Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20140930094609

Related to Kintaro: Don't get me wrong, people. I'm not a hater of Kintaro. I like the way he's different from Goro in that he's from a different shokan lineage. I just think that, for him to be as much popular as Goro, at least two things would need to be done about him:

1 - Expand his story. Because many people likes Goro, he received an interesting background story. He's the prince of Kuatan (I think that's the name of the place) who commands an entire army of shokans, and even the one who once defeated the Great Kung Lao. That gives him a bigger role in the story than just that of a sub-boss, like when he formed that alliance with Kitana and Edenia at the end of MK 4.

Kintaro, on the other hand, is... what do we know about him? That he's a Tigrar shokan who's so ferocious that got to the rank of Shao Kahn's bodyguard. You see? His story is not expanded, and if it is, it doesn't go much further than this. In every game he's appeared I haven't seen him doing much more than just trying to beat the hell out of people just because he was ordered to do such. He gets no greater role than this most of the times.

2 - Make his moves and fatalities more original. Because breathing fire, pounding the ground and grabbing and punching the opponent are considered copies from Goro's moves. Of course, he would end up fighting almost the same way as Goro, for obvious reasons, but if his moveset could be renewed with specials Goro would never be able to perform than his credibility would increase a lot. For example, he's like a tiger. He could have a fatality involving eating pieces of his enemy instead of simply crushing or ripping them apart with his hands, which Goro can easily do.