Gandara
(LAST UPDATE: 7/13/2009)
GENERAL/STORY:
Created by Yuga, Gandara is a monstrous and sturdy puppet-servant composed of remnants from thousands of different corpses, as its personal guardian. However, as it attempts to place her plans into motion, it is engaged by Haohmaru and Shiki, who destroy Yuga in the body chastely created by Deku and Dekuina. Despite Gandara's overwhelming strength, it is also destroyed by the Kazama brothers, Sogetsu and Kazuki.

However, Yuga apparently anticipated its defeat. It subsequently resurrects itself and Gandara, and continues its plans, making a clone of Asura in the process. It sends this doppelganger to retrieve the freed Shiki, but he develops feelings for her instead. Taking this into account, the two Asuras both engage Yuga, destroying its body for good along with Gandara. In a desperate attempt to remain in the mortal realm, it possesses Shiki and Asura's child, Mikoto. It lives as the "Devil" side of Mikoto's power as a "dark presence". It almost succeeds in gaining complete control of Mikoto's body but Yuda, the product of the two Asuras' merge, destroys its spirit before the deed is done.

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ORIGIN:
Samurai Shodown 64

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OTHER APPEARANCES:
Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage, Samurai Shodown 2: Pocket

REVIEW:
Now that's one sinister looking thing if I've ever seen one. Gandara doesn't seem like he'd fit into the Samurai Shodown series at first glance, but he's a pretty interesting design overall and somehow fits into the later of the SS storyline. Many fighting games eventually include "some kind of monster" to mix things up with the normal human characters, and Gandara is a pretty convincing monster design if you ask me.
 
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