This review contains spoilers
Mortal Kombat 1
I am impressed. This story was really satisfying and reminded me a lot of MK9's story mode. Unlike past two MK, this did a good job making it feel satisfying.
They for the most part avoided the jobber problem they usually have where you have some really cool characters get turned into jobbers for the heroes to kill. This mostly avoided this and managed to make characters that were used as jobbers before cool again. Reptile being the best example. I really enjoyed this take on him. He is a great character that was robbed of his worth because of how much they sidelined him in most games since 3d era started. ||I picked him in the final battle of course and it was badass.|| The spoiler was a genius way of making the characters that didn't get enough stuff in the story mode to shine for a moment. Good decision overall.
I also really liked the remixed takes on the characters that returned. Raiden and Kung Lao are way cooler than they were usually. Johnny is Johnny but he is cool here. Past takes on him were missing something and this was great. Liu Kang also fits the wise god position in this. He is like old Raiden except competent and has a personality. Great job NR. I also loved how even Shao Khan has more to him than being blatantly evil. This reminds me, Sindel was a character that made me mad last time. They made her evil and she lost a great part of her character so I am glad they fixed it in this. She feels like a mother and is a badass. Just the way she should be. And her daughter Millena is great too. Really, most of the characters are just straight upgrades and I love that.
I guess I see why people dislike this game content wise. It really does feel empty. I dunno why it is the way it is. I will have to dig into it later and see if there is something I am missing.
Going forward I really hope MK13 does something new. I want the story mode to bring back Konquest mode. That mode was really cool and this game had so many cool vistas and locations that made me just imagine how cool it is to get back the RPG mode from deception and let us look into this world. I wanna visit order and chaos realms again. Please do it NR. Or at least give us Shaolin Monks like mode at least. While I liked the campaign this game had, it was begging for something new. I think the time is now.
I am not that good at describing the combat for this game but it felt like a smoother and better version of MK9 which is my favorite. You just pick a character and play with them. No longer do you have to choose from 3 different stances/modes. This was a welcome change as I always felt those were really meh to play with. The Kameo system is a way better choice and it also helps it added some extra characters for you to use exclusively for it.
Overall I am happy with this game. I played it in three sittings and was hooked.
I am impressed. This story was really satisfying and reminded me a lot of MK9's story mode. Unlike past two MK, this did a good job making it feel satisfying.
They for the most part avoided the jobber problem they usually have where you have some really cool characters get turned into jobbers for the heroes to kill. This mostly avoided this and managed to make characters that were used as jobbers before cool again. Reptile being the best example. I really enjoyed this take on him. He is a great character that was robbed of his worth because of how much they sidelined him in most games since 3d era started. ||I picked him in the final battle of course and it was badass.|| The spoiler was a genius way of making the characters that didn't get enough stuff in the story mode to shine for a moment. Good decision overall.
I also really liked the remixed takes on the characters that returned. Raiden and Kung Lao are way cooler than they were usually. Johnny is Johnny but he is cool here. Past takes on him were missing something and this was great. Liu Kang also fits the wise god position in this. He is like old Raiden except competent and has a personality. Great job NR. I also loved how even Shao Khan has more to him than being blatantly evil. This reminds me, Sindel was a character that made me mad last time. They made her evil and she lost a great part of her character so I am glad they fixed it in this. She feels like a mother and is a badass. Just the way she should be. And her daughter Millena is great too. Really, most of the characters are just straight upgrades and I love that.
I guess I see why people dislike this game content wise. It really does feel empty. I dunno why it is the way it is. I will have to dig into it later and see if there is something I am missing.
Going forward I really hope MK13 does something new. I want the story mode to bring back Konquest mode. That mode was really cool and this game had so many cool vistas and locations that made me just imagine how cool it is to get back the RPG mode from deception and let us look into this world. I wanna visit order and chaos realms again. Please do it NR. Or at least give us Shaolin Monks like mode at least. While I liked the campaign this game had, it was begging for something new. I think the time is now.
I am not that good at describing the combat for this game but it felt like a smoother and better version of MK9 which is my favorite. You just pick a character and play with them. No longer do you have to choose from 3 different stances/modes. This was a welcome change as I always felt those were really meh to play with. The Kameo system is a way better choice and it also helps it added some extra characters for you to use exclusively for it.
Overall I am happy with this game. I played it in three sittings and was hooked.