Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Reverse Castle
Monday, October 30, 2023
Screamers (1995)
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Tremors (1990)
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine, 1993)
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Them! (1954)
Also, fun fact: This movie inspired Aliens quite a bit. That's right, it's Proto-Aliens. That alone makes this a bit of a historical artifact.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Super NES, 1992)
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Playstation 2, 2006)
Monday, October 23, 2023
Mortal Kombat: Deception (Playstation 2, 2004)
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (Playstation 2, 2002)
This one is the first to go full 3D, and begins a trilogy of sorts on the PS2 gen. This culminates with MK Armageddon (AKA MK7) which is basically the end of the series as we know it. But not to worry, it gets rebooted (...twice) after that.
In any case, this one has Shang Tsung and Quan-Chi teaming up to form the DEADLY ALLIANCE. Only question is, which one's the bitch and which one's the butch which one gets to be the final boss?
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Creed Champions (Playstation 4, 2021)
Friday, October 20, 2023
Highlander 4x21 - Judgment Day
Kind of a dramatic name here. I kinda doubt this episode is gonna be worth such a hyperbolic title, but we'll see. This is the first half of the season finale on the DVD sets officially, while in the original broadcast airing it was the sole season finale and the second half was held over to S5 to leave us on a cliffhanger.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Mortal Kombat IV (N64, 1998) + Mortal Kombat Gold (Dreamcast, 1999)
Thursday, October 5, 2023
MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero + MK Mythologies: Special Forces (N64 and PS1, 1997 and 2000)
They should have called both games MK ULTRA because they're torture. Not sure how far I'll be getting with either of these but I sure won't be finishing either.
That's right, it's the infamous side-games where you play as specific characters, fleshing out their story a bit. I think they were planning a whole series of these, but the idea bombed out quickly and only really got revisited with the Liu Kang / Kung Lao driven Shaolin Monks years and years later. That game is actually good, probably because Ed Boon took command on it unlike these two disasters.
In said disasters you're playing as Sub-Zero and Jax respectively. Special Forces was supposed to also center around Sonya, which would have added a lot to the game (and let them knock out another character from their no doubt long list of side games they'd have to do if this "do a game starring each character" madness continued). After some development hell, playable Sonya was left out of the game. Originally you chose one of the two characters at the outset and played as them throughout, with the second character appearing to offer assists or show up in cutscenes. Well, far as I can tell Sonya was totally removed.
I don't know how many characters they were planning to do games for, but it appears that it was at least the original cast. Mythologies: Sub-Zero has the titular character and Scorpion, while Special Forces was supposed to star Jax and Sonya going aganst Kano. That leaves Raiden and Liu Kang, who were...the next planned games. However they also had a Baraka game on the drawing board so they may have extended into MK2's roster. The Baraka and Liu Kang games were cancelled, while the concepts for the Raiden game were retooled into aforementioned "only good spinoff" Shaolin Monks with Liu Kang and Kung Lao. (Edit: I forgot Johnny Cage lol...but so did they)
Fun Fact: While both are prequels to the main series, Special Forces is canonically the first game in the entire MK-verse, taking place before any of the others.