Hot take: Not a fan of Mileena’s new voice. Something about it just sounds too naisly and rough imo. In MK11, I just accepted it as her being an imperfect flesh pits clone, however in MK1, why would she still have that type of voice even before she grew tarkatan fangs?
I miss her MK9/MKX voice a lot more, least there she sounded very cunning and sadistic as a character, rather than just “RAWR, I AM MONSTER”. they got going on now.
Johnny Cage’s moves look so boring without the green glow effect. Not saying they had to reuse it and I guess Liu Kang took it away for… reasons (wtf?) but they need to do something to make his moves pop more.
LOVE that Human Smoke is back! It’s been 12 years since his last appearance. Not overly sure about his weapon choice and some of his combos seemed oddly slow but maybe I’m mistaken. Love his mobility at least. I’ll be curious to see what else he can do.
I’m not really big on Rain, but he looked cool, even with the wizard staff. I’ll be curious to see more of his gameplay as well. Not too much to say on him though, at least not yet.
The fact that they’ve introduced so many of the characters and only one main roster character (Kenshi) and one kameo (Frost) are the only non-trilogy characters so far sucks. I’m not going to sugar coat it. Like we’ve literally seen ■■■■■■■ Stryker before we’ve seen Quan Chi, Shinnok, Kai, Reiko, Tanya, Sareena, Nitara, Moloch, Mavado, Drahmin, Li Mei, Havik, Kira, Onaga, Skarlet, D’vorah, Erron Black, Kotal Kahn, Takeda, etc.
I dunno. Maybe we’ll get a lot more surprises as the rest of the cast and DLC are rolled out but man… Between the dull as dirt roster so far and the kameos all looking like 90’s cartoon characters with their classic outfits, I just keep going back and forth on this game.
I don’t mind the kameo concept and I like the combos I’m seeing, but some of the choices they’ve made so far have me wondering how I’m going to feel about this game when it finally comes out. Judging by the sentiment on Twitter and in the stream chat, I think a lot of other people are feeling the same (though to be fair, both of those places are where happiness goes to die lol).
a leak implies we got Smoke and rain but we dont know 100% and as someone who knows what its like to not have your favorite in the roster (looking at you MK11 with your absence of Reptile) I know how you feel.
But, hey there’s still room for DLC.
Comes back form wathcing the trailer
I stand corrected.
Now all I need is Reptile in the game and I will have my three mains back.
Is it me, or does Smoke sound like he’s voiced by yuri lowenthal. Ngl. Sauske’s voice is oddly fitting for Smoke.
And that Rain… really digging the wizard astetic.
Surprised he’s actually coming back, considering MK11 only added him in at the last minute. Hopefully his role in the story is good.
I’m just gonna say it. I don’t mind the Kameo characters using the Klassic costumes. It feels like a nice demarcation between the two rosters.
I’m not sure why they removed the green glow myself. I’m guessing either to make the move more like its namesake (“shadowkick”), perhaps(?). If I recall correctly, the story for Johnny’s moves is that his ancestors were warrior cultists from the Mediterranean, possibly Greek. Perhaps this “new” version of Johnny’s power has darker origin in the reboot?
Hell yeah! It’s been a LOOOOONG time coming.
Rain was an interesting surprise. I’m intrigued to see what his story is going to be in this take, just because his backstory in 11 was surprisingly tragic. Never thought a wizard staff was Rain’s sort of weapon imo, but considering he’s an egomaniac who views himself as both royalty and as a god, I suppose it makes sense.
though hopefully we get some costumes that are like the classics but new.
I don’t know if I’m a fan of the scorpion, sub-zero and smoke design that much.
Yeah. The new Ninja outfit feels really… generic. They could at least give them a hood or head wrapping or something.
Also if Scorpion is Lin Kuei do the Shirai Ryu just not exist in this world?
I say it again. I wanna go back to the old timeline.
Maybe Hanzo exists in some way
Maybe the real Hanzo was the friends we met along the way.
Or maybe Hanzo will end up being the son of the new Scorpion, whos to say.
Curious thought, but since everythings getting re-written, if Sektor and Cyrax do ever become playable, what if its implied the Black Dragon were responsible for the Cyber Initiative? Meaning the two were actually recruited by Kano instead of the Grandmaster?
Seriously all he needs is the helmet, then BOOM. Cyber Ninja.
Again, brand new timeline, brand new rules.
Likely, the one thing that’s consistent in every timeline is that each character still has the alignment of Good and Evil.
I’m not sure I like that idea…
Man… the more we learn about the new era the less I like it. It feels less like the MK I fell in love with every time we learn more about it.
Indeed, and since this is Liu Kang’s first foray as a god, he’s going to have to learn about what his responsibilities are along with what it means to be a god, and undoubtedly he’s gonna end up making mistakes along the way. Hopefully his mistakes won’t be too costly, though.
Right now Im still on the fence.
On the one hand, Im very curious how they’re gonna spin the story, plus if they actually stick to the changes, hopefully it’ll make up for the clusterf**k that was MK11. (In terms of telling a consistent story.)
But on the other, yeah… I can see what you mean. We grew up with all these characters for nearly 20 years now, but now all the sudden everything is flipped.
Lui Kangs a god, Raiden’s just an ordinary guy, Scorpion and Sub are biological brothers now, its weird.
I just hope the writters know what they’re doing by making these alterations. Because if everything ends with yet ANOTHER time reset, I’m going to eat my own hat.
Well time is eventually going to reset because I’d bet my bottom dollar that they’ll eventually reset back to their iconic mktrilogy story/status. It probably won’t be till after a few more games, but I doubt this is the final MK timeline they’re ever going to do and if DC Comics has taught me (and WB, NRS’s parent company) anything, it’s that not having your characters in their iconic states for a good 80% of all recorded history is bad for marketing.
Considering the whole DCEU fiasco, wouldn’t doubt it.
hoping this means they are playable and not just Kameos
Speaking of ninjas, pretty weird how Scorpion, Sub Zero and Smoke all share the same general design, meanwhile Rain looks totally different this time around. I understand the factions, but it does feel weird that he gets a brand new unique design, while every other ninja gets the basic “Lin Kuei” Costume. Hopefully alt costumes will be more defiined.
If Ermac does come back, wonder how far they’ll tweak his design. Worse case, probably just re use the costume he had in MK11’s krypt. Idk
(And to think, someone on the dev team probably busted their ■■■ day and night designing this costume… all just for him to fall on a spike. I dont care what the circumstances were, thats just tragic.)
Whether or not Blaze makes it in the base roster or the Kameo system, but what if MK1 actually had him look like one of the scrapped concepts from Deadly Alliance? Instead of a bootleg Cinder from KI.
Like, say because of the new timeline Lui Kang built, what if the power of Blaze itself was transferred into a mortal man this time, who would later become an important asset in this new timeline’s story, still mirroring the build up of Armageddon?
Hell, maybe even introduce Hornbuckle as a legit character, playing off their supposed rivalry of the previous timeline.
Just imagine if they their character chapter in story mode ended with a one on one fight on top of a tall bridge, paying homage to the Pit stage from MK2.
Ngl, that would be pretty dam cool if NRS did that.
