Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25163804-20150115052124

If you have not heard, the most recent gameplay video dropped for Mortal Kombat X, and you can check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EROmqidZQc One thing to note is that a new character, Kitana, has been confirmed as coming to Mortal Kombat X. Before check her out, I've prepared an analysis of the video.

First, we can see two new environments within the first 10 seconds of the trailer. The first, on the right, features a plane crash in an Eastern looking environment. The second, on the left, features a large pillar of energy suspending some stones.

Next, we get a full look at Kitana, the lethal and beautiful Edenian princess and one of my favorite MK characters. We can see here on the left, below Kung Lao, that she is sporting a spiffy new design, with one particular element I'm looking forward to talking about later in this analysis.

After some amazing gameplay, we get a brief break from the action and things get interesting again. If you recall, there was apparently a 'dynamic weather system' that was going to feature in MKX instead of Day/Night stages. Well, this trailer may have shown what that might mean. Another new stage was shown (boosting the total stage count to seven of the twelve slots I mentioned when I analyzed Raiden's trailer), but this one seems different. Below, left, we see D'Vorah with her child getting soaked in the rain, but on the right, Ferra/Torr and Cassie Cage are fighting in a very similar, if not identical stage while it is snowing. Perhaps this 'dynamic weather' is tied to the seasons, maybe even influenced by the calendar on most consoles and PCs.

We also get to see the stage shown in the GameMasters magazine, although it is brief and after Cassie Cage has beaten her foe into submission. A brief montage of more carnage, including a look at some of the stages previously mentioned mid-kombat, follows, including the following shots of Kung Lao whupping Quan Chi's arse left and right, including a hat to the face. I personally managed to count the amount of strikes Quan Chi sustains in the flurry Kung Lao gives him, after slowing the footage down to around 12.5% normal running speed, and that was fourteen strikes to the face.

More kombat footage runs by, before we see a tease of Kung Lao's fatality, much a similar vein to Scorpion's fatality tease in the first gameplay trailer ever dropped, back in June of last year. From what can be interpereted, Kung Lao throws his hat in a similar fashion to his infamous "Buzzsaw" fatality. But, instead of dragging his foe across it, he likey shoves them into the ground, their faces just keeping ahead of the blade before they open their eyes and see in terror their fate, before Kung Lao helps them along to their death, if you will.

After that, we get to see, likely in full, Kitana's fatality, and it's a real doozy. Rather than describing it, I will let you watch UnCagedGAMEZ's Kitana Fatality video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDy2CRWlI0E. Let's just say that those fans come in real... handy. That was a really bad pun.

Asides from showing Goro as a Pre-Order character, that amounts all of the things for the trailer. However, there's something I want to point out. If you look at Kitana's shoes, they closely match, if not perfectly match, the fourth shoe in the shoe tweet, linked here. https://twitter.com/noobde/status/518837863991869440/photo/1 You can check it out for yourself and see the resemblance.

Thoughts? Opinions? Don't be afraid to comment. And as always, thanks for reading. 