King of Fighters Redux: Terry

"I have been around since the days of Street Fighter 2, but I guess Ken was always the favored blond in the arcades. Who am I?"

Terry Bogard, the one and only motha F'n lone wolf!

Terry is one of my all time favorite characters in video games. The dude is pretty much the American equivalent to Ryu from Street Fighter, just walks around the country, trains like crazy, and is always looking for the next tougher opponent so he can raise his skill level another notch. Badass. Not only that, just when I thought he couldn't get any cooler SNK totally remade him when they came out with Mark of the Wolves, and once again Terry was kick'n ass like nobodies business.

Then I guess the question you have to ask yourself is, how in the hell do you REDUX a character as iconic as Terry Bogard? Simple answer is, you can't. But what the hell I gave it a shot anyway.

Now my biggest gripe with SNK is they don't evolve characters much, and when they try to like falcoon did with those crazy KOF 2006 costumes, it was WAAY overboard. So what does SNK do for KOF 12? They bring old terry back , not even a slight upgrade to him.

So what I decided to do was mix the old and the new. I realized I couldn't go all flight jacket with terry cause SNK already did that. And I knew I couldn't go with sneakers and baseball cap because he is just to old to wear them now, so I combined his two looks. You got Terry without the hat, but still keeping his longer hair. And instead of the Red vest and sneakers, you have a leather vest which takes the place of his bomber jacket. I still needed to keep his color scheme though so I added his fight gloves to bring back the red to the scheme. And of course you can't have Terry Bogard without the jeans.

This was a tough one to REDUX for me because he is so iconic, but I am happy with the compromise.

-DN

See the rest of my KOF REDUX series with over 50 redesigns:

The KOF REDUX Gallery