#r.i.p mortal kombat

[arttrampbelle]

Here's THE REAL SCORPION HANZO HASASHI.

Nothing much. Just fangirling.

I miss him. I miss him every day.

Like i self ship with him too and it bothers me that nrs did him so dirty.

Mini vent(cuz im sad and im sad that fans just dont get it why the new game is bad. And i take back what i said bout mk11. Mk12 is so bad its making me genuinely like crappier mk games more. Fr its that bad):

I miss the real mortal kombat. I miss real mk fans. I miss the older timelines(sad to say when i actually find comfort on mk11's bullshit more,that's how much you know its bad) I miss when mk was actually fucking good. I hate ed boon,i hate nrs,i hate the new game with a burning passion. I hate what they did to hanzo,to scorpion,the the whole story and lore. I hate what they did to shang tsung. I hate the new VA for shang. Im sorry i do,it feels like he's trying to be a knockoff tagawa and that doesn't sit right with me. It feel fake and forced and wrong. Sadly people wont understand that pain i have about this series.But this aint bout shang rn. This is about hanzo. Hanzo my darling you didn't deserve any of this. Im sorry nrs doesn't love you anymore. Smfh.

End mini vent.

But back to the main event

here's some good food. To soothe our souls.

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Pics n gifs i found.

Like y'all hanzo stans,fans,simps,and mains deserved so much better.

So for you. Here's some good food. Some soothing pics of what we had but never appreciated while it was here.

R.i.p mortal kombat. And it's fucking integrity.

Also r.i.p to hanzo hasashi's character development.

I hope regardless i could Make you smile with these cute hanzos i found.

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[variouspolltournaments]

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

The next poll tournament I will be running is the Characters With Fans Tournament.

...Um, fans as in hand fans, I should probably clarify.

I have submitted two characters myself (they'll be at the top of the submissions list)

Submit a character with a fan, along with where they come from and (if you want) propaganda. You can do this through ask or submit a post.

Currently submissions will be closing once the already running poll tournament ends (the 7th of May I think it would be). This could be changed and there will be an update if it does, but for now that's how it is.

@tournament-announcer

Submissions in bold have propaganda, submissions not in bold do not have propaganda. Whether they do or do not have some already, you are still free to submit some.

SUBMISSIONS:

Princess Hildegard: Sofia the First

Nie Huaisang: Mo Dao Zu Shi

Shen Yuan/Shen Qingqiu: Scum Villain's Self Saving System

Shi Qingxuan: Tian Guan Ci Fu

Xue Zhengyong: The Husky and his White Cat Shizun

Wen Kexing: Word of Honour

Haruaki Kurama: Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds

Kalluto Zoldyck: Hunter X Hunter

Kyoshi: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Douma: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Shiver Hohojiro: Splatoon

Sharon Rainsworth: Pandora Hearts

Sheryl Rainsworth: Pandora Hearts

Rufus Barma: Pandora Hearts

Suki: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Kagura: Inuyasha

Eva Ushiromiya: Umineko no Naku Koro ni

Mulan: Mulan

Temari Nara: Naruto

Tenten: Naruto

Yukimi noh Daiomoru: Protector of the Small Quartet

Tingyun: Honkai Star Rail

Mayura: Miraculous Ladybug

Yukimaro: 9 R.I.P.

Mei Mei: Kung Fu Panda

Yumi Ishiyama: Code Lyoko

Kamisato Ayaka: Genshin Impact

Lady Windermere: Lady Windermere’s Fan

Yuzu Hiiragi: Yugioh

Shen Lanzhou: Qiang Jin Jiu

Lady Bow: Paper Mario

Swire the Elegant Wit: Arknights

Qing Ming: Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity

Maria Posada: The Book of Life

Princess Amber: Sofia the First

Princess Clio: Sofia the First

Ageha: Reine Des Fleurs

Madame Enge: Reine Des Fleurs

Yi Bang-won: My Country: The New Age

Yukiko Amagi: Persona

Sasara Nurude: Hypnosis Mic

Argos: Miraculous Ladybug

Robot With Fans For Hands: Futurama

April O’Neil: 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Aramina: Barbie and the Three Musketeers

Princess Kitana: Mortal Kombat

Sensu-Style Oricorio: Pokemon

Chelle: Dragalia Lost

Bai Qian: Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms

Reina Itsutsuboshi: Doki Doki Pretty Cure

Boss: Underworld Office

Milady: Persona

[necromancer-4-hire]

Random thoughts

First off apologies to my Legacy of Kain followers; I'm binging on Mortal Kombat for now. I switch around from Legacy of Kain, Mortal Kombat, slashers etc.

It'll be back... eventually.

Anyway I've been thinking back on my fav's for Mortal Kombat which are:

Shinnok, Taven, Daegon, Rain, Mavado, Sektor, Tanya, Sareena, and Erron Black. Looking at this list I can honestly say this would be one awkward dinner party.

