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For a number of years now, I've seen various attempts by different people to try and create a Guyver game, and much of it with mixed results. The firs problem is designing the game, but the second problem, which is probably the hardest thing and easiest to give up on is creating the material. In just about every game we've had people create art, sprites, and CGI from scratch. All intent on making a good game. What people under estimate is the difficulty in drawing or constructing a Guyver, let alone all the complex Zoanoids. So it dawned on me... we've all been going at it the hard way. A few of us have the actual poseable figures from the Guyver. Considering the simple editing I've shown you can do to erase some of the obvious plastic sections, and if you lower the colors, you can effectively turn the toys/models into actual sprites. So here is what I suggest as an experiment, take a Guyver figure, set some correct lighting on a pure white none reflective background, and bit by bit, attempt to create an animated gif of the character as if it were walking. From there we can actually test out weather or not this is a good quality, faster method of creating a basis for guyver games. I intend to make my own experiment on this, but with a different figure since fully poseable Guyvers would break my bank. But I am considering trying out a Spartan figure due to all the detail and price. There are hurdles to all this though, not all figures can do this, some have to be in an angle, there is a need for patience and skill, and a Need to study how to do the animation by using a chart or a sprite sheet from a game to help figure out the correct frames and motions, but it's very doable. Also, unlike the majority of action figures, the Guyver's aren't as obvious in having joins as say... WWE wreslting toys. Another set of toys that are also pretty good base models for what I have in mind is Gundam toys. A basis for animation is not too hard to follow. If you want an example of games with stop motion animation, look up Clay Fighter for the genesis or N64. Oh and this also brings into mind my earnest desire to see Guyver on Robot Chicken... preferably with the Robot Chicken Nerd in the Armor.