This review contains spoilers
Finished the story mode! As always a fun time with NRS silly writing with this franchise.
There was story DLC for 11 so I anticipate the same will be happening for this. I hope so at least. It was really fun to see Liu Kang's recreated "perfect" timeline. Changing the background and good guy/bad guy alignment for a lot of the cast was really interesting, I hope to see more good guy Baraka someday. I like the new previously unseen character dynamics with regular human Raiden and Kung Lao, Johnny Cage and Kenshi becoming friends, Shao Kahn being relegated to a General under Sindel, and Mileena and Kitana finally truly being sisters. The characters all feel pretty fresh because of it, except Johnny Cage he's arguably more johnny cage in this timeline than ever before. The story beats weren't very predicatble either! I had foolishly assumed the timeline nonsense would be mostly absent from this one as I figured we'd be all in on this new timeline but man I was not expecting it to go the way it did. The ending being at an Armageddon Pyramid of Argus style setpiece with infinite universe versions of every fighter was nuts. Li-Mei as Quan Chi? Subzero Nitara? Baraka Johnny Cage? Massive brain decisions going on at NRS. In-between there's very sweet fanservice moments like Mileena and Tanya's relationship being made more than a tower ending, Kitana Sindel and Mileena getting to see King Jarrod again, Raiden taking Liu Kangs place as Earthrealms champion, The Deadly Alliance joining sides WITH Liu Kang. They're truly on the highest level of comic book nonsense inspiration. Hope to see more guys being bros with Kenshi, Cage, Raiden and Kung Lao.
The game plays alright I'm getting a vague hang of things but it's so much faster than MK11 or SF6 that it'll take longer.
Megan Fox's acting is really bad though.
There was story DLC for 11 so I anticipate the same will be happening for this. I hope so at least. It was really fun to see Liu Kang's recreated "perfect" timeline. Changing the background and good guy/bad guy alignment for a lot of the cast was really interesting, I hope to see more good guy Baraka someday. I like the new previously unseen character dynamics with regular human Raiden and Kung Lao, Johnny Cage and Kenshi becoming friends, Shao Kahn being relegated to a General under Sindel, and Mileena and Kitana finally truly being sisters. The characters all feel pretty fresh because of it, except Johnny Cage he's arguably more johnny cage in this timeline than ever before. The story beats weren't very predicatble either! I had foolishly assumed the timeline nonsense would be mostly absent from this one as I figured we'd be all in on this new timeline but man I was not expecting it to go the way it did. The ending being at an Armageddon Pyramid of Argus style setpiece with infinite universe versions of every fighter was nuts. Li-Mei as Quan Chi? Subzero Nitara? Baraka Johnny Cage? Massive brain decisions going on at NRS. In-between there's very sweet fanservice moments like Mileena and Tanya's relationship being made more than a tower ending, Kitana Sindel and Mileena getting to see King Jarrod again, Raiden taking Liu Kangs place as Earthrealms champion, The Deadly Alliance joining sides WITH Liu Kang. They're truly on the highest level of comic book nonsense inspiration. Hope to see more guys being bros with Kenshi, Cage, Raiden and Kung Lao.
The game plays alright I'm getting a vague hang of things but it's so much faster than MK11 or SF6 that it'll take longer.
Megan Fox's acting is really bad though.