Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-2135549-20150421174527

In this topic we are all going to share our opinion about the eight new characters in MKX.

I'll start with my own personal opinion.

I've already watched the whole Story Mode (spoiler alert, in case you haven't seen it), so I feel that I can debate about all of them, also I'll point out some realistic stuff, so here we go:

First, D'Vorah: I don't like her. Her design and abilities are original, but I feel in some way her fighting performance should be better. I don't hate her for killing people, characters die everytime, and she was very important in the story, but I didn't enjoy her antagonism a lot, it was low to betray Kotal.

Now that I mention him, Kotal: I don't understand why so many people hate him, he's not supposed to be the main villain in the game, everyone wants him to be as evil as Shao, but that guy is dead and he was the one who was obsessed with the idea of conquering the other realms, Kotal has a perfect role in what he's supposed to be: Outworld's Emperor. We can see him in the story making decisions based on what's better for his realm.

Let's keep going with the bad guys, next is Erron Black: He's a pretty tough and cool guy and also a real badass, I just wish he had more protagonism in the story, I felt he was kind of secondary...

And talking about secondaries... Ferra and Torr: I don't like them at all. It is original that they're the first characters to fight always together as one (except in the Lackey variation), I know Noob calls a clone and Ermac has many souls, but this is different. I don't like hem because they're not important in the story at all, I felt they were kind of useless, they only appeared when it was convenient to have them.

Now, it's the turn of the good guys... Cassie: The new protagonist. I always asked the same question as Kung Jin: what makes her the leader of the newbies? Being the two main protagonists' daughter shouldn't be enough to make her the leader, but I agreed with her leadership in the end, she made an awesome job in the charge. Her fighting style is not original at all, it's like a mix of her parents' abilities, but I love her ironic fatalities. She's a great fighter, but it was kind of fuck logic for her to defeat the most powerful Shinnok we have ever seen.

Jacqui: Her military powers are cool and she's a real tough girl, also I liked her feelings for Takeda, but from her team, I felt she was the less important character with the less developed past.

Kung Jin: He has a really great past and I agreed with his question. Also, it is original for him to be the first homosexual character we have seen in the whole Mortal Kombat, this is not necessarilly a good characteristic but also he shouldn't get so much hate because of that. He's a real shaolin, he always fights for justice and is good with words. Even so, his rebellion acts against Cassie's leadership were weird. I don't want to contradict myself, her leadership was kind of self-proclaimed, but he shouldn't have shown his disagreement with actions that were out of the plans and caused big problems. Also, I don't like his fatalities nor his fighting performance, they should be better.

Takeda: I felt his resentment with his father was way too deep, but it's justified. His abilities and variations are extremely cool and his fatalities are some of the rudest in the game. I liked how he started to develop romantic feelings for Jacqui. I just would have liked to see him having more participation, even when he was the savior of the team when they were imprisoned. 