We were talking rushdown characters, so he sets up a now very aggressive and pressure-heavy Sub Zero to show off what he’s talking about. “Between encouraging the aerial stuff and the Kameo system, seeing what you can do with extending your combos in the air and how freeform it is with extensions and juggling… it’s so refreshing!” Kirtzic’s enthusiasm is contagious he ushers me from the interview room and over to a booth where the game is set up. Kirtzic goes on to say that a lot of fighting games don’t really lean into this air-based system as much – you may have bound in Tekken that helps keep an opponent off the floor, and some nasty aerial specials or extensions in Street Fighter, but outside of DragonBall FighterZ and some touch of death stuff in Guilty Gear, a lot of fighters keep you glued to the floor these days.
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“I am a huge MK fan, and for me this aerial kombat – that’s kombat with a K – was the thing I was most excited about seeing the players see and get their hands on.” The PS2 game introduced an air combo system and a parry system, neither of which really made it back into the series in any meaningful way. “There has not been a proper aerial game in Mortal Kombat since Mortal Kombat Armageddon, which was nearly 20 years ago,” laughs Derek Kirtzic, lead systems designer at NetherRealm studios. So much of the game revolves around the gap in the air the battle screen has even been pulled back slightly to accommodate a nice big chunk of space above your fighters’ heads to ensure there’s room for a nasty little melee dogfight or two up there.
The one big difference between Mortal Kombat 1 and what’s come before – well, what’s come in the last decade-plus, at least – is the aerial game.
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