Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-1354446-20150425075956/@comment-422853-20150428015825

Enjoyableari wrote: I will say that one of the things that annoyed me about the campaign as well as the arcade endings is their throwing in all these characters nilly willy without any kind of backstory to them. I can understand, they could be leaving thier stories for later games, or they didn't have enough time or something, but I mean, some of them didn't really farther the plot along.

Li Mei? Don't get me wrong, I love her. She's one of my favorite characters to play (odd right?), but she wasn't really needed. Any Outworld inhabitant that was coming through the portal could have told them the information. Now we're left going wtf? Why was Li Mei here? What is going on?

Sareena? I remember seeing people talking about her in the chat wondering WHY was she even involved in the storyline when she did nothing to help the plot again. It just seemed like the developers were just throwing people in nilly willy to bring as many "easter eggs" as they could.

Then in the arcade endings, Cassie Cage ends up kiling Shujinko by accident? Um... WHAT? What does this have to do with anything? (Mind you, I hate Shujinko, I think he's a useless character).

I don't know, maybe I am not seeing something that others are. If that is the case, I would love to be enlightened. Nah, I see where you're coming from. Even as one who liked Sareena's character (at least in the Sub-Zero spinoff game she debuted in), I found her MKX appearance to be some random shoehorned fanservice, or another easter egg put there for the sake of it as mentioned. Liked the new character model though, as it shows they've finally improved some at female modeling (compared to in previous games).

I think Fujin's appearance as an NPC was the most WTF though. Like what the hell happened to him after the beginning? He just disappeared without a given reason or explanation after helping Raiden with some demons. I still find Fujin lame as a god personally, but did feel sorry for his fans when it almost seemed like an inevitability at first that he'd be included on the roster.

What's sad too is some of the NPC's had as much a role in the story as some that were playable on the roster, like Ferra/Torr who did next to nothing story-wise...