It's not going to change. :p

It was readable once, but image shack makes the images low quality for some reason. :/

Ha!
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8181/8...8179bc41_b.jpg

No statues mentioned tho

Okay, so the statues are mention in the bit about the Kofun tombs.

Can't.

http://img706.**************/img706/8...tralia5650.jpg

You can make out how it says warriors, guarding, and humans, part animals, etc...

edit: "clay figures called Haniwa"...

That could be the monsters from the early concept, that Karl denied to be in the game.

Samurai statues that come to life would be pretty freakin' sweet.

Haniwa are nothing like those early concepts though...

https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&s...r-JMfm0QGSiYBo

I bet they're in the game, but don't come to life.

"On the topic of concept art, we spied fairly final looking artist impressions of one of the islands psychotic inhabitants which are multicultural maniacs, not Japanese as you might imagine. Along with thick Rasta dreadlocks, this particular individual had cobbled together bits of clothing and hoarded items such as water bottles. At least we think they were filled with water: Another drawing had him spitting fire out of his mouth. If you think that's creepy, you should have seen his meele weapon of choice: an axe handle rigged up to a (freakin) buzzsaw blade. Clearly this is going to be a bad time to be a tourist."

EDIT: Ah, damn! I read so hard, too!

^ :vlol:
I see. I posted a pix of them a year back. Remember them.