It was only a matter of time before someone followed the "redesign beloved videogame characters as semi-realistic, creepy art" trend with a classic gaming icon like Mega Man.
Concept artist Jason Hazelroth stepped up to the plate, and I'm actually quite glad it was him instead of some guy on the Internet with the intent to purposely ruin my childhood using disturbing drawings. As I said in the headline, his work is considerably less terrifying than the early box art Mega Man.
The fact that he created his own version of Rush was pretty bodacious of him too. Note: Someone requested that I work the word "bodacious" into a post. I just did -- where's my money?
MegaMan [Jason Hazelroth's blog via Capcom Unity]
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6:30 PM on 03.31.2010
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Like a cross between Robocop and a blue vending machine.
This redesign is sweet! Love it!
Also, Rush!
I wonder what Protoman and Bass would look like...
Are you the Gatekeeper?
Mega Man Ghostbusters mash-up. Probably not a good idea but it's got me smiling.
@Supaiku Supigeru: I think it was decided that a boy with a gun for a hand would be more child-traumatic than a dude holding a firearm and looking like complete garbage.
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Woah, if anyone working on Capcom is reading this post, please take that artwork and make a new game in the universe Megaman for consoles with that style, i'd buy the shit out of it! it's that awesome!.
I love the use of that chrome that covered all of our toys as kids.
And there's something about how solid his legs are that reminds me of Transformers. You know, before thinking of Transformers made me cringe.