Mortal Kombat 2 Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Continuing the journey through the Mortal Kombat franchise, we arrive at the incredibly exciting, Mortal Kombat 2. Once was the highest grossing video game of all time, and has been labelled as one of the best fighting games ever made, Mortal Kombat 2 was Midways Tour de Force and certainly helped put Mortal Kombat on the map as a franchise to stay. New finishing moves, deeper lore, expanded roster and more await!
These videos are designed as a series and thus are best watched in order, to watch my coverage of the previous game click here,
• Mortal Kombat Explained
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there was also a PC port that came out when it was released, thats the version i had
I had the Super Nintendo version and I think I played this game everyday for a whole year . Friends and neighbors would come over and have MK2 parties . One the greatest time of my childhood back in 1993
Sounds like some awesome times 🙂
So many late nights playing with my friend Rusty. RIP old friend. I remember you.
I was there too! Use to stay over my friends house and play from sun up to sun up......my buddies brother and his friend would come home after the bars closedand say what are you boys doing?...playing MK II. and next thing the tournament began.....dont play MK II SMASHED......we taught em a lesson....
Seriously such a better time.
Same for me , played all year
One of my all-time favorite video game franchises to date. I will never stop playing this iconic fighting game franchise. It's been stucking since my childhood in 1992.
Yes, MK blew my mind playing it as a teen in a pizza parlour. MKII got me addicted and I never stopped being a fan. Even have MK Mythologies and MK SF.
Cheers
MK3 is life
You said it
Mortal Kombat along with Street Fighter changed the fighting genre and are the pioneers of the fighting genre. They made other developers step up their game (no pun intended) when it came to developing fighting games. Even games tried to mimic You had Way of the Warrior, which was a no doubt Mortal Kombat rip-off, on a $700 Panasonic 3D0 system. That's why games like Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, Samurai Showdown, Soul Calibur, Tekken, Bushido Blade, and others became so successful. Because of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter.
Playing MK1, MK2, MK3, and UMK3 was every 90s teenager and adult's dream. We were addicted to those games like a drug. I remember when the arcades were packed you had to wait a while to play and some arcades had multiple machines of the MK games.
SNK had their own thing going. It was also very influential.
Im loving these for whatever reason. Even though I’m pretty sharp on MK Lore something about these vids are cool.
Thanks so much! I’m glad people are enjoying these videos, they’ve been incredibly fun to make
Great stuff as always👍 It's cool to go back to the originals that had arcade releases, just makes it even crazier to see how far the franchise has gone since. Would never have thought it would still be competing with SF even now
Thanks Jon! Yeah it’s come a very long way, I’m looking forward to what they’ve got in store with the next one
Incredible video on the history of Mortal Kombat 2.
It was my first experience with the series. I played Mk 2 on Sega Genesis as a kid.
Thanks so much for watching! Glad it could bring back good memories for you
The BEST Mortal Kombat. When this hit arcades it was INSANE*.
I really got into this one. I like 3 but 2 is the one that sealed MK as a legendary game series. The aftermath hurt but we got better games out of it.
First mk I ever played. I had it on Sega.
Great video, although I legitimately didn't know that Shao Kahn was inspired by Darth Vader!
Thanks Mike for watching! So the mystery of the villains true master (like what Lucas did with Vader - The Emperor) is what inspired Shang Tsung - Shao Kahn 🙂
@@DonCritic Okay, thanks for the clarification.
This was extremely well done! Excellent!
Thanks David! 😃
PC ports of MK2 and MK3 were by far the best ones out there at the time. Superior even to PSX. I don't understand why they are commonly left out when talking about near-arcade perfect versions.
