The thing is that there really isn’t anyone else left missing in the KI Universe besides 4 characters, and three of them are pretty much guaranteed for Season 3 (Tusk, Maya, Gargos). There’s room for guest characters & more brand new characters at this point, if we’re expecting at least 8 fighters for Season 3.
Plus Rare Replay just released, which features Killer Instinct Gold and Battletoads. It makes perfect sense even business wise to have Rash guest in KI.
Niggas talking like any guest character has ever really “fit” in a game they appeared in. lol
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EDIT: He’s out now, downloading the update. Paul B and Rico Suave streaming
Yeah saw that on his availability. But I guess the question is after the beta period, is he to be purchased for S3?
Rash is the exception. May not be fully finished, but the moves he’s got make him deadly.
I am not a fan of adding in this Toad. I never owned a SNES. Those game are old af. I guess they are coming out with a new game soon so it makes sense. But i just do not think he fits in with the roster.
I have to say that is maybe my biggest gripe about KI. I don’t like a lot of the character designs. I am very happy to have more KI news either way.
I’ll never understand the point of a post like this.
"I hate this new character they’re adding, in fact I don’t even like most of the cast in the base game anyway, but here I am telling you guys regardless".
The “this character doesn’t fit with the rest of the cast” crap is even more hilarious.
I honestly don’t know what some fans expect of Killer Instinct. It is literally a game including Ice Aliens, Cybernetic dinosaurs, Werewolves and Skeleton Warrios, not to mention adding ghost girls and gigantic rock golems…but the addition of a **Battletoad **is what crosses the line.
Mind boggling.
Toads dont really know how to fight. I mean COME ON
Yes all KI characters are off the wall.
And it’s all a matter of opnion, everyone has characters they like/don’t, i.e. lets say I dislike TJ Combo… but his aesthetic graphical character model at least fits the game.
To me (and most of the time Im not big on guest characters unless it’s a crossover title) Rash crosses a line in terms of his aesthetic look / character model, he looks like he stepped out of a different game into KI.
Compared to let’s say MKX’s Jason Voorhees and Predator, there the guest share the same kind of graphical style, that’s the gripe I have with Rash in KI so far.
Well yeah, the thing with Rash is his demeanor and visuals make it obvious he’s just some character out to save the world. He doesn’t really look like he’s fighting some big struggle or has some real killer intent like most of the other cast. It’s like Cinder taken to an extreme as far as comic relief. Which even Cinder still visually looks darker and more serious than Rash.
That’s kind of the thing with guest characters. Box Art MegaMan and Kuro/Kubo looked pretty out of place in SFxT as well, but you kinda just let the novelty of them work.
In all honesty to me his look is what’s best about this game. I noticed for his beta they’re only using his Retro look (and after getting a few sneak peaks at his normal outfit, I’m hoping they plan on scrapping it in favor of the retro) but it still fits in for KI. Yeah his expressions are more cartoon-ish but they don’t take away from the look. He can morph his body parts but Orchid can turn into a Firecat, Hisako drops her jaw down to the floor to possess someone and Glacius is all kinds of malleable.
To me, it does and doesn’t look out of place, which is what makes it so epic to look at. If Microsoft & Rare came out with a Battletoads game with that style, it would be a huge hit!
People are batshit crazy. I don’t think it looks out of place at all. I think Rash suits the game perfectly.
This line about KI’s cast all being off the wall is complete nonsense. A handful are stereotypes: Thunder, Jago, Sabrewulf, Kan-Ra, Hisako. Which of the characters in here are particularly original? I wouldn’t say the game has much of a common thread, but at the same time in is not a very imaginative cast of characters. And yes, a toadman doesn’t seem to fit in well to me in a game. I don’t think it is painfully out of place, and i even find the character a kind of neat. But i still think its an odd choice unless there is an actual Battletoads game coming out. I don’t have much fondness for the campiness of the game “this is too much fun” of cinder and Rash’s dialogue are both iritiating to me.
Not a fan of the new little metal clinking sound they added AT ALL when the KV meter is nearing full. It just sounds so out of place and reminds me of the damn gem sound in SFxT. Hate it.
The cast is B-Movie monsters man, WTF game are u playing, if you’re even playing it all. Yes, they are tongue in cheek archtypes, the characters referencing that is not even remotely subtle. The imaginative part is how they all play. The character designs are the strength of this game for me, they’re all unique in their gameplay and there’s not a single character that isn’t fun.
Add Joanna Dark, The Arbiter, w/e, if IG can consistently deliver on making the characters fun and playable, go right ahead, not like they’re gonna add the dump truck from Blast Corps or 2 foot tall Banjo(u won’t be able to see him vs Aganos). They’ll pick wisely and make sure the character is a viable one, this game is perfect for cameos, it’s a game of cameo characters in itself.
And how is Rash a bad choice for character?
KI was a Rare game and Battletoads was a Rare game, you just had Rare Replay release the same day with 2 Battletoads games. And notice his win quote is “These cameos are killing me!”. MS already said KI was not the only Rare game that was getting a revival…
Yeah, I agree AlphaZero. I think I was responding to someone else. Somebody else wrote something about how “all characters are off the wall” and I was saying that no, as you yourself said, many of them seem to be stereotypes. We are both on the same page here.
And that is why I was writing that I felt a Toadman to be out of place. And if you read the rest of my comment, I mean c’mon bro, you would see that I opined that if there is a Battletoads game coming out or something then I guess it would make some sense.
And I just want to clarify, I am not trying to say that I find the character dumb or infuriating. I think its kind of cool that he morphs into a wrecking ball, but his look doesn’t seem to fit in all that well. (But he is a guest character with a possible game coming out so its understandable.)
meh, would have been better if it was a Ninja Turtle instead somehow.
No it would not of been better.
