The Mortal Kombat co-creator speaks long and long in an interview about the Aftermath approach, the new expansion of the Mortal Kombat 11 story.
The release of Aftermath is something unprecedented in the fighting genre, as it is an expansion for Mortal Kombat 11 Story Mode, a mode that while not especially important in most fighting games, for NetherRealm is capital. However, for the studio led by Ed Boon, creator of the franchise with John Tobias, it has always been of great importance to offer content to the solo player, something that comes to endorse Aftermath, which he has talked about at length in an interview. .
Boon delves into Aftermath
One of the details that Boon leaves about Aftermath is about its duration, which apparently will be somewhat shorter than the story of the base game. "It will be five chapters," Boon begins. "Traditionally we have four fights per chapter and character. This time around, some will have six, they will be somewhat longer chapters where we have focused mainly on the new characters: Fujin and Sheeva. And before you ask no, Robocop is not on the story ", concludes with laughter.
Boon also explains the reason behind the release of something as unusual in the fighting genre as it is an expansion of the story. "When we finished Mortal Kombat 11 we put the story to a close," says Boon. "In previous games we had released what some know as the GOTY Edition, in which you put all the content that you have been releasing. In Mortal Kombat XL we did something different, adding new characters, which appreciated us very much. But the story is something that fans love: the characters, the narrative, all of that … So we set out to create it as an epilogue, and our main idea was to offer players a huge amount of content. "
Thus, Aftermath will directly continue the story we lived in Mortal Kombat 11, where Kronika tried to reestablish the balance between good and evil thanks to the power that her crown gave her. Now, with Liu Kang as the new Guardian of Time, we will be introduced to new characters in the game but veterans in the franchise such as Fujin or Sheeva, which already appeared in the original story but not in a playable way.
