The Golem Knight is a magical construct driven by the Golden Flame's energies along with a soul of a strong knight. Willing to lose their own body for the Holy Kingdom, they had their souls removed from their body and transplanted into a magical construct capable of withstanding far more damage and use far greater weapons.

However, as the Golden Flame does to all beings due to the Hierophant's influence, their free will is lessened, as his own is exerted upon them. Though if any were to leave the sphere of influence that The Golden Flame produces, they'd regain that will, but it becomes much harder to move their bodies. Relying entirely upon their soul alone. But, it can be done, with a strong enough will. Some have even done it even under the radius of influence. Such as a great Knight, only known as the EverKnight.

So, this is just a placeholder walk animation, I wanted to give it a nice weird bounce, kinda like it's magically controlled movements by the Knight's own Soul rather than it using those legs as walking elements.

Gives it a really mythical feel. You bet your ass you'll be seeing me do shit like that more in my future works. For perhaps a Metal King's own Knights would do the same.

And this is the first draft of it. It was a bit too "shiny" and lost the feel I was going for. I really do aim for an old school aesthetic, akin to Cave Story and Tower of Heaven. And because of that, I can't have it looking so overtly detailed like this. And the new look doesn't look outlined and has a great shadow. So I'm very happy with how it looks now compared to here.

Anyway, enjoy, I'll make a part 2 for this guy once I get his attack animations done. Should be cool shit.

Enjoy