Well because now you can say that Megan Fox voiced the character, thats why! She did it really, really, really bad, as bad as her boyfriend is at being a musician. BUT you can still say that Megan Fox voice acted.. tried voice acting.. or pretended at voice acting in this game! It's kind of like when you live in a fantasy world, and you want to start an adventurer party, for the wizard you pick the biggest muscle head kind of dude that has nothing to do with magic and who probably doesn't like magic either. Then you go to your friends, and you show them how you made the big muscle guy cast a spell. A terrible, ineffective spell, but still a spell! Never force someone who doesn't fit a role, into that very role. (like.. duh!)
@BananaFish2459 I can't completely agree with the "low effort game" notion, but I get what you mean. I think that they just put the effort into the wrong things and that the game was very obviously rushed to release in 2023. Like the crazy graphics that.. don't even look better than MK11 (can only judge the PC version) The crazy face expressions and stuff that.. I probably appreciated 1 time and thats it. The supposedly very "intricate" Invasions mode that is.. actually really annoying to play which is why I only played like 3 seasons and didn't have a lot of fun most of the time. The roster feels kind of lackluster too, even though there are a lot of interesting characters on it, its such a weird game man.. I just feel like they didn't concentrate on the right things, the game isn't fun, it kind of takes you away from the fun and even the kameo characters aren't fun (at least to me) they look fun when someone else is playing it, but they aren't fun, kinda like the game.
I hate him and I hate NRS for what they did to him. He used to be a man who was forced to do bad things to ensure the survival of his clan. In the NRS timeline, he's just a grown man stuck in his 13 year old edgy phase
@@ri_c_e even with the issues, I'l fight anyone who disagrees with me that up until the mk tourney in mk1 being rushed, we were getting the best story of the franchise Seriously though, NRS struck gold then immediately threw it all away for the multiverse nonsense
Liu Kang should've tried kidnapping Shang Tsung when he was a baby and raised him as one of his own, to see if the character of a person is defined by their environment, or maybe it was all up to fate
I always hated that that they introduced a multiverse in MK. They should've continued past Armageddon and deal with the consequences of that game. I miss the lore of the old timeline.
Exactly what they should’ve done. I dont know why they insist on these major event stories. They had it down for the first half of this story but chose multiverse for no reason
@theamazingmaymay123 They messed up as far back as MK9. They got the story for the first 3 games completely wrong. Even before Raiden started making his changes. To me it all went downhill starting with MK9
Many writers use multiverse and time travel as crutches, which is almost always a mistake as they seem easy at first but are actually some of the hardest tropes to use well.
Yeah I like the way its incorporated into invincible. Only one character has access to the multiverse and when he's not around its not an issue. Stories like Mortal Kombats recent entries leave multiverse and time travel open to an uncontrollable degree leading to many pothole's and possibilities that eventually lead to a universe reset. I don't know what they have against regular stories. This one was so solid till the ending.
They aren't crutches in fact they make the stories more complicated and allow for new ideas. It's how it all interconnects, and weaves together. I just don't think people are accepting of this newer timeline, and don't realize Mk has not been good at story telling for a LONG time.
I think they work for invasions solely cuz its not canon i think and it lets em mix n mash movesets but it gets mega confusing how they do so many big retcons and hit the reset button when they dont like one thing
Indeed. They should take notes from classics like Star Trek IV or First Contact, Back to the Future, Chrono Trigger, maybe 12 Monkeys, Days of Future Past, stuff like that! Not from like Infinity War, Sonic 06, Mario's Time Machine, etc.
I don't remember seeing Mileena in MK11 or Aftermath but I do know that Kitana had the look of Japanese princess or something. Now they both look like they're halfway through a tarkatan transformation.
@@IllMatic97kinda is. Does kuai liang sub-scorpion become sub zero? Will hanzo be the next scorpion if he doesnt then we dont have a sub zero. Its stupid as shit
@@IllMatic97it's makes no sense to me. Kuai Liang gets Scorpion's title, powers, clan and wife. So... Why did they make him a Scorpion instead of Hanso?
It makes no sense, one of the most interesting and constant plot points was the triangle effect of Hanso, Bi-Han and Qui Liang, now we have literally two versions of Bi-Han for the sake that he has to be Noob, and the only reason he BECAME Noob was because he jumped through a fucking portal, by himself, for no reason.
I'm so confused why Liu Kang, God of Fire and Thunder, the creator of the Universe, the once Champion of Earthrealm who has beaten realm conquering tyrants and time controlling titans, potentially can be weaker than Tanya, Havik, or Nitara. I'm pretty sure that every single one of those characters never won a single fight in this story, but can beat the deadly alliance which includes the Shang Tsung who has the strength of: Shao Kahn, Sindel, Raiden (thunder God variant), Fujin, Kronika, and supposedly Thunder God Liu Kang as he sucked all them up.
Titans are complete jokes. Kronika defeated by technically an infinite amount of characters (basically everyone can defeat her), Shang Tsung as you said defeated by a random fighter in the final chapter and now Havik defeated by normal Noob Saibot. Titans are even less powerful and less intimidating than og Midway Goro.
By this point im gonna be honest writers just use multiverse or time travel shenanigans as an excuse for shitty writing. "Oh god Raiden's dead, well here's a new Raiden from an alternate timeline or we prevented Sonya's death but that caused a rip in time causing the creation of a whole new timeline". Its the writers reset button to bring back characters people like or they made there story overcomplicated and Mortal Kombat has no real consequences at all anymore. I remember in the original timeline when Liu kang got jumped by the Deadly Alliance leading to his literal death and zombie form. An there was no way around such a pivotal moment like that in the series and writers moved forward without pulling some multiverse ass pull and make plotholes. Im willing to give MK9 a pass as its a soft reboot of the series so fine, but for them to bring back timetravel/multiverse stuff 2 games after MK9 was disappointing. As the ending of MKX had me intrigued on Dark Raiden, Liu Kang and Kitana as rulers of Netherrealm, and the ramification of Kotal Kahn invasion of earth realm.
You know what could’ve done? Have Mk11 be the Netherrealm invasion, and have most of the heroes die fighting it. Kronika’s entire deal was that she wanted balance, so have her be built up in Mk11 and then be used in MK12 to justify the reset
@@j.i.nthenobody54 That could potentially work as long as she is introduced early and her bringing things back in order makes sense. But if anything she should justify it by saying to Raiden look your past self screwed up by changing the timelines. An now The One Being will return much sooner as the realms are merging and destroy all upon its return. But Raiden is the center of all the realms problems, and it will all boils down to him
I've never thought about it before but honestly yeah, they really did just drop what MK9 and X's new timeline had to offer super quick did they really have so little confidence in where X was left off?
@@de606returns6 Thats basically what im saying, they gave us a soft-reboot of the series. Now they have introduced multiverse in the MK series. Now look at what they did MK look like the MCU multiverse. Seriously the set-up MKX had was like showing a conflict between an evil Liu Kang and such. If i was writing this my story would be. A 3-way war between Netherrealm, Outworld, and Earthrealm. With some conspiracies unfolding in the background, looking to undermine all three factions. An it turns out it was Onaga the Dragon King, causing things to breakdown behind the scenes. Leading up to his invasion and return in MK11.
"What's scarier than one of your favorite franchises fading into dust in front of your very eyes?" Speaking from experience being a Sonic fan in 2014-2019...he's right, that stuff's terrifying.
@@DylanofScreenTime If you turn your brain off and disregard Forces, you got Mania and Boom. But yeah didn’t really think about the time period, “brother”. Besides, it’s not the same. MK been falling off since the 2010’s with a continuous fall off narratively and content range. Sonic’s been up and down for ages.
I'll never forget how hyped I was to see the live action sonic just to be greeted with that monstrosity known only now as "Ugly Sonic" . Im super glad shadow is finally getting another game. I hope they make a Sonic Mania 2 at some point with him in it.
My problem with Liu kang is that why the heck he made shang tsung still be a bad person in that timeline, and then Liu kang be angry at him for doing bad things. Like WTF is this writing
Liu Kang didn't make Shang Tsung a bad person Shang Tsung because a bad person because he was too lazy to do honest work and decided to become a snake oil salesman all Liu Kang did was take away his power so he wouldn't be a threat but the other time-line Shang Tsung give them back he also did the same for Shao, Quan and supposedly Shinnok.
yes.. he was a con man because of liu kang, he made him like that. Notice how he favored Raiden to be the chosen one. Baraka and reptile who were villians throughout the series are now good guys in this timeline. Again, poor writing.
@IceBloxTheGamer000 remember he spent "eons" building this timeline. All of this could have been prevented if he made shang tsung a good guy or never have created shang tsung.
