Quick question, can the colors of fighters costumes be changed? I ask this because in MK 11, I would mess with my friends by switching the ninja fighters colors around and I found it was a good way to confuse them. Make them think I was playing a fighter that wasn’t even in the game. For example, when playing a Scorpion, I had a green outfit on and my friend thought I was playing Reptire.
Without giving away too much, NeatherRealm Studios really needs to pick a lane and stay in it. I enjoyed a lot of story mode but man did it go completely off the rails by the end. Its like they cant decide what they truly want to do with this series. Thankfully the game is still fun to play.
You have to look at it for what it’s supposed to be and where it’s going..The story mode of course isn’t gonna please everybody, but it’s no way you didn’t get hype at the ending..I have a feeling the next story mode is gonna be peak MK storytelling
@@shinsukecorbin425 Why the fuck would I get hyped for supercape multiverse shit when I and a lot of fans wanted this timelines shit to be done with? That ending was horrid
Agreed. I loved the story for the first few hours, but once they revealed that the mysterious villain pulling strings was just another Shang Tsung from another timeline, it went downhill fast. The final chapter devolved into a Rick and Morty episode.
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I love your breakdown of this new MK game, as I felt the same way that you did. I wasn't really that pumped for another timeline plot, and I also felt that MK11 was darn near flawless in so many areas. But now that MK1 is here, and I've seen little bits here and there about it... I'm getting pretty hyped to lose myself in this new addition to my favorite game title ever! Awesome job again!!
I remember finding your channel around the release of MK11 when you had around 2k subs or so if I remember correctly. I vaguely remember what I commented back then but it was something along the lines of "don't forget me when you hit a million subs" something like that lol. Im so happy to see how much the channel has grown!
Really great break down of what’s new and what’s gone without spoiling the story mode. I’m hoping Invasion Mode is the start of something big. I miss the mini games and extra stuff from the 3D Era. MK was always fun but that stuff just sent me into the stratosphere. Reptile and Baraka are my boys and I’ve had so much fun playing as them. I’m excited to see where this is going and I hope the timeline stuff is concluded and we can move on to the Realms being the sole focus. Much like MK9, I didn’t notice any new characters which is fine. I’m still bummed Cassie and Jacqui seem to no longer be in this timeline. I liked the Kombat kids. Jax, Sonya and Kano had a lot of focus previously and I hope they return in the next game. Hanzo being gone too feels surreal. Brave move to take the most recognizable character and put him away for awhile. I do like the more focused story on Liu Kang, Raiden and Mileena. Good shit, Ian. Excited for all the MK1 videos coming down the timeline. Timeline.
I stayed away from social media, friends, & family who got the chance to play it early to avoid spoilers and talking about it. But seeing your review and the game plays on it now I’m excited!! Can’t wait to get my hands on it tomorrow.
I’m really enjoying the game. I felt the last set of fights in the story was really cool and hope we could play with some of those characters. I was surprised tho how easy the final fight was
Dude... When you said Mileena and Kitana have never looked hotter, I felt that. Thats all I wanted to say. Great video and great game. I cant wait for the future of mk1.
Huge fan of Reptile since Mortal Kombat 1 (the real first one) The whole secret character thing and how to find him was amazing. One of the first ever legit hidden characters in gaming history. He took hella L’s after but he looks amazing in MK1.
Here's my take one the game: It's mixed. As for the gameplay, I love it. It feels great. I was sceptical on the kameo system, and even though I'm still not 100% sold on it, I'm enjoying it. My problems with the game: It's SERIOUSLY lacking in content. In addition to story mode, arcade mode and online, the last game also had towers of time, the Krypt and AI battles. This game just has Invasion, which is also a little underwhelming. MK11 also had skins, customizable intro and victory animations, and 3 pieces of gear per character. MK1 just has skins, shaders and 1 customizable piece of gear. There's no dialogue before fights, which seems like a weird oversight. Then there's the story. It started off strong, then about 3/4 of the way through, it became a rehash of MK11 with characters fighting doppelgangers from another timeline. The final chapter devolved into a Rick and Morty episode.
