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The Strange Case Of Blaze's Short-Lived Flame In The Mortal Kombat Franchise

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I remembered back when I was in elementary (and yes, it's funny how arcades just didn't have that strict rule about M17 games) when Mortal Kombat II came out. One of the points of interest was how there was the Pit II - a new stage that introduced a stage fatality where the opponent fell a bird's eye view. An interesting thing was there were two characters. One was called "Hornbuckle" and the other was "Blaze". It was even rumored that you could fight both characters aside from a character dubbed as "Blood" or "Skarlet". However, Mortal Kombat II only had three hidden bosses namely Jade, Smoke, and Noob Saibot. Blaze started out as a background character and was finally made playable in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance . I still feel Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance is a junk game at best . There were interesting concepts such as the Red Dragon clan where the Black Dragon originated. However, neither Mavado nor Hsu Hao could beat Kano'...

Wacky Post: Why I Felt Zoey Reeves Is A Better Character Than Yoko Usami

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Henshin Grid I remembered writing my rant on Beast Morphers' good points and missed potential . I must also confess that I ended up enjoying neither Ryusoulger nor Beast Morphers in the long run . I've prepared some random rants between Beast Morphers and its source material Go-Busters . I felt I wanted to make this an individual WACKY post that I want to write for fun. It's known that I dislike Power Rangers but I ended up watching a few seasons. I did drop Megaforce due to how dull it is (and better rewatch Shinkenger instead for eye candy plus plot) and I ended up dropping Dino Charge since I'm no fan of Kyoryuger either. Ninja Steel just plain sucks since Victor and Monty make Takaharu look like a genius. I decided to check out what Hasbro could do with Beast Morphers and there are still some good points. It's like how I think Lightspeed Rescue's calm leadership approach is better than having a Drill Sergeant Nasty. I think about how Yasuko Kobayashi tends t...