Yeah it is abit lackluster IMO.I dont even think they move or groan like they did in the 2nd game.As for a death trap,i would like to see something like Old man Willow ( LOTR ) trapping someone under the roots or something.

The name of the level is the LIVING Forest, yet in Decpetion the trees seem like they're dead and they don't move anything or make any noise like they used to. This makes them seem like they'll only regular trees with faces carved in to them. It might as well be renamed to the DEAD forest. I was very impressed with the Portal. Dead Pool and The Pit were great re-makes. Shang Tsung's Courtyard was alright but seemed a bit small. It would have been better to just leave the Living Forest out then to make it into the boring level that they did.

I think the living forest should have some characters peeking and hiding behind trees, but not too many characters. I think it will look better if it was a little bit darker too.

I agree w/ both of those points, and w/ what was said earlier about the trees needing to make noises and have the faces move..
As for a death trap, how about the rumor from MK2 that u could actualy throw a fighter into one of the mouths of the tree? I thought that woulda been a cool homage to MK2, but no.
I mean, they basicaly made it like the MK4 remake - but worse...

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The level seems too much like a normal forest. I haven't taken a good look, but, do the trees even have faces?
In Konquest it looks like some vandals hacked the poor trees to death, they look nothing like what the Living Forest trees. The woods down the road from my old house on the East side, had Jacko'lantern faces carved into them, and those looked better than this new version of the Living Forest. What happened? The original was so... original, and LIVELY.
I'm also disappointed with the Portal. Why the hell are the destiny towers there? I know they were similar, but they were 2 different levels.Too late now.
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I think the portal is one of the best levels in the game. it looks great. The towers are kinda strange being there, but I think it was cool how they combined it to pack in even more nostalgia. I just dont lke how you start a round facing the towers and not the portal, it should be the other way around.

this is the dead forest

Yeah, it was indeed a lame stage. They could have atleast let the trees move.

Check here and read what it says about the trees. maybe after playing for so long they come alive or something i dunno. seems weird if there isnt more to the living forest, thatd suck.

Man I hate Deception's Living Forest, it was an utter disappointment. They could have easily made it into one of the best areans in the game, but instead they made it into the worst. A feat I didn't think possible. When I first heard it was going to be in Deception I imagined something along the lines of a dark forest with moving faces and sounds much like that of MKII, and a ground-hugging think fog throughout it and definately some animals and MK characters running around in the background of the forest every now and then would have been awesome. As for a death trap, I would have done something with the trees. Not sure what though. Or perhaps have the trees grab ahold of someone who gets too close like the prison level.

I think that's jsut a lame excuse for cheaping out the arena and not animating the faces or anything of the sort.

They should of made it where when you give the opponent a good punch on the one side of the level, they go flying into the tree & the tree eats them. I also agree that the level could of been made a LOT better.