Moving onto the Marvel side of things, Cable and Marrow were apparently part of a longer list of candidates before being chosen. It certainly would make sense though that the developers would look back through Capcom's unused concepts and designs for inspiration isntead of coming up with fighters from scratch given their short development timeframe. That lingered as something of a rumor in the community until former Capcom producer Seth Killian appeared to confirm Ruby's origins as true back in 2010.Īmingo was also rumored to be a Darkstalker left on the cutting room floor, but this has never been corroborated as far as we can tell. Interestingly, there's no mention made about Ruby Heart being a rejected Darkstalkers design here. Nakae states there weren't many titles at the time with a cool female character like the pirate, so it was a new challenge for the team to take on.
The developers also wanted a brand new character to serve as one of the game's protagonists similarly to how Ryu and Cyclops were poised before, which is where Ruby Heart came in.
"As for Amingo, we noticed the Capcom side didn't have any non-human characters capable of really crazy movements, so he was designed in order to fulfill that role," continued Nakae. "As for Amingo, we noticed the Capcom side didn't have any non-human characters capable of really crazy movements, so he was designed in order to fulfill that role" The SonSon we met in Marvel 2 is actually the original SonSon's granddaughter, which is a pretty neat detail to include and tie things back to the company's legacy. SonSon was a platformer released by Capcom in 1984 based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West. "When I asked Eguchi, the character design lead, for designs, he told me he wanted to revive someone from a classic game and sent me a design that reinterpreted Sonson as a girl it was interesting and had a lot of impact, so it was adopted."
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Series character, so I wanted to add new characters to this game from the beginning," said Nakae in 2000 as translated by Shmuplations. "Until now, Norimaro has been the only original Vs. The answers actually lie within a 20-year-old Japanese interview between the publication Arcadia and MvC2's director Tatsuya Nakae and producer Yoshihiro Sudo, which was recently translated into English by the great Shmuplations.Īfter discussing the fighting game's concurrent development process on both NAOMI and Sega's Dreamcast, the interviewer straight up asked how the new Capcom characters came into being.
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