So many good memories after seeing this video :)
I’m so glad 🙌
you gotta do vids for the whole series man
Definitely! Mortal Kombat 3 is in the works already
I grew up way past the era of classic MK and my friends weren't into fighting games at all, so most of my experience of MK2 is playing the single-player. THIS IS WHY I DO NOT ENJOY THE GAME
Yeah the single player is absolutely brutal. AI was designed to rinse your wallet 😄
@@DonCritic I've seen brutal fighting game AI before like in some SNK games and Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo but I've never experienced an AI that simply doesn't let you play the game and also breaks the game right in front of your eyes lmao
It seems tier/ranking videos are more popular than just lore videos. It isn't even close either. I would recomend going forward devising different catagories to use with short format top 10 type lists. MK male ninjas ranked. MK female character tier list. MK grappler tier list.MKs hardest hitters tier list. Etc etc. Of course the lore videos are great and I like them but 1.6m views on all 99MK characters ranked and then less than 250k views on all the lore videos seems to tell the direction, or at least another format to do as well. Just an idea.
EDIT: 2.6m views on the tier video vs 17k on this lore video. I like your videos so I hope to see your channel grow. This I think will help. Just don't be disingenuous when making tier videos because no one likes click bait. GL!!!
Yeah the ranking video was really popular but that has been up for two years, whereas these ‘explained’ videos have done really well for my channel in only one month. I entirely agree with tier rankings can come off as disingenuous. Some channels can pump them out and it leaves you to debate their authenticity. I personally have really started to see a difference with these explained videos. The comments and general reception is very positive whilst ranking videos and tier lists cause lots of people to be negative when it doesn’t line up with their own personal tier lists. Also for me, I used to make a lot of ranking lists when I started TH-cam, but making them purposefully makes you look more harshly on games so you can fit them into a ranking which can make them exhausting to make. I enjoy talking more positive about video games, detailing their gameplay mechanics and lore/characters, which the Explained series allows me to do. I don’t need to be negative or critical, I can just relax and enjoy making more content 🙂 but thank you for the comment, I love having these conversations. I appreciate it so much!
I have always loved mk mythology and its cheesy-but-creative lore and characters more than any game. Mk2 was a game-changer for the time. I remember the excitement of all the kids from my age when it was released to the sega genesis.
They should RM mk and start from the beginning
How does Jax have his metal arms in legacy game that takes place before part one?
In the old timeline, his Metal Arms weren’t replacements, he could remove the armour. He does this in the old MK Animated Series
@@DonCritic ohh ok ty
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For those too young to have experienced the arcade at this time, it's near impossible to explain the impact MK had. There'd be a constant line, 5-10 people deep, plus a crowd around the macine. Win and people clap. Pull off a fatality and people cheer. Die and you move to the back of the line, your shame on full display for a crowd to enjoy.
Ah, memories.
It sounds like such an awesome time!
@@DonCritic Certainly something we'll never see again. Sure was easy to burn through $20 in quarters each weekend lol
Yep, waiting patiently for the arcade to get freed up, checking back between playing Simpsons and Rampage. Wonderful times!
Just like the crowd Kahn’s arena! The sound system in those cabinets slapped!
This game exploded my brain when I saw it in the arcade as a kid.
Always thought it was funny Jax’s fatality was ripping his opponents arms off and then his arms get ripped off and gets robotic arms 🤣
Yeah very ironic 😂
Karma's a bitch
My favorite MK of all time. Countless hours playing this at home on Super Nintendo, at friends' houses, at arcades, on store displays (Toys R Us, Sears, K-Mart, etc.)
One summer I ended up in this summer "day camp" which was basically just a roller skating rink that was a place for parents to get rid of us during the day time in the summer, and all we did was play arcade games. With MK2 being the most popular one.
What a time to be alive. What an especially *amazing* time to be a kid 😎
This has to be the best sequel to a fighting game… almost ever. Like the reception at the time of its release was just off the charts. I can’t even explain how much of an impact this made when it was released.
As much as I would like to agree the factual best fighting game sequel of all time is certainly Street Fighter 2. It pretty much defined the template for the entire genre
Kung Lao pulling a rabbit out of a hat is the perfect idea for a Friendship. 😄
It’s perfect!
