Gillbob316 Wrote:
Yeah, the living towers, and the test your might tower, and the test your luck tower are supposed to be the equivalent that replaces them... But it's less fun somehow imo...
The big tower gave you a long-term goal to work toward. The little towers have no such goal and just feel repetitive after a few. And the little mini stories, fun cameos and mini games really served to give the big tower way more personality.
They kept all the gameplay, but took out a lot of the fun.
I'll agree with this. While the Living Towers were meant to keep things fresh, it loses a lot of the appeal of climbing the tower to the very top, to unlock something (even if it was just a costume), and engaging in all manner of wacky and entertaining mini-games and conditions.
When I think of the Challenge Tower, my brain remembers Mileena trying to give Scorpion a teddy bear, villains fighting over what to do with a random baby, Cyber Reptile, gunning down a horde of zombies, and countless other quirks that made it such a memorable treat.
The Living Towers don't quite give the same amusement, nor do they offer it as fast and furiously as the Challenge Tower did. You could blow through 10 of those at a time if you were in the mood, all with wildly different experiences, while you have to wait for the Living Towers to update and hope the next one is more interesting. The fact that the Challenge towers made it fresh match-to-match helped as well, rather than a whole tower under certain conditions.