There are HC's that I've thought of if some of these guys were having a bad day or just not in the mood; like just don't bother them.

Daegon: Sits in his underwear eating junk (screw the strict diet) while watching late night television. He's a grandmaster; he can do whatever he wants and sometimes he's just not in the fucking mood for decorum.

Taven: Listens to his headphones very loud. R.I.P his eardrums. I can see him liking Blue October and lying down on his bed with his eyes closed and bedroom door locked. Screw the Edenian protector responsibilities; he didn't want them anyways.

Rain: I know he's a pompous twit with power on his mind but I think he would spend a lot of time writing. Like I can see him writing, and re-writing letters to send to his half-brothers (mostly Taven) asking if he wants to get better aquainted. Life is a b*tch and it's for that reason he never sends the letters and they're used for fire kindling.

Shinnok: Do you think he ever sits there and sighs. Everywhere he looks nothing is the same as it used to be. I can see this guy owning a Hell hound for a pet and sometimes just messes with his ears and runs his finger over the ridge of its nose and patting it's back. Sitting at his throne by himself with a demon dog.

Mavado: Night driving; all night with a radio blaring and windows down. He doesn't like the attention that the daylight can give and the best music comes on at night anyway. It's almost as if all his worries are answered with the radio. Red dragon assailant? Yes. Immortal? No, still very much human.

Tanya: Visits bars from time to time. Her mind is constantly running with schemes, and knives always aimed at her back. She drinks a beer until she realizes how much she hates it, and switches to a sangria or margarita. She doesn't initiate conversation but that doesn't mean she won't listen to others doing so.

That's all I got for now but I'll try to come up with more soon.

[ladyvendetta]

I attempt to draw GENDERSWAP HANZO AND KUAI (EHEM FOR HANZO'S NAME I CALL HER HANA XDD) ...plus you notice that their attire is bit different tho (OK DRAWING AN ATTIRE IN SOME MK WAS HARD AF BECAUSE I'M NOT EVEN EXPERIENCE DAT OK?) so I choose Kuai's version in Mortal Kombat: Defenders of Earthrealm (ehem honestly the design was same as UMK3 but yeap I did retconned dis anyway) and for Hana/Hanzo/Scorpion I retconned MK4 (ya forgot the skull belt lmao). EHEM THE REASON WHY I DRAW DIS BECAUSE LAST NIGHT I READ THE FIC of I'm a Girl, DAMMIT! by Crystal_Prisom (ok I WANT FEMALE KUAI STAT!) Link for the fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15544908/chapters/36086016 (;-; deym its unfinished but ok)

[strangledwires]

Nobody actually ships this, but hey.

[groundrunner100]

R.I.P.

Hanzo Hasashi, A.K.A. Scorpion

1992-2019

“GET OVER HERE!!!”

[paleicelight]

弟の日

[th3-0bjectivist]

(***I was pretty drunk when I wrote the below commentary. This will be posted with minimal edits and for brevity only***)

   HI, dear listener. Gee golly, it sure has beena while since I posted something metal. You knowz, Type O Negative sure has provided me with a shitloade of comfort over the last few weeks, and throughout my lifetime now that I think about it. I suppose now is as good a time as any to offociALLY ANNOUCNE I’m getting divorced! That’s right! Five years of marriage, down the drain, bhitch! Which I guess is poetically appropriate because I did ask her early on, ‘What’re you doing for the next five years!?’ But seriously, divorce sucks. So far, itz like going to the dentist for a triple root canal; you know it’s gonna be painful and you know it’s gonna be sore afterward. 1UCKILY, this gothic metal band from yesteryear has once again saved my unlucky a$$ from wallowing in torment alone. Let me tell you something, I HATE goth music with a passion that could obliterate a solar system. I FUCIKING LOVE TYPE O NEGATIVE. Thish group, I think I featured on my page once, looooong ago. So, here’s the thing. I keep going back. I keep GOING BACK over the years. They’re fantastic, legendary even, helmed by the vampiric and immortal Peter Steele (R.I.P.). BTW, true storee, I saw P. Steele’s dick once. Not even kidding. Let me tell the tale; it was the mid 1990’s, I was about 12. I flipped open a Playgirl thinking it was a Playboy and saw P. Steele’s massive, gargantuan shvantz… I think it traumatized me. No, I’m sure it traumatized me. It was literally like staring at a leviathan… thanks Pete! Thanks a lot!! But as sobering as that memory is, I also remember this group has kept me entertained for nearly thirty years, creating seven great doom metal albums which regularly allow me to dive headfirst into someone else’s misery whenever I’m miserable. This is the very first song I’d ever heard by this group, Blood and Fire (Out of the Ashes Remix) from 1995’s Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack, and it means much more to me these days than ever before. Enjoy, dear listener!

