Tekken improvement chief Katsuhiro Harada revealed he tried and failed to have Colonel Sanders added to the combating sport as a visitor character.
“A very long time in the past, I needed to have Colonel Sanders from Kentucky Fried Hen battle,” Harada advised The Gamer. “So, I requested to use Colonel Sanders and go to the pinnacle workplace in Japan.”
Sadly, Harada’s pitch was turned down with a “dangerous look.” Since then, Colonel Sanders truly did seem in a online game: I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Relationship Simulator, a courting sim commissioned by KFC and launched free of charge on Steam on September 24, 2019 as a weird promo for the quick meals chain.
“[Harada] went to Kentucky Fried Hen and tried to get Colonel Sanders,” sport designer Michael Murray added. “They weren’t very open to the concept.
“[Colonel Sanders] appeared in video games after that. So possibly it was simply him combating in opposition to somebody [that] was posing a downside for them. But it simply goes to present how troublesome a lot of these discussions are.”
So, no Colonel Sanders. But what about that Waffle Home stage Tekken followers are determined for? “It isn’t one thing that we will accomplish on our personal,” Harada stated, pointing to the necessity for Waffle Home’s unlikely approval for such a DLC.
Nonetheless, Tekken 8 followers do have the sport’s third DLC character, Heihachi Mishima, to look ahead to. The once-dead combating veteran joins the roster as a part of the upcoming free story growth for Tekken 8, titled Unforgotten Echoes.
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