Eddy Gordo
fictional character from Tekken
Eddy Gordo (Japanese: エディ・ゴルド, Hepburn: Edi Gorudo) is a fictional character from the Tekken series by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco). Eddy is a Brazilian capoeira fighter. Introduced in the 1997 fighting game Tekken 3, Eddy has since appeared in every main game thereafter. He becomes a palette swap for Christie in Tekken 4 and Tekken 5, before becoming a main character in Tekken 6.
Eddy's storyline from his debut through Tekken 5 revolved around his quest for revenge for the murder of his parents, culminating in the defeat of Kazuya Mishima during the events of Tekken 5. In Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, Eddy's plot focused on his and Christie Monteiro's search for a cure to an unknown illness that Christie's grandfather, Eddy's Capoeira master, was suffering from. Eddy has received heavy criticism in the fighting game community for the low skill floor associated with his play style; however, the character, along with Christie, has been credited with popularizing the art of capoeira to a new audience within the larger gaming and martial arts community, and has influenced popular culture.
Character development
The Tekken 3 development team wanted to include a Capoeira practitioner for Tekken 3 and turned to the development artists to create the character. It was desired by Masahiro Kimoto, one of the game designers of Tekken 3, that the Capoeira character be female but the artist that was tasked with the character's design deemed the female character too difficult to create and instead created Eddy. Kimoto later stated that his favorite character from Tekken 3 was Eddy, because of the challenges in his development.
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