Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-70.169.224.88-20150427184942/@comment-179.215.124.101-20150509030548

I personally think that mkx appears to be a very good fighting game, deserving of its title, improving on the mk9 gameplay and general concept, the variations are a very interesting, if somewhat unnecessary addiction, the brutallitys are nothing short of amazing, probably the best single new feature on the game, I do have a problem with some of the fatalitys and character roster, but as it is, all is very solid, Still I took issue with the story and its main characters, from all the four, only kung jin seems to be a worthy successor to its parent character, cassie cage could have been a great, but ends up being just a generic young female hero, jaqui and takeda are so uninspired they are barely noticeable, What was done with the fallen earthrealm heroes is a strong uppercut(haha) to most old time fans, seeing kitana, kung lao, nightwolf and liu kang as undead slave boring whiny revenants is just sad, The outword fellowship, on the other hand, offers very solid characters, kotal khan fills a very needed role of a honorable outword leader, d´vorah is a good substitute to Baraka as an inhuman outword creature, trough I miss him, ferra/torr and erron black are simply awesome, There are a few characters whose presence are simply missing from the game at all, such as reiko and fujin,The ninjas continue to develop apart from their united origins, wich goes well for scorpion and sub zero, but considerably less so to ermac and reptile( sadly, my favorite character).The narrative itself is ok,nothing of impressive or horrible, most of its problems lies on the already mentioned characters, I think the real let down is the spectative, mk9 offered a ton amazing arcade endings, most of them setting up equally amazing sequel scenarios that are heartcrushingly wasted, In the end I think the worst problem with the new story is that it makes the reboot direction of the series a complete waste, it went from being a admittedly awesome mess on armageddom, to a very well made steamlined retelling of the first games in mk9

, to a slightly less awesome mess in mkx. I don’t know what the future holds for the series, but I certainly hope it involves deception´s storyline (my favorite of the 3D games), after all, it is said there is only one true ruler of outworld…