Eternal Successors

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The producer of Eternal Champions is asking fans if they are interested in a new game

Eternal Champions lives in the hearts of many old school fighting game players as one of the best titles in the 16-bit era. Having a unique niche as a console-only title, it and its Sega CD sequel–Challenge from the Dark Side–received large amounts of praise in the North American markets. It was a big enough hit that Sega of Japan actually canceled a third potential title for the Saturn, out of fear that it would draw too much attention away from Virtua Fighter. To this day, the intellectual property has been unavailable to series producer Michael Latham.



That has not prevented him from moving on. He has recently released a poll to the community, asking players if they would like a “spiritual successor” to the Eternal Champions series. As a spiritual successor, it would not retain any of the characters or story of the original, but would be using mechanics similar to the original in a more modern format.

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The Eternal Champions spiritual successor now has a name, and some sweet new mockup renders

As previously reported, Eternal Champions producer Michael Latham is working on a new project that aims to be the game’s spiritual successor (if not a new sequel outright, if they can get the rights). Now, in a new update on our forums, the team has revealed that the project now has a proper name.

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The working title is “Eternal Successors”–an obvious reference that the game is a follow-up to Sega’s seminal 2D fighter from the ’90s. While the name does sadly remind us that they still don’t have the rights to use the original IP, at least we know that there’s a plan in place to move forward with or without them.

Further showing the teams resolve to move forward with the project are a couple of new test renders on Unreal Engine 4. The renders, which you can see below, are just mockups of how the game may eventually look. One interesting thing, however, is the color palette that they used–which tries to match the style of the late comic book legend Ernie Chan, who did the art for the original Eternal Champions. In addition to this, the team has confirmed that they’re looking to add retro-styled filters as well.







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Eternal Successors reveals its first character: Skinner Chen



Work on Eternal Successors, the spiritual successor to Sega’s legendary Eternal Champions 2D fighting game series from the 1990s, is continuing at a slow and steady pace. Some time back, the team revealed a few test renders to show of the game’s artstyle and color palette. Now, the they’ve gone ahead and revealed the first character for the game.

Named Skinner Chen, this trench coat and fedora-clad fighter is a direct send-up of Eternal Champions’ Larcen Tyler. Unlike the latter, who was a gangster with a heart of gold (who used martial arts instead of guns), Skinner Chen is a veteran and war hero who comes home to find his family killed by the mob. This then combines the original Larcen Tyler design with tropes commonly found in action and martial arts movies.

Of course, with the design so close to the original, the team can easily transform him back into Larcen Tyler should they ever work things out with Sega to work on the Eternal Champions franchise.



Source: shoryuken