Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20141117093853

Dynamo68 I honestly hope he makes it to the game as a playable character. Not the way he is now, but in a more original style. We had talked about Kintaro some months ago, and I guess we had agreed that, for him to become a good character, NRS has to work on two things: his role in the story and his originality. Well, at least I said that, don't know if anyone agreed, but since nobody disagreed...

Role in the story: It's amazing that Kintaro has had the same secondary role in every MK game in which he's been present: the brute guy who obeys the major villain and beats anyone this villain orders him to beat. What else has he done in MKs 2, Shaolin Monks, Armageddon and 9? It's ridiculous, and he has pratically no importance to the major storyline because of this.

See Goro for example: he's not only a brute shokan bodyguard like Kintaro; he's a shokan prince, leading armies of them, and was the champion of Mortal Kombat for hundreds of years (until Liu Kang won him). What do we know about Kintaro and his biography? That he's from a more ferocious and less rational shokan lineage, the Tigrar, and came to Shao Kahn looking for people to murder. Can you see what I mean? I'm not asking to make him a prince as well or making him less brutal and more rational (his primitive ferocity is part of his character, and taking that out would change him too much), but give him a more important role in the story. The comment is too big for me to give examples.

Originality: You know what I mean. Since he was created in MK2, Kintaro's been just a feline version of Goro. Right, different personalities and roles, but he's always the sub-boss as well (he was only created in MK2 to substitute Goro on that) and borrows many of his moves and fatalities (he has only two of them, both from MK9, by the way) from Goro. Kintaro's special moves: breath fire and fireballs, jump and stomp on opponents, grab the opponents and break their spines... Fatalities: multilate opponents by pulling out their limbs or head. Come on! Goro can do all of that, as has done most of that in many games indeed. NRS has to work on what differs him from Goro, such as his feline features. Example: invent a fatality that has him eating the opponent's heart, like a tiger. Would Goro ever do that? No. Has anyone else in MK ever done that? Not this way, so no. Does it fit Kintaro's powers and personality? Yes. That's the originality he needs.