@BubbleGum566 I'm not saying the game's writing doesn't have flaws in fact I agree with you it does it's just that this isn't one of them or at least I don't think so. Liu Kang didn't make Raiden the chosen one he made Johnny, Kenshi, Kung Lao, and Raiden compete for it, and since this is Raiden's chapter he wins in fact if you lose the fight with Kung Lao it says that he ends up becoming the champion instead of Raiden. I just wish the chapter system was less limiting because it would have been cool if you got to choose between the four and whoever you choose becomes champion and fights in the tournament or instead of losing a fight means you lost and have to try again it can sometimes mean you continue the story but you just get a different outcome like losing the fight with Kung Lao mean that you play as him in the tournament instead of Raiden. Reptile and Baraka were not really bad guys though they just, unfortunately, unfortunately worked for the bad guys all Reptile wanted to do was bring back his dead race and since he was promised it by Shang Tsung and Shoa he followed their lead even though little known to him they never intend on bringing back the extinct Zaterrans and when he worked for Kotal in MK X he just followed him because it was better than following Mileena and since the Zaterrans are not extinct in this time-line Reptile has no reason to follow anyone anymore and Baraka was just another Tarkatan under Shoa's control since shao is no longer a ruler Baraka and the other Tarkatan's have no reason to follow him as soon in MK 11 where he joins Kitana and the others after the defeat of Shao. But Liu Kang Make People good and even if he could he wouldn't want to because he wanted people to be free and able to make their own choices as stated in the games intro whether or not a character is good or evil or natural is based on their actions or situation like Shao in this game he didn't actually become evil until this time-line Shang Tsung and Quan-Chi plants the idea in his head that he should be Outworlds ruler, That Sindel is a incompetent leader and that Liu Kang is trying to conquer Outworld because all Shao wants to do is protect Outworld if Shang Tsung and Quan-Chi didn't fill his head with these thoughts we probably would been a good guy yha he didn't like Earthrealmers but that is probably because of Quan-chi's fake prophecy yha and yha Liu Kang could have just not have him exist in his time-line (in fact I originally wondered why he brought him back until I realized) he wanted to give the villans a chance at redemption (like they say villans aren't born their made) also it fits his Character Liu Kang is a very forgiving and peaceful character (he forgave Kitana for trying to assainate him in MK9 and he continued to have faith in Raiden after finding out he was the cost of his death in MK11). BTW I 100% agree with you about this game having a flawed story as a long-time MK fan I just don't think this part of it is.
Yeah, ngl. The quality of writing in the MK franchise has dwindled over the years. Imagine how much better the story would be if they focused more on character-driven stories instead of large-scale crisis after crisis. It has the potential to do better, to be better.
Mk writing has never been great xd it's always just been okay with extremely cringey storytelling and dialogue, even great ones like Deception had awful voice acting and a pretty ass story😂
@@finger3306 It felt more based and gritty though. Yeah, the story was never super amazing, but Mortal Kombat usually made up for it in world building and thick atmosphere. I'm so tired of that generic, corporate, light hearted and safe Marvel tone that's present in recent Mortal Kombat games. Basically "MK Avengers". I just want to the franchise to get back to the darker stuff, leaning more into the R rating again.
Mk11 was a boring injustice clone what are you talking about out this game actually plays like an Mk game has way less microtransactions and the story was decent up until the rushed ending
@@TylerSmyth-z6h no , of your were smart you would know nrs takes stuff from the game beforehand and would use it in the next one, mk11 has a better roster, better dlc, you got to chose who you want to fight as in the story mode at times, and they both have kinda sucky stories, and mk11 had more game modes
The pure anime writing really makes the comedy that is MK1 entertaining at the very least, *”yOu lET FaThEr diE?! YoU SAId yoU trIeD tO sAvE hIM!”* *”FAtHeR wAs A fOOl aNd i WaS rIGHt To lEt HiM dIE!”* *(Vine boom)*
(KHAOS REIGNS SPOILERS if you care) What I’ve really noticed as someone who only really cares for the story is that there’s no depth the characters are so one dimensional, characters who should be more thoughtful are reduce to one emotion/flaw or the most basic plot lines ever. As someone who didn’t grow up, hell I wasn’t even conceived during mk’s “golden era” the old lore still interested me i was excited to see how they would adapt that but no nothing. Kuai Liang’s and bi-Han’s story interested me because THEY WERE BROTHERS (from old lore kidnapped from their mother) hell even with the new(now old) lore so much could have been done. Forced against each other and bi-Han became something inhuman but kuai still had hope and a want to help him (mk11 butchered that) Now? Their rivarely is so one dimensional you don’t see the connection they had to justify the hurt. ALSO HOW ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE LIN KUAI CHAPTER (khans reigns) BUT NO SMOKE??? And they could’ve expanded the smoke/scorpion brotherhood as they ended it in mk1 but nope nothing. Also if they wouldn’t have the sektor/Bihan Romane if sektor was a man why have it at all. Again leaves it very one-dimensional and doesn’t let sektor be her own character and expand on WHY she’s doing all of this just reduces it to “LIN KUEI, BI-HAN’s GIRL”. If they had expanded on her ambitions more THEN revealed the romance would’ve been so much better. And I hate how Harumi was reduced to “kuai look at me 🥺” LET HER BE A CHARACTER LIKE SHE GETS TO LIVE IN THIS TIMELINE???? they could’ve had her have flashbacks of her death from other timelines due the fragility of the barriers and make her paranoid and agggresive being overly protective and irrational. It would give her some justice after being killed for someone’s story a million times 💀. Also the scorpion and bihan rivalry doesn’t rlly work if they’re brothers to me. There’s so much pain and easily buildable hatred to a stranger who destroyed your life. You don’t have a connection to them so you can vilify them as much as you want which can so easily lead to scorpions unending thirst for revenge. But also you don’t know much of that persons family/occupation or who’s behind them. So the unknowing consequences hitting them like a brick hits so much harder than if that were a family member because you KNOW who they fuck with. And what the consequences are, the multiverse shit takes that time and attention away from character depth and I have no idea why they did that. They could’ve expanded the stories and stretched it to more games, like I wanted time to enjoy and learn about the new timeline. LIKE THEY HAD STORYLINES SET UP?? /mileena and shoa storyline/scorpion vs bihan/kenshi and yazuka/ or included new stuff like the red/black dragon. We did not need the multiverse stuff if they still wanted it, it could have happened after that or hit the next generation so the og characters get their happy ending but the new generation have to deal with the consequences of what happened before.I have more to say but this is a YT comment
A very understated change for this timeline is that Madam Bo is supposed to be Bo’ Rai Cho. She taught Raiden and Kung Lao to fight just like Bo’ Rai Cho.
That’s so fucking unnecessary and random but aight 😂 should’ve just had Bo Rai Cho in the universe rather than erase his character, cuz they got nun in common.
This is a misconception, there is no actual proof she is supposed to be Bo’Rai’Cho. Bo’Rai’Cho is his full name. “Bo” is a family name, and a fairly common one at that. She’s also Sektor’s mother, associated with the Lin Kuei, and happened to train Raiden and Kung Lao, but there isn’t any definitive evidence that she is a genderbent Bo’Rai’Cho
@@Henry-iz7iv I guess it’s true there is not straight up evidence of it, but so far they have the one connection of teaching kung Lao and his best friend of the timeline to fight. So I mean odds are she probably is. And it’s not that big of stretch to think it’s just another random genderbend like how you mentioned Sektor, and Cyrax
@@ReyCardo I believe thefourthsnake did an entire video debunking them being the same person. It is possible they could be, but it’s also important to mention they share absolutely no personality traits. Bo’Rai’Cho’s entire gig is alcoholism, his name is Spanish for drunk. Madam Bo has nothing of the sort. Bo’Rai’Cho is also very cynical, bitter, and haunted. Madam Bo fakes her own death for a goofy bit, and is more of a spunky grandma. Apart from the fact they both have “Bo” in their name, and they both trained Kung Lao to some extent, they have absolutely nothing in common. At the very least, Sektor and Cyrax have the same names, colors, abilities, and general rolls to their male counterparts. What if im personally curious about is if they’ll confirm genderbend Fujin or not, given Raiden’s sister is mentioned a few times
Akain posted on a Sunday? God is truly good 🙏🏾 now let’s see how many down bad moments we’ll see After finishing the video, Akain had 11 down bad moments (most being cuz of sindel) so the consequence of your actions will be watching Sindel and Arkham poison ivy in a canon relationship 😀
The reason Johnny cage is so broken is because of his frame data. He just has THE best mid attack in the game. It’s extremely spamable too, so pro players will get u in a corner and stagger the combo 2-3 times uncontested. And if u, the defender, tries to interrupt the stagger. Congrats bro it also launches so now ur eating a 30% combo 🙏🏾
The fact that some writers in this day and age don't know when to reign it in is still baffling to me. I get that to some people bigger is better, and they always want to up the ante, but at some point, all that bloat just becomes meaningless. Why not tell a smaller scale story where the individual arcs of the characters are meaningful and longlasting rather than spend a whole game setting up a new status quo only to throw it all in the trash at the last second and start over for no reason for the third time. Like what was the point of anything in this game and the last if you won't even let this new timeline rock for one game. Give it some room to breathe before you fast-track it back into the same corner you wrote yourself into 15 years ago. Shit.
