Mortal Kombat 11

My main series of fighting games, which by the 11th part had become completely ambiguous. On the one hand, the gameplay has moved from wild rush downs and 50% combinations without a meter like in MKH, to a more measured one, where you think about what to press and how to defend. On the other hand, they wildly simplified the most important fighting game mechanics - making the game more casual. You no longer need to spend 200 hours of your life training one combination for the sake of 50% hp. All you need now is to press at the right time: d2, a couple of hits and FB. My point is that now any player can deal a lot of damage in literally 5-6 hits. But the Combat League is a separate matter. KL is the place where the gameplay turns from measured to fierce trash. Heaps of pokes, grabs, zoning and just brutal shit where a guy who has never picked up a gamepad at all picks up Sub-Zero or Jade and defeats you in FT2 battles with just a couple of hits and one combo. Speaking of characters. It seems like NRS said that they spend $1 million on each character during development. And I readily believe them because the animation, costumes and just the appearance of the characters are excellent. True, there is one small “BUT” - and this “BUT” sits in the series at least with UMK3. Balance. We can talk about the balance in MK11 forever, so I’ll be brief and just say that it seems to me that they didn’t care about the balance in this part. Perhaps I have some kind of paranoia, but it seems to me that the game specifically adapts to your skill and selects opponents who are either weaker or +- of the same skill level. I spent 500+ hours in the game. There was a period when I couldn’t get out of it at all. Sometimes I dropped and didn’t play for months, but whatever one may say, MK11 is the most relevant, popular and controversial part of the series. But I love this series, this game, and I probably wouldn’t spend so much time of my life on something I don’t like. Although...