#leswell rants

[sinimake]

I mean, everyone can ship any fictional characters together but I always find Kenshi and Mileena shipping super weird bc not only Mileena is the one who blinded him, but also the fact that the shipper are taking Mileena out of the only canonical queer ship in the game.

It is even weirder when people call them out, those shippers scream about bi erasure then turn around and take a dump on the lgbtq progression we are trying so hard to push forward. Like, i would not give a single flying fuck if we had bunch of queer canon ships laying around but out of any fucking pairings, they are going for the ONLY. CANON. QUEER. RELATIONSHIP. IN. THE. GAME. TO. THIS. DATE.

FOUL.

#taleena #leswell rants #again #mortal kombat #kenshi takahashi #mileena #i dont even wanna tag their ship name tf #mk1 #mortal kombat 2023

[sinimake]

MK1 is such a bizarre experience bc on one hand some characters have benefited a lot from the "universe reset" (Baraka, Reptile, even arguably Shao who is less than a muahahaha conquer villain but someone who actually seems to care about his realm?). Others kind of raise interesting questions, like Shang Tsung : is he doomed to be bad or can he be good for a change? (In the story he choses to become a snake-oil salesman before joining the imperial family + there is an Union of Light Shang Tsung so him being good is a thing that could happen).

But then, instead of using that full reset NRS just leaves some things the same? Like. It's a reset. In 2023/2023. That was the perfect moment for implementing some (maybe not lots) changes. Perhaps starting making Johnny canonically bi? Just a small ripple towards a bigger change? Instead of getting stuck in same old ways?

YOW EXACTLY

Things i loved about Mk1 change:

Mileena and Kitana sibling relationship

Rain's character design

Tanya and Mileena!!!!

Sindel being badass empress and outworld thriving in peace under her reign

Baraka and Syzoth on the good side!!

Kenshi's yakuza past

Geras and Liu Kang's friendship! Liu Kang actually treating Geras as his equal 🥺 and Geras being so loyal to him 😫😭

Shang Tsung's zitsy behavior

Lin Kuei brothers 🥺

What i hate:

Hanzo being a kid and essentially everything about him being handed to Kuai Liang

Kung Lao being the second best again

Raiden and Kitana romance

Mileena and Tanya having the barest screen time

Controversial opinionated rant down below

I hated that they essentially just switched Liu Kang and Raiden's places. I started MK1 right after MK11 that i was furious to see Raiden chosen as the champion (IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY BOY KUNG LAO LET HIM SHINE ISTG) and then flirting with Kitana with Liu Kang's exact line (I hope we meet again under different circumstances)??? Tf??

I understand that some plot elements are too good to change but character romances? Don't replace one side of the pairing, then try to serve it to the audience again! Reboot should give us more variety of character designs, stories, dynamics, and relationships. Give us the genderbent, queer, poc characters BC YOU'RE NOT EVEN SACRIFICING ANYTHING when we literally have infinite alternative timelines you can recall classics from. For example, we have our human Raiden and old man titan Raiden. We can do variety. I wanna see female Fujin, i wanna see Scorpion Harumi and fighter Suchin, i want actual deserved queer representation in Kung Jin, and i. wanna. see. canon Johnshi!

My hypothesis is that NRS is gonna bring in mk children through dimensional travel so that they don't need to age up our current characters. I'm saying this to push my point further that we don't need to repeat romance plotlines (dont come at me. I have bais just as you have bais for ur fav old pairings)

Listen, i loved Sonya and Johnny in previous games, her and Cassie were a huge part of Johnny's character arc, but since Johnny is already maturing by the end of mk1, i don't see a point in Cageblade anymore (very controversial but it's my blog so i will yap as much as i want) We are not erasing anything by possibly making Johnny queer. Johnny and Sonya can be married in different timeline and Cassie is still their child. If anything, we are enriching the character, expanding the universe. Really, I don't wanna buy the exact same game story in different graphics. I don't want to see Suchin die again just to serve Kenshi and Takeda's dynamic.

And don't even get me started again on heteronormality of the game. We have 6 realms that have diverse variety of biological and sociological configurations AND YOU'RE TELLING ME THEY ARE ALL HETEROSEXUAL?? NRS is a fucking pussy for not having enough queer representation. They think they can give us vague "blink, you will miss it" moments and move on. There are so many high selling good games with good lgbtq characters. Literal 2023's the game of the year, BG3 is so fucking gay that it's off to space and you're telling me that NRS is just going 🥺👉👈 but our fans 🥺👉👈

Anyways, NRS can eat shit and Johnshi for the president 🤘

#leswell thinks #rant #dragging nrs thru mud again #sorry for the rant #don't come at me #johnshi #mortal kombat #mk1 #mortal kombat 2023 #mk1 2023 #leswell rants

[sinimake]

Another beef i have with NRS

Look how they massacred my boyy. Who's this Wal-Mart edition of Kenshi Takahashi? Looks nothing like him 😭

Even his nose—😭😭

#leswell rants #kenshi takahashi #mortal kombat #mk1 #mk1 2023 #mortal kombat 2023

[sinimake]

What's with the beef with NRS (no ill intent just a genuine question. I would like to hear you out)

I linked my previous rant but the summary of it is that i hate NRS is doing bare minimum of lgbtq representation with scrubbed clean, barely-there moments and playing safe just to appeal to their heteronormative mass.