Similar thing to Mk9. It was basically a reboot with time travel and a big war looming over the characters then it went slightly downscaled but still had a literal god as the main baddie with threats of complete world and universal domination (If I remember correctly) and then immediately jumped to multiverse and another reboot after 1 game in the first rebooted universe and now there’s not even 1 game without multiverse bs in the reboot of the reboot
Actually Sektor's dad is the grandmaster, Sub-Zero Only be comes grandmaster after the Cyber initiative, when he killed the new grandmaster Sektor who killed his father for the title
No, in the lore and the original timeline, the best timeline, Sektor's Father is the grandmaster, Sub-Zero when it was Bi-Han was Their best assassin, better then Sektor, Cyrax, Smike, & Tundra aka kuai liang the 2hd Sub-Zero, Since Bi-Han was the best he was sent to the mortal Kombat tournament to represent the Lin kuei and kill Shang tsung, but he would be killed by scorpion, and that's why the cyber initiative happened, Sektor kills his father becomes a Ninja cyborg and the new grandmaster, forces Cyrax snd smoke to become ninja cyborgs, then Kaui liang the new and the Sub-Zero is Mark with that red scar on his face because he left the lin Kuei, he then beats Sektor and kicks him out the clan, becomes the grandmaster with the dragon medallion, then starts a new lin kuei
@@BlackJesus_888in the mk12 timeline, they make Sub-Zero's father the grandmaster and they make Tundra aka the Sub-Zero into scorpion so they make Sub-Zero and scorpion brothers and make smoke Their adoptive brother instead of Their friend
John Carlton is Johnny Cage's original name and a nod to Johnny Cage Prepare Yourself song by The Immortals and the Malibu comics from the '90s and he's an actor so of course he's going to have a stage name
Since no one will bring it up, I will. One of the biggest issues with MK's DLC is that some of these "DLC Characters" are already in the game, in the story mode, with big parts they play. Why isn't Ermac, and Quan Chi already in the game if that's the case?! Back in MK11, you had this happen with Sektor and Cyrax, why program a character if they aren't in the base roster?
That point about the faces is something I dont hear enough people talk about. Literally every game, the designs change. Like they are straight up different people in familiar outfits. If it was just this game, you could argue the multiverse angle, but they've been doing since MK3 lol
Depends on the Era. The main things that usually change are supers. I can go from a character from One point and still be fine in the future point. The most that changes are their toolbox.
@@NinjaGuyDan_ the thing is, MK changes radically. MK11 was slower, with a completely different combo breaker and meter system. MKX and MK9 are more joined at the hip, but they still have very different gameplay due to Variations and the run mechanic. The 3D era is a completely different beast with sidestepping and stances. MKvDC had Rage, which was a broken damage buff. Point is, MK changes a lot
I don't even fw fighting games but you could probably narrate over footage of a cartoon about period cramps and I'd still watch for that alone. Good shit right here.
It just doesn't FEEL like MK at all the aura is completely gone and it's unexplainable MK had the craziest aura it was completely unique and now it has an MCU phase 4 box office flop vibe
Because MK used to have a gross, B-horror movie vibe. The fantasy elements were there, but it was stupid and didn't care who knew it. There were zombies and Meat and ninja cyborgs and vampires and it never gave a shit to explain it, so it was campy and fun. Even MKX had this going on and leaned into it. It was gross and grungy and dreary and there was an immortal ninja cowboy and Leatherface. Now it's trying to take all of these disparate parts, pick out some of them, and then play them totally straight, and that just isn't MK.
Ed boon: What characters do we put in mk1 for guests, they need to be fresh, and have a lot of ability's Warner Brothers: I got it! Ghostface, he's obviously the best choice Ed boon: alright who let Warner Brothers cook? Warner Brothers: and he'll be so unique, for example he'll stab...and then stab again Ed boon: genius, someone get this man some tissues because he's sweating from how much he's cooking Ps I have nothing against ghostface and I'm actually excited for what he/ she is gonna do, I just wanted to make a joke about this situation.
it seems accurate problem is..GHOSTFACE IS LIKE WHAT?10 YEARS LATE IN THE GAME his chance was in mkx if not mk11 but they took to long to put him in the game which is why my hype for him isn’t even hype it’s just “meh” they should’ve added kabal or reverse flash
The face change point is valid. It really breaks my immersion. Seeing Raiden from MK to MK 11 as the same consistent face then seeing him in MK1 completely baffles me. Then Kitana look completely different in most games💀
Did her so dirty. I heavily dislike her and Mileena’s new lore. Glad they’re not enemies anymore and Mileena is getting some focus but like damn. They did not have to make it so unsatisfactory and make them feel unrecognizable as characters. As well as making Kitana do literally nothing. Didn’t even get to be the kameo against Order of Darkness Sindel. Who literally killed her mother. Like??
Multiverse: the bad writer’s crutch. NRS has been pulling this since mk9 and Injustice 1 (Injustice kinda makes sense, yk, superheroes and all). I know they’re just big dumb fighting games but it still shows a lack of care.
Ok. I’m new to MK (never played any of the games or games in general) your videos basically introduced me to these characters and to this game. Dude. I’m so used to hearing the funky voice overs that I was absolutely NOT expecting their voices to sound like that . 56:49
you made a really good point about the characters faces always changing between games. its something Ive always hated too, but comparing it to other fighting games really shows just how bad it is. in any other fighting game every character has a consistent and recognizable identity and we dont have to be told that theyre the same character because we can just see it for ourselves, but in mortal kombat every time I see someone new Im always going "who's this?" and then have to be told that its actually an old returning character who looks literally nothing like how they used to. its hard to feel attached too anyone when they keep doing this.
I have an idea for the next game. No time shenanigans, no multiverse bullshit, no plot holes: A powerful deity enjoys watching the realms kill each other, and traps them in a world of their own creation. So Everytime someone dies, it's the deity resurrecting them. The characters' objective is to either cope or free themselves from the god?
Akain, PLEASEEEE keep up the amazing videos. You really got me cracking up towards the end when you started crashing out about the writing of Mortal Kombat. Love your content.
I lowkey love Mortal Kombat. I love them so much. It's like a toxic relationship honestly. I can't stand how terrible I am with combo fighter games but I want to BE GOOD AT IT. I love the story, and the games. In fact, my favorite part is the dialog the fighters have before the actual fighting even begins. I love that so much that I even have a notebook full of if my favorite characters from other universes had the intro dialogs with MK characters. Dude, imagine Ghost Rider and Hanzo Hasahi Scorpion having a conversation, and Kuai Liang Scorpion tries to get Bayverse Optimus Prime off his path of hatred because he sees Bi-Han in Prime. Just sayin, thanks for readin.
They focus too much on the cosmic dog piss when they should be focusing on the inner machinations of the characters. It's called MORTAL KOMBAT. Mortals. Living people.
Dude, this is masterful. You've got like the coolest, smooth black guy voice as a baseline while deftly modulating it for subtle comedic pace like... I dunno, Barry White on an NES Excitebike? Then busting out raw talent in sudden cartoony voices and shit...Excellent writing, tons of hip audio-visual references in the background, and to bury the fucking lead: As someone who couldn't be bothered with this MK 'cause blah, whatever, I feel like your synopsis was not only supremely entertaining but left me with pretty much the same experience and working knowledge as if I had played through it. Ad as someone so mortally and severely depressed that my conservative government just declared me disabled and subsidised my rent, I can more or less count the number of times I actually laugh in a year on one hand... and this was one. Insta-subscribe, keep it up etc. If it means anything, in additiont to the presumed satisfaction inherent in honing this craft, you also reached out and ET-touched a quasi-suicidal middle-aged lame white fat bald loser fuck enough that he forgot how fucked in the head he was for an hour, and I look forward to consuming more of your talent.
