The only raidens i accept are
Mk legends raiden
Mk dotr raiden
Mk conquest raiden
And 95 raiden
And the og raiden
Because mk11 raiden?
Horrible,i hate dark raiden(always have,sorry to me its a cop out and a cheap way of writing his darker traits. I hate when a character has to become "evil" to show dark traits. Or worse have an external factor to contribute to said darkness,ugh). I hate hate how raiden sounds. No offense to Richard epcar fans but he doesn't sound like raiden to me. He just sounds like Joseph joestar. (I love him but not for this character. Not rai). I hate how he basically had to do a dbz fusion dance with liu kang to defeat a mediocre villain. Which btw was easier to beat with shang tsung than liu kang. And liu is supposed to be easy in every mk game ive played. Which for the past how many years i have never had any problems playing liu kang,like at all. Legit shang tsung is so damn easy to play.
Raiden is relatively easy and so is kung lao. Sindel is embarrassingly easy to play,oof.
But yeah. Raiden's character consulting every five damn seconds with the elder gods is annoying af. The real raiden wouldn't have a need to unless and absolute crisis. But even then he has faith in his warriors. Thats the difference between the real og raiden,and legit any other raiden before mk9(minus crappy dark raiden,sorry not sorry) and mk11 raiden.
Plus i hate how unemotional they make raiden. That's not how he's supposed to be. In fact. That's quite the opposite of how he is.
Its like NRS is trying to make raidens character unlikable so we should like his younger brother more when thats horrible. Because raiden n fujin go hand n hand and never separated.
Fujin is his equal and brother. And should be treated as such. But he isn't. The only difference between them is one does things in an introverted way and the other extroverted. One is the carefree young bro and the other protective and caring older bro. Thats legit it! Its not the fucking hard to comprehend.
Yet NRS,completely forgot that. And shat on the ogs work and lore.
But then again they wanna be the next hot thing to the *shivers* mcu. Like its disturbing.
Like also not to mention,there was more gameplay in aftermath than the main story. I felt like i was watching a movie instead of playing an actual game.
That's annoying af. Like i absolutely about fell asleep while playing. That's how annoying it was.
Aftermath is clearly the stronger of the two archs. And genuinely ngl. Solely because of shang tsung,fujin and nightwolf. Especially shang tsung. Come fucking on its cary hiroyuki tagawa ffs! How can you not!?
But also fujin and nightwolfs contribution to that arch was amazing too.
Like fr. I wish the whole game was about those three.
It would be way fucking better than whatever crap they were trying to sell before shang came back.
Shang tsung single handedly made mortal kombat interesting.
To get rid of him is not good. But its also bad when this one asshole(i say that lovingly shang darling) is your only one thing keeping you afloat story wise.
How bad does your games storyline gotta be when the dlc og villain is the best thing about your game? Shang tsung legit was the saving grace of mk11.
Yeah i said it. Die mad NRS.
No i won't shut up about how the fucked up raiden badly.
It pisses me off.
Nor will i shut up about how NRS is kinda shooting themselves in the foot with all the bullshit they do in their games.
I wanna hope in mk12 they fix them buuuuut i doubt it.
They are gonna completely rehash the whole mk universe. Practically been doing that.
And honestly if tagawa dont come back as shang. I don't want anything to do with any more mortal kombat games.
Period.
And i mean that.
Sorry this vent was originally about raiden. Then came back to shang. Ha! You should know i cant stay away from shang for long.
But yeah. Raiden. Poor raiden. Always getting the short end. Just like kung lao.
Ugh.
