Liquid Swordsman
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Keep the guests and replace Jacqui with Ash.
I don’t see how Geras, Cetrion and Kronika look “out of place” when they’re original characters. Cetrion is literally the polar opposite of Shinnok. I don’t think a futuristic look makes Geras and Kronika out of place. I really don’t understand the criteria of “looking like a MK character” because all original characters look like a MK character.
Ok, then you don't see it and that's fine.
This. She looks peaceful in her default design sure but in the story she’s still a villain. Cetrion is seriously wasted potential.
What I don’t like is when characters are designed without a clear, defined theme. Cetrion is a “kitchen sink” type character, and it’s off-putting. Plants, rocks, water, fire, wind, life, death, order, chaos....
She's the goddess of "virtue". So for some reason that translates to her being the Avatar
Well virtue and balance can be translated to the 4 elements. So I don’t see how that’s out of place. I get y’all don’t like Cetrion, but the “shes out of place” argument really is a load of shit to me. No character in the MK universe is out of place except the guest characters. I really don’t get what y’all criteria is for a “MK character”.
She has no personal agenda, no free will, and no emotion. She is simply a mouthpiece for Kronika, and can’t even justify her own existence over the course of the story. Absolutely nothing she does has anything to do with virtue.
Yeah, but that wasn’t what the argument was about. It was about her, Geras and Kronika “not looking like MK characters”. Not how well they were developed.
I think Swindle helped me realize what it is about her look I don't like. It isn't clear.
And THAT is why she doesn’t fit in MK, to get back to the original argument. MK characters, at least all the ones who have endured the test of time, have very clear/simple themes and archetypes, and their actions and motivations stem directly from those ideas.
As far as gameplay is concerned he's way more interesting than Kronika. What does she even do other than like 3 different types of fireballs
It does make sense, in terms of direction with her. But I don’t see how she’s less of a MK character.
She’s a NPC, her moveset clearly isn’t fleshed out. I don’t get why you’re comparing the gameplay of a character who’s your typical end boss with limited moves versus a fully fleshed out playable character. That’s like
Because she's an NPC lmao. You can do so much with her because she isn't restricted by competitive balance. Her design and her gameplay do not mesh together whatsoever. Her design is so impossibly plain and boring, yet fighting her you have all these weird rules in place. Like she's just a regular ass woman, yet she has restrictions like you're fighting Motaro. You can't throw, you can't launch, can't use most specials, can't use supers. If this is how her fight is going to be then they should have gone all out with her design. Make her a giant, give her a crazy monster form, fucking anything other than the lame ass space baby design.
I mean MK gets overhyped for doing the bare minimum. MK is known for looking beautiful, but lacking substance as of late.
What do you mean by substance?
Well in my opinion MK11 feels lacking in a sense. Like backstories of characters, storytelling, gameplay. The game is beautiful, but the story, retcons of some characters and gameplay make the game feel meh at times. That’s what I mean, but this is how I feel.
