Category Archives: Video Games
Reptile To Get Actual Character Development!
Look, I’m a huge fan of all the ninjas in Mortal Kombat. I was the exact right age and exact right level of nerd to just get deep into MK lore when those games came out. I used to own a guide book for Mortal Kombat Trilogy because I wanted all the character bios. I didn’t even own the game! So I’m really enjoying all these character-focused trailers for the upcoming Mortal Kombat 1.
And the latest trailer gives us an actual deep look at Reptile, with actual character development. Has the green ninja ever gotten this much development?!
The trailer also features Ashrah and Havik, but who cares about them? I’ll grant you, Havik’s fighting style looks pretty awesome. But Reptile is the real champion here! Character development! Shifting back and forth between human and reptile! Death roll attack! And it looks like he’s on a good guy team through most of the story? How neat!
Man, I’m probably going to buy this game just for the story and the reimagined characters!
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Let’s Take A Good Look at the Spider-Man 2 Video Game
Another Comic-Con trailer we got last week was a story trailer for the upcoming Spider-Man 2 video game. This is going to be one heck of a game and I’m very excited to dive in. The first game and the Miles Morales games were perfect, and I have no doubt that this game will be great too.
And it all looks great! The story looks like a classic Peter in the black suit story, with all sorts of added elements. And Venom looks great. We still don’t know if we’ll get to play as Venom, but surely that will be an option, right? Even if it’s only temporary? We’ll find out.
Also, that bear-dressed Kraven henchman has to be Grizzly, right? He’s clearly more than just a standard goon. He seems to me to be Kraven’s lieutenant. And if Kraven’s lieutenant is gonna wear a prominent bear costume…he damn well better be name-checked as Grizzly! Again, we’ll find out.
Spider-Man 2 comes to Playstation 5 — which I do now own! — on Oct. 20.
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Where There’s Mortal Kombat 1, There’s Smoke!
As I’ve surely mentioned many times on this blog, Smoke is my favorite character in Mortal Kombat, and one of my all-time favorite video game characters in general. The dude is just plain cool, and I have fond memories of reaching his stage in MK2 with my brother and cousin. It was an epic night of Toasties, I assure you.
Well, good news, everybody! Smoke will be a playable character in the upcoming Mortal Kombat 1 game! We found this out in a new trailer showing off both Smoke and Rain!
Smoke looks cool, he plays cool, he gets to be the third wheel in the Sub-Zero/Scorpion team-up this game is going to have. As we all know, the plot of the new game is that the world has been remade by God King Liu Kang. Part of this new world has Sub-Zero and Scorpion as brothers in the Lin Kuei. That’s interesting.
Smoke’s bio got posted to the Mortal Kombat Discord.
A new and different origin, but nonetheless amazing! He’s not evil, he’s not some twisted robot. He’s a cool dude, with a cool backstory, and hopefully a fun part to play in the new game. Will he likely be killed and turned into a robot anyway? Yeah, possibly. It’s happened before, it could happen again. I’m just thrilled that my favorite Mortal Kombat character gets to come back and be awesome, at least for a little while.
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Fun New Mario Games Coming
For the first time in my life, I own a Nintendo console. So when they announce new Nintendo games, I can get excited! And the pair of new Mario games they announced yesterday have me excited. I like Mario games as much as the next person.
First up is Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which is a new 2D Mario game with all sorts of new mechanics.
Looks neat! Who doesn’t love a classic Mario game? And new elements? Sure! Elephant power-up? Yeah, why not. Looks all manner of fun. And it comes out in October.
Next up is a remake of Super Mario RPG, a classic game that I never played.
Everybody is always raving about Super Mario RPG being one of the greatest of all time. I never owned a Super Nintendo. I’ve never played this game. I have some memories of magazine ads about the game, some characters I’ve seen. Welp, now I’ll get to play it for real! Lucky me.
Super Mario RPG comes out in November.
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Our First Look at Star Wars: Outlaws Looks Pretty Good
A big, open world Star Wars game has been rumored for some time now. I even did a List of Six about what I’d like to see in such a game when it was first announced two years ago. Based on the new trailer and game announcement, looks like I’m getting about half of what I hoped for. Star Wars: Outlaws will be a non-Jedi game where you play as a plucky, young scoundrel getting up to crimes and mischief sometime during the original trilogy timeframe.
Here’s the cinematic announcement trailer.
Looks fine. Looks full of Star Wars stuff. The protagonist looks neat. I’m disappointed that she’s just another human. And a white person at that. But I can live with it. At least she’s a woman. This is Star Wars. Why can’t we have really diverse alien protagonists for some of these games? Does that not test well? Would nobody buy the game if the protagonist was a lady Twi’lek?
Anyway, here’s the gameplay trailer.
Again, looks fine. That’s all the open world gameplay stuff that I really enjoy. I like how she can transition between locations, including planets, maybe. I like how she can use her little pet to accomplish stuff in game, like effect the environment and grab new weapons.
But it also all looks kind of samey. Nothing really stands out as new or exciting for an open world game. So perhaps it will just be a generally enjoyable Star Wars game. Nothing wrong with that. I like those.
Star Wars: Outlaws, produced by Ubisoft, comes out sometime next year.
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