Sick of people saying they nailed the story in the first half. They rehashed long overdone character arcs (Johnny Cage) and removed pretty much all the stakes (the tournament) and fucked the characters hard (Scorpion). Like, if it hadn't been a multiverse thing, what could have realistically happened? Honestly? The story couldn't work unless Liu Kang went down the same path as Kronika.
But then you have another problem: Liu kang. Given powerscaling inconsistencies in mk11 and how they basically made liu op as fuck now (despite just being god), him supposedly have titan powers would basically just make him unstoppable if we are genuinely were to make a competent villain (which is what realistically would have happen with kronika and the plot would not even last 10 minutes). The problem is how they wanted to blow their load early. It seems that most likely every option seem to fail, now looking back at the story now continuing off 11. It mean it was already fucked that they literally ignore their own canon rules by the fact kronika literally erased the fucking timeline WITH THE CROWN and then somehow being able to all of a sudden somehow go into said erased timeline to continue the story lol. It was already bad enough that you had the big kahns and an elder god get bossed around by the edenian females, with mileena now continuing this trend and people making fucking ton of criticisms about it. Making liu going dark will be just invite even more criticism of how NRS handle their villains lol But regardless of what opinion of how mk1 was good or bad in the first half, I think we can objectively agree that with khaos reigns in the picture, the whole story is just fucking horrible like with 11 and X and to an extent, 9
Ah good I woke up sick so this will definitely be some needed cheering up. Thanks for the effort you put into all your videos homie! I'm sorry the last few have been rough on you 🙏🏾
After Khaos Reins, all I can say is "Justice for Yellow Ninjas." Took Takeda's dad away and made him a generation older so Jaqui is lost to him. They brought my man back just to kill him.
Something so simple, just focusing on the story mode, they introduced a new timeline and possibilities and didnt even make any of the good guys villains. They made villains good guys, but aint even do the opposite. The most OBVIOUS ONE woulda been making Kung Lao a villain.
Yknow whats REALLY goofy? The conundrum of Noob existing and Kuai being scorpion could be solved if NRS had half a clue If theyre so hell bent on having heckin strong women why not replace Sub with Frost and just dont write her stupid or make her a robot. But nah, Cyrax and Sektor clearly should be the girls.
Day 100 of asking for each robin’s dlc I know you done with Arkham knight but I can’t stop watching these Batman videos💀 Literally your best set of videos
I've been waiting for this vid for a while but since I haven't been watching your recent vids due to certain things, I'ma first watch what I missed then head back here
Bland visuals,awful story telling,really shallow fanservice,over reliance upon d.l.c., the gaming industry slumping just like the animation, going for realism over stylization with huge budgets!
“Going for realism over stylization” especially in a franchise like MK… imagine what we could’ve had with todays graphical power and a properly unique art style
@@BullFrogFace. The games could've done this even under midway. Can you imagine;"special forces and shaolin monks;cel shaded"? Former already showed art!
I absolutely hated the fact that they made Kuai Liang Scorpion. Like Hanzo's destiny was to be scorpion, hell Mk X imo made his story better by making him human and giving him redemption and rebuilding the Shrai Ryu but in MK1 That shit is out the window and now scorpion is the happiest man in the world and has nothing bad happen to him (yes i know hes beefing with his brother but like thats in every story)
Its crazy how they hired Christina Vee, a professional VA, to do all the grunts and screams, but Megan Fox voices the character
What branch was she in?
Well because now you can say that Megan Fox voiced the character, thats why! She did it really, really, really bad, as bad as her boyfriend is at being a musician. BUT you can still say that Megan Fox voice acted.. tried voice acting.. or pretended at voice acting in this game!
It's kind of like when you live in a fantasy world, and you want to start an adventurer party, for the wizard you pick the biggest muscle head kind of dude that has nothing to do with magic and who probably doesn't like magic either. Then you go to your friends, and you show them how you made the big muscle guy cast a spell. A terrible, ineffective spell, but still a spell! Never force someone who doesn't fit a role, into that very role. (like.. duh!)
@BananaFish2459 I can't completely agree with the "low effort game" notion, but I get what you mean. I think that they just put the effort into the wrong things and that the game was very obviously rushed to release in 2023.
Like the crazy graphics that.. don't even look better than MK11 (can only judge the PC version) The crazy face expressions and stuff that.. I probably appreciated 1 time and thats it. The supposedly very "intricate" Invasions mode that is.. actually really annoying to play which is why I only played like 3 seasons and didn't have a lot of fun most of the time. The roster feels kind of lackluster too, even though there are a lot of interesting characters on it, its such a weird game man..
I just feel like they didn't concentrate on the right things, the game isn't fun, it kind of takes you away from the fun and even the kameo characters aren't fun (at least to me) they look fun when someone else is playing it, but they aren't fun, kinda like the game.
@@umbral9911 After Mk 2011 they proven to me to not be able to make a good MK game.
Let alone a game without garbage like easy fatality tokens.
@@umbral9911 MGK is my guilty pleasure tbh!!!!!
There's zero redeeming qualities about Bi Han, but man, it's hard to hate him when he's being the biggest most exaggerated hater to ever live.
Bro murdered his own father for some ice drip
@@Akain777 The drip is immaculate though, i'll give him that.
I hate him and I hate NRS for what they did to him. He used to be a man who was forced to do bad things to ensure the survival of his clan. In the NRS timeline, he's just a grown man stuck in his 13 year old edgy phase
Bi Han had my full attention every cutscene he was in. Dude was so comically evil for damn near no reason 😂😂
Mythologies begs to differ but that was when they had better writing.
MK1 story started off so well. They were cooking, and then the chef just started throwing random ingredients in there and burnt everything
Exactly. It's so sad. So much wasted potential
and the beginning had some issues too, but because it was mostly consistent and coherent it was good. the ending hurts even more then.
What's cooking?
Facts
@@ri_c_e even with the issues, I'l fight anyone who disagrees with me that up until the mk tourney in mk1 being rushed, we were getting the best story of the franchise
Seriously though, NRS struck gold then immediately threw it all away for the multiverse nonsense
Liu Kang should've tried kidnapping Shang Tsung when he was a baby and raised him as one of his own, to see if the character of a person is defined by their environment, or maybe it was all up to fate
Please don’t give them any ideas 😂 it already sucks
Huh, good point.
@@nicholasbennett7367actually it doesn't sound that bad, nrs would find a way to mess it up thou
literally Shujinko-Kung Lao ending brooo
you watched it ? is that and is dumb xD
Shang tsing mustve felt like a personal grudge towards Liu Kang the god to fuck up shangs kife
I always hated that that they introduced a multiverse in MK. They should've continued past Armageddon and deal with the consequences of that game. I miss the lore of the old timeline.
Exactly what they should’ve done. I dont know why they insist on these major event stories. They had it down for the first half of this story but chose multiverse for no reason
Lowkey, I agree. But my real issue. They had something going and then did a whole unnecessary ass time skip for X n imma say that fucked it alll up.
@@Akain777 I kinda blame Marvel. They mad everyone do multiverse stories.
@theamazingmaymay123 They messed up as far back as MK9. They got the story for the first 3 games completely wrong. Even before Raiden started making his changes. To me it all went downhill starting with MK9
@@cliffbot638 they “changed it” there’s no isssues with switched it up, they DEF fucked up when they had Sindel kill everyone but I understand
Many writers use multiverse and time travel as crutches, which is almost always a mistake as they seem easy at first but are actually some of the hardest tropes to use well.
Yeah I like the way its incorporated into invincible. Only one character has access to the multiverse and when he's not around its not an issue.
Stories like Mortal Kombats recent entries leave multiverse and time travel open to an uncontrollable degree leading to many pothole's and possibilities that eventually lead to a universe reset.
I don't know what they have against regular stories. This one was so solid till the ending.
They aren't crutches in fact they make the stories more complicated and allow for new ideas.
It's how it all interconnects, and weaves together.
I just don't think people are accepting of this newer timeline, and don't realize Mk has not been good at story telling for a LONG time.
I think they work for invasions solely cuz its not canon i think and it lets em mix n mash movesets but it gets mega confusing how they do so many big retcons and hit the reset button when they dont like one thing
Indeed. They should take notes from classics like Star Trek IV or First Contact, Back to the Future, Chrono Trigger, maybe 12 Monkeys, Days of Future Past, stuff like that! Not from like Infinity War, Sonic 06, Mario's Time Machine, etc.
@@javonyounger5107 yeah. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. In Spiderman's case it does. In Doctor Strange's case it doesn't
"Bro, why does Mortal Kombat keep changing the faces like this?". Why does Mortal Kombat keep changing so many things in general?
