Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-26516813-20171026231015/@comment-28286605-20171114133006

DLKMK1989 wrote: I first have to ask you what you mean by "gone" exactly, referring to Reiko, or "dead/erased" with Drahmin and Moloch, because death is irrelevant in MK. That's been proven time after time. But anyway...

Ah yes, Deadly Alliance. The game that had so many new characters, it hardly felt like an MK game. As you mentioned, we've gotten Bo' Rai Cho and Kenshi playable in the new timeline. Bo' is supposed to be a comic relief character, but he's simply not funny. Seems odd that he trained the greatest MK champion of all time... Kenshi is overrated to me, but he's a solid character now that he has a little more story. The Sento concept is really cool and could maybe later even become sentient, which would be awesome. I hated him at first, though, in DA when he was doing Ermac's moves (as you may have guessed by my profile picture, I'm a huge Ermac fan). Kenshi will inevitably return and Bo' might as well step back into the background.

Moving on to the rest of the cast. Starting with Blaze: I'm not entirely sure they'll choose to go the same route and give him the role that he had in Armageddon or even give him a role at all, but his "mutated" form is rather bland and uninspired and his "human" form is just a dude on fire. He's quite basic overall and I'd prefer him staying a background character altogether.

Now I know a lot of people hate on Drahmin, but the Face of Kun-Lo mask is very intriguing to me and I'd like to see more lore on it. Perhaps not bringing back Drahmin himself, but rather the original wearer of said mask, Kun-Lo. Not that the mask was the only positive feature of Drahmin's character, as I like the look of the club hand, but again, just poor development.

Frost is a female Sub-Zero 150% and as I've stated before, I'm really not fond of copycat type characters. Sub-Zero has his own unique thing and while I do want to believe in potential for Frost, I don't see her ever being anything more than a copycat.

Hsu Hao gets shit on more than any other MK character ever, I think, and while I don't truly understand, he did always seem out of place. More of a Street Fighter character, perhaps. Anyway, the only thing that made him notable was his cybernetic heart implant, which Kano now has, so he's irrelevant.

Li Mei had her little cameo appearance in MKX and I'm sure that's all she'll ever be going forward. There's nothing notable about her gameplay wise and her story is weak as well..........


 * Disclaimer: I just want to point out, I'm all in favor of EVERY MK character being brought back as long as their story is built upon and actual time is put into them.

Alright, so Mavado is a cool cat. I see potential in this character for sure and would like to see him return playable. The grappling hooks are semi-unique and I just like his look. He's a big player within the Red Dragon and that will most certainly be a major plot point going forward.

Mokap is the worst character in the series, hands down. There's not much to be said about him at all. He's a nod to the excellence of Pesina, but if that's what they truly wanted to do with the character, his name should not have been "Mokap" and he absolutely shouldn't have any special abilities.

Moloch is a grumbling, fumbling, monstrously, bland character. I'm not much of a fan of the giant characters, ie: he, Onaga, and Blaze. As you pointed out, he's been "erased", and though I don't believe that means diddly shit, I do believe that Netherrealm Studios was intentionally flushing characters down the toilet within the MKX comics, so I doubt he'll ever make a return.

The only known denizen of Vaeternus, Nitara, is most certainly an interesting character and should be expanded upon. Being the only vampire so far in MK, she could be the catalyst for introducing the player to Vaeternus. I hope to see her playable again.

Lastly, we have Sareena from the TE port. She had her cameo in MKX like Li Mei, but I have a feeling she'll have a more pivotable role going forward. Everyone knows of the romance between she and Bi-Han and I'm predicting a return for Noob in one form or another in the next installment. I'd like to see them both playable and together once again. I couldn't agree more I'd love to see Nitara and Skarlet either appear separately or as a dual entity, we should also include Blaze but merge with Scorpion because Blaze's essence was gifted to Scorpion by Raiden for helping him in his battle with the realms, promising Scorpion that the essence would help return what he lost. We should also have Fujin and other gods such as the elementals that like Blaze should merge with their life likes to get a true battle of the gods, even including the Blood God and named Elder Gods.