Great review Ian, I watched the storyline, its interesting but agree with you timelines. They had the opportunity to start fresh and restart everything but then they rush it all out so quick.
Don't know if this will help but I'll try. Kia was one of Quan Chi's 3 servants in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero along with her sisters(?) Sareena, and Jataaka. They were in the Konquest mode of MK: Armageddon though none were playable characters. Hey, I come for the reviews and try to help when I can. The enjoyment factor is always there. BTW, "Hi, Patches!"
I waited until I played Story mode before watching. I had a great time, I have some thoughts on the story overall but as a game, it felt great to pick up and play with the new Kameo mechanic. A few times, I figured out how to do a couple cool things with the kameo and I felt awesome afterward haha. Really looking forward to diving into this game deeper. Great video!
Even if i love the new roster and i wouldnt change anything about it, i noticed, that there is no completely new fighter, as i remember, first time in MK history. MK9 had skarlet, MKX has the kombat kids, MK11 has geras, kollector, cetrion. My point is, that this may be the only fighting game franchise, where people are super hyped for returning characters instead anticipating new ones.
Dude! great video as all the MK restrospective videos... are you gonna put it togetherit with the other MK videos? I mean like the mk11 video continuation.?
While Mortal Kombat 9-11 are reimagined versions of the first four Mortal Kombat games, Mortal Kombat 12 is a reimagined version of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mortal Kombat Deception and Mortal Kombat Armageddon, all fused into one game with a trace of Avengers Endgame as Prime Shang Tsung (the one from Mortal Kombat 11) going to Liu Kang’s timeline and destroy it just to spite Liu Kang, making him the meanest heel in Mortal Kombat history and an all out battle erupts between the heroes and the villains known in the Mortal Kombat lore. Also, Alan Lee, Shang Tsung’s new VA, does a good job of replicating Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa’s performance.
I'm finding myself out of things to do after finishing Invasions. I'm hoping they add some new things soon bc I didn't have this problem with IJ2, and MK11 at their launches bc of the Multiverse and Towers of Time respectively. Invasions was fun but after you clear the boards, that's all there is
The towers of time are in invasion mode. There are 2 worlds separate from the rest of invasion one is a practice world and the other is a tower worlds with towers that are daily weekly and monthly
Just finished watching this in Patreon, now i'm gonna watch it on youtube to boost those numbers 😎 Side note: Geras's time loop fatality may be the best fatality I have ever seen!
The MKX story mode is my favorite out of the reboot series because it shows off the new generation of fighters (The Kombat Kids) like Jacqui Briggs and Cassie Cage and I had a blast.
Great video, and it reminded me of something I have thought about a lot in the past regarding games in general, but this video made me realize MK is a great example: I wonder if it is any game series' destiny, should it stick around long enough, to drown in it's own 'legacy content'? When I was a kid playing the first Final Fantasy game, I remember seeing the little pixel art of every new monster being exciting. It made the world feel so dangerous, so wild and unpredictable. Today if I play a new game in the series, I know most of the monsters before I even hit 'new game'. Bombs, tonberries, malboros, cactaur, iron giants... sure, there will be some new monsters, but the majority are returning foes. This extends to the equipment you find and the magic you learn, with even the story elements often being remixed concepts from older games. Many long-running game series have this problem, from Dragon Quest to Elder Scrolls to Castlevania to Zelda. Before anyone who may reads this begins frothing at the mouth, I love these games. LOVE them. In fact, I use them as examples to make it clear this happens to even the best. Yet as much as I love them, I long for these talented teams to have a cleaner slate to work with, to add some mystery and unfamiliarity back to these fantasy worlds. It's like these games become so... clogged... with legacy content - with legacy *requirements* - there is precious little room left for anything new. I think Mortal Kombat has reached that point of critical mass when it comes to legacy content and expectations. MK has so many characters now, with so many relationships, grudges, 'signature' special moves & fatalities, etc., that as time goes on there is inevitably less and less room for anything else. Sadly for you and everyone else who is tired of the timeline stuff (myself included), I don't think it's going anywhere, because it allows the writers a way to shoehorn in any piece of legacy content they want at almost any time (I haven't played through MK1 yet, so if all the different timelines were destroyed, more the fool I). I know legacy content is here to stay, and in a huge way. Street Fighter III tried to do what I'd love to see so many game series do, a bold, light-on-legacy new entry, and it flopped, despite (from what I hear from far better fighting game players) being one of the best fighting games ever from a gameplay perspective. Where's Blanka? Where's Dhalsim, and Honda? For the record, I'm not saying I hate legacy content, I just think it's one of those things that fits the description 'less is more' perfectly, but developers are taking the opposite tact, and I suppose I can't blame them. (I know someone may pick this apart but I am writing it very tired and so in this state it stays so I can sleep. Sorry for the novel)