I predict this channel blowing up before the release of MK12! Just found this channel last night and I’m hooked! Awesome content brother, great editing and packed with MK lore. Keep up the good work!!
Thanks so much!! 🙏
Only time i had 2 was when i had the Mortal Kombat Arkade Kollection. FUCK THAT PORT! Never did get 100% because of beat MK2 and beat all 3.
Yeah 2 is a solid game
Same MK1 was easy, but 2 and 3 were really hard.
@@thegamingprozone1941 I beat 1 and 3, but damn 2 fucked me over every damn time. Input reading son of a.....
Those summers of 1994/95 were just paradise. Young, no cares in the world, every minute spent outside with friends or in an arcade playing MK2. It was perfect.
Got so good at this game that everyone gave up trying to win. Playing as Shang Tsung and beating everyone with every character was just the best - especially the Kintaro stomp fatality.
I was 6 when this came to arcades, but most of my memories was playing MK2 on the sega Genesis, great times, but personally MK2 is like the best MK game when it came to the realistic fatality department!
Another amazing video to follow the first one! 😊
MK2 had the best sound track imo.
I'd love for a Mortal Kombat Origins. I want that 500 years before 😆
Interesting idea , basically a video game version of the television show "Mortal Kombat:: Conquest"" that followed Tasha ,Siro and the Great Kung Lao before he gets killed by GORO ,show took place 500 years before the birth of LIU KANG , , so a game about that era could be Awesome 😎😸👍👍
I remember being blown away the first time I saw this at the local CiCi's pizza.
As a kid I dedicated so much time to mastering the first two MK games, especially MK 2. I was able to do at least one fatality for every character in MK 2, but I mastered Sub-Zero, Scorpion, and Reptile because they were my favorite. I still remember the blood code for MK 1 for Sega Genesis which came out when I was 9 years old. I'm 40 now. It was A B A C A B B, lol. I had an awesome childhood.
Lol, same here. I mastered everybody, because I loving being Shang Tsung. The fact that you could morph into anybody at any time, blew my mind. I actually made flashcards of each morph and the move list of each character. Because there was a lot of memorization with this game. I was addicted.
The absolute pinnacle of the series. The feel, the gameplay, the darkness, the hype and the frenzy was very real. I have never, ever seen crowds in arcades like I did in 1993-1994. Much of due to MK2. There were crowds around the game just watching people play and waiting for their turn.
With all due respect, the actors in the MK2 commercial weren’t the same actors from the games. I’ve done a lot of research into that commercial as I think it’s the only thing that compares to the game.
My favorite mk game on the series! Excluding the a.i, I love everything about this game!
This game introduced me to MK. The lore was the one thing that literally had me hooked- the sheer mystery, intrigue and high stakes
Ironic that Jax's fatality was ripping his opponents arms off... #Karma 😂
I enjoy these games much less than i did as a kid, when the qhole house played for hours and hours, now i play it for ab 10 mins every six months or so. But the memories are icons in my mind.
I bumped into Ho Sung Pak (LIU KANG) at Castle BBQ in Los Angeles. No one recognized him but I was freaking out. My wife was wondering who that was, even after we had played the game and also had watched recently Drunken Master where Ho Sung Pak was the bad guy.
Wow that’s awesome!
My childhood revisit, thank you!
If i had a nickle for every mk character color swapped turned red resulting of an hoax which later become a canon character, ill have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but weird it happened twice
😂
I think MK2 is the best one of the older games, classic MK peaked here, 10/10, it improved on everything MK1 did right.
MK3 was ok, I like 4 too, but 2 is amazing.