True. I was thinking about that while I was editing the video. Each game seems to have completely different mechanics.
Because WB likes money
Changing them would be one thing, if they would change things for the better. But somehow they always manage to make it worse.
@@Akain777I was thinking the same thing about the faces though, it doesn’t do any favors for the popularity of the series
I don't remember seeing Mileena in MK11 or Aftermath but I do know that Kitana had the look of Japanese princess or something. Now they both look like they're halfway through a tarkatan transformation.
Scorpion not being Hanzo Hasashi makes me feel empty
Same
It's really not that big of a deal
@@IllMatic97kinda is. Does kuai liang sub-scorpion become sub zero? Will hanzo be the next scorpion if he doesnt then we dont have a sub zero. Its stupid as shit
@@IllMatic97it's makes no sense to me. Kuai Liang gets Scorpion's title, powers, clan and wife. So... Why did they make him a Scorpion instead of Hanso?
It makes no sense, one of the most interesting and constant plot points was the triangle effect of Hanso, Bi-Han and Qui Liang, now we have literally two versions of Bi-Han for the sake that he has to be Noob, and the only reason he BECAME Noob was because he jumped through a fucking portal, by himself, for no reason.
I haven't seen the video yet, but I know full well that this brother will be down horrendous with just one second of Sindel on screen
Nuh uh😳
@@Akain77730 whole seconds 💀
@@Akain777for me bro it’s either mk1 kitana or mk9 jade
mk11 kano for me 🥴
Sindel could murder bros mum and he’d be like “so does that make us official then?” 😂
Bro goes on us for harley ivy and batwoman
Yet here he is goin WILD
To be fair they all mid compared to Sindel
I see the vision
@@mysteryace2129 maybe mk11 sindel 😂
@@mhead1117 MK1-9 Sindel. The rest are awful.
@@mysteryace2129 nahhhh catwoman id on ANITHER LEVEL FAM
This man’s love for sindel is on another level.
Its just a lil bit of appreciation nun too crazy
@@Akain777 don't listen to the judgmental opps, spit your truth
By far the best thing of this game, I dare to say, love her!
You clearly never watched The4thSnake
Some MILFs are worth the trouble
I'm so confused why Liu Kang, God of Fire and Thunder, the creator of the Universe, the once Champion of Earthrealm who has beaten realm conquering tyrants and time controlling titans, potentially can be weaker than Tanya, Havik, or Nitara. I'm pretty sure that every single one of those characters never won a single fight in this story, but can beat the deadly alliance which includes the Shang Tsung who has the strength of: Shao Kahn, Sindel, Raiden (thunder God variant), Fujin, Kronika, and supposedly Thunder God Liu Kang as he sucked all them up.
Cuz plot and NRS can’t write for shit 😂
NRS has always been ass at power scaling
The balancing of the games has never been based off who’s canonically strongest? Like what? Have you ever played an mk game bro
Titans are complete jokes. Kronika defeated by technically an infinite amount of characters (basically everyone can defeat her), Shang Tsung as you said defeated by a random fighter in the final chapter and now Havik defeated by normal Noob Saibot.
Titans are even less powerful and less intimidating than og Midway Goro.
Same reason Cassie beat shinnok
" *STORY MODE* "
The difference between Smoke's voice when doing the shake down and how he sounds when talking to Bi-Han is killing me
Bro is a sweet boy
If you end up killing my grandparents for Sindel, we gotta throw down, I ain't taking that.
Their sacrifice would not be in vain
@@Akain777Take the the red pill and touch grass bro! Love your video by the way.
@@Tediez_the_honored_onenah fr, ain’t nothing wrong with being appreciating looks but some folks take that shit way too far
Brohan got google alerts for Sindel R34 drops, money on it he'll Platinum sub to an OF if the bird cosplays her
Just about to leave for the gym. Thank you for giving me something to listen to!
have you left yet
Go crazy brother
Pump it hard for me bro! I’m thinking of you
@@morrisvoices9787 Jax is an inspiration
By this point im gonna be honest writers just use multiverse or time travel shenanigans as an excuse for shitty writing. "Oh god Raiden's dead, well here's a new Raiden from an alternate timeline or we prevented Sonya's death but that caused a rip in time causing the creation of a whole new timeline". Its the writers reset button to bring back characters people like or they made there story overcomplicated and Mortal Kombat has no real consequences at all anymore.
I remember in the original timeline when Liu kang got jumped by the Deadly Alliance leading to his literal death and zombie form. An there was no way around such a pivotal moment like that in the series and writers moved forward without pulling some multiverse ass pull and make plotholes.
Im willing to give MK9 a pass as its a soft reboot of the series so fine, but for them to bring back timetravel/multiverse stuff 2 games after MK9 was disappointing. As the ending of MKX had me intrigued on Dark Raiden, Liu Kang and Kitana as rulers of Netherrealm, and the ramification of Kotal Kahn invasion of earth realm.
You know what could’ve done? Have Mk11 be the Netherrealm invasion, and have most of the heroes die fighting it. Kronika’s entire deal was that she wanted balance, so have her be built up in Mk11 and then be used in MK12 to justify the reset
@@j.i.nthenobody54 That could potentially work as long as she is introduced early and her bringing things back in order makes sense. But if anything she should justify it by saying to Raiden look your past self screwed up by changing the timelines. An now The One Being will return much sooner as the realms are merging and destroy all upon its return. But Raiden is the center of all the realms problems, and it will all boils down to him
I've never thought about it before but honestly yeah, they really did just drop what MK9 and X's new timeline had to offer super quick did they really have so little confidence in where X was left off?
@@de606returns6 Thats basically what im saying, they gave us a soft-reboot of the series. Now they have introduced multiverse in the MK series. Now look at what they did MK look like the MCU multiverse. Seriously the set-up MKX had was like showing a conflict between an evil Liu Kang and such. If i was writing this my story would be.
A 3-way war between Netherrealm, Outworld, and Earthrealm. With some conspiracies unfolding in the background, looking to undermine all three factions. An it turns out it was Onaga the Dragon King, causing things to breakdown behind the scenes. Leading up to his invasion and return in MK11.
"What's scarier than one of your favorite franchises fading into dust in front of your very eyes?"
Speaking from experience being a Sonic fan in 2014-2019...he's right, that stuff's terrifying.
What are you talking about? We literally just copped Keanu Reeves as Shadow, got a great Sonic game in years, and Shadow Generations????
@@zero.9831 READ brother.
"in 2014-2019", is THAT current year??
@@DylanofScreenTime If you turn your brain off and disregard Forces, you got Mania and Boom. But yeah didn’t really think about the time period, “brother”.
Besides, it’s not the same. MK been falling off since the 2010’s with a continuous fall off narratively and content range. Sonic’s been up and down for ages.
@@zero.9831 we havent had a good sonic game after 2006
I'll never forget how hyped I was to see the live action sonic just to be greeted with that monstrosity known only now as "Ugly Sonic" .
Im super glad shadow is finally getting another game. I hope they make a Sonic Mania 2 at some point with him in it.
They need to stop retconning established characters bruh. They don’t even bring anything productive to them either.
My problem with Liu kang is that why the heck he made shang tsung still be a bad person in that timeline, and then Liu kang be angry at him for doing bad things. Like WTF is this writing
Liu Kang didn't make Shang Tsung a bad person Shang Tsung because a bad person because he was too lazy to do honest work and decided to become a snake oil salesman all Liu Kang did was take away his power so he wouldn't be a threat but the other time-line Shang Tsung give them back he also did the same for Shao, Quan and supposedly Shinnok.
yes.. he was a con man because of liu kang, he made him like that. Notice how he favored Raiden to be the chosen one. Baraka and reptile who were villians throughout the series are now good guys in this timeline. Again, poor writing.
@IceBloxTheGamer000 remember he spent "eons" building this timeline. All of this could have been prevented if he made shang tsung a good guy or never have created shang tsung.
I said the game’s story was mid as fuck at first, but finishing the vid I realized it’s actually dogshit.
@BubbleGum566 I'm not saying the game's writing doesn't have flaws in fact I agree with you it does it's just that this isn't one of them or at least I don't think so. Liu Kang didn't make Raiden the chosen one he made Johnny, Kenshi, Kung Lao, and Raiden compete for it, and since this is Raiden's chapter he wins in fact if you lose the fight with Kung Lao it says that he ends up becoming the champion instead of Raiden. I just wish the chapter system was less limiting because it would have been cool if you got to choose between the four and whoever you choose becomes champion and fights in the tournament or instead of losing a fight means you lost and have to try again it can sometimes mean you continue the story but you just get a different outcome like losing the fight with Kung Lao mean that you play as him in the tournament instead of Raiden.
