Okay so that’s a fair amount about the lead characters or protagonists… what about antagonists… bad guys?
Very early on… even in the original of this reworking (above) I had wanted the bad guys to be Lovcraftian “tentacled horrors” due to my love of everything Cthulhu (Hellboy, Conan, etc)
…as you can see from my general sketchbook work.
These giant tentacled horrors generally aren’t that mobile…
These kinds of monsters tending towards a slow, creeping decimation of worlds rather than surprising sneak attacks, so I began toying with the idea of smaller, rolling (nautilus-esque) creatures, that would roll in to attack (I guess like the Star Wars attack robots, but organic) and then unfurl there appendages… (see below).
Beyond that, I also pulled together some quick thoughts and sketches for “Big Boss” characters to puctuate levels etc…
Giant warriors, with tentacled arms… Big Robots… and then I thought, what if I developed something as a direct nemisis for the Big Exo-Suit? …A fully organic, twisted, Cthulhu version of our guardian Rabbit?
I started to play with how the tentacles might work here too… I particularly liked the idea that they could become disjointed and severed and by growing teeth still be dangerous.
And as a final twisted reflection of Ninja Bunny I added the idea of a transparent dome, half drivers pod, half liquid filled womb, containing some vile, malevolent intelligence no doubt (multiple, goat pupilled eyes on the creatures head, and randomly place demonic mouths are also a must obviously).
Just some scuttling, crab footed drones to sort out now… back to the drawing board.
