Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Mortal Kombat had those really weird boss outros plus we have Shao Kahn having the most number of death outros since he had the most number of appearances. Now it's time to do my reaction to how these happen: 1.) Mortal Kombat's Shang Tsung - IMO, this is pretty funny. So the last hit causes him to "dance" cha cha and the souls of the kombatants come out of his body. In the process, he actually dies as the souls come out of his body hinting to why he could use the abilities of others. 2.) Mortal Kombat II Shao Kahn - I felt this one was pretty weird. The final hit has your character doing the win pose then Shao Kahn does his "laugh pose" but he's actually saying "No..." several times. The background changes (which IMO can be either cool or just annoying) before he turns into stone and explodes. 3.) Shao Kahn's Mortal Kombat 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy death is where souls come out of his bodies. I felt like...

The more I think about Akuma getting involved in the Tekken-Verse, wait isn't that guy supposed to belong to the Street Fighter-verse instead? Granted, Street Fighter V has been released and it does look pretty good. But what in the world is Akuma doing in Tekken? Weren't Tekken and Street Fighter supposed to be separate universes plus there's some differences in gameplay. During the time I didn't like Tekken all that much because of the "odd gameplay" of using one button per limb plus I wasn't all that fond of non-projectile based gameplay, I was more into Street Fighter. But as the years passed by, I felt like Tekken has become my favorite fighting game franchise. What's not surprising is that Ed Boon who's the producer of Mortal Kombat is a Tekken fan himself. Then we had Street Fighter X Tekken which forces Tekken players to play Tekken characters in a much more different way. I mean, let's take a look at Street Fighter's gam...

Chad Lee's martial arts focused episode in Lightspeed Rescue did show some decent amounts of original footage. Him fighting Cyclopter one on one shows that, "Mike Chat beats overrated JDF anytime!" Though I really had a thought that if Judd Lynn could copy ideas from Dynaman, Flashman and Changeman and Americanize them for Power Rangers then here's an idea that could've been used in Lightspeed Rescue. What could have been better is not that "Chad meets his martial arts master." because I felt like he's qualified to teach a bunch of kids. Instead, what if the Fiveman episode where Ken Hoshikawa beats Amoeba Rugin got copied into Lightspeed Rescue? What if Chad decided to fight Cyclopter out of suit to teach a couple of kids who feel like giving up not to give up? What are your thoughts?

With my plans to buy a Playstation 4 and Mortal Kombat XL, I thought about Kombat Pack 2 which might be the last Kombat Pack considering that XL is the complete edition of the game. While Mortal Kombat X gets a lot of praise for its new innovative fighting system but it's also had its own criticisms too like why in the world do you hold down block as part of the run process?! So I do read encouraging reviews, gameplay looks tempting but I think the Kombat Pack characters are really, really all the more unnecessary. The first Kombat Pack had Tanya, Jason Vorhees, Predator and Tremor. Well Tanya and Tremor were Mortal Kombat characters. The second Kombat Pack IMO is just ridiculous with the new characters. Instead of having Baraka, Sindel and Rain as part of it why are we getting Alien, Leatherface, Tri-Borg and Bo Rai Cho? I don't really even care too much about Bo Rai Cho either. It's not Mortal Kombat vs. Hollywood and back in Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition I really eve...

While it can be understood that Netherrealm had every reason to cancel Mortal Kombat X for last generation and THANKFULLY they are releasing Mortal Kombat XL which is the complete edition for those who weren't able to afford the current generation consoles back then. This is probably Namco on a downhill. I mean, Ed Boon's compensation for those who can't get the game now is that by releasing XL, it's assumed that they may have already bought a PS4 by now. It's at a time like this when I ask myself, "Is getting a PS4 now worth it?" I remembered how often I have berated Marvel vs. Capcom 3 for being anemic while flaunting how Tekken Tag Tournament 2 was so full of content, bonuses and there's a lot of stuff to offer. In the past, I didn't like Tekken that much due to its unusual control scheme which I grew attached to sooner or later. Tekken as a console game always came out a year after the release of the Arcade Game. But don't you feel that ...

Although Ed Boon's favoritism for Scorpion is as obvious as my favoritism for Liu Kang - I could really not help but notice how the latter still does have a spot for Mortal Kombat as an important character. After they supposedly "killed him off" during Deadly Alliance, he was returned during Mortal Kombat Deception. Now I'd like to talk on how he was developed in both the original incarnation of Mortal Kombat and the series' reincarnation. So what really happened? During the first game, he was practically just another character. But in later series, he really does play the important part as one of the main protagonists. But aside from that, one can really notice the following changes in the character as the series went by. He was having the use of dragons in some of his moves. For instance, his trademark move is the Flying Dragon Kick taken from the late Bruce Lee. But later, even when he became a Chinese version of Street Fighter's Ryu, dragons just kept ...

Well here's the cute characters of Akazukin Cha Cha. Cha Cha is a cute character, there's also Orin and Riiya (in his wolf form).  I always thought it's funny how Cha Cha and Orin both look alike even if well... the show doesn't give a single hint they're related. How Orin is a blonde ninja was never explained whether or not her mother is a white woman or she just dyed her hair. Considering that Cha Cha and Orin belong to the same class, I think Orin is just too short for her age (well the cast graduated in the middle of the show) or two, she's a gifted child that has managed to skip several levels in Urara. As for Cha Cha as a cute character, she doesn't look like a a person who's about to enter Middle School.