My first Mortal Kombat. Not the fault of the game at all, but I'm a fairly slow gamer and I have trouble inputting buttons in time to do combos. When I was able to I did feel quite cool!

Story mode is very fleshed out and gives you a good taste of a lot of the cast. Tons of collectibles, and a lot of other little singleplayer modes to try out.

I'm not opposed to playing more Mortal Kombat! If I do get around to another I'll make sure that multiplayer is a part of that.

After what this series became MK9 or MK2011 was what the franchise needed, a complete restart. The story was suprisingly fun, didn't expect anything from a fighting game campaing but, Netherrealm succesed to make a fun story with a enteraining cast of characters and twists, but by the end it was a little bit dragged out. Also the difficulty was all over the place in the campaing, in the tower and in the arcade as well. My major problem with this game is the difficulty, most of the times the game was easy, but then there were insane difficulty spikes, like 1 to straight to 100. Beside that MK9 looks pretty good despite that it is 13 years old, of course some character designs are... interessting but hey, im not the one who will whine because of boobs amd asses.

Story mode took me I think about 7 hours on normal. Story was really dumb and pointless. Many things just happen for convenience or just to move the plot along. It was pretty fun until I realize that the way to beat it is to find that one weird trick in each fight and just repeat that ad nauseum. Most of the time I would just hold block, then sweep from a distance, or if they get close use a throw. Actually trying to fight improvisationally and use special moves never worked for me, but maybe that's because I lack the necessary reflexes. I don't play with other people or online so that probably detracts from the experience. On the other hand if I did that I would probably just get frustrated and stop anyway. It's a very beautiful game visually. I just wish the story would have tried harder to do something interesting, challenging, meaningful... or anything. Or that the characters weren't simply cookie cutter tropes. Overall I found the game to play great. I've played older MK games and always found the AI to be impenetrable. This game was manageable. In a way learning how to deal with each opponent was satisfying. As I tried to go into each match using the same techniques I realized the same strategies wouldn't work on every opponent. Periodically I would have to discover a different tactic. But again it was too easy to find one move that broke the match. Maybe on harder difficulties that wouldn't be the case, but I have no desire to see the story again. The elder gods are morons.

It's pretty dope how they managed to compact the first three games of the series into one solid reimagining, even if the story is kinda dumb.

This game is full of cool shit and Kratos as a guest character is pretty weird but it feels just right. Gameplay wise, it's pretty fun! I'd say it feels more like classic Mortal Kombat with some elements brought back from the 3D games on the PS2 era.

3.5 stars. Taven and Daegon were completely irrelevant to the entire lore and had 0 impact on Mortal Kombat's history.