Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20190518202650/@comment-30711175-20190609160526

Draft227 wrote: I have no idea why they didn't straight up go to Onaga. Though Kronika wasn't a bad villain, the new games seemed to be following the pattern - MK1/MK2/MK3 - MK4, then MKDA, MKD, and MKA (though I don't know how would a new MKA work since the whole reason MK9 happened was to stop it from happening, but I could see the two new characters coming back).

I have to disagree with this notion that the plots of the new games are retreading the stories of the first seven games. Mind you, there are people believe that Mortal Kombat X is just Mortal Kombat 4: The Remix. Why? Because Mortal Kombat (2011) retold the events of 1, 2, and 3? Never mind the fact that everything after MK3 was retconned, and Shinnok was just a loose end, since he was manipulating events before his return in MK4.

There is also the matter of the 25 year time skip between MK9 and MKX and the fact that the roster in MKX is drastically different from MK4. As well as the settings and the conflicts of those two games not aligning with each other.