I mean, everyone's said everything they can about this game already, but I feel like they actually hate it for the wrong reasons. Yeah, the fatalities are beyond dogshit, but people really don't bring up anything else but that. The gameplay is extremely clunky, possibly because I was playing on Xbox 360 but the mechanics themselves are also not great, the quicktime events are...fine I guess but rage is dumb, and Dark Khan is an extremely broken annoying and frustrating boss. A lot of the game feels really 50/50 with how the match goes, the PS2 Mortal Kombat games had their share of dumb stuff but nothing half as egregious. There's also "pro moves", which basically work as enhanced or elongated moves, and they feel extremely awkward to pull off, which makes me grateful they just use the right trigger and meter bars in later games.
The story mode is...fine, I guess? There's not much to write home about, not really any depth to it. It works for the concept I guess.
The other real gripe I have with this game is that it was obviously rushed. The game is extremely barebones, with a lot of big names missing from the roster and no unlockables at all. There's no Krypt, which is SORELY missing here, because from everything you see in the menu, what you see is what you get.
Honestly though, even with all that... Honest to God, it has a better story mode than most of the NetherRealm games lmao.
And it has my favorite design for Sonya Blade, so, I'll give an extra half a star for that.