Reptile and Baraka were not really bad guys though they just, unfortunately, unfortunately worked for the bad guys all Reptile wanted to do was bring back his dead race and since he was promised it by Shang Tsung and Shoa he followed their lead even though little known to him they never intend on bringing back the extinct Zaterrans and when he worked for Kotal in MK X he just followed him because it was better than following Mileena and since the Zaterrans are not extinct in this time-line Reptile has no reason to follow anyone anymore and Baraka was just another Tarkatan under Shoa's control since shao is no longer a ruler Baraka and the other Tarkatan's have no reason to follow him as soon in MK 11 where he joins Kitana and the others after the defeat of Shao.
But Liu Kang Make People good and even if he could he wouldn't want to because he wanted people to be free and able to make their own choices as stated in the games intro whether or not a character is good or evil or natural is based on their actions or situation like Shao in this game he didn't actually become evil until this time-line Shang Tsung and Quan-Chi plants the idea in his head that he should be Outworlds ruler, That Sindel is a incompetent leader and that Liu Kang is trying to conquer Outworld because all Shao wants to do is protect Outworld if Shang Tsung and Quan-Chi didn't fill his head with these thoughts we probably would been a good guy yha he didn't like Earthrealmers but that is probably because of Quan-chi's fake prophecy yha and yha Liu Kang could have just not have him exist in his time-line (in fact I originally wondered why he brought him back until I realized) he wanted to give the villans a chance at redemption (like they say villans aren't born their made) also it fits his Character Liu Kang is a very forgiving and peaceful character (he forgave Kitana for trying to assainate him in MK9 and he continued to have faith in Raiden after finding out he was the cost of his death in MK11).
BTW I 100% agree with you about this game having a flawed story as a long-time MK fan I just don't think this part of it is.
1:11:08 that is the sound of true despair.
Yeah, ngl. The quality of writing in the MK franchise has dwindled over the years.
Imagine how much better the story would be if they focused more on character-driven stories instead of large-scale crisis after crisis. It has the potential to do better, to be better.
Mk writing has never been great xd it's always just been okay with extremely cringey storytelling and dialogue, even great ones like Deception had awful voice acting and a pretty ass story😂
@@finger3306 At least it was coherent we didn't need citizen cane but this shit is just goofy
The same that Tobias used to do...
Ah, but Ed Boon went full libtard and here we are.😊
@@finger3306 It felt more based and gritty though. Yeah, the story was never super amazing, but Mortal Kombat usually made up for it in world building and thick atmosphere. I'm so tired of that generic, corporate, light hearted and safe Marvel tone that's present in recent Mortal Kombat games. Basically "MK Avengers". I just want to the franchise to get back to the darker stuff, leaning more into the R rating again.
This game made me apologize to 11
Me to Black Ops 4 after 2022 MW2 dropped fr.
@@zero.9831 anything after black ops 2 doesn't matter
@@IllMatic97 exactly but mw2019 was fun
Mk11 was a boring injustice clone what are you talking about out this game actually plays like an Mk game has way less microtransactions and the story was decent up until the rushed ending
@@TylerSmyth-z6h no , of your were smart you would know nrs takes stuff from the game beforehand and would use it in the next one, mk11 has a better roster, better dlc, you got to chose who you want to fight as in the story mode at times, and they both have kinda sucky stories, and mk11 had more game modes
The pure anime writing really makes the comedy that is MK1 entertaining at the very least,
*”yOu lET FaThEr diE?! YoU SAId yoU trIeD tO sAvE hIM!”*
*”FAtHeR wAs A fOOl aNd i WaS rIGHt To lEt HiM dIE!”*
*(Vine boom)*
All while sub sounds like an 80s cartoon villain with goofy ass voice
Every fighting game lately is getting a lil too anime. Tekken had the forces of heaven and hell fighting in space to end the bloodline 😂😂
bro is everywhere
It's right up there with "Too bad YOU! Will DIE!" from Annihilation
@@Akain777Tekken was already anime with the villain family and their over the top antics, can’t remember their names
20:13 trust me bro, I’m still waiting for NRS to start showing Liu kang’s power to, guess they gave up after the kronika fight🤦🏾♂️
The fact that Jade isn’t in this game made me not give it any time of day.
Who needs Jade when you can buy khameloeons kameo and use 1 of Jades many moves
@Akain777 Bra
Dont worry you have tanya who is basically jade…and mileena-kitana-khan :)
@@Akain777 No daddy akain😩
Facts, Jade is such a baddie
(KHAOS REIGNS SPOILERS if you care)
What I’ve really noticed as someone who only really cares for the story is that there’s no depth the characters are so one dimensional, characters who should be more thoughtful are reduce to one emotion/flaw or the most basic plot lines ever. As someone who didn’t grow up, hell I wasn’t even conceived during mk’s “golden era” the old lore still interested me i was excited to see how they would adapt that but no nothing. Kuai Liang’s and bi-Han’s story interested me because THEY WERE BROTHERS (from old lore kidnapped from their mother) hell even with the new(now old) lore so much could have been done. Forced against each other and bi-Han became something inhuman but kuai still had hope and a want to help him (mk11 butchered that)
Now? Their rivarely is so one dimensional you don’t see the connection they had to justify the hurt. ALSO HOW ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE LIN KUAI CHAPTER (khans reigns) BUT NO SMOKE??? And they could’ve expanded the smoke/scorpion brotherhood as they ended it in mk1 but nope nothing. Also if they wouldn’t have the sektor/Bihan Romane if sektor was a man why have it at all. Again leaves it very one-dimensional and doesn’t let sektor be her own character and expand on WHY she’s doing all of this just reduces it to “LIN KUEI, BI-HAN’s GIRL”. If they had expanded on her ambitions more THEN revealed the romance would’ve been so much better.
And I hate how Harumi was reduced to “kuai look at me 🥺” LET HER BE A CHARACTER LIKE SHE GETS TO LIVE IN THIS TIMELINE???? they could’ve had her have flashbacks of her death from other timelines due the fragility of the barriers and make her paranoid and agggresive being overly protective and irrational. It would give her some justice after being killed for someone’s story a million times 💀. Also the scorpion and bihan rivalry doesn’t rlly work if they’re brothers to me. There’s so much pain and easily buildable hatred to a stranger who destroyed your life.
You don’t have a connection to them so you can vilify them as much as you want which can so easily lead to scorpions unending thirst for revenge. But also you don’t know much of that persons family/occupation or who’s behind them. So the unknowing consequences hitting them like a brick hits so much harder than if that were a family member because you KNOW who they fuck with. And what the consequences are, the multiverse shit takes that time and attention away from character depth and I have no idea why they did that. They could’ve expanded the stories and stretched it to more games, like I wanted time to enjoy and learn about the new timeline. LIKE THEY HAD STORYLINES SET UP?? /mileena and shoa storyline/scorpion vs bihan/kenshi and yazuka/ or included new stuff like the red/black dragon. We did not need the multiverse stuff if they still wanted it, it could have happened after that or hit the next generation so the og characters get their happy ending but the new generation have to deal with the consequences of what happened before.I have more to say but this is a YT comment
53:03 Is the funniest argument between sub-zero scorpion and smoke 😂😂😂 had me dead
Yooooo it seemed like actual lines from the game
Real messed up man😂
Hilarious
A very understated change for this timeline is that Madam Bo is supposed to be Bo’ Rai Cho. She taught Raiden and Kung Lao to fight just like Bo’ Rai Cho.
That’s so fucking unnecessary and random but aight 😂 should’ve just had Bo Rai Cho in the universe rather than erase his character, cuz they got nun in common.
This is a misconception, there is no actual proof she is supposed to be Bo’Rai’Cho. Bo’Rai’Cho is his full name. “Bo” is a family name, and a fairly common one at that. She’s also Sektor’s mother, associated with the Lin Kuei, and happened to train Raiden and Kung Lao, but there isn’t any definitive evidence that she is a genderbent Bo’Rai’Cho
@@Henry-iz7iv I guess it’s true there is not straight up evidence of it, but so far they have the one connection of teaching kung Lao and his best friend of the timeline to fight. So I mean odds are she probably is. And it’s not that big of stretch to think it’s just another random genderbend like how you mentioned Sektor, and Cyrax
@@ReyCardo I believe thefourthsnake did an entire video debunking them being the same person. It is possible they could be, but it’s also important to mention they share absolutely no personality traits. Bo’Rai’Cho’s entire gig is alcoholism, his name is Spanish for drunk. Madam Bo has nothing of the sort. Bo’Rai’Cho is also very cynical, bitter, and haunted. Madam Bo fakes her own death for a goofy bit, and is more of a spunky grandma. Apart from the fact they both have “Bo” in their name, and they both trained Kung Lao to some extent, they have absolutely nothing in common. At the very least, Sektor and Cyrax have the same names, colors, abilities, and general rolls to their male counterparts. What if im personally curious about is if they’ll confirm genderbend Fujin or not, given Raiden’s sister is mentioned a few times
Yeah I hate that
Ngl
Underrated youtuber right here❤
Thank you💯
Yes. It made some welcome changes but the story mode is doing waaayyyyyy too much.
