Remember…he uses “practical” magic now.
Which is a massive L imo, they had the chance to really do up the Enenra details they established in 9. Now instead of a demon, he's just a regular guy. Thats a downgrade
He's back to being his old timeline self (as brief as it was there), i've no problem with that. Him being a magic trick performer (the way its phrased) - now that's something i'm not on board with.
His fatality is literally the least important thing about him or really any character.
You say this because NRS trained people over the years to think of them as 30 second cutscenes you can't wait to get over with. But it adds character, personality. Sadly, this one does nothing of the sort.
I don't think it adds character. Maybe it shows character if it's done creative enough which this one definitely isn't but so what. I'll play this game probably for 2 maybe even 3k hours. Of those 3k hours, exactly 30 seconds will be spent on both Smoke's fatalities just to get an achievement. Doing a fatality is not to watch it anyway but it's about "the message" you send for doing it if that's your sort of thing. At least that's how your opponent takes it.
This is it right there. Not much of a character showing, if you just initiate a mutilation of a guy just for the sake of the "shock factor" (which isn't all that shocking anymore), every character can do that.
Also true, but i was talking in general, not just about online environment.
Speaking of this, I really think his default costume is missing some dark black on it to help it pop. Scorpion has yellow, black, and red. Sub-Zero has blue and black, but Smoke just has gray and slightly darker gray. Smoke is one of my all-time favorites, but I wasn't particularly wowed by what I've seen so far, costume or gameplay-wise. I still like what I see, but I'm not blown away like I was with some other character costumes/moves. Hopefully, it'll grow on me as I see more.People talking about Smoke's hair are wrong.
This is the correct Smoke look:
Id be completely okay with that, sans the fact he looks the oldest of the 3 brothers
You're 100% right lol
I think that's a poor reason to have every fatal or super be slash slash stab stab occasional explosion
Fatalities are the lamest and most unimportant thing in MK games. ¯\(ツ)/¯
They put a lot of effort into making those widely beloved cutscenes.
Agreed. The appeal (to me) was always their difficulty/secrecy, not the actual violence itself.
Scorpion returns after a mission to the Lin Kuei Temple. As he enters, he sees Smoke's headless body on the floor. Smoke's head with the spinal cord still attached is lying on a table not too far away.
Yeah I agree, and UMK3 fatalities were also short and sweet. These days fatalities are straight out of a gore porn film with a full production and everything. Which I appreciate all that goes into making cool & creative fatalities, they just aren’t something I’m concerned about is all
100%. And that went away as soon as the internet became a thing. But even still, even with the internet, memorizing classic MK fatals were always cool. But these days you can literally beat someone, pause the game, look up how to do the fatal, and then perform it, long before the fatal timer is up. You don’t even have to learn them anymore, lol
100% this. Brutalities as they are now was a brilliant thing for them to pick up on and something i've been begging for since the first time i played samsho and cut someone in half (annnnd technically was done by KI but that's it).
I also like that there are actual hidden brutalities that remain a secret for a quite a while as well as secret things you can do during brutalities to change things. There is some classic Fatality DNA in Brutalities, and I very much enjoy it. I just hope they don't force you to have to unlock them before using them in MK1. That's such a stupid idea, especially for tournaments that don't have everything.