Man I'm with you, Mortal Kombat isn't just my favorite fighting game franchise, it is one of my absolute favorite game franchises, like you said one of my favorite media franchises. I have a huge attachment to this world and these characters and 30 years worth of lore and storytelling Because they are wiping that slate totally clean and doing some drastically different things with these characters I already wasn't super excited to see that, especially because they are rewriting some of my favorites, hell they are rewriting my all-time favorite. That and then seeing that it was taking cues from team/assist fighters with the Kameo system I was further disappointed in the direction of the game. So this is ultimately probably the least hyped I've ever been for a new mainline Mortal Kombat entry, and yes I'm including MK versus DC in that But I've been seeing that it's pretty solid overall, and no matter what there was no way I was going to just write it off, instead it was more like thinking maybe I would wait until Black Friday or Christmas to check it out on a sale, especially since there's so much else out there to play right now and my backlog as usual is enormous But the game is reviewing really solidly, and there are some things that I'm definitely intrigued about in the more and more I hear about it the more and more it's harder not to whip out the credit card and download this thing onto my PS5 Overall I didn't think I would dislike it or anything, I just have a feeling it's not going to take its place amongst my top favorites, but I'm more than open to be pleasantly surprised
Just so you know, Towers of Time are in the game, but under a different name- they're in the central island in Invasions. I've not had much chance to play them yet so I don't know if they unlock similar stuff to 11 but one assumes so. Also, Kia is one of Quan Chi's Brotherhood of Shadow assassins, like Sareena. She's from Mythologies. So that alternate version of Ashrah is "Kia's Sister" in a "sisterhood" sort of way.
Can't wait for the story mode. I don't have adequate hardware. You are doing my playing for me... which honestly works, because I am getting too old. Arthritis and blindness suck the fun out of gaming sometimes 😅.
Like i said l, i wasn't exactly sure about MK1R (the Mortal Kombat 1 Reboot, as i like to call it), it'd be best for me i wait for the special edition on sale on Steam.
I remember when I got Mortal Kombat for Christmas and the excitement I had when I first popped it in my Sega Genesis. I haven't played one or paid much attention to the franchise since MK3 because burned out on fighting games but MK11 kinda piqued my interest a few years back although I never got around to actually playing it. This one has my interest even more so I may actually end up buying it.
personally i'm glad more characters like baraka and reptile are used more because they really didn't matter in any of the other games and were usually used as minions or will die off very early. I'm also very happy about the reward system because normally when I win a fight in the towers I would get the reward of lets say.. sonya blade even if I don't use her. but overall Mortal Kombat 1 is a excellent game 9/10
Hey Ian, I don’t know if you started writing your script for the story mode review but did you plan talking about tower’s endings in that future video? I believe all of the characters endings are cannon.
I couldn't agree with you more on the lack of hype I had for this one. I'm excited to check this out but I haven't been that crazy for it since 9 and 10. The time business is a little strange in 11 and that may have been why I'm not running out to grab it day 1. I am excited to see reptile with his ninja outfit, even though it goes back and forth to the other one. When I found him by complete accident in mk1, I really wanted to have an opportunity to play as him. Got that in the later entries of course. This incarnation comes as close as possible to remind me of that time down in the pit, all those years ago. I haven't played it obviously but just seeing him, that's good business. 💪🔥🙌🎃
Yeah I pretty much agree with everything you said. The roaster, mastery system, kameos, gameplay is maybe the best in the series. That being said I hoped for a konquest mode or at least an expansion of the Fundation they’ve built with MK11s krypt. Invasions is nice but I liked the krypt more tbh. Also, the last 3rd of the story as well as the lack of some little things like pinning combos on screen or Tag team towers leave a bitter taste in my mouth. Thankfully all of the things I miss can be added later, so let’s hope we get some good updates and dlcs in the future.