Pete from his 1994 Playgirl spread, just in case you thought I was fucking with you. Believe me, this is the most tame photo from that spread. Image credit: https://reikisweden.com/peter%20steele%20cover%20playgirl.htm

[bakusoftie]

MARIO KART IS AVAILABLE ON THE APPSTORE NOW YAAAY So in honor of that how bout an hc bout all the class 1a kids playing Mario Kart together on the console?

I KNOW RIGHT IVE BEEN PLAYING IT ALL DAY INSTEA D OF DOING CLASS WORK AND I AM OBSESSED

Class 1-A

Uraraka will not play with any other character other than Princess Peach (fuck everyone else)

Bakugou gets AGGRESSIVE and he has exploded 12 controllers and Momo is about to beat his ass if she has to make another one

The biggest sore losers are: Denki, Sero, Mina- actually it’s just everyone from the Bakusquad. Bakugou is the king of being a sore loser like if he gets anything but 1st place, he is breaking the console and going to Nintendo’s headquarters to call the creator of the game ‘a lousy fucking moron’

Deku is surprisingly good at this game like he may not seem like it but he’s the best gamer boy of 1-A. He had a lonely childhood that he remedied with playing Mortal Kombat and pretending he was ripping Kacchan’s spine out.

Mineta isn’t allowed to play. Fuck him.

Mina and Hagakure argued over which princess is better- Daisy or Peach (trick question: best girl is Rosalina)

Kaminari says that he would let Bowser rim him and nobody ever lets him forget it.

Sero and Kirishima are in the background while other people play and will be everyone’s personal hype man or they’ll be like “OHHHHH!!!!” when Tokoyami destroys everyone and comes in first place.

It’s Todoroki first time playing Mario Kart so he keeps getting stuck on the side and he looks like a kicked puppy when he comes in last place so he decides he would prefer to watch UNTIL DEKU TEACHES HIM THE GAMER CULTURE. Then he is unstoppable.

Tokoyami would rather play Shadow The Hedgehog tbh

Shoji accidentally swallows a controller when he grabs it with the wrong dupli-arm.

Aizawa watches from a distance, drinking his badass black coffee as Iida cries after getting his ass kicked off of rainbow road by Oijiro

Road Rock Mountain is Kirishima’s favorite setting smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

Tsuyu loves Baby Mario so much like she full body uwus every time she sees him.

When everyone has cried, bled and had 3 mental breakdowns,,,,Jirou is just like “I told y’all we should’ve played Guitar Hero 😒”

Shinsou will come and use his quirk to take Deku’s place of #1 Gamer Boy. Everyone says it’s ‘cheating’ but they rather have him than that other purple-haired fucker.

Kaminari and Sero have Mario and Luigi onesies that they always wear to Mario Kart Night and you can try and roast them but the power of their bro-ness is too overpowering.

Bakugou loves playing as Donkey Kong and I don’t even have to explain this like-

HE’S A FURRY

no cap periodt pooh sksksksk

You might not expect this but Aoyama is the biggest rage-quitter. He is the equivalent of “So, no head?” But that’s whenever he doesn’t win @ the console. Fucking drama queen.

You know shit is about to go down when Momo puts her hair up in a ponytail, she about to go ham on everyone’s ass like you think she’s a preppy rich girl that has never seen a video game in her life? You’re fucking wrong, because she owns every fucking console ever made and has bought every game on Steam.

Koda gets too nervous when the game starts and goes slow because he doesn’t want to go over the speed limit :((

Iida is surprisingly terrible at MK like you think ,bc of the fact that he has a speed quirk and looks like Sonic The Hedgehog’s humansona, that he would be good at this game but he fucking sucks

Sato sits in the back, playing Cooking Mama on his Nintendo DS ( it’s rose gold and it’s MANLY)

You think Deku is an innocent little smol bean, right? FUCK NO HE WILL CUSS SO BAD THAT IT MAKES BAKUGOU SCARED. THIS SHITHEAD IS AGGRESSIVE AND M E A N.

Deku: “Shoji-san...CAN YOU MOVE YOUR FAT FUCKING ASS OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE I FUCK YOUR MOM AND CHANGE THE WIFI PASSWORD YOU OCTOPUS-LOOKING FUCKING BITCH”

R.I.P. Izuwu. He is too far gone to save from the depths of Mario Kart Hell.

[yoncevevo]

Mother Dahvey do you still have the "sister!" and "you're not my sister you're just a monstrosity!" mortal kombat gifs?

I deleted all my gifs which was probably one of the stupidest decisions I’ve ever made…r.i.p. to the girl you used to see 🥲

[ryanmeft]

MCU Final Battles, from Worst to Best, Part One

Avengers: Infinity War is upon us, and for both millions of Marvel aficionados and the tens of millions more who don’t give a rip about comics but loyally turn out for each new movie, it’s a big event. The trailers portray it as one big battle, the fight that encapsulates everything that has come before. Whether it will make good on grandiose promises to change the makeup of the MCU remains to be seen when the film opens this week, but either way, it should be a good dust-up.

