Mortal Kombat 1 Developers Struggled Featuring 24 Characters
Mortal Kombat fans are waiting on the next major installment to land in the marketplace later this year. However, we’re still in the dark if you’re itching to see the entire roster. But fortunately, NetherRealm Studios has been teasing fans with new character reveals over a series of teasers and trailers. Today, we’re finding out that the roster should contain a total of 24 fighters, according to a new report from Temple of Geek that surfaced online. This publication managed to speak with Dominic Cianciolo, the story director behind the upcoming game at SDCC.
During the conversation, it was asked to Dominic about balancing characters with the new cast when it comes to the narrative. After all, we have a rebooted storyline, too, so we’re also getting introductions for these characters and how they are involved in this new narrative. But according to Dominic Cianciolo, the storyline was challenging, with the game featuring 24 characters. The story director said that not every character will have the same amount of screen time, so knowing how to fit them into the narrative and provide enough storyline to keep things flowing was hard.
It’s definitely hard. We have 24 characters in the game, and not all of them can have the same amount of screentime, and so you’re trying to make things pop as much as possible. So what we try to do is not only look at just the experience in the story, but also to the other storytelling that’s in the game, whether it’s through the intro dialogue . . . or the ladder endings that are part of our single player experience traditionally . . . it’s a real challenge because the roster gets decided not just by myself, we got Ed [Boon], we ask everyone in the studio who [they want to see come back]
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