Mortal Kombat X is not a good game in my opinion. The story is filled with SJW propaganda, featuring unlikable new characters that we should "love" because they are "diverse". And the story mode has too much filler chapters. The gameplay is strong as always but I still prefer the previous game over this one.

The Full Review(No Spoilers):

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Ugh, I can't believe we will talk about this but okay. Let's start from the beginning. After replaying Mortal Kombat(9) and really enjoying it, I decided to continue the series before going into MK1. Yes, yes I know that some hardcore fans are angry at the game but I will buy it during the Black Friday sales.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I was feeling good after Mortal Kombat(9), I was like "Yes, I am a Mortal Kombat Lore Guy know, I know everything and I love it.". Mortal Kombat X not only murdered my love of the franchise but it also showed me that even if the series got a soft reboot with the previous game, Netherrealm were just not interested in having newcomers to this franchise.

Oh my god, I will explain it all in time so let's just start with the story. And let's actually start with a good thing. The story here is full of twists and turns. Weird things happens. Especially in the first couple of chapters. This is NOT going to go the way you think it is. So I will have to be careful and I will also have to lie to you about the story summary a little bit. A teeny tiny bit. I am trying to protect you.

Our story here is set 25 years after the events of the previous game. Just like it was teased, Shinnok is here with Quan Chi and the resurrected good guys at his side. And he has launched a full on assault at Earthrealm. However, our remaining heroes are still doing their best to defend us. Johnny, Sonya and Raiden were the survivors of the previous game and we also have Fujin and Kenshi being introduced.

Or maybe introduced is a bad word, because they are just added to the game and we get no explanation as to who they are. And that's my biggest problem with this story. Mortal Kombat(9)'s story was written for newcomers to the franchise as well. Every character, literally every single one of them got their origin stories and explanations as to who they are, what they are, what they want to do.

This game does this for some characters as well but definitely not all. Some of these characters are just pushed into the story with no explanation of where they came from. There are also some other not explained things as well. Kuai Liang is a human again, how? He was a cyborg. Scorpion is Hanzo Hasashi again, how? It kind of has an explanation if you really force yourself to it but there is nothing clear said in the story or dialogues.

There is also a second thing that I really don't want to talk about but we have to do it. While the story here introduces a bunch of legacy characters without telling anything about their origin which kills the experience for newcomers, the story here clearly tries to include a new group of heroes and passes the torch to them.

We have Cassie Cage, Jacqui Briggs, Kung Jin and Takahashi Takeda who are all a relative of our favorite classic MK characters. And oh boy, they don't work. They really don't work. The best one among them is probably Takeda because of his own personal story was very good.

But the other 3 are basically, I'm very sorry I usually don't swear, assholes. They are very annoying, they have that weird "Gen Z" attitude and as a Gen Z person myself I can definitely say that we are not like that. These characters are just not likeable and they are too bossy to everyone they see.

This is truly the sequel-ification of Mortal Kombat. But it's even worse than those characters to be honest. We at least had BB-8 in the sequels, none of these new characters are likeable. I would go so far in fact and say that they are unwatchable.

And of course, SJW. They are a very "diverse" group. I'm fine with diversity when it's not forced. This here, is forced. All of them have "something" to them. We have 2 women with one being black. And we have 2 men with both being asian and one being gay.

Yeah, just stop please. And again I want to say this again and again. While I am okay with diversity, it's definitely forced here and these characters are also very poorly written. Their dialogues are absolutely terrible.

Okay, I think I am done. Wow, yeah. I hated the story here. And I hated all the new characters. This was bad. But what about the gameplay? Surely that's good right? Well the core gameplay is good. It's very similar to the previous game but now we also have environmental items we can use like Injustice. And X-Rays are back as well.

There is a new stamina bar too but I really don't know what it works. I am a casual fighting game fan, sorry. Compared to the previous game, I would definitely say that this combat is better. It's not too different but it's an upgraded and expanded version of that.

However, I do have one big complaint about the gameplay. Actually, the story mode structure. Similar to the previous game, we have chapters. We had 16 previously, in this game we have 12. Each chapter focuses on one character and after we do 4 fights with them, chapter ends and we go to the next character. That's all nice. But the problem is that many times, these 4 fights are forced.

There are chapters, not many but still 1 or 2 where all fights happens at the exact same location. So you do 4 fights with 1 character in 1 map. That's ridiculous. And in most cases by the way, like 7 or 8 characters, you do 3 of the fights in 1 map. The story just doesn't move forward. This story here is a much shorter one actually but it's stretched with filler fights. Previous game had a few of these as well but compared to this one? There is also the fact that while the previous game had 2-3 filler chapters, it had 16 chapters.

This game has 6-7 filler chapters and only has 12 chapters. I, I just really didn't like the structure as well. It got old very quick. Technically, the game is fine. I don't know why but Netherrealm must have thought that the previous game had too much color so they basically added a PS3-era grey filter.

Female characters looks much better but I wasn't a fan of the male characters' design. Raiden looked too much like a futuristic robot for example. In music department, nothing caught my eye. Or should I say ear?

Mortal Kombat X is not a good game in my opinion. The story is filled with SJW propaganda, featuring unlikable new characters that we should "love" because they are "diverse". And the story mode has too much filler chapters. The gameplay is strong as always but I still prefer the previous game over this one.