Real
Akain posted on a Sunday? God is truly good 🙏🏾 now let’s see how many down bad moments we’ll see
After finishing the video, Akain had 11 down bad moments (most being cuz of sindel) so the consequence of your actions will be watching Sindel and Arkham poison ivy in a canon relationship 😀
I would flood this planet with the black plague 46 times over before I ever let Ivy near Sindel
@@Akain777 I’m sorry twin, it just has to be done 😔😔 but don’t worry I’ll send you a post card from their wedding
The reason Johnny cage is so broken is because of his frame data. He just has THE best mid attack in the game. It’s extremely spamable too, so pro players will get u in a corner and stagger the combo 2-3 times uncontested. And if u, the defender, tries to interrupt the stagger. Congrats bro it also launches so now ur eating a 30% combo 🙏🏾
1:11:08 I knew he was gonna be distraught but damn
1:11:13 is a level of emotion i never thought we would hear from bro
Like bro was distraught,disappointed,mourned,sad and angry and upset and then more bro did not want to see that
Man sounded like he was living out an NTR doujin
@@seg162 man legitimately got ntred lol
Bro’s definitely praying for Jerrods downfall for Sindel
Too bad. She's MINE
The fact that some writers in this day and age don't know when to reign it in is still baffling to me. I get that to some people bigger is better, and they always want to up the ante, but at some point, all that bloat just becomes meaningless. Why not tell a smaller scale story where the individual arcs of the characters are meaningful and longlasting rather than spend a whole game setting up a new status quo only to throw it all in the trash at the last second and start over for no reason for the third time. Like what was the point of anything in this game and the last if you won't even let this new timeline rock for one game. Give it some room to breathe before you fast-track it back into the same corner you wrote yourself into 15 years ago. Shit.
Similar thing to Mk9. It was basically a reboot with time travel and a big war looming over the characters then it went slightly downscaled but still had a literal god as the main baddie with threats of complete world and universal domination (If I remember correctly) and then immediately jumped to multiverse and another reboot after 1 game in the first rebooted universe and now there’s not even 1 game without multiverse bs in the reboot of the reboot
24:36 nah bro's thirst for sindel is atrocious, we need to free our brethren from this temptation
I'm right there with him dog😂
MK1 is the first NRS game with physically based rendering, that's 50% of why it looks better than the older titles
Brother is down astronomically bad for Sindel, she is not your queen gang
Cause of that Mr.Shakedown joke.
Now imma ask you to do the ENTIRE Yakuza series.
If not i'm not going to sugarcoat it
Actually Sektor's dad is the grandmaster, Sub-Zero Only be comes grandmaster after the Cyber initiative, when he killed the new grandmaster Sektor who killed his father for the title
wait so…sektor and sub zero are siblings in a way?and scorpion and smoke?
No, in the lore and the original timeline, the best timeline, Sektor's Father is the grandmaster, Sub-Zero when it was Bi-Han was Their best assassin, better then Sektor, Cyrax, Smike, & Tundra aka kuai liang the 2hd Sub-Zero, Since Bi-Han was the best he was sent to the mortal Kombat tournament to represent the Lin kuei and kill Shang tsung, but he would be killed by scorpion, and that's why the cyber initiative happened, Sektor kills his father becomes a Ninja cyborg and the new grandmaster, forces Cyrax snd smoke to become ninja cyborgs, then Kaui liang the new and the Sub-Zero is Mark with that red scar on his face because he left the lin Kuei, he then beats Sektor and kicks him out the clan, becomes the grandmaster with the dragon medallion, then starts a new lin kuei
@@BlackJesus_888in the mk12 timeline, they make Sub-Zero's father the grandmaster and they make Tundra aka the Sub-Zero into scorpion so they make Sub-Zero and scorpion brothers and make smoke Their adoptive brother instead of Their friend
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD ohhh thank you
53:16 Nah Bro said all that unprovoked 😭😭😭
27:30 oh yeah, I’m NEVER letting you live this sentence down 💀
John Carlton is Johnny Cage's original name and a nod to Johnny Cage Prepare Yourself song by The Immortals and the Malibu comics from the '90s and he's an actor so of course he's going to have a stage name
I WILL NEVER BE SHACKLED BY THE BARRIERS OF HUMAN DECENCY 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
Titan Jason Voorhees would be actually kinda sick for a Halloween expansion
Bro is D1 glazing sindel. And I can’t BLAME him
Since no one will bring it up, I will. One of the biggest issues with MK's DLC is that some of these "DLC Characters" are already in the game, in the story mode, with big parts they play. Why isn't Ermac, and Quan Chi already in the game if that's the case?! Back in MK11, you had this happen with Sektor and Cyrax, why program a character if they aren't in the base roster?
I can't be the only one who felt like MK1 is written more like a fanfic than an actual installment in the franchise.
Bro you’re definitely becoming one of my favorite TH-camrs rn!!
That point about the faces is something I dont hear enough people talk about. Literally every game, the designs change. Like they are straight up different people in familiar outfits. If it was just this game, you could argue the multiverse angle, but they've been doing since MK3 lol
The thing about MK is that it’s always changing. The gameplay almost never stays the exact same as the last game
@@j.i.nthenobody54 but isn't that true for most fighting games? (maybe not Tekken)
Depends on the Era. The main things that usually change are supers. I can go from a character from One point and still be fine in the future point. The most that changes are their toolbox.
@@NinjaGuyDan_ the thing is, MK changes radically. MK11 was slower, with a completely different combo breaker and meter system. MKX and MK9 are more joined at the hip, but they still have very different gameplay due to Variations and the run mechanic. The 3D era is a completely different beast with sidestepping and stances. MKvDC had Rage, which was a broken damage buff. Point is, MK changes a lot
I don't even fw fighting games but you could probably narrate over footage of a cartoon about period cramps and I'd still watch for that alone. Good shit right here.
An hour long Akain video on a sunday at that? Life is good
Sindel's face model is real just so know you may have a chance 😂
Oh okay, first Jessica now Sindel? But I'm bad for looking at Harley 👀 I'm watching you Akain
Alt title: akain simping for sindel for 1 hour+
What makes this game worse is that it came right after MK11 which was already a mess of a game
I think what ruined the story mode for me was how the plot holes started growing. Mileenas chapter is where I gave up with it.
Bro really released this video as I'm watching MK 9 😭
Keep going brotha great video 👍
It just doesn't FEEL like MK at all the aura is completely gone and it's unexplainable MK had the craziest aura it was completely unique and now it has an MCU phase 4 box office flop vibe
Because MK used to have a gross, B-horror movie vibe. The fantasy elements were there, but it was stupid and didn't care who knew it. There were zombies and Meat and ninja cyborgs and vampires and it never gave a shit to explain it, so it was campy and fun.
Even MKX had this going on and leaned into it. It was gross and grungy and dreary and there was an immortal ninja cowboy and Leatherface.
Now it's trying to take all of these disparate parts, pick out some of them, and then play them totally straight, and that just isn't MK.
Ed boon: What characters do we put in mk1 for guests, they need to be fresh, and have a lot of ability's
Warner Brothers: I got it! Ghostface, he's obviously the best choice
Ed boon: alright who let Warner Brothers cook?
Warner Brothers: and he'll be so unique, for example he'll stab...and then stab again
Ed boon: genius, someone get this man some tissues because he's sweating from how much he's cooking
Ps I have nothing against ghostface and I'm actually excited for what he/ she is gonna do, I just wanted to make a joke about this situation.
it seems accurate problem is..GHOSTFACE IS LIKE WHAT?10 YEARS LATE IN THE GAME his chance was in mkx if not mk11 but they took to long to put him in the game which is why my hype for him isn’t even hype it’s just “meh” they should’ve added kabal or reverse flash
Bu-but the gimmick is that there's MULTIPLE versions of the same guy, so that means he's totally unique!