With the biggest Marvel battle in movies upon us, I decided to take a look back and rank the final battles of every MCU movie to date. The list is below, but first some methodology. Only the final battles are included, and I judged them almost entirely by themselves; the quality or lack thereof of the overall film was not a factor. The only way in which that isn’t true is in whether the row-de-dow at the end fit well with the overall feeling of the film. My decisions include only the time from the beginning of the confrontation (not necessarily always the first punch thrown) to the conclusion of it, and I watched most of them again on Youtube, isolated, to try and make it easier to do that.

Here we go, then.

READ THIS FIRST, YOU MARVELOUS BASTARDS

This list contains heavy spoilers for every single film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you haven’t seen one yet and you blast past this part and spoil it for yourself, that’s just what you get for being impatient.

18. Iron Man 2

 What Happens

Iron Man and War Machine easily kill a bunch of drone robots and then beat the big baddie with, basically, the same move as Ghostbusters.

Why it Sucks

Well, for starters, the entire thing lasts less than four minutes. Avoiding the obvious joke there, the first “phase” is IM and WM being surrounded by robots who mindlessly fire terrifying ordinary bullets at them while they fire back and Stark ends it with an actual for real kill-all-the-enemies video game special move. I wanted to hit “A” through this part. Then Whiplash fights them for a minute and a half and they beat him by---both of them shooting him at once. Really? You went to all this trouble to kill Tony Stark and your masterpiece of death can be taken down by…two lasers? It’s as though he literally thought “There’s no way a guy who builds things for a living would have TWO suits of weaponized armor.”

17. The Incredible Hulk

What Happens

Hulk and Abomination beat on each other.

Why It Sucks

This was before Marvel really realized that the big showdowns needed to be more visually interesting than just two super-powered people beating the snot out of each other. At the time, it thrilled the kind of fans who didn’t want anything from a Hulk movie except “Hulk Smash!”, but as the Avengers films have since shown us, there’s a lot more potential for creative moves from the Big Green Guy than is shown here. The one really creative aspect, Bruce leaping from the helicopter to summon The Hulk, was lifted almost wholesale from a Mark Millar/Bryan Hitch comic.

16. Thor: The Dark World

What Happens

There’s a storm, and some Deus Ex Machina-type technology, and then Thor throws his pole at Malekith and Malekith catches it.

Why it sucks

Does anyone know what even happened here? Malekith’s finale plays like one of the most ridiculously convoluted Mortal Kombat finishers ever. I’ve seen the movie three times, for some reason, and I can’t even recall why there needs to be a storm, or how a guy who teleports between dimensions can’t figure out “stop catching the teleporty rods”. And then a giant thing falls on him because he doesn’t run five feet to the side, otherwise known as “The Prometheus Effect”. The one creative element is the way Thor and Malekith knock each through all those portals, but it isn’t really taken full advantage of, and GLaDOS isn’t even around for it.

15. Avengers: Age of Ultron

What happens

Ultron, a robot with almost infinite power over robotics and the internet, needs to stop the Avengers from stopping his extinction event, and all he can think to do is throw a bunch of copies of himself at them.

Why It Sucks

Look, I’m a defender of this movie as a whole. I think it had a lot of nice touches, like starting out in the middle of a fight with the Avengers already working together. That was exhilarating. The final showdown is not that. It’s pretty clear Joss Whedon had grown tired of the franchise by the end of the film, and while the character banter and interaction is mostly as good as it could be, “A bunch of tights fight a clone army” feels like a retread of the first movie. The Avengers still work well together, but it doesn’t make great use of the Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver’s additions to the cast, and thus mostly feels like something we’ve seen before.

14. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2

What Happens

The Guardians have to descend into the core of Ego’s planetary body to destroy his heart, while pursued by a fleet belonging to a shockingly tunnel-visioned secondary baddie.

Why It’s Just Okay

Again, a case of a movie that was really very good with a fight scene at the end that, for the most part, lacked some punch. Seeing Star Lord and Ego have a battle of the gods is undeniably cool, but for such an off-the-wall franchise it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. The banter between the Guardians is still good, and yeah, there’s that Heroic Sacrifice (R.I.P. Yondu), but for the most part it feels more like a 90’s auto-scrolling space shooter mixed with Street Fighter than a genuine high stakes fight (Man, I’m old. And a nerd).

13. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

What Happens

After a movie full of mostly more subtle spy stuff, the bad guys launch a bunch of floating warstations and there’s a gigantic battle above the city.

