So after taking down Cervantes, the swords came to life to fight you as a more powerful version of Cervantes with a flaming skull head. As shown at the end of that fantastic CGI intro that still holds up to this day, the swords were really running the show. Cervantes was an evil dude, but he was still just a pawn. SOUL EDGE/INFERNOĪs far as I’m concerned, the Inferno concept peaked in the first game. As one of the final bosses in Deadly Alliance, it just didn’t feel the same. It’s just too bad that once games were on discs and had loading times, Shang’s tendency to morph mid-match took a powder. While lesser on the totem pole in later games, Shang Tsung regaining his youth made for a good trade.
Then Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played the HELL out of him in the movie and his legendary status was solidified. Even though he was turning into other playable characters, the insinuation was that you were more or less fighting all the dead warriors from the years that he had absorbed into his being. A shape-shifter was a fantastic gimmick for a final boss, especially since it jibed with his tendency to eat souls. Surely, that at least had to mean that Shang Tsung was a special kind of threat in his own way. Mortal Kombat’s attract mode sold the game by going, “Yo, check out this huge claymation beast with his four arms and topknot! He will break you in half if you even blink!” But this unstoppable monster was actually second to some floating geezer. I do really get a kick out of how one of his King of Fighters intros has him throw a non-descript martial artist to the ground before jumping into the fight, like it’s his regular thing to kick some schmuck’s ass and take their spot in a tournament.
Just brutal karate with his flashiest move being a flipping legdrop. No fireballs or energy explosions or anything like that.
Silber also appeared as a hidden mid-boss in King of Fighters XI, but his fighting style lacks anything really bombastic.
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