Just like 1, at the time the best home port was on PC. It was massive, it came on 9 floppy disks!. It looked and played almost arcade perfect, but it had some minor details. To this day when playing the old PC version it drives me insane that Scorpion walks like Sub Zero instead of walking with his arm up hahaha. The PS1 version is disappointing, the load times, missing voices, and incorrect details makes it worse than the SNES version. The SNES version is awesome, I think only the PC and arcade versions are better. The Genesis version is missing details in the stages, the music is wrong, it plays ok but I think they were lazy. The MK3 Genesis port proves the console could have done better ports of MK1 and MK2 closer to the arcade.
eating the heads with reptile was the coolest shit
I would love if you made a komplete history of mortal kombat video.. no one ever covers the whole story. They basically just cover 9-11. Your video would be the best love this series
MK2 is a great game! I just wished they used Reptile's moves from the first one. That would have been AWESOME!
I remember one of the rumors that spread around the schoolyard was a secret fatality where Kano gives the finger and says the F word.
Mortal Kombat 1 finna be lit yee
my first mk game played on a ps1 emulator on my old pc ❤️
I love Midday's old timeline, NRS seems like they don't know what they are doing half the time. Now don't get me wrong some story bits are awesome,such as Scorpion and Sub-Zero meeting in MK X. The changes to the old story piss me off so much, such as how Sindel was resurrected by Quan Chi, or how Sindel is portrayed as always being evil. While I love Mortal Kombat lore, I hate how NRS studios changes previously established lore.
Yeah they’ve retcon and restarted things so much 😂
I totally agree, ,I hate when NRS ( ED BOON created company) changes personality type and origin history of established MK-TRILOGY era fighters , , plus those freaking "X-ray moves " need a "toggle off option" or discontinued all together because they ruin the time pacing of the fights , and that hurts MK experience overall , , ,😸👍
@@wyldelf2685 definitely need a toggle off, I do like X-rays cuz u have to earn them though, unlike Fatal Blows. Which let's be honest, it's a free super move.
@@sketchpen777 well doing a fatality used to be a reward to yourself for defeating your opponent ,but Fatal-blows/X-rays take away from that ( you're doing a move that would obviously kill someone during a round ) X-rays cheapen the effect of the Fatalities , and halt-go-halt-go the pace of the fights , , generally they feel "out of place" in a Mortal Kombat game , , , it's like Ed Boon saw a Tekken title and said "Hey let's shove that feature into MK" , , , if you aren't certain find and play "MK-Deception". or even "MK-Armageddon" it will show proper fight pacing , , ,😸👍
@@wyldelf2685 Well yea I understand where you are coming from. Ofcourse I think X-rays should have a toggle as well or taken out. I miss the old 3D games, especially Deadly Alliance since it's to me the most complex of the 3D era, mechanically speaking. I remember Armageddon coming out and how crazy of an idea air combat sounded. The 3 combat style system of the 3D games was the coolest thing to me
I remember playing the arcade as a teenager in 93. It blew my mind watching people play it and Baraka doing all his crazy knife moves. I actually own 1-ulitimate3 on Arcade PCB and play then on my dedicated X-men 4 player
11:40 Geez people like to go far into making stuff up. These are clearly Johnny Cage and Scorpion fighting, as depicted in the first MK movie :)
Mortal Kombat 1&2 and Street Fighter 2 were the 'Kings of the Fighters' for much of the early to mid 90s.
In less than 5 years they both got Live Action movies and Cartoons.
The pit on part 2 was so disappointing. From an awesome gory spike pit to absolutely nothing at all
Mortal Kombat 1 hasn’t even come out yet and we’re talking about MK2 already 🤦♂️🤯
I know that Baraka can perform a babality and then his kneel and chop fatality and the machine will freeze. I remember this from a kid. The arcade owner would get pissed and have to reboot the machine.
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for MK II. To me, this is still one of my favorite of the MK series!! 😎🙌
5:43 Does anyone knows who is the Asian actor who played maskless Sub-Zero?
When I was a young kid in the 90’s I thought he was saying “whoopsie” instead of “toasty”
I think that MK2 was the most aesthetic game. MK3 characters looked like super heroes
The real people graphics are still much more enjoyable than the latest fighting games
Jax and karma don't get along
😂
The Game Gear version is a great version.
