I was talking to PB the other day about Capcom stealing our boss ideas. I've told the story a bunch of times now how my friend and I made a set of Robot Masters for the Mega Man 9 we thought would never come. We drew all 8 of them on a sheet of paper, for we cannot find it for the life of us. So PB just told me to redraw them at this point.
And that's what I've started doing. I'm calling them the AKN line, named for my friend and me, in that order. I have the first three up. They're not numerically named, just to be different.
First up is the first boss Capcom stole from us: Tornado Man.
Needless to say, we weren't genius enough to make him look like Harpuia. We made him look like a funnel cloud. The weapon we gave him was a giga attack, something Capcom also stole from us.
Next is the recently leaked Solar Man.
I doubt ours looks anything like the official. Capcom doesn't have as good a sense of humor as we do. Again, we went with a literal design; he looks like a sun. And pissy about it, too. I remember his stage was going to be a beach. The first half would be on the sands, and the second half would be an underwater Rush Marine schmup. I don't remember the weapon we gave him, nor any other weapon unfortunately.
Finally is one that's genuinely ours for the time being, Volcano Man.
Notice the trend here? We threw subtlety out the window, but still kept things conservative. I love how he doesn't have a visible torso. One less thing to draw. His stage was going to be much like Pompei. An ancient Greek-styled ruins that eventually becomes a sea of lava.
That's all for now. The other 5 should be coming soon.
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