MateoFoShizzle
Apprentice
Are the fights in the final chapter dependent on who you play as? Or are they the same for every character. That was some bonkers shit
u can skipOn your first playthrough, can you skip cinematics? Or do they force you to watch them?
if you wanna see a philospohical meaning in it, it might be about the idea that there are some inescapabele, fate-like things that are eventually bound to happen, no matter what way leads there. like the armageddon tower or the deadly alliance. but then that idea isnt fleshed out THAT much either and also surrounded by tons of overused hollywood cheese. story wasnt better than mid to me, but well, i was able to enjoy the final chapter once i embraced chaos xD.They just pluck random ideas from the 3d era games, rip them apart, crap on them, reshape them, then add them into the story. And people watch it and say “wow what a cool homage to the 3d era. We definitely don’t need those stories retold anymore, they did such a good job representing them here”.
A fight on a pyramid and Shao saying the word “Armageddon” doesn’t make it Armageddon.
The dragon army and a damashi namedrop doesn’t make it Deception. “Emperor Ying’s dragon army” btw, lol. (Raiden, Shang and Quan doing the beams was a cool reference though)
Shang and Quan teaming up doesn’t make it Deadly alliance, but at least that one is more focused on. Also holy god, Quan’s new voice is terrible.
I’m disappointed that we might never get those stories redone in a cool way now. Instead we get a middle of the road plot with dumb contrivances and then multiverse bs to top it off. I enjoyed it more than MK11 but it was definitely anticlimactic.
Yeah you’re probably right about who you pick in the end determines some of the people you fight. Because as Smoke, I fought against Robot Smoke and he played liked Smoke but had his classic stomach spear which was so fkn cool and I definitely didn’t expect him to have that. And he was called “LK7T2” instead of Smoke.I chose Sindel, and it seemed there was specific dialogue that would not make sense coming out the mouth of another. I have not run those chapters again, but it also felt like some of the match ups were for her. Like, did Kitana fight with you? Did you fight Shao Khan? I may be wrong, but there could be some content variance here.
Absolutely... everything about the performance... the slyness, the smirk, they way he moved his body.. it just was just perfect.One other thing is Shang Tsung absolutely killed it! The voice actor, facial capture / animations was some of the best I've ever seen or heard. Great job on that!
Lowkey.... They should've kept Shang/Kronika in the shadows until the very last moment or even retain that storyline for the sequel or expansion, make the whole story a sort of "murder mystery" instead as Liu, Geras and the rest try to figure out who's messing with the timeline. That'd be so much more interesting that the timeline clashes at the endThe story was interesting until the reveal of who was plotting everything.
The moment they revealed the second shang tsung, everything happened way too fast and wasn't given enough time to mature, it ruined the immersion for me and shit just started happening
Before that point they were into something trully great, they could really not wrapp this quick and let the rest of the story for a sequel, but the rush really ruined imo.
It’s the worst voice acting from an actual actor/actress I’ve ever heard. At least with other terrible voice acting, like in those NBA games where some of the players do their own voices (and it’s awful), you can at least excuse it since they’re pro athletes with no acting experience whatsoever. But Megan Fox did a god awful job. And I was genuinely trying to like it or at least not mind it. But it’s so bad you can’t ignore it.Nitara voice acting.....fucking lol
THIS! If he didn't job so much it'd be a little less annoying. But the dude literally said the same shit over and over again just to get beaten up numerous times. I literally said it out loud when i saw Ermac approaching Mileena: "bro just stfu already, no one gives a fuck".It’s funny how much of a jobber Ermac was. He was introduced as this insane creation and then just kept getting bodied after his “I am Groot” line of “We are many, you are but one”. Wish someone would’ve said “yeah yeah we get it, no one cares”, lol.
It would have been better had it actually been Kronika, because once you have two Shangs, you stop giving a shit about either of them. Multiple versions make them all less essential.Lowkey.... They should've kept Shang/Kronika in the shadows
This is ultimately my biggest complaint about it all. There was a twist, but it didn't add any impact, and somehow removed impact. Like all of a sudden, everyone's good, everyone's bad, Shang's bad, but only because he's being manipulated by...Shang. And for some reason everyone's all ready to just forgive and forget all the evil shit he willingly did and get him on the team because a different version of him told him it was cool to do. Also, we learn he called himself Damashi, but then just immediately turned around and was like "by Damashi, I mean Shang Tsung, who is me". Huh? By revealing an extra-evil, extra-strong version of the villain who you've known all game, and then solving that by just inserting extra-good, extra-strong versions of the existing good guys, it just nullifies both changes and now you have the original setup, but with arbitrarily higher power levels. And, if you're a newcomer expecting to come into a fresh MK like they've been saying, you especially don't give a shit, because you're takeaway is "so...the big twist is that rather than Shang being the bad guy, it's Shang? Just from some other timeline from a game I didn't play?"It would have been better had it actually been Kronika, because once you have two Shangs, you stop giving a shit about either of them. Multiple versions make them all less essential.
Was terrible lmaoNitara voice acting.....fucking lol
agreed generally. That last act felt abrupt and kinda frantic.The story was interesting until the reveal of who was plotting everything.
The moment they revealed the second shang tsung, everything happened way too fast and wasn't given enough time to mature, it ruined the immersion for me and shit just started happening