Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-1084762-20150120234121/@comment-5561191-20150217152907

I know it has nothing to do with the issue, but I'm surprised nobody commented anything about Kitana's and Reptile's variations here. They're cool, but make me sad because they mean that at least two of my favorite characters won't be present.

First, the obvious one: Jade. I think that Mournful variation of Kitana was so unnecessary. It's like NRS admitted that "We can't invent a third variation for Kitana, so we'll be giving her special moves from MK 9 that belonged to Jade. Screw Jade, nobody cares about her anyway, right?". Jade is one of the characters who you could easily invent three variations for, because she has lots of powers and equipments to be distributed among them. Also, if the woman who appeared in her MK 9 ending reappeared in MK X asking her to do something, she would have a really interesting role in the game. In other words, she could have been a perfect character for MK X, and yet was discarded because NRS didn't have enough imagination to make a third variation for Kitana that was based on her own abilities.

Second, Kabal. I'm saying this because of Reptile's Nimble variation: if you had to invent three variations for Kabal, you'd certainly think of his super speed, but now that Reptile has that power it would become repetitious to put another character with it in MK X. I'm not against putting Kabal in the game and giving him a variation with the exact same special move (with the screen becoming purple instead of green, for example), but many people would claim it was just a copy of Reptile's, even though Kabal had this power before him. Can anyone imagine Kabal in MK X without a variation focused on his super speed? That's my point, and that's what makes me sad.