User blog comment:ElectricMayhem/Mortal Kombat 10: Annihilation of the Realms/@comment-2195697-20111009003636

A decent roster. Unfortunately, I've a reputation for being brutally honest on MK10 rosters and stories. I hope you take no offense to this. Some points that are purely my opinion:

1: The Amphibian is the least threatening fucking name I have ever heard in my entire life, and I'm aware of My Little Pony's character's names. I'm dead serious here, "The Amphibian?" Save for brightly-colored frogs in the jungle who can only kill you if you touch them or eat them, no amphibian is remotely threatening. I'm not even going to go into how Reptile could possibly usurp Shao Kahn's throne. I've got nothing but respect for the guy, really, but I can't see it happening.

2: Time-travel in two games in a row, considering MK9 was all about altering the future? You really have no idea how many plot holes and inconsistencies this raises. As a long-time Doctor Who fan, I could easilly point out two logical paradoxes your story raises which would, according to Dr. Emmet Brown, destroy the entire universe. Or not, and glaring plotholes would remain in the fractured story.

3: Having known absolutely nothing about your fan characters besides their names, Short-Fuse and Slash-Strike are stupid names. Short-Fuse is just plain odd and strangely hyphonated, whereas Slash-Strike sounds more like a GI Joe. Ransack is an okay name. Nothing wrong with it.

4: Why the hell was Shinnok not even mentioned at all? What of his invasion of Earthrealm and Outworld (clearly alluded to at the end of MK9)? I have a big problem with this. After the events of MK1-3 which is what MK9 was about, the events of MK4 would only logically happen next. They wouldn't be the same, in fact, they would be VERY different, but Shinnok would still invade, would he not? Earthrealm and Outworld are RIPE for invasion, and Shinnok acknowledges this. The more he waits, the more time the realms have to rebuild and prepare. I'm pretty sure that being who he is, Shinnok would invade when he saw his best chance to win.

5: This one just bugged me: Why is Smoke evil? Is it Robot Smoke from the future? Clarify. On that note, how are Jax, Jade, Nightwolf (And it's not Night-Wolf, btw), Kabal, Sub-Zero and Liu Kang back? Are you explaining that they return from the alternate future? If so, wouldn't that mean that people who didn't die in MK9 would travel back as well? Ergo, we'd have two Johnnys and two Sonyas, to name one example. Clarify if I am wrong, but if the heroes of the future travelled back, we WOULD see this, wouldn't we?

6: Where are Kung Lao and Kitana? Off plowing?

I'm not entirely impressed by the story itself. Overall, I'd give this a 4/10, probably a 5/10 on pure originality. I'm not saying everything here is stupid, I'm saying that it's confusing as hell. If refined, it could truly be something unique.