Why It’s Just Okay

There’s nothing the matter with this fight in and of itself. It’s just unoriginal and notably out-of-place with the rest of the film. Winter Soldier is one of the best MCU movies, and most of the movie is subtle-for-Marvel, with the heroes infiltrating hidden bases and staying undercover. The core of the final battle is a more personal duel between Cap and Winter Soldier, but all around it are ships falling out of the sky and massive battles with heavy numbers. It feels mandated by formula rather than a natural outgrowth of the film’s tone. If it had just been the extremely effective fight between Cap and Bucky without all the surrounding fireworks, it would have been better.

12. Iron Man

What Happens

Obadiah Stane has his own suit of armor made, and he and Tony beat the snot out of each other.

Why It’s Just Okay

At the time, this was pretty darn good by superhero standards. No one really expected more than just “Hero and villain fight” yet, and some of the touches, like the freezing trick, were cool. Unfortunately, it has the same issue as Winter Soldier: it feels a bit obligatory and not entirely in step with the movie that produced it. The rest of the film is a mix of character building and a very subtle battle of wills between two men who both feel their views are right. The movie has to make certain to irredeemably evil-ize Stane by the end to fully justify his beat down, with a twist that sort of sucks all the complexity out of him, because ethical middle ground is not what these films excel at. It’s a rock ‘em sock ‘em robots match attached to the end of a cleverer film, and watching it today, it feels somewhat dated.

11. Captain America: The First Avenger

What Happens

Cap and Red Skull fight for the Cosmic Cube, which then absorbs the Skull.

Why It’s Not Half Bad

The stakes on this one feel less comic book-y and more personal, with Cap and Skull exchanging actual blows instead of a series of fancy gymnast moves. Sure, the blows are super-powered, but it still sticks close to the more pulp feel of the film. And Skull getting absorbed by the Cube is probably one of the coolest Marvel deaths, even if Hugo Weaving shot down all our hopes about him being imprisoned in Asgard. But this list only considers the battle itself, and the really emotion-worthy part---Cap voluntarily crashing the ship and going on ice---happens after the Skull is defeated.

[arttrampbelle]

Can't believe I'm saying it.

But catch match? Mk legends cage match?

Looks hella fire.

Never thought a johnny cage spin off animation movie that has no ties to any canon lore really. Would be better than the games rn.

Hell anything looks better than the new game.

I'm looking forward to cage match.

If not for johnny. For the late gilbert godfrey. R.i.p.

I heard he recorded lines for this movie. And it was supposed to be released way earlier. But they cut back. And it shows in their work.

They actually put effort n passion in it.

But its sad. That it has to be a movie about johnny cage for them to fucking give a shit.

I love johnny cage but yeah. If they put as much love n effort in the animation and story as they are doing with cage match as they did with the other legends movies. I would have been over the moon.

The games could never. Nrs could never.

But i think they treated each mk legends movies as separate. Like all of them are separate from each other. Not connected at all.

And you know what? Thats great.

I would rather keep it that way.

But yeah. Can't believe a fucking johnny cage animated movie spin off is better than any other mortal kombat crap we are getting lately.

i hope cage match blows that shit game out the water n kills it,kills it dead,fatality bitch. Mk1? No bro. Cage match.

I never prayed so hard for a game to fail.

Dude the animation and trailer alone sells me more than the game. Because why?

Because this beautiful animation movie seems to not take itself so seriously,it's fun,and it's not trying to be something its not.

It's actually leaning into the campy cheese that is mortal kombat and is having fun.

That's why i feel this movie is already 10000× better than the new mortal kombat game.

It's johnny cage. If you fuck up johnny cage. It's bad. (Unfortunately devs,and a certain demographic(white nerdy cis boys)tend to project hard onto johnny. No offense but its true. Johnny aint no reddit douchebag. So nrs better take notes.)

Also the best thing?!

NO FUCKING GROSS CAGEBLADE!!!! YAAAAAAY!

Just johnny being a manwhore

I mean being an epic superstar dork.

(Ngl....he looks good af.....that's johnny cage to me. So far i like what im seeing. But we'll see. Finger crossed they dont screw him up again! They might redeem themselves for the animation movies)

[nintendroid]

Nintendroid & Retro Cat VS Wrestling #1: WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game

WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game (Wrestlemania for the sake of this review) is another childhood favorite of mine. Not so much, because it perfectly replicated what was actually going on in the ring, but because it presented itself the way I thought of wrestling as a kid. This was less about wrestling and more of a superhero-esque fight with ridiculous effects used to amplify the colorful personality of the wrestlers.

Published by Midway-Acclaim, Wrestlemania is the brainchild of developer/designer Mark Turmell, who had previously worked on the hugely successful NBA Jam. Turmell and Co. took elements from previous successful Midway-Acclaim ventures NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat and went all in on Wrestlemania. We have digitized graphics, an over-the-top exaggeration of a beloved sport (wrestling is a sport, shut up) and fun, addicting gameplay. No surprise to anyone, it worked. Wrestlemania’s success was enough to get a handful of ports to home consoles such as the Playstation, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and 32X.  

