Let me first state that I’ve been begging for Eyedol since season one, I’ve had one on one talks with @TempusChaoti about him on the forums and via private messages and let me tell you something, this guy trolled me hard, all of us really. In our talks, he had told me that Eyedol’s design would be difficult because Aganos had just came out and he too used a club for a weapon, leading me to believe Eyedol would not have a club. He said on the forums that Eyedol was goofy and his design would be hard to make look “relevant” and often threw around the name Harryhausen like a four letter swear word, and even said once that they would have to do a Janus kinda thing with two faces on one head that flips around and often popped into my threads to crush my hopes and dreams for fun… dude pulled off the biggest developer troll of all time.
I’m extremely grateful that Eyedol is back, season 3 has been saved in my opinion. I’ve been strongly disappointed this season with the lack of stages, no ultimate combos, etc but this is the saving grace, Eyedol is back and no matter how much people said it wouldn’t happen, here we are regardless of if Ken Lobb hated the character.
That being said his new design is BEAUTIFUL, as a hardcore Eyedol fan it’s not quite what I wanted since technically he’s only got one head and he’s not a cyclops anymore… but still they did a great job of taking the old theme and making it new again. They clearly took a lot of inspiration from us on the forums, we had many suggestions about removing the satyr legs, adding armor, making him more of a medieval orge trope and it seems they stuck with them. The weird corpse-like appearance really works for him but we all are crossing our fingers that the retro will be the real Eyedol we love, don’t disappoint IG & MS.
His playstyle also seems to have been inspired by the fans, many of us requested him to be a lumbering giant with a mace (since we assumed a club was off the table) and they went with it. We wanted him to be a stance character and now he is, one head appears to control ranged magic and the other is an offensive rushdown/grappler looking playstyle.
Overall he looks amazing and after the initial shock of seeing his new look its starting to grow on me, unlike Gargos’ new design I am falling for modern Eyedol. I can’t wait to see more, its really been a rollercoster of emotions over the last couple of years being an Eyedol fan, coping with crushing disappointment from the devs to constant harassment from players that felt the need to be rude and hateful for no apparent reason but it feels great to finally have what we deserve, the big boss man of KI is back in business.
