I loved the Subway in both MK3 and MKA.

I would like to see it again sometime.

RETURN

It depends on the story of the game for me. If they are confined to an island in the next game than no. However, if the story takes place all over the world than I say yes. The subway has always been one of my favorite levels, because for some reason I just like the visuals of seeing the MK fighters in an everyday place like a subway or the city streets.

And this is again, why I like these threads that you started Icebaby! Such a variety of answers.

I get how the Subway level fit in to the setting of MK3, with Earth being invaded and the whole world looking grimy, dilapidated and dreary etc, but personally, I HATED these levels.

The appearance wasn't bad particularly, but I honestly never liked that MK3 went in this direction after how cool the style for the previous two games levels were and how well they fit together. MK3 had a weird hodge podge of levels that may have worked if they were all "invaded Earth" levels (worked in terms of concept, I still would've hated the execution).

They could've done an "Earth is being invaded" storyline without having these boring, street levels, as they did with some arenas, but then they just mixed it all up and while some might say "variety," I see it as too many odds and ends that don't form a cohesive whole.

VERDICT: GONE and hopefully never to return.

i am not going into why...i just think it should return.

it should return but maybe have both death traps the fan and the spiked walls. also keep the the mk fighters in the cells. it was a decent feature.

I definitely liked the unused MK characters appearing in the dark prison. That was a very cool touch. I thought that the level could have been a bit darker though. I wasn't a fan of the overusage of metal in the MK4 version and the MK:D version just seemed too bright to me.

Plus the death traps seemed kind of silly in both. It's like "oh and over here we have the large person flattener. No, we can't just snap their neck or run them through with a sword, we needed to build a large machine that squashes people." Some of the deathraps in MK:D were awesome (falling from the Falling Cliffs was fantastically done, same goes with your second tumble from the Sky Temple), but some were just beyond silly.

Anyways, I think that a prison stage of some sort should definitely make a come back, but it needs to be overhauled. It shouldn't look so tech based with iron and what not. It should look darker, something more like akin to Goro's lair, with rock as the main look.

VERDICT: STAY but with revisions.

I honestly liked both versions. I wouldn't mind seeing either return.

yes. loved the stage fatality.

i say the prison in any form should return.

I liked this level but the only thing I didn't like was the music and that's important to me for a good level.
I'll say STAY but only with better music.

The prison. Can barely remember it from MK4, and I can barely remember it from Deception. So with its lack of impression on me I say GO.

What's the next arena?

yeah i liked it. and i loved how you could break the ice pillars.

I didn't really like this level, I'm gonna say LEAVE.

This level always seemed kind of weird to me. On one hand, you're fighting on ice. To me, that's just odd. Doesn't Frost have sub Zero's old ground freeze move? So that ice makes you slip and slide around, but this ice doesn't?

I know, too logical.

But I did think that the background looked really cool. Didn't it have the Lin Kuei temple in the background? I vaguely remember wanting to fight much closer to the temple. Like on the porch of the temple or on a balcony or something. It's a good level but I just don't think that it's potential was fully realized.

VERDICT: STAY. There should always be some sort of winter themed level in MK. They tend to work out pretty well and they usually provide a good contrast to the levels that have a lot of colors like gray, black and brown as their main palettes. I just want to see something with more depth like the ability to fight on a snowy pagoda balcony, only to knock your opponent to the snow below and continue the fight there, where the blood from the battle turns the snow red.

Just my 2 cents.

Lin Kui needs a big revamp for me to care. This is one of the plainest levels from the game. I say go, and comeback when your not so boring.

The Lin Kuei Palace should have sharp ice pillars that victims can fall on and get impaled. Also, icicles should fall on the opponent so they can die. Otherwise, it should go.

i agree mostly with having the impale on the ground but not so much the falling icicles. i think this stage needs more to it...i like what baraka said about making it multi-leveled...whether its a balcony or a mountain terrain i don't care it needs some revamping and a face lift for me to want it to stay. so in its current form i say no...gone.

i never really liked the lin kuei palace. it seemed really dull and there was no tiers. plus it reminded me of a level in doa 2 ultimate. although i did like a level that was icy related in mka. i just don't remember the arena. it had a bridge that you could put them through.

I loved it. I loved the atmosphere of it. And it's interesting that you talk about the stage fatality like that, you should see my bands album cover.

Good concept, just poorly executed to me. I don't really want to see it come back.

i liked the ying yang island but i felt it was to small. also it would of been nice to have the trees that turn into snakes kill you death trap. since it was in puzzle kombat. i'd have this arena return but not for the next mk game.