Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25163804-20140815135218

Alright, so in one of my previous discussions (Gamescom Details and D'Vorah's True Character) I've mentioned how MKX's story will play out according to an article from IGN. Well, since then, a made of awesome member of the wiki named Barrymk2000 has linked to this video regarding how the Story Mode will play out, as well as hinting at a returning finisher and explaining some things about MKX's DLC.

If one did not see the video, here's the quick rundown followed by my hypothesis on which finisher is coming back. As we know, the story takes place over the course of twenty-five years, with certain periods of time being shown during the storyline (Immediately after MK9, Five years after, etc). However, while there will be some bouncing around in the timeline, there will be a focus on later time periods as "we didn't want to show characters growing up the entire time", according to Ed Boon. There also will be "cousins, sons and daughters that we will be introducing", so keep an eye out for that.

Then, he talked about DLC, explaining that everything wasn't final just yet, but mentioning (And showing footage of) Rain as being well recieved for MK9, but stating that it is less likely that he'll come back to MKX as he wanted to make "As much new stuff as possible."

He also (Briefly) said that there was no plans for a Mortal Kombat VS title, although he said that he'd "Love to see a Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter if we were allowed to make an M-Rated Game", which would be fantastic, but he also mentioned it as a "possibility, but not a probability."

Finally, he mentioned all of the previous finishers, starting with the Fatality, but then going on to mention Friendships, Babalities and Brutalities, and mentioned that one of the previous finishers will be 'Reinstated' to MKX.

Now for the speculation. I can only really speculate on one thing, but I do have an educated guess as to which 'Ality is coming back. And that is the Animality. Why? Because besides the Hara Kiri, the Animality was the only alternate finisher that was not mentioned by name by Ed Boon, and because after saying that 'we'll be reinstating an -ality', the video switched to Kitana's Animality from MK3, aka the Monty Python Killer Rabbit Animality, before the interview came back up and finished. As such, it seems very likely that MKX will be seeing the first Animalities since 1995.

Thoughts? Comments? Leave 'em below and let me know what you think.

P.S.: It seems that Ed really likes to show off/reference Kitana recently. I've covered the Kitana Tweets prior, as well as now seeing an animality, specifically Kitana's Animality from MK3, it seems more and more likely that both Kitana and Animalities are coming back. 