I don’t have much affection for . It’s the newest entry in the series that hooked me on fighters, with a cast I adore and mechanics that are welcoming to little scrubs like me. But the story is a half-baked MCU rip-off, the post-launch c🐲ontent has been egregious given the base game’s price tag, and the single-player offerings have be♏en boring at best, and exhausting at worst.
Once upon a time, we had the Towers and the Krypt. You’d go into the Towers, which rotated weekly, monthly, and daily, and duke it out against a string of enemies or bosses, earning loot,🍸 Koins, and XP in the process. You’d get cool new gear and skins for your favourites and gradually improve with each character. It was a novel—and, importantly, intuitive—way to stay engaged in a fighter without getting swept up in the competitive scene. The Krypt then let you spend Koins on chests to get even more cosm🙈etics, but it was more than a glorified lootbox corridor.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Injustice 2 did have lootboxes, aℱnd frankly, I miss t🅷hem. The Towers would earn you a boatload of them for free and they often came with incredible cosmetics, all without having to grind several levels of a board game each month.
The Krypt was essentially a 3D Metroidvania dungeon. There were puzzles, unique items to discover, and blocked paths you had to find the tools to open. Charting the Krypt to completion was a gratifying experience that synerg𒐪ised well with Towers, but could be ignored entirely if you weren’t fussed about changing Scorpion’s boots. Invasio꧙ns is the only way to get loot now, bar character levels.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat 1’s new mode is ultimately a sluggish attempt to reinvent the wheel, swapping the intricate dungeons of old for a board game that’s… not really a board game. The minigames amount to ‘dodge slow-moving lasers’ and the fights are just individual tower segments with a pile of a𝓰nnoying modifiers. It’s as if you took the Towers of Time, spread them out over a tedious-to-traverse labyrinth with no map, and gutted the Krypt, redistributing its rewards across lukewarm boss fights instead.
Invasions is also segmented into themed seasons, but after two, the cracks are starting to show. They come with bland-to-decent skins based on their stories, 💖168澳洲幸运5开奖网:this month being Nitara’s vampiric invasion, but it’s hard to stay motivated when the much better offerings are only available via a Fortnite-style ro𒐪tating storefront. Not to beat a dead horse, but expensive microtransactions i꧅n a premium triple-A title are deflating, especially when the base game ones are already so basic.
The ‘theme’ is also limited to those character skins, some of which are dumped in the separate Shrine tab (essentially a free slot machine). The actual boards don’t change much (nor do the levels), and the final boss fight at the end goes out like a whoopie cushion since the grind to get there makes you incredibly 🍎overpowered. With the variety already stagnated after two seasons, the future is bleak.
Granted, there is a kind of Towers o🐈f Time hidden in the Invasions mode on its own island, but the Towers are, like everything in Invasions, spread out over a board. It makes it a needless hassle to navigate. Rather than cycling through them via a menu, which makes them easier to compare and find, you have to walk to and from them. This also me♎ans the Towers are🌼 tied to your Invasions level, which again rips away the challenge and makes it harder to get comfortable with individual characters.
But worst of all, Invasions is online only. Yep, the single-player component cannot be played offline. I found this out when I recently moved house—I didn't have internet for a few days, but I had MK1 installed and figured I could grind Invasions for a bit while I watched YouTube. Lo and behold, the mode was locked, and my only option was to play the Challenge Towers.
At this point, the only reason to play through Invasions each season is to get a few okay skins and see a couple of story cutscenes. Scorpion’s multiversal quest to find𓃲 a reality where his wife isn’t killed was interesting, but again, within just one season, the cracks are showing. Nitara’s amounted to ‘What if X character ruled their reality and came to invade ours’, which it looks like future se🔜asons (such as Sub-Zero and Raiden) will follow.
There’s no incentive to keep going, playing is a chore, and☂ the rewards are lukewarm. I think I’ll just wait for Mortal Kombat 2.
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