Damn Dude! I'm so excited about this game!! Im gonna have to get one of my kids to get this and let me play it😂 The graphics are Beautiful. Whats up Patches 🤘💙
I hope by the end of all the dlcs and expansions, say a year and a half or two years lol we'll be able to play all Kameos as mains and use all mains as kameos, basically making everyone interchangeable. I know that probabaly won't happen but I need to finally be able to play Motaro as a main. I am extremely thankful I can use him period, with a fatality no less, but I want him as a main.
Dude I was super skeptical with the kameo system. However as soon as I popped on the tutorial, it felt GOOD. I knew I was going to have fun with it. I’ve grown to like it for this title. Still have a lot to learn with it like how to implement them into my combos and shit. But it’s been fun and fresh
Here Is What I Thought About The Story: 1- Where Are Taven Tremor Kai Mavado Drahmin?????! 2- Reiko Is One Of My All Time Favorites, Never EVER Drop Him Again! 3- Except Havik's Awesome Return In The End, The Ending It Was Just The Same As MK11. 4- Never Mess With The Characters Origins Again! 5- Don't You Never Ever Touch The Timeline And Miniplate Time Travel Ever AGAIN! 6- WHERE IS ONAGA!!!!!!
You are dead on with this review. I felt the exact same way about so many elements of the game. - Firstly, kameos didn’t make sense to me either tbh. The game is set in a mythical universe where magical beings ride by horse and carriage in their realms, but it’s also still 2023 and Johnny cage live streams the whole thing? Does the nether realm have good reception? You could also say the same thing about the superhero DLC characters coming soon. How are any of those people supposed to fit in this universe? I think the Kameo mechanic is a great addition in terms of function, but trying to explain it is a lost cause. It’s the fact that they TRIED to that bothers me most. - so sick of time travel. I loved the singular Mk story up until 9, but the continual retconing of the story for 3 different games + a DLC turned it into a circus. I stopped caring as soon as the new kids showed up. The storyline for MK1 started out OK (6/10), but took a nosedive as soon as time travel showed up again. Big surprise guys, it turns out we’re still dealing with the same problem even though everything is different supposedly. - I also think that this game did liu Kang dirty. The last game ended with him basically being God and creating everything and Everyone in the universe. But in this game he’s just back to being a standard, main character. Why not just take the risk with ONE character and keep him supreme/divine? GIVE him the power to snap his fingers and turn the bad guys into dust and then explain why he won’t do it. They sold him that way in the trailer when he kills Shang Tsung with ease, but he didn’t feel anything like that in the actual game. - WTF IS GOING ON WITH THESE INVASION MODE CHARACTERS? WHO OR WHAT IS WHITE LOTUS NINJA KAHN? Also, no idea what triggers “secret fights” either. - also, I really don’t even know what konaumables do (buffs I’m guessing) but I’ve never used them (or any extras for that matter) just seems complicated and doesn’t add anything worthwhile to the game. -idk how you managed to notice and verbalize that thing about mirror matches, but you are correct. -personal thoughts on Megan Fox aside, she did an awful job as nitara. Her voice acting sticks out like a sore thumb. - that seemingly random “curve in a certain character’s arc that goes nowhere” is likely due to pressure by certain members of the staff. I agree that it goes nowhere and just seems thrown in because that’s what we’re doing nowadays. Adds nothing to the story and is only there to make the person who pitched the idea happy.
I have to say I Love the Story Mode more that MK11 and Aftermath, Each Chapter felt like a Short but 90% feels so Satisfying and Redeems Characters with Improvements that they needed for Years, I do have some issues some examples being that the Roster needed to be Larger like 30 Characters, Nitara’s Voice is so Bad I missed Ronda Rousey, and Characters like Tanya and Rain didn’t fit with their New Retcons, I give it a 8 or a 9 out of 10.
17:40 Hilariously enough, I was doing one of the towers the other day and had TWO mirror fights in one tower... it wasn't even a huge tower or anything lol. Overall I love the game, just thought that was an odd situation
I find the no voicelines thing really strange as there's so many guest characters. I get that people skip them but there could easily have been an option to turn it on and off in the menu. Looks even more weird when characters intro animation starts with them getting pushed back after the voiceline
Mannnnnnn you calling Reptile the "Green Ninja" took me back. I remember when my older brother fought him in the first Mortal Kombat and I didn't know his name, so I constantly just called him the "Green Ninja". I'd draw pictures of him and just write "Green Ninja" as his name, my friends and I would play and pretend to be Mortal Kombat characters and I'd always be the "Green Ninja".
I wouldn't mind them bring celebrities in the Mortal Kombat 2 voice characters as long as the celebrities it bring in can actually fucking act. I swear to God if Mortal Kombat 13 has Neil Been, we riot.
Secret fight genuinely just means it's a secret encounter attached to the encounter you just completed. And it's a secret because you don't see if you'll get it from the map
Just finished the story today andad usual netherrealm knocked it out of the park. Invasions is too much of a grind and miss the towers lol Nonetheless this game is awesome and looking forward for more mk content brotha👍 #ThanksForWhatYouDo #WeAreTheDanDans #MuchLove #Mortalkombat1
Shang Tsung looks like David Bowie thats the quote of the day..😂😂 Im actually taking my time with story mode and invasions. Knowing myself ive have the game beaten in 2 days, thats what happened with tekken 7, RE 7 & 8.. But im definitely enjoying MK1
Same here man. I was not hyped like i was for the past games,BUT thats not to say im not interested.....im just knee deep in starfield and that game has DEEP hooks yall! But always good to hear your take brudda.🤘💀
I miss the smack talking pre match. I never skip over them unless it’s a rematch. Adds to the rivalry of the and gives every fight history and personality. I miss live Towers too. I found it hard to keep playing MK1 after I beat story. I went back to MK11, the absolute best MK ever made.
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Quick question, can the colors of fighters costumes be changed? I ask this because in MK 11, I would mess with my friends by switching the ninja fighters colors around and I found it was a good way to confuse them. Make them think I was playing a fighter that wasn’t even in the game.
For example, when playing a Scorpion, I had a green outfit on and my friend thought I was playing Reptire.
There are many unlockable colors for each outfit, yes.
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I recently binged all of your MK documentary/retrospective series, and then you release this hell, yeah.
Have you checked out any of his other retrospectives yet? He does awesome work.
@rashadnagi7531 I think I've seen a few others, but I'm gonna look into some more. He really does make great stuff.
I'm in the same boat
Kia was from Mortal Kombat Mythologies. One of the sub bosses in Shinnok's pyramid. She's like Sareena.
Without giving away too much, NeatherRealm Studios really needs to pick a lane and stay in it. I enjoyed a lot of story mode but man did it go completely off the rails by the end. Its like they cant decide what they truly want to do with this series. Thankfully the game is still fun to play.
You have to look at it for what it’s supposed to be and where it’s going..The story mode of course isn’t gonna please everybody, but it’s no way you didn’t get hype at the ending..I have a feeling the next story mode is gonna be peak MK storytelling
@@shinsukecorbin425 Why the fuck would I get hyped for supercape multiverse shit when I and a lot of fans wanted this timelines shit to be done with? That ending was horrid
@shinsukecorbin425 yeah okay
Agreed. I loved the story for the first few hours, but once they revealed that the mysterious villain pulling strings was just another Shang Tsung from another timeline, it went downhill fast. The final chapter devolved into a Rick and Morty episode.
@@FreshMetal80it wasn’t “another” Shang, it was the one he fought in aftermath. That tracks as far as story telling goes.
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Ermac identity is a call back to his 3d era lore.
Glad you're gonna do a full playthrough, I've been avoiding other streamers hoping that you would
I love your breakdown of this new MK game, as I felt the same way that you did. I wasn't really that pumped for another timeline plot, and I also felt that MK11 was darn near flawless in so many areas. But now that MK1 is here, and I've seen little bits here and there about it... I'm getting pretty hyped to lose myself in this new addition to my favorite game title ever! Awesome job again!!
I remember finding your channel around the release of MK11 when you had around 2k subs or so if I remember correctly. I vaguely remember what I commented back then but it was something along the lines of "don't forget me when you hit a million subs" something like that lol. Im so happy to see how much the channel has grown!
Thank you for being the first person ive seen to show this game on youtube without censoring the fatalities
The towers of time equivalent is one of the mesas in the invasion mode!
Really great break down of what’s new and what’s gone without spoiling the story mode. I’m hoping Invasion Mode is the start of something big. I miss the mini games and extra stuff from the 3D Era. MK was always fun but that stuff just sent me into the stratosphere.
Reptile and Baraka are my boys and I’ve had so much fun playing as them. I’m excited to see where this is going and I hope the timeline stuff is concluded and we can move on to the Realms being the sole focus. Much like MK9, I didn’t notice any new characters which is fine.
I’m still bummed Cassie and Jacqui seem to no longer be in this timeline. I liked the Kombat kids. Jax, Sonya and Kano had a lot of focus previously and I hope they return in the next game. Hanzo being gone too feels surreal. Brave move to take the most recognizable character and put him away for awhile. I do like the more focused story on Liu Kang, Raiden and Mileena.
Good shit, Ian. Excited for all the MK1 videos coming down the timeline.
Timeline.
Reptile and Baraka rule!!!
I stayed away from social media, friends, & family who got the chance to play it early to avoid spoilers and talking about it. But seeing your review and the game plays on it now I’m excited!! Can’t wait to get my hands on it tomorrow.
Definitely never get tired of your Mortal Kombat content!
I’m really enjoying the game. I felt the last set of fights in the story was really cool and hope we could play with some of those characters. I was surprised tho how easy the final fight was
Dude... When you said Mileena and Kitana have never looked hotter, I felt that. Thats all I wanted to say. Great video and great game. I cant wait for the future of mk1.
was literally just looking for a good mk 1 review as u posted this lol always hype to see 616 post a vid!!
Huge fan of Reptile since Mortal Kombat 1 (the real first one)
The whole secret character thing and how to find him was amazing. One of the first ever legit hidden characters in gaming history. He took hella L’s after but he looks amazing in MK1.
Love your honest reviews your awesome dude. Can't wait to see more keep up the amazing work. One man crew getting the job done !!
Here's my take one the game:
It's mixed. As for the gameplay, I love it. It feels great. I was sceptical on the kameo system, and even though I'm still not 100% sold on it, I'm enjoying it.
My problems with the game: It's SERIOUSLY lacking in content. In addition to story mode, arcade mode and online, the last game also had towers of time, the Krypt and AI battles. This game just has Invasion, which is also a little underwhelming.
MK11 also had skins, customizable intro and victory animations, and 3 pieces of gear per character. MK1 just has skins, shaders and 1 customizable piece of gear.
There's no dialogue before fights, which seems like a weird oversight.
Then there's the story. It started off strong, then about 3/4 of the way through, it became a rehash of MK11 with characters fighting doppelgangers from another timeline. The final chapter devolved into a Rick and Morty episode.
It really felt like Mortal Kombat meets Marvel. Cage was absolutely insufferable with all the references.
Great review Ian, I watched the storyline, its interesting but agree with you timelines. They had the opportunity to start fresh and restart everything but then they rush it all out so quick.
The best MK since 9 in my opinion.
The game feels fresh and refined.
I can't wait to hear your story review because I loved it
Don't know if this will help but I'll try. Kia was one of Quan Chi's 3 servants in Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero along with her sisters(?) Sareena, and Jataaka. They were in the Konquest mode of MK: Armageddon though none were playable characters. Hey, I come for the reviews and try to help when I can. The enjoyment factor is always there. BTW, "Hi, Patches!"
I'm not 100% sold on MK1 but I'm liking a lot of what I've seen so far.
I've been using Reptile and Motaro exclusively. Been good so far. Motaro's reflect ability is so good against projectile spammers.
I was so happy to see Smoke! He’s my favorite MK character of all time! Where there is smoke there is fire! 💨
I waