August 28, 2011
Everyone Is A Ninja.
I was always a Street Fighter person, and never a Mortal Kombat person. Never really gave a shit about that series. However, that new remake came out, and with Giant Bomb going on and on about how it has an actually good single player story for some reason, as well as friends at work just being huge Mortal Kombat fans, I really felt like I had to try it. So, you know, Gamefly to the rescue!
I didn’t make it through the story mode.
I’m not saying the game is bad, I just lost interest! I think the game seems really good. There’s no doubt there’s like a million fucking modes in there, as well as strong online play and plenty of characters to work with. They’ve got, you know, all your favorites. If you have favorites. I don’t have favorites. Their use of a modified EX/Super meter seems to work well for the game.
But yeah, I just… I don’t really get Mortal Kombat. None of the characters seem fun to me. They are born of a time when I didn’t really care about blood and gore and shit, you know? I’m sure people with that nostalgia would love the shit out of these guys, but I just don’t have that. I especially don’t get why the moves are like they are. The Giant Bomb guys said the moves were easy to pull off, but man. Maybe it’s my years of Street Fighter, but I just can’t tap on directions like buttons like the game wants me to do. I had trouble with a lot of the moves, and I’d always end up only being able to use one or two. Personal problem, I’m sure, but it just seemed to go against what I think a fighting game is.
Really, though, the reason I didn’t finish the story mode was that it was too hard. I just wanted to see the stupid-ass story, you know? But I had it set to the easiest setting, and sometimes matches just would not let me mash. When they throw in those 2 on 1 matches, even the braindead level of AI becomes a huge problem, because you just can’t fuck up. If they land an X-Ray on you, it’s kind of over, and since I didn’t know the characters and shit, I wasn’t really equipped to dodge X-Rays. I didn’t want to have to redo fights. I just wanted to see the stupid plot. Eventually, though, I had to try, and I just wasn’t interested.
It’s not really the game’s fault, though! It’s trying to be a challenging, cool fighting game with a challenging, cool story mode. They are appealing to fans something HARDCORE and I could not be any less of a fan of Mortal Kombat. But good on them for making an amazing game for a series I, and I’m sure many others, had totally wrote off. It’s just not my thing. It’s on the way back to Gamefly now.