The version I have the most experience with is the Super Nintendo version, since I wasn’t old enough to chill at the arcades like all the cool kids in the 90’s. First time I got to play Wrestlemania was at my uncle’s house. We ate spaghetti, spent hours beating the crud out of one another, and trading back and forth my toy wrestling belt to show off our superiority. It was also the first time I ever got to watch Wes Craven’s “People Under The Stairs”. Good times.

I didn’t get to play the arcade version until I was much older, and compared to the arcade it’s not as great of an experience. Like any home port of an arcade game, a lot of the cool “bells and whistles” get left on the cutting room floor. That said, the core gameplay is still intact and Wrestlemania is still a good time on the Super Nintendo.

Wrestlemania isn’t a good “wrestling” game. What I mean by that is if you’re going into this looking for a grappling system, finishers, submissions, and all the other staples of modern wrestling games, you’ll be bummed. Think of this game as a Mortal Kombat-style fighter with a WWF skin and a three-dimensional plane. It sounds strange but it works and can make for some chaotic fun. The goal is to deplete the other wrestlers lifebar. No pin, no submission, just straight beat them to a pulp. There is a “pin��� but its just more or less an extension of the characters “victory” animation.

Wrestlemania is limited to two single player modes. Both being the same with only a slight difference. Intercontinental and World Champion modes are both “beat up all the wrestlers until you win” with the only difference being in World Champion mode, you battle a gauntlet of the entire roster in the your final match.

Next to the single-player modes are two multiplayer modes. You can either go head-to-head or team up with the second player to challenge two computer players. Honestly, this is where Wrestlemania shines. You’re going to get more miles out of this game if you’re goofing off with friends or family that are fellow wrestling fans. While the single player is fun, realistically, you can beat it in 45 minutes on the default difficulty.

Controls are similar to Mortal Kombat with punch, strong punch, kick, strong kick and various button combinations for special moves or combos. Button combinations are stuff like “forward, kick, strong kick, forward” or hold down the “kick” button for three seconds. I mostly just mash buttons because I ain’t got time for that. It takes a second to get used to, if you’re looking to be fancy with the super moves, but it’s accessible if you just want to jump in and mash buttons like me.

Presentation is where Wrestlemania shines. I’d go as far as saying its..

 GLORIOUS.

As mentioned, all the wrestlers are digitized from real people and look really good. The wrestlers themselves actually done the motion capture for their respective character. Fun Fact: Designer Mark Turmell mentioned to Nintendo Power, wrestler Yokozuna was worn out from being on a treadmill to capture his running animation. Yoko (R.I.P) was well over 400 pounds, that must’ve been a nightmare for the poor guy.

Besides the character sprites looking great, everything else is bright and colors pop right out. It perfectly catches WWF’s light-hearted and colorful tone of the era. When a wrestler goes for a strong punch, his arm will turn to something like a giant razor, or a clown hammer. It’s totally silly but it’s fun to look at and it pops off the screen.

Music and sound is ok. The game exclusive tracks complement the action well. The select screen is probably my favorite track of the whole game. I especially love the little guitar hits, whenever you select your character. In-match commentary is provided by WWF/E owner Vince McMahon and Jerry “The King” Lawler. It’s a nice touch  but the one-liners get repetitive fast. They were going for NBA Jam, but it’s just not as memorable.

The roster is short. Even the arcade version only boasts 8 characters, the SNES version only has 6, and that’s just inexcusable. We got all the major players from the time, so the limited space is used well at least. Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Bret Hart, Doink, Yokozuna and Lex Luger.

Overall, WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game is a fun fighting game meant to be played in short bursts. The short roster, and lack of proper ending is a minor annoyance, but I can’t help but to still love this game. I recommend wrestling fans at least play it once. I recommend it to casual gamers who enjoy NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat.

My rating for WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game is... Slammy Winner! While a fun game, with a pleasing presentation worthy of TWO trophies, the bare-bones roster and limited gameplay keeps it from being a worthy title contender.

[2raddaily]

Here lies Thing 5

R.I.P. W.I.P #1 - (should I do that? why not)

For days, me, @star-joker, and our friend Vonneh have been trying to record let’s plays of Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero.

Here’s a list of ways in which that went wrong.

Recorded two episodes - game audio didn’t record.

Only the game audio recorded.

Audacity crashed for star-joker, my mom walked in and started talking and ruined one of the best jokes we made, the run button wouldn’t work, and OpenEmu crashed. We scrapped this episode voluntarily.

And last but not least - we recorded two whole episodes - and they were great - but the video file was nowhere to be found. It just never even started recording.

So one of these days we’ll get back to it, but recording half a dozen episodes of something and not being able to use any of it warrants a break.

