rest with some hand-crafted cosplay that really made me smile.

You really have to see the entire picture in the gallery to appreciate it. Basically, it is a chocobo and moogle from the Final Fantasy universe, represented not with crazy complicated costumes, but with a clever, Bjork-inspired yellow dress and sleek white and pink suit (complete with hat bobble), respectively.

What do you think? Creative and refreshing? Or ultimately meh? I was a huge fan and had to give the couple some props on their unique designs. Now back to the show floor! There is more important journalism to cover ... like that adorable little kid I saw earlier with a Maw shirt on!

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

Arttemis

Without the bobble, I'd be positive it's Johnny Gat from Saints Row.

Justin Sharpe

Inb4 spambots, and eh, it looks alright

Justin Sharpe

Inb4 spambots, and eh, it looks alright

King Chrono

I'm sure even virtual Tim Gunn would approve!

flintmech

Creative, subtle, and cute. I approve!

Holly Green

I like subtle game inspired outfits, I'd like to put together a few myself.

Patrick Borrelli

I like this

LifeCarrier

@King Chrono: Great callback, (looks at Chad) sadly he's been long absent from the interwebs.

I happen to like more the idea than the costumes, not that they're bad or anything, but a couple of referential accessories would have made them even better.

Chad Concelmo

@King Chrono,
HA! Good call. Virtual Tim Gunn would love these. :)

sylphx

I think a green pinstripe suit/black tie like a cactuar would have been cooler. Then he could have went into cactuar running pose.

Hateful Steve

people who wear fedoras should be executed in the street

fulldamage

Okay, this is what I actually want out of gamer clothing - stuff that actually looks stylish, but is clearly influenced by games. They are bringing the swag.

@Hateful Steve
people who wear fedoras WITHOUT A PROPERLY TAILORED SUIT AND TIE should be executed in the street <- fixed

Raby

@fulldamage

Stylish?!?!

GEKKO-Fox

Classy

rokNrolenemyNo1

Unless you are Indiana Jones or Joey Jeremiah, I say no to the fedora.

Holly Green

I've been wearing a fedora every day of PAX

Alex Barbatsis

Threesome.

BileSoup

Steve's right. The same goes for top hats.

Ramminchuck

Congrats to them for being creative and different. I love it!

MonkeyKing1969

This is what art is SUPPOSED to be or at leats what we need to accept. Art is interpretive, not always literal on many levels. Being more literal or less literal isn't a quality judgment it is an artistic judgement. I think those two have mad a bold choice. It is of no less quality then making a photo-real puppet-costume of a chocobo and moogle.