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Shaolin Monks is a scrolling beat ’em up in the most traditional of senses. Like most, we were sceptical hearing about another scrolling MK game, but, iconic imagery aside, Shaolin Monks bears little resemblance to the title dubbed one of the PlayStation’s worst ever games. #Fatality liu kang mortal kombat shaolin monks fullFollowing a narrative set between the events of MK1 and MK2, players can choose to control Liu Kang or Kung Lao in a linear fighter spanning a variety of otherworldly hotspots and a full quota of classic MK characters.īefore we go any further, we should probably set to rest the obvious fears: the laudable MK Mythologies this is most certainly not. It’s a marriage made in, well… Outworld.Īnd that’s exactly where the game picks up. #Fatality liu kang mortal kombat shaolin monks seriesThe fact that ‘serious’ fighting fans already discount the series also makes it perfect for adventure adaptation, with no hardcore fan base to alienate. It is perhaps fitting that a title looking to breathe new life into the scrolling fighter belongs to a retro fighting franchise itself only recently reincarnated. Following the trend comes Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, a game that unashamedly wears its Golden Axe heritage on its beaten, bloodied bonnet. Gracing these pages earlier this month was Quantic Dream’s adventure Fahrenheit – a title adopting the earliest of Lucasarts’ sensibilities. And, like buses, it would seem that genre revivals come in twos. Thankfully, the recent demand for ‘pick up and play’ games has proven a vehicle for change. Which leaves the pure scrolling beat ’em where all fighting game foes belong: dead. From blessed beginnings to Devil May Cry, two console generations have more recently seen the genre descend to a set of sequels and clones based on Konami’s single defining title.ĭante’s shoulders may be broad, but they carry a hybrid style of gaming a brand of duelling, gunplay and puzzle-solving that suits the title of ‘Gothic Action’ better than ‘all-out brawler’. With the possible exception of the point ‘n’ click adventure, few genres have suffered such a decline in the last decade. It’s a strange thing tracing the lineage of the scrolling fighter. ![]()
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