[aprilxnemeth]

🎮 = What genre of video games do the mun and muse like best? What are their favorite systems and video games?📻 = What music genre do the mun and muse listen to the most? Any favorite bands?

🎮 = What genre of video games do the mun and muse like best? What are their favorite systems and video games?

Muse; April likes a bunch of things. She loves the usual Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter because who doesn’t love THOSE GEMS? But AS A FAN? She loves Uncharted, The Last of Us, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, the Batman games, everything that takes her on an adventure. She likes to be challenged, she CURSES A LOT. And she feels very proud every time she beats a game.

Mun; I’m the same, hahaha. I love Mario Kart (I’m the best, honestly and you can come fight me), I love Mortal Kombat, Marvel Vs Capcom, Street Fighter. I obviously love wrestling games. I’VE ALWAYS LOVED the Animal Crossing and Sims franchises. I have emulators in my computer where I play old N64, PS1 and Dreamcast games. 

📻 = What music genre do the mun and muse listen to the most? Any favorite bands?

Muse; April lost her taste in music the day her daughter made her listen to silly Peppa Pig songs and the obnoxious “Let it Go” by Elsa everyday. Now she thinks ANY song is better than that. She does love Breathe Carolina a lot.

Mun; I kinds like everything? (Except country and in latin rhythms ‘banda’, ‘bachata’ aaaaand ‘reggaeton’.) But what gets me the most is electronic music and pop. I LOVE DNCE SO MUCH (R.I.P JONAS BROTHERS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH). Lady Gaga (my queen). And Selena Gomez, my other queen that I want to marry.

[radramblog]

Nintendo Direct E3 Takes

Well we’re pretty much done with E3 at this point, and it looks like once again Nintendo is carrying the whole damn thing on their back.

This is obviously a bit biased, because I’m not really into the AAA gaming industry otherwise, and the only other potential announcement I cared about didn’t happen. You had one fucking job, Capcom. One job.

Anyway as I did last time this came around I’m giving some hot takes like every single other person on this godforsaken internet because innovation is dead and react culture is king. Shall we?

Smash DLC Fighter…10 or something idk

I mean, look. I was hoping for an indie representative. Kazuya isn’t really that. But on the other hand, Tekken rep is something I can still get behind. They’ve already got Street Fighter and Fatal Fury in there, might as well get Tekken. What’s next, Raiden from Mortal Kombat? Hell, might as well get some Rivals of Aether character in there, might as well, don’t even have to change much.

From what little we’ve seen of Kazuya’s kit, it looks like his gimmick is going to be…complicated input combos for special attacks. Hm. Well, it’ll probably be fine. People managed with Ryu, they’ll manage with Kazuya. I do appreciate that they gave this guy his demon form- I guess they had to make him jump somehow, huh?

 Life is Strange

I haven’t played the original Life is Strange, but I did watch a playthrough so I know how it goes. Don’t really know much about Before the Storm or 2, but I don’t think 2 is part of this collection anyway? Look I’m probably not going to buy this, but it’s probably good that it exists. The original was like, actual good rep, I think, so they’re probably not going to fuck this one up. New character is neat looking, good for them.

 A Bunch of games, I guess

Guardians of the Galaxy? Damn dude, did I ask?

Worms Rumble said it had 32-person multiplayer, which I was like well hang on how’s that going to work with turn-based Worms combat you’d be waiting for ever. Except it isn’t turn-based. And it looks like ass as a result. F.

Astria Ascending…I’m reading this name and I already forgot what this was. Sorry if you cared about it I suppose.

I know nothing of the Two Point…series, I guess? I keep on seeing Hospital pop up on either Steam or the eShop, and I’ve scrolled past it without thinking twice every single time. Not about to change that.

 Super Monkey Ball

I understand this series was a lot of fun for a lot of people, but it just looks miserable to me. With that said, I have seen some speedruns of these games that look incredible, so on that axis I’m happy this is getting made. Makes doing a marathon-length run of this a fair bit easier.

 Mario Party

Look I haven’t even gotten around to playing my (very fake) Mario Party 3 cart, you think I’m going to buy another 80 dollar game on top of that? Nah.

 Metroid

Yoooooooooooooo lets fucking gooooooooooooo

Okay so I’ve actually never beaten a Metroid game. Got some ways into Fusion and Super but didn’t complete either of them. But this looks super cool and good and I’m here for it. They mentioned that this was the first new 2D Metroid game in 19 years, which I guess means Fusion was the latest one.

…wait how many Metroid games are there even? Like, the original, Super, Fusion, the three Primes, and that one we don’t talk about…is that it? That feels a lot smaller than I thought it was, but I guess it adds up.

Just don’t cock it up, I guess. Metroid and Castlevania’s absence have left indie devs to fight for the Metroidvania name, and it’s about time the big boys got to come back around again.

