The follow-up to the excellent reboot Mortal Kombat 9 - we pick up 20~odd years later with the world moved on. We got some new characters and a biiiiit of a disappointing follow-up to said excellent story. In 9 we had a retelling of 1-2-3, and now that they're heading into uncharted territory it stumbles here and there. The new cast of youngins stumbles in likeability and there are a fewwwww too many "he's just the young version of this character" but the new blood is appreciated at least. The story seems to spin its wheels a bit - we get our big bad from 1 (....was he though?) taken out but we have a lot of open questions still on what's going on with the revenants... and why is Raiden threatening to kill everyone!! The mechanics remain a solid fighter (I'm not expert but whatever) though some characters seem a lot easier to handle with more to do - but maybe I just played them crappy? It's a pity I didn't get to play with fatalities but there is plenty of brutal blows to scratch that gross Mortal Kombat itch. The game also has a variety of unlockables, single and multiplayer challenges, bur who carrrreeees. I bought MK11 shortly after finishing this so I skipped most of it and just moved onto that. So yeah, solid enough story that might be leading to something better in the future! I plan on sinking my teeth into 11 a bit more so see you in 2021!

Final Grade - B+