Director of Tekken Katsuhiro Harada has spilled the beans on the creation of one of Tekken’s most beloved costumes, including internal discussions around the concept and whether or not it would be understood by overseas players.
This information came via Twitter, in response to a cosplay of King’s beloved alternative Tekken 3 costume. This costume features the wrestler in a grey mask, with a t-shirt, dark blue bottoms, and white sneakers. Harada explained the background of its design in a lengthy post.
“This costume started with my concept in the 90’s that 2P should wear the Armor King mask and be a Heel wrestler. Then… The artist assigned to the project uploaded texture data with the kanji for “悪 (Heel / Evil / Villain)” as a joke at first. One day, when I launched the development test build and saw “Evil” written on the back of the KING, I laughed out loud.”
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