GloriousDK
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Yeah, she looked great in Deadly Alliance. It was Lin Quei garb, sure. But it wasn't you know... ridiculous. It looked really cool.
As a graphic designer and a Jade fan, I can honestly say that Jade was unique from Kitana in MKD-MKA, but went back to dress alike Kitana in MK9. Why? Well, most likely to represent the MKT days where the two of them were palette swaps, both assassins for Shao Kahn, so her appearance along with Kitana's were alot like a uniform of sorts. Alot of MK9's character designs were homages of their trilogy costumes. And since MK9 was all about going back to square one, it's both understandable and acceptable.
So let me ask you this: do you think it's a complete coincidence that MK9's Jade and Smoke are "paying homages" to their palette swap days, while Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Noob, Ermac, Reptile, and Mileena continue developing down the same divergent paths they've been on for the last 3-4 games?
Scorpion's rocking the ninja swords, Subz has got his clan symbols on his armor, Noob looks evil as shit in his hoodie, Ermac looks more like an Eastern mystic than ever before, Reptile is a reptile, Mileena's a slutmummy with a bad dental plan... why didn't any of these guys go retro? Well, maybe because going retro would actually not make any sense because NRS sees them as very different characters, and they don't want us thinking "Ermac used to be a ninja!" because they're so proud with what they've done with him since then. While Jade has a slightly different bikini from Kitana's (both lackluster MK2 updates) and Smoke literally recycles textures from his Klassic costume in his main. If that's not "we don't even care" from NRS, I don't know what is.
What should ppl (her fans) do exactly? I mean she is not the only one not making the cut so should ppl make threads and complain about every character not being in the game?
I like her but i understand that there's no space for her in MKX and that's it. I have my favorites too but if they don't make a cut i will not "cry" and complain about that. For example i would already replace some announced characters with others because i am not a fan but oh well... they can't please everybody.
Also imo she is in the game! Her spirit and style and weapons are there with Kitana's variation.
After UMK3, I hate Jade with a burning passion.
She was a pain to fight lol. I used to spam projectiles to win in the old games and when i got to her she was like um no b!tch haha
you can add mileena to that list too
what a trash bin of a character
literal (bad) clone of kitana, only difference is that shes a slut
not even a story chapter in mk9
what a waste
you can add mileena to that list too
what a trash bin of a character
literal (bad) clone of kitana, only difference is that shes a slut
not even a story chapter in mk9
what a waste
Um, no Evil character had a chapter in MK9's story mode...you can add mileena to that list too
what a trash bin of a character
literal (bad) clone of kitana, only difference is that shes a slut
not even a story chapter in mk9
what a waste
That's probably one of the reasons why NRS doesn't have the strong will to move forward and do something new. Every time they kill a character, someone goes "OH NOEZ WHY doesn't he/she have any fans?!". I mean no offense, it's just... we were promised a new game. It's enough that even friggin' Jax is back (AGH). If Jade was in too = one less new character/one less (good) character from MK4 onwards that they could develop. I'd rather see her rot. I wish Jax, Kitana and Kung Lao would rot too.