8 Video Game Details That Went TOO FAR

4. Every. Single. Special Move - Mortal Kombat Franchise

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I mean how could you not include talking about the worrying amount of detail that the Mortal Kombat devs put into their brutal special moves?

From the moment you witness your first bone-breaking or your first eyeball being gouged, you might find your phone rising from your pocket to dial your parents and ask if they still kept that security blanket you had when you were a kid, and yet somehow it just keeps getting worse.

Intestines are pulled from opponents through their mouths, bodies are contorted and twisted forcing bones to break through the skin, and muscles are riped and blasted apart with rather shocking detail.

It's not rainbow rhythms is what I'm getting at.

While it would be wrong of me to chastise the franchise for this excess of violence and gore because, spoiler alert, I love the MK franchise, things are approaching a worryingly fanatical approach to detail that it makes my stomach churn at what else the devs will subject us to down the line. At what point will the line be so crossed that we lose sight of it? Only the person programming Scorpion sucking the bone marrow out of his victims truly knows this answer.

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