 More bullshit

Just Dance 2022. Is this one also coming out on the Wii?

Some racing game that looks cheap as fuck, neato. Man I feel bad for the devs working on these absolute shovelware games, like I bet they’re either working hard or being worked to the bone. But this is what the result is. R.I.P.

It’s about 13 years too late for me to be caring about Dragon Ball. Especially since this is just a port. Next.

Mario Golf

I mean we saw this earlier this year. I don’t even know what was actually new in this presentation.

Bowsers outfit is fucking clean though. Once again proving himself the best Mario character.

 Monster Hunter

Fuck off Capcom. Y’all are leaving Mega Man in the fucking dust and he doesn’t deserve it.

I mean I guess ill get into it here, I mostly just wanted something, anything for the Mega Man Battle Network series. It’s their 20th anniversary, and we haven’t gotten shit so far. Literally just a MMBN collection for the switch, that’s all I want. They were even on the Wii U VC, you can just port those again, I don’t care fucking give it to me.

Anyway. Monhun? Ehhh they already showed this at their lacklustre presentation who cares.

 Warioware

Look I haven’t played this series before, it’s probably fun, but I’m not sure how they stretch microgame content out into a fully-priced game.

Also, the multiplayer looks kinda miserable? Like, in case Mario Party was a little too efficient for ruining friendships, now you can yell at one person specifically for fucking the both of you up, and vice versa. Wheeeeee.

 SMT5

Shoutouts to Squiggy, they’re super hype for this and I’m happy to see it. I personally again haven’t played this series, let alone Persona (though 4 is sitting untouched in my steam library, oops), but it looks pretty aight. I’m sure there’ll be a huge pile of demons to fuck up, or friend up, and some level of story that people will like (I have literally no idea what the plot of the series is), so. Atlus (?) has been at this for a long fucking time, they aren’t goofing this up.

 Danganronpa

Shirtless Rantaro Shirtless Rantaro  (shamelessly stolen from u/ AnaLissaMelculo on r/danganronpa)

I’m interested to see Talent Development Plan develop into it’s own fully fleshed out game. It was surprisingly good for a tacked-on minigame, and I hope that they’ll fully take advantage of its potential.

It also looks like the 4 games are releasing separately on Switch, but there is a physical collectors edition with all of them, and I mean, I can probably afford that, riiiiight?

R.I.P. Ultra Despair Girls fans, snubbed yet again. Ehhhh fuck it aside from the dialogue that game sucks ass so its fine.

 More stuff

Fatal Frame looks spooky, I guess. I dunno, I was talking to mates through half of this one so I basically missed it.

DOOM Eternal DLC, cool. I still haven’t finished the original.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater should be on the Switch, and now it is. Or, it will be, in a couple weeks. Good.

There’s something on this list of notes called Strange Brigade, and I have literally no idea what that is. Oops again.

Mario+Rabbids 2, now with a Rabbid Goth GF. I’m terrified to go on any fuckin NSFW platforms for the next couple weeks, because I’m sure everyone is drawing incredibly cursed hentai of that thing. Ubisoft sucks ass, fuck Ubisoft, don’t buy this.

 Advance Wars

This sure isn’t Fire Emblem. Actually when I was explaining to my mates why this was cool, I called it Fire Emblem but with tanks instead of waifus, except I forgot this game still has waifus. I know strategy nerds love this series, so for their sake I’m happy to see it remade. This just looks unbelievably cute.

 Zelda

Oh look, Hyrule Warriors 2 DLC, Zelda gets the motorbike now, cool who fucking cares we got more BOTW sequel footage

It does kinda bug me that people keep calling this BOTW 2, because there’s no way that’s what it’s going to be called. Zelda has never done numbered sequels. I mean, they’ve also very rarely done sequels at all, but there are a few- Phantom Hourglass is a sequel to Wind Waker iirc.

It is kinda funny that right after I was saying boo who cares to Skyward Sword remake (still mad this is one game and not a collection) that the new game clearly has SS-ass floating islands and such.

I was hoping we’d get to see Zelda do things this game. Apparently not, she’s stuck in a hole now. Or dead. A shame. But Link at least looks kickass, so.

Look, they could not say a single other thing until release and everyone would still buy this game. Breath of the Wild was an incredible enough game that so many things that vaguely resemble it get compared- Genshin Impact comes to mind. This is likely made by the same (or similar) team, in the same world, and it looks fucking incredible. We all know this is going to be a good game. My hot take isn’t going to change that.

 And that’s the tea, sis. All the shit that Ninty had in their corner of E3. It’s a pretty solid lineup! It looks like they are bringing their A-game. I was kind of surprised not to see any Pokemon stuff- while it usually gets its own direct these days, BDSP is really coming up soon and they kinda need to win back the crowd on that one.

Oh what am I saying, it’s fucking Nintendo, it’s too big to fail.