Age of Mythology: Retold

[lvl 2 Blue Slime]

I always found it weird that in AoM Kronos is portrayed like this:

It's not really that strange to go far afield with the design of something, but you are right because I can't remember anything in that game being too out of left field otherwise. Perhaps they just wanted to really hammer home how otherworldly Kronos was.

What is even stranger is that there's a mission in the expansion where a giant green Titan called "Prometheus" is destroying a Greek city, but playing as the Atlanteans, whenyou try to advance an age by worshipping a god, Prometheus looks completely different
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[Sarathiour]

Most of Olympian's god mythos involved them shapeshifting to trick or fuck mortal, I don't find it far-fetched that they their predecessor in the lore take monstrous form to wage war, especially because it's probably an avatar of them.
The most important thing for an rts is for unit to be recognizable at a glance, and AoM did a solid job at that.