This beef is fueled by johnshi (obviously) how NRS is just making offhand straight couples while refusing to canonize one of their most organic pairings. Idk if i explicitly mentioned it on my blog or not, but while i love Ashrah and Syzoth together, i don't like the fact that how easily NRS made them a couple. They literally have one line of direct interaction ("good work, Syzoth") in the story mode but out of nowhere, they're dating? I know some length of time passed between the end of story and intro lines happening, and they had bonded during it, BUT isn't it so frustrating that nobody questioned or resisted them?

No gay ships could do that. I'm just sooo jealous and envious.

#oops more rants again #i love ashrah and syzoth #dont get me wrong #im projecting my own queer problems to fictional world #leswell thinks #johnshi #mortal kombat #mk1 2023 #johnny x kenshi #ask leswell #leswell rants

[sinimake]

NRS is really out there forgetting Kenshi's tattoos and giving him eyeballs on official art and then they have the audacity to make me feel like a delulu for shipping Johnshi. I see I see I see okay okay I see it now 😒

Ok look at this

What in the—???? Am i tripping??? Or did nrs get really lazy with Kenshi? Fucking jail time

#kenshi takahashi #leswell rants #mortal kombat #mk1

[sinimake]

I managed to see some of your NRS rants, and I found it echoed a lot of thoughts I had about NRS being cowards.

I was reminded of a thread a found on Twitter of instances where Kenshi talks about Johhny, and the last tweet mentioned that Kenshi talks about Suchin 3 times in comparison to Johnny's 10.

Her mentions tick me off so much, Suchin is a literal nothing character--always has been--and it's giving that they knew tthe shippers would be shipping and needed to assure the dudebros.

So what was once giving birth to Takada and dying; now Suchin's purpose is ammo for dudebros to comment "he has girlfriend" on Johnshi content. 

It's feeling very intentional fr.

Oh yeah. Good ol' trick every productions use to beat homo allegations. At least if the straight ship they push so hard had better chemistry than the fanship, i wouldn't complain, alas 👀

#leswell rants #mortal kombat 2023 #mortal kombat #johnshi

[sinimake]

I don't know if you saw one of the latest Johnshi post but apparently in the game if you fight in Johnny's mansion as someone else than Kenshi, Sento is displayed on the wall. But if you play as Kenshi he takes it from the wall.

Like. I know it's a trick bc they wouldn't give Johnny another mansion so of course they are going to keep the one from the story + Kenshi taking Sento is a neat touch but goddamitall NRS you cowards they are roommates 😭

Oh yeah, i noticed it like way before 😆💓

Some small details are so cute in the game, specially when you go free roaming camera, you see all the intricacies of the stages.

THEN some times NRS forgets things like these two instances Kenshi had Sento when he shouldn't have:

Idk man whats nrs is doing?

#kenshi takahashi #leswell rants #mortal kombat #mk1 2023 #mk1 #mortal kombat 2023

[sinimake]

You know the skins are bad when people on reddit are actively angry and disappointed that they didn't get the PINK skins 😭😭 whomst the fuck thought this was a good idea oh my god I'm in denial this must be a joke

If the musty reddit is mad about not getting pink skins, you know you really fucked up.

#mortal kombat #Mileena Season #leswell rants

[sinimake]

Oh my god we already have the first skins for the new season of Invasions and they are...so fcking ugly. I'm sorry but what the hell? 😭 like, somo of the colors seem fine but the hairstyles are just WILD. I'm so sad bc I've been waiting for this season for months hoping we would get killer skins (seeing how it's Mileena's season). The. Devastation.

I AM THIS 🤏 CLOSE TO FLY TO NRS AND KICK DOWN THE DOOR!!!

I was SO EXCITED for Mileena's season bc i knew this skin would be available with its full elegance, look at the hair, the petal like suit, amazing 👏 😍

I was expecting these sort of skins for everyone; red eyed, tarkatan featured rosters with the magenta, pink and purple color theme. I was rubbing my hands together and shit like this

BUT WHAT DID I WAKE UP TO???

FUCKING TOMATO SALAD LOOKING ASS, SANTAS ELVES WITH ICE CREAM TOP LOOKING ASS. THOSE CUTS ARE NOT IT G NOT IT ALL NOT IT ALL

These skins are making Titan Havik's Kenshi in the storymode look good—and that should indicate how bad it is.

Even if they were originally for Havik's season, HAVIK DESERVES BETTER THAN THESE

THESE HANDS!!! THESE HANDS WILL CATCH NRS!!!

#leswell rants #WHEN I CATCH U NRS #mortal kombat

[sinimake]

Someone needs to call a plumber to NRS for the amount of pure shits they just flushed out. Also check for any gas leaks too because they must be off their rockers to have an audacity to do this

#mileena deserves better #mortal kombat #mileena #leswell rants

[sinimake]

NRS listen, i got an idea. How about we get more mk characters in mk1 roster instead of totally random characters from totally different franchises?? I know it's a crazy idea, but hhmm???? Yes or no??

#just think about it? #maybe there are people youre forgetting about #leswell rants #mortal kombat #mk1

[sinimake]

So ... NRS didn't really do ANYTHING for The Lunar New Year or Valentine's Day huh?

#when will have some fear of god #imagine having a game with so much asian influence #and not do anything for LNY #eye— #leswell rants

[sinimake]

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