King of Fighters 15 is the most anticipated fighting game of the year for many in the community, although we still don’t have a bunch we know – for example, where we can play.
There is, however, a decent chance that we already knew more than what was shown in the last trailers, at least in terms of an unannounced character. Potential future spoilers for the future list reveal.
After Tomohiro Nakata was recently announced as the main character designer and illustrator for KOF15, some fans showed an older page of SNK employees for the artist, which contains an interesting image.
Nakata seems to be working on a rather detailed portrait of the giant fighter Raiden and what is interesting is that the image does not seem to have been used since its creation two years ago.
This led some fans to theorize at the time that it could be concept art for King of Fighters 15, which seems more likely now that it didn’t appear back in that time.
Raiden is much more of a Fatal Fury character than a KOF character, but he last appeared in KOF13 in Kim’s team with Hwa Jai.
Nakata worked on the art for the King of Fighters All Star mobile game, but as far as we can tell, Raiden didn’t show up there either.
It may seem strange that SNK would present a KOF15 asset years before its debut, although it would certainly not be the first time a developer showed parts of games early, taking photos or videos from employee offices, intentionally or accidentally.
That being said, however, there is also a high probability that this could have been created for an obscure promotional poster or something similar, although it is certainly impossible to say.
No other relevant information can be found on Nakata’s image page.
We can’t determine exactly when the page was posted, but the earliest we can find people talking about it and the Raiden portrait is January 2019, which is just a month after KOF15 was confirmed to be developing for investors. .
Currently, only Kyo, Shun’ei, K ‘, Leona, Benimaru and Mai have been confirmed for KOF15, although SNK seems to be planning some kind of weekly revelations for the time being.
It would certainly be interesting to see the half-retired fighter return as a 3D model, but I wonder if he would give the Gang from the team to join Kim or if he would be associated with a new crew. .