You basically just described jhonny cage and Janet cage in a nutshell
With all the guest characters and flux of missing actual Mk karacters they really should’ve focused on og kast at least for the first dlc
To be fair getting old is different for johnny cage because hes a martial arts actor
Im at the 8 minute mark yo bro, your editing is amazing. Laughing my butt off. Good stuff
Thank you bro
The face change point is valid. It really breaks my immersion. Seeing Raiden from MK to MK 11 as the same consistent face then seeing him in MK1 completely baffles me. Then Kitana look completely different in most games💀
Raiden went from middle aged White fella to Asian twink
Honestly a downgrade
Kitana being a nobody is a downfall for MK1
Did her so dirty. I heavily dislike her and Mileena’s new lore. Glad they’re not enemies anymore and Mileena is getting some focus but like damn. They did not have to make it so unsatisfactory and make them feel unrecognizable as characters. As well as making Kitana do literally nothing. Didn’t even get to be the kameo against Order of Darkness Sindel. Who literally killed her mother. Like??
Multiverse: the bad writer’s crutch. NRS has been pulling this since mk9 and Injustice 1 (Injustice kinda makes sense, yk, superheroes and all). I know they’re just big dumb fighting games but it still shows a lack of care.
All nrs games stories started off good, goes down in the middle and falls off a cliff at the end
Ok. I’m new to MK (never played any of the games or games in general) your videos basically introduced me to these characters and to this game. Dude. I’m so used to hearing the funky voice overs that I was absolutely NOT expecting their voices to sound like that . 56:49
It's smokes ending where they meet young hanzo, and actually Sub-Zero, Smoke, Cyrax & Sektor all worked together before
you made a really good point about the characters faces always changing between games. its something Ive always hated too, but comparing it to other fighting games really shows just how bad it is. in any other fighting game every character has a consistent and recognizable identity and we dont have to be told that theyre the same character because we can just see it for ourselves, but in mortal kombat every time I see someone new Im always going "who's this?" and then have to be told that its actually an old returning character who looks literally nothing like how they used to. its hard to feel attached too anyone when they keep doing this.
I have an idea for the next game. No time shenanigans, no multiverse bullshit, no plot holes:
A powerful deity enjoys watching the realms kill each other, and traps them in a world of their own creation. So Everytime someone dies, it's the deity resurrecting them. The characters' objective is to either cope or free themselves from the god?
It’s not just MK1. It’s also any game or movie comes out. Recently everyone is just hating…everything. I know I’m not the only one that senses this
Mk has literally lost its identity. Someone HELP!!!
Akain, PLEASEEEE keep up the amazing videos. You really got me cracking up towards the end when you started crashing out about the writing of Mortal Kombat. Love your content.
They just completely erased the original canon storyline in the series. Why the hell would they do that? Um..NOOOOO👎🏿😒
I lowkey love Mortal Kombat. I love them so much. It's like a toxic relationship honestly. I can't stand how terrible I am with combo fighter games but I want to BE GOOD AT IT. I love the story, and the games. In fact, my favorite part is the dialog the fighters have before the actual fighting even begins. I love that so much that I even have a notebook full of if my favorite characters from other universes had the intro dialogs with MK characters. Dude, imagine Ghost Rider and Hanzo Hasahi Scorpion having a conversation, and Kuai Liang Scorpion tries to get Bayverse Optimus Prime off his path of hatred because he sees Bi-Han in Prime. Just sayin, thanks for readin.
They focus too much on the cosmic dog piss when they should be focusing on the inner machinations of the characters. It's called MORTAL KOMBAT. Mortals. Living people.
NAHHHHH BRO YOU EVIL FOR 50:40 💀
Dude, this is masterful. You've got like the coolest, smooth black guy voice as a baseline while deftly modulating it for subtle comedic pace like... I dunno, Barry White on an NES Excitebike? Then busting out raw talent in sudden cartoony voices and shit...Excellent writing, tons of hip audio-visual references in the background, and to bury the fucking lead: As someone who couldn't be bothered with this MK 'cause blah, whatever, I feel like your synopsis was not only supremely entertaining but left me with pretty much the same experience and working knowledge as if I had played through it. Ad as someone so mortally and severely depressed that my conservative government just declared me disabled and subsidised my rent, I can more or less count the number of times I actually laugh in a year on one hand... and this was one. Insta-subscribe, keep it up etc. If it means anything, in additiont to the presumed satisfaction inherent in honing this craft, you also reached out and ET-touched a quasi-suicidal middle-aged lame white fat bald loser fuck enough that he forgot how fucked in the head he was for an hour, and I look forward to consuming more of your talent.
Sick of people saying they nailed the story in the first half. They rehashed long overdone character arcs (Johnny Cage) and removed pretty much all the stakes (the tournament) and fucked the characters hard (Scorpion).
Like, if it hadn't been a multiverse thing, what could have realistically happened? Honestly? The story couldn't work unless Liu Kang went down the same path as Kronika.
But then you have another problem: Liu kang.
Given powerscaling inconsistencies in mk11 and how they basically made liu op as fuck now (despite just being god), him supposedly have titan powers would basically just make him unstoppable if we are genuinely were to make a competent villain (which is what realistically would have happen with kronika and the plot would not even last 10 minutes).
The problem is how they wanted to blow their load early. It seems that most likely every option seem to fail, now looking back at the story now continuing off 11.
It mean it was already fucked that they literally ignore their own canon rules by the fact kronika literally erased the fucking timeline WITH THE CROWN and then somehow being able to all of a sudden somehow go into said erased timeline to continue the story lol. It was already bad enough that you had the big kahns and an elder god get bossed around by the edenian females, with mileena now continuing this trend and people making fucking ton of criticisms about it. Making liu going dark will be just invite even more criticism of how NRS handle their villains lol
But regardless of what opinion of how mk1 was good or bad in the first half, I think we can objectively agree that with khaos reigns in the picture, the whole story is just fucking horrible like with 11 and X and to an extent, 9
Agree to disagree. First half was fine.
Ah good
I woke up sick so this will definitely be some needed cheering up. Thanks for the effort you put into all your videos homie! I'm sorry the last few have been rough on you 🙏🏾
24:42 dude calm down
Nah let him cook
After Khaos Reins, all I can say is "Justice for Yellow Ninjas." Took Takeda's dad away and made him a generation older so Jaqui is lost to him. They brought my man back just to kill him.
Multiverses became the cop out of being painted into a corner
Spoiler on mods: yes, Towers of Time returned (but for free)+Invasions became better over the year of updates (fortunately)
Before I can continue with the vid, your voice is very soothing and smooth to listen to
Something so simple, just focusing on the story mode, they introduced a new timeline and possibilities and didnt even make any of the good guys villains. They made villains good guys, but aint even do the opposite. The most OBVIOUS ONE woulda been making Kung Lao a villain.
Bro i took your vid seriously but you’re so naturally funny.Great stuff.
Be interesting for this guy to cover the fnaf games story but walking dead game aswell
Honestly if people are considering this to be worst Mk game then I wanna see what they have to say about Mortal Kombat Special Forces
Yknow whats REALLY goofy?
The conundrum of Noob existing and Kuai being scorpion could be solved if NRS had half a clue
If theyre so hell bent on having heckin strong women why not replace Sub with Frost and just dont write her stupid or make her a robot. But nah, Cyrax and Sektor clearly should be the girls.
Some redemption for my girl Frost please!
Day 100 of asking for each robin’s dlc
I know you done with Arkham knight but I can’t stop watching these Batman videos💀
Literally your best set of videos
yes and no, it feels like an anime !
53:14 you did smoke so dirty with that voice looooool
need more spooky vids for halloween 🙏🙏🙏
Until Dawn is up next
@@Akain777 let’s gooo pookie 🙏🙏
I've been waiting for this vid for a while but since I haven't been watching your recent vids due to certain things, I'ma first watch what I missed then head back here
Bland visuals,awful story telling,really shallow fanservice,over reliance upon d.l.c., the gaming industry slumping just like the animation, going for realism over stylization with huge budgets!
“Going for realism over stylization” especially in a franchise like MK… imagine what we could’ve had with todays graphical power and a properly unique art style
@@BullFrogFace. The games could've done this even under midway. Can you imagine;"special forces and shaolin monks;cel shaded"? Former already showed art!
I absolutely hated the fact that they made Kuai Liang Scorpion. Like Hanzo's destiny was to be scorpion, hell Mk X imo made his story better by making him human and giving him redemption and rebuilding the Shrai Ryu but in MK1 That shit is out the window and now scorpion is the happiest man in the world and has nothing bad happen to him (yes i know hes beefing with his brother but like thats in every story)
SF and guilty gear are pretty straight lined storylines. I dont like mortal personally but I respect yall who like it
I actually went back to play MK9 and I am amazed at how much better that game is, from the visuals to the content.