Honest Game Trailersturned its attention ontoMortal Kombat 11recently, delivering acritique ofMortal Kombatin order to point out some of its comically ridiculous themes and aesthetics. One such critique is on the photo-realism that Next-Gen gaming brings to the game’s bone crushing attacks and fatalities.
This isn’t the first time thatHonest Game Trailershas taken a hit at theMortal Kombatseries on the Fandom Games YouTube channel. However, withMortal Kombat 11’s popularity rising in the wake of new DLC characters dropping in 2020, the long running YouTube series has decided to take a crack at giving an “honest” take on the latest game in the long running series.
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One observation of the game gets oddly real as the voice over looks at the HD carnage happening on the screen and begins to realize that he is slowly becoming desensitized to human suffering. This is obviously a joke on how the game presents the fairly horrifying display of blood and guts in a campy, funny manner meant to insight players to giggle at the “Next-Gen giblets” splashing across the screen. Considering how brutal some ofMoral Kombat 11’s Fatalitiesand Fatal Blows can get, the observation is fairly poignant for the way the game presents what a horror title might use to elicit disgust or fear.
The video doesn’t necessarily hang on the hyper violence for the entire five minutes that it looks into the primary aspects ofMortal Kombat 11. After moving on from the game’s carnage, the voice-over focuses on the extremely convoluted story inMortal Kombat 11’s campaign, complete with the time travel and universe swapping that brings old characters from the past and alternate dimensions. While the story is somewhat overly complicated, it has been a great way to bring newDLC characters like Jokerand the T-800 to the game.
Players have clearly connected strongly with the latest in theMortal Kombatseries and all that it has brought into the hyper-violent franchise. As a result of the massive community that has formed around the series, there are currentlytwo movies rebooting theMortal Kombatmovie franchisefor the next generation of movie goers. It’s yet to be said how well these new movies will do, but with how many players and viewers tune in just to watch gameplay ofMortal Kombat 11at tournaments and on Twitch, there is clearly an audience looking to see the game come to the big screen.
Mortal Kombat 11is available now for PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, and Xbox One.
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