Re: 4th DLC Character Discussion~ All posts related to it go here.
Well... let 's be honest for a moment..
Let's forget he's Freddy and imagine he's a new MK character :
- his design : pretty blank, not enough details, face burned like Kabal... just the bladed gloves for some points
- his pre-/post-fight stances : pre-fight looking like what Scorpion's should have been, post-fight actually nice, with the blood spray to the screen
- his moves : not that much of originality, hack and slash moves, a semi-teleport move, and blades sticking out from the ground. I mean when we see the work done on Kenshi and Rain to make them more different, not a lot going on there
- his X-Ray : not much there either, but they never show the X-rays til the end in these trailer, so we'll have to wait and see how it ends
- his Fatalities : pretty cool, especially the second one (in the oven)
So even if he wasn't Freddy, not much going on for him, much more like a generic character with cool Fatalities...
But now, he's Freddy Krueger, and when I'll see him on the screen, I'll have to force myself to think that he's a part of the MKverse... I already had problems with Kratos, but at least with him it was fun because we had played with him in 3-5 games before, and it was nice to perform fatalities on him... I really don't see who would want to cut Freddy in half any more than they do it to other characters...
As others have said : marketing...
At least WB should have announced a new movie at the same time, that would have been actually more to the point.
I'm still waiting to see how well/bad he sells...