So we all know Gargos is coming. This is his season, the season of his corruption.
Something has been bugging me though about his design and this is what it is.
So in Killer instinct 2, he was a gargoyle. Nothing special, just a good ol European gargoyle. Throughout the new KI, they’ve shown little images and hints towards what Gargos will look like and um I noticed something about him.
He seems very…Japanese Oni inspired? Maybe it’s the way he was drawn, but I find it strange that it looks like they went from a european inspired gargoyle, to a more Japanese demon design.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I thought this was interesting to point out and nobody else seems to have. What do you guys think?
(This isn’t an excuse to talk more about Gargos because I am excited for him or anything… )
I like the Oni theory, I think it would look more awesome for a shadowlord/godlike being to look like an oni (maybe with some gorgoyle traits) then a strait up Gorgoyle, which I think might look strong, but not necesarrily godlike.
I mentioned a long time ago that I thought it was interesting that his picture in the emblem above portrays him wearing a black kimono with white trim.
One more thing to the Oni theory: One of Omen’s masks its an Oni.
IMO Gargos will have some short of clothing. Armor, robes, whatever. He will be the nude gargoyle we know in his retro, I expect a more complex modern design
It’s kinda cool that two characters I like will be japanese inpsired (Hisako and now Gargos). Hopefully he’ll also be pretty big in size as well (Maybe not Aganos big, but slightly bigger than arbiter)
actually I think this would correct a flaw in the storyline and thesis behind the original KI2, We have fake tiger spirit, which was destined to be defeated by the dragon spirit… yet Gargos was a Euro gargoyle… it didn’t match up, Using a Japanese origin as a basis for him would surely complement the entire storyline, design and concept of the game
We really don’t even know if that is how IG is going to design Gargos, the monster seen in Shadow Jago’s instinct activation was drawn up by the previous developer DH and the icon Shago got that has the same figure might just be a reference to that and not actually how Gargos will be portrayed in-game.
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