Tekken Boss As soon as Tried to Add KFC’s Colonel Sanders as a Playable Fighter

Tekken x Colonel Sanders was as soon as pitched to these at KFC.

Katsuhiro Harada, the longtime director of the Tekken combating recreation collection, says that he as soon as tried so as to add KFC mascot/founder Colonel Sanders as a playable fighter in a earlier installment. Whereas the concept may sound preposterous at face worth, the Tekken franchise has lengthy featured characters that one would not initially anticipate. In Tekken 7, each Noctis from Last Fantasy XV and Negan from The Strolling Lifeless joined the roster as DLC. Clearly, although, the prospect of Colonel Sanders becoming a member of the fray was a bit too far-fetched. 

In a dialog with TheGamer, Harada defined that he as soon as went to Kentucky Fried Hen’s places of work in Japan and tried to have a dialogue with these in cost about bringing Colonel Sanders to Tekken. Harada mentioned that he was given a “dangerous look” for the concept and was rapidly shot down. The story was elaborated upon by Tekken 8 designer Michael Murray, who used the story for instance of why the long-requested Waffle Home stage that followers need to see added is tough to make occur. 

“[Harada] went to Kentucky Fried Hen and tried to get Colonel Sanders. They weren’t very open to the concept,” Murray mentioned. “[Colonel Sanders] appeared in video games after that so possibly it was simply him combating in opposition to somebody [that] was posing an issue for them. Nevertheless it simply goes to indicate how troublesome these kind of discussions are.”

Surprisingly, KFC is likely to be extra open than ever earlier than to having Colonel Sanders present up in Tekken. Lately, the quick meals chain began tethering itself extra on to video games by beginning a “KFC Gaming” model. This went on to spawn a courting sim centered round Colonel Sanders known as I Love You, Colonel Sanders! which was surprisingly properly acquired on Steam. 

For essentially the most half, this give attention to gaming content material at KFC appears to have now dried up, which implies that the corporate may nonetheless not be open to a collab with Tekken. Nonetheless, the crossover sounds extra believable now than it as soon as did, so maybe Harada ought to make one other journey to KFC’s places of work to strive as soon as once more.