That first stage Li Mei and Johnny Cage were fighting in looks amazing, I think it was called the Dragonfly. The 3d era did have some really cool stages
Deadly Alliance and Deception had really beautiful stages. Unfortunately Armageddon was bad and looked bad. The stages and characters models had less textures.
Always saw Li Mei as the female face of the 3D era (counterpart to Kenshi as the male face) for being one of the newcomers of DA that stayed to Armageddon and gameplay at least to a pleb like me stayed consistent. Not so much for her design suprisingly, her SMDA still remains my favourite of hers.
It's actually funny that MK1 Li Mei gets an air-exclusive flip kick, that was born from a bug in KaF. You could set certain specials that weren't meant to be aerial to work in the air and that was one of them.
I have a soft spot for Li Mei, and most of the characters from Deadly Alliance. DA was an awesome MK game and I have fond memories of playing that game for hours in my mid-teens. I am very excited for Li Mei's revamped storyline in MK1 and I'm curious how it will go. She appears to have a large role in MK1's story and her role as a trainer for Kitana and Mileena is very interestig. A bit like the Bo Rai Cho for the sisters.
@@wl4316 Don't forget MKX. He was also playable in the Game Boy version of the original MK, but it probably wouldn't be worth mentioning due to how awful that version apparently is.
He is playable in mk trilogy, mk4 , Deception, Armageddon, and mkx, you could also hack the game and play with him in mk9 like they did with Shao Kahn.
I've always felt the "hate" that the 3D era gets is trying to rewrite history. No one hated those games and they are still fun to play. Also, maybe it's just me but I'm much more a fan of quick snappy combos as opposed to each button being mapped to a specific limb and not being able to sidestep on top of that. Also three fighting styles. I love the newer games but I miss the old combat.
@rudolphschmidt313 you're right about the story part in modern mk and the new mk1 campaign seems to look to retain the same quality of writing with the previous ones
Gonna be awesome seeing her play a major role in a mk story after being a minor side character from DA to MKX. And even better she is voiced and modeled after one of the legendary martial arts actresses Kelly Hu
I never went back and looked at the old Li Mei, since I did that for Tanya back when she came out in MKX and I thought she looked awful. Old Li Mei looks better then I expected though.
Iv always liked her and her deception design is still her best design. I'm surprised you are covering her mk1 version since that was a beta and things can change.
Thank you. I honestly didn't expect you guy to do Li Mei until after MK1 was out but I am all for it. Li Mei is one of my favorites from the 3D Era and to see her playable once again is just wonderful
I wish Li Mei was as stylish and cool as she was in the older games. She looks way too generic and like a background character. At least keep her headband.
I meant presentation and content more than mechanics. Deception is a bit more of a complete package from a casual sense. None of the 3D MK's are competitively viable really, although DA is the most honest.
Liu kang finally got to be the poster boy for mk1 so i think it might be time to see a competitive history of him. Gonna be a long one tho. Just an idea
Amazing video, but will u maybe make a kitana competetive histroy, benn waiting a year for that, shes my main and Id like to see how she was across the older games 😀
0:17 1:13 Man the movement speed in MKDA was the absolute BEST out of all the 3D era games. It was poke heavy and felt more footsie based. You could strike with quick pokes and jump back out of the way. I know everyone sees Deception as the fan favorite because of puzzle/kart kombat etc. But mechanically, DA felt better to play. Everything felt so slow and stiff in Deception and even worse in Amrageddon. Why did they degrade the movement so much with each game??
Horrible until Deadly Alliance where he was really good, close to top 5. Horrible in Armageddon from what I've heard, really good in IX, and top 10 in XI.
I'm hoping for some Science Of MK1, since MK11 and MK1 are just so different with their meter, and Kameo. Plus a remaster of those videos couldn't hurt. It's hard to find channels or forums that explain certain tech and the fundamentals.
Hate to be pedantic but the text in your thumbnails should be on the left, and charcters should take up the right half. The smaller thumbnails on your channel feed have a time stamp on the that blocks the bottom left. So text os a no-go in that area. Basically, your thumbnails just need to be mirrored. Some of the text is cut off for me because of the time stamp.
The Dragon King wasn't all bad had it not been for him the heroes wouldn't have been brought back to life basically and Li mei wouldn't have gotten a second chance to be human again The Dragon King was like the closest thing to a good guy boss so to speak
with MK1's release and Baraka actually being top tier I would love to see a Baraka competitive history. I don't know much about pre NRS competitive as I didn't get into watching the competitive scene until MK9, but from what I know Baraka has never been good until now. He's been one of my favourite characters ever since the arcade era, and I would love to see how his gameplay changed over the years, but was unable to keep up with most other characters.
Li Mei definitely got lost in the shuffle in deception. Everybody was so excited about the many returning legacy characters that she got a little ignored I think. I've always thought hat she was massively underrated in that game.
I miss the old style of mk… new mk makes characters look to real I don’t like it. Same with sf6 but sf6 atleast still doesn’t make it to real and characters still look cool. That’s not to say no mk characters look cool in modern games, but I don’t like the more realistic look. Bring back sexy females and hell keep the males just as sexy. I just like my game characters to look cool. Not like they work at Walmart.
For april fools, you could do competitive history of the joker in mortal kombat, because he did appear in two games Competitive history of batman might be funnier though.
Li Mei is the only female i like in the new game so far. Every other female revealed in Mortal Kombat 1 sucks imo. Talking about Main Roster and not Kameos. Love Sonya, Sareena and Khameleon
Great video! I’m curious how you’re going to rank the strength of characters in MK1. Would you do it with or without cameos, better yet would you incorporate specific cameos into a future competitive history? Excited for MK1.
Hi Mustard, one of Li Mei's strongest Baji Quan combos goes this route: pop-up, pop-up, 4, FF2. The second pop-up in a row lauches the enemy high enough to allow you to end the combo with standing 4 followed by FF2 special. Hitting an enemy on punish with a pop-up doesn't happen often, but the damage from this combo alone is higher than any combo in her 2nd or 3rd style. This works on the PAL version of the game, so playing at 60 frames should make it even easier.
Love the love Li Mei is getting. Def one of my favs from the 3D era. And she came back with a vengeance for MK1. Can’t wait to see her skins. Can QUEEN KITANA be next now? She is long overdue.
Excellent video once again dude. The Li Mei was designed in MK1 is a true reimagination of her, with all the fan service that you would like to see from her 3D MK days to how MK games are now, truly amazing!
