Lost Rare heroes, low-res pixel style!

As a follow-up to my history of Rare pixels, here’s some characters who missed out on a starring role in a Rareware game. They had some good design work put into them, but their games were either reworked to remove them, or cancelled altogether.

Edson (from Project Dream which eventually became Banjo), Berri (supposed to be the deuteragonist of Twelve Tales: Conker 64), Velvet Dark (Joanna Dark’s sister, cameoed as a multiplayer character and was going to have her own spinoff that was cancelled), Krystal (another planned deuteragonist; when Dinosaur Planet was reworked into Starfox Adventures, Fox was given all her gameplay segments), Sabreman (in his design for the legendary Sabreman Stampede), Lilith (from the late Seavor game Urchin)