Very good analysis and explanation of game thorough
Thanks you! I’m glad you like this style of video 🙏
Every week I would use my pocket money to go to the local video shop and rent MK2 on the Mega Drive (or sometimes Golden Axe 2) I also used to think the guy saying "Toasty" was saying "whoopsie" 😂
Nice memories, Golden Axe 2 is awesome! And yeah haha, it does sound like “whoopsie” 😂😂
The last true MK. MK2 still have that dark mystic aura that made MK. Everything was a mystery, dark gore, mystic sounds and backgrounds.
MK3 still had some of that but you could see how the game was starting to change.
Yeah, there was just something
off with MK3. It didn't feel right. I played it, but I didn't get much enjoyment out of it. Plus, a lot of the fatalities were pretty lame.
Great video. Very informative. 👍
I have seen 5 of your videos and I have to say your voice, accent and way of narrating is so charismatic and unique, it’s fascinating
Wow thank you so much for that! I hope the rest of my videos are just as great 😃
still my fav snes game besides the zelda games
I LOVED this game man lol
MK2 is by far my favourite MK and the one I played the most. Arcade, Sega (ocassionaly) and at home on the SNES port. Maybe it was 'cause its timing, since I was young enough to have to much free time but old enough to really appreciate it. To this day I remember almost every move and finisher.
But objectively, I admit UMK3 has maybe the best gameplay wise but, also objectively, MK2 is the best in everything else. Its new characters are all stapples to the franchise, something that very few other MK's debutants have achieved. First appareance of Shao Kahn, still one of the greatest bosses in fighting game history. It was the last time one had to fight each of the twelve playable characters in the ladder aside of Kintaro and Shao Kahn. MK2's 14 characters' arcade ladder is to this day the more extensive.
This Pinnacle MK
I love mortal Kombat 2
🖤🖤🖤🖤👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑🖤🖤🖤🖤
I love MK2
unbelivebleeee
I miss the arcades
Still the best one
I agree 💯
I'm not entirely sure why but... for me this is the best MK ever, next to the original game.
I had the Sega Genesis...it pissed me off on the pit fatality they didnt scream in Sega but did on Super Nintendo lol...i slammed the game because i couldnt beat Shao Kahn for awhile
Yeah MK2 is the hardest Mortal Kombat in my opinion
MORTAL KOMBAT
I discovered your channel because I'm a huge Mortal Kombat fan. I'm glad that you covered every single game that makes me so happy. Keep up the excellent work!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching! The MK9 video is coming out in just a few hours!
Thank you for answearing me i´m hyped for more!!!
waiting for part 3
Still can't beat this mf😂😂
It’s certainly one of the hardest MK games for sure
Great video! 😊
So happy that you’re enjoying them!
Mortal Kombat 2 was also on Shaolin Monks Playstation 2
It was, I’ll be bringing it up in my Shaolin Monks Explained episode coming soon
@@DonCritic yessir it was a bonus game on the disc
MKIII is by far the best Mortal Kombat ever made.
Chars, Costumes, Design, OST, SFX, Playability,, etc
That one is coming next 🙂
@@DonCritic Big Thanks.
Not when it came to fatalities, they were a downgrade compared to MK2, at least MK2 still remains as the king on realistic gruesome fatalities!
Ultimate MK3 perhaps, but the standard version of MK3 does not have a better roster. They got rid of some of the most popular characters (Scorpion, Raiden, Kitana, Mileena, Johnny Cage, Reptile, and Baraka).
@@Rocket1377 Correct!
This was peak mortal kombat
Mk3 got too weird lol
Played MK2 so much in arcades, SNES, Genesis but my favorite version was for the Sega Game Gear bc as an 8 year old kid being able to play it on the way to the beach was incredible
MK2 is the best Mortal Kombat game in the entire franchise.
I have a Super Nintendo and this game at home. That was a nice time in the 90s. My favourit game as a child was Rock'N roll racing.