Secret Apprentice HK

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Ooooooh hehehehehehehe *Cackles maniacally as lightning roars in the background*. So we have yet another Secret Apprentice model... yes... it's all falling into my trap... everything into place... At last, I can use the ultimate Marek model to unleash my ultimate TFU-hulk-smash! NOW WITNESS THE PO-... aw, #*@!, I've already used up all my Garen Marek-related bashing on the other skins, models, and files that I've reviewed. I'm all out of material. Blegh, I guess it's directly on to the review.

I'd just like to say before anything else in this review a personal note to HellKobra: TIE UP YOUR DAMN MODELS. There's dozens upon dozens of loose little miscellaneous parts on this model, from little boxes on the arms to straps on the torso and legs. Honestly, group the tiny little individual model parts together into a 'Leg' or 'arm' instead of just leaving it all separate like a jumble of Lego bricks. Not that it affects the ingame play in any way, it's just a all very confusing for us skinners to look at in the .skin file or in modview. I'm also guessing that if you grouped them together before weighting, then the actual weighting process would be easier since you wouldn't have dozens of things to connect to one bone.

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Now, the things that concern all of you little people. It's a fairly well done model, very accurate to what we all know little Mr. Marek to look like. We have the perplexing overabundance of leather belts, cloth strips, and torn clothing that the actual TFU model all bears. I don't understand why, but he chooses to dress like this. The skinning is all well done for the most part; it looks good, however it's not spectacular. More detail could certainly be put into the textures and make it look a bit sharper. Everything for the most part is just slightly blurry. Shrug. That's not to say there aren't little details because there are, such cuts beneath the ripped fabric or the blast marks on his metal collar thing.

The face is done well and looks very much like Mr. Marek, but again we have the blurriness issue. Despite that however it is the highest quality skin of Mr. Marek that I've seen. Team skins are included, however they simply change the color of the loincloth that hangs down (I don't understand the loin cloth though. He wears pants. What's the point of it?) 2 new taunts are included however that is the extent of the new sounds. Kind of disappointing, but perhaps those were the only quality sounds he was able to find.

Overall a nice addition to your vault of Galen Marek skins and models. This is what, the 12th or 13th you'll be putting in your base?

Team skins - Ja.
New sounds - Ja/Nej (Only 2 taunts, so kind of... but not really.)
Bot Support - Nej.
NPC Support - Nej.

~Laam'inui