Why arent those masked knights in the game?

[Blackened Halo]

I dont know if you remember them, but they were shown in one of the earliest videos. They were wearing white masks with something like a black tear flowing of their eyes. Well I beat the game but Im sure I hadnt seen them anywhere. Dou you know why did From Software remove them?

http://gematsu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/DS2-Keyword-Time.jpg

[Empress Misery]

They are in the game, but they changed their design for some reason!

[Forblaze]

Those may be the manikins. I tried to avoid all the dark souls 2 pre-release discussion because I wanted to go into the game blind, but there was a thread about how the manikins were redesigned a few days go.

[HoarseHed]

Those are indeed the manikins.

[Zefar]

Apparently those enemies looked like something from Naruto I believe or just some ninja and they didn't want that. So they removed the head while thinking of something new. They didn't come up with anything good so they let them be headless instead.

[HoarseHed]

That does look like the mask the hidden waters nukenin hunters used in the first season, now that you mention it.

[Blackened Halo]

Manikins? ...really? ...well I didnt know that hm

[The Bees]

I thought they were some kind of royal assassin hit squad, but instead we got....muppets

[Walther III]

They are the Manikins from Earthen Peak.
The mask was changed, and they no longer have heads, as if FromSoftware tried to hide the shame of the lack of badass trailer masks.
They're still there.
Different.

[Blackened Halo]

Originally posted by Walther Eghus II (Sir M.troid):

They are the Manikins from Earthen Peak.
The mask was changed, and they no longer have heads, as if FromSoftware tried to hide the shame of the lack of badass trailer masks.
They're still there.
Different.

I just watching some videos and yes, they are Manikins, they have the same armour set like in the CGI I mentioned in the post description. Why the hell did they change them ...weird

[Walther III]

Originally posted by Blackened Halo:

Originally posted by Walther Eghus II (Sir M.troid):

They are the Manikins from Earthen Peak.
The mask was changed, and they no longer have heads, as if FromSoftware tried to hide the shame of the lack of badass trailer masks.
They're still there.
Different.

I just watching some videos and yes, they are Manikins, they have the same armour set like in the CGI I mentioned in the post description. Why the hell did they change them ...weird

If we are to ask "Why the hell X happened" we wouldn't have Dark Souls II
Underwater lifts leading to sea level caves, flying mountains with lava on top of Windmills, floating whatever the Dragon Aerie is...
It's just weird man.

[Spooky_Gnoll]

Originally posted by Zefar:

Apparently those enemies looked like something from Naruto I believe or just some ninja and they didn't want that. So they removed the head while thinking of something new. They didn't come up with anything good so they let them be headless instead.

It was indeed for copy-right reasons. Which, I find, is saddening. The design was bad-ass.

[ZakisFluffy]

Originally posted by Parsnique:

Originally posted by Zefar:

Apparently those enemies looked like something from Naruto I believe or just some ninja and they didn't want that. So they removed the head while thinking of something new. They didn't come up with anything good so they let them be headless instead.

It was indeed for copy-right reasons. Which, I find, is saddening. The design was bad-ass.

Yeap, from Naruto, for those interested search ANBU naruto masks.

I just don't get why it would be a copyright issue, since Bamco holds publishing rights over Naruto. They could just come up with more orignial designs.
Guess they didn't want people comparing the ninja like enemy manikins to Naruto's ANBU squad.

[Blackened Halo]

Originally posted by ZakisFluffy:

Originally posted by Parsnique:

It was indeed for copy-right reasons. Which, I find, is saddening. The design was bad-ass.

Yeap, from Naruto, for those interested search ANBU naruto masks.

I just don't get why it would be a copyright issue, since Bamco holds publishing rights over Naruto. They could just come up with more orignial designs.
Guess they didn't want people comparing the ninja like enemy manikins to Naruto's ANBU squad.

im sorry but those Anbu masks dont look like those shown in the CGI Dark Souls II...at all...

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs16/f/2007/198/c/6/AnbuNarutoMasks_by_popcornkitten.jpg

much more alike was the mask in The Spirited Away

http://ladygeekgirl.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/spirited-away-spirited-away-4376579-852-480.jpg
http://hilery.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/spirited-away.jpg

[The Bees]

I just remembered it reminds me a lot of Vega from SF's mask. Maybe that's what it reminds me of the most, although I'm pretty sure I've seen that tear before too.

[Dareth]

I think the mask from Darker Than Black is more similar to mask from Dark Souls 2 CGI.