{"id":525749,"date":"2025-10-24T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/525749\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:03:21","slug":"you-wouldnt-see-street-fighter-or-tekken-putting-this-garbage-out-mortal-kombat-art-book-accused-of-using-ai-upscaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/525749\/","title":{"rendered":"“You Wouldn’t See Street Fighter Or Tekken Putting This Garbage Out” – Mortal Kombat Art Book Accused Of Using AI Upscaling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new book celebrating the art of the Mortal Kombat<\/a> series has come under fire for allegedly using AI upscaling to “improve” visuals from earlier entries in the franchise.<\/p>\n

The officially licensed Mortal Kombat: Flawless Victory<\/a>, written by Ian Flynn, launched recently to decent reviews, but a few people on social media have pointed out that some of the art doesn’t look quite right.<\/p>\n

It seems that AI upscaling has been deployed in order to “enhance” the look of the original character portraits from the first two games in the series, which used digitised images.<\/p>\n

The use of AI upscaling is disastrous in this book. It’s reminiscent of those nightmarish early AI models. This needs to be addressed or the fans should massively request for a refund… \u267b\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/hGE3qqeiCZ<\/a>\u2014 Matias (@matiascel) October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow, this is pretty damn bad. I was going to order this one, but it seems filled with bad AI upscales. I think they could have just interpolated a nearest neighbor upscale of the original pixel art and it would have been good. https:\/\/t.co\/06ojeXI8CW<\/a>\u2014 Pramod Somashekar (@pr4m0d) October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The end result, as you can clearly see, has produced some rather odd effects, such as masks blending into faces and eyeballs seemingly melting.<\/p>\n

Mortal Kombat: Flawless Victory’s publisher, Insight Editions, hasn’t commented directly on the issue, but it can only be a matter of time \u2013 the images are circulating on social media as we speak, with a predictably negative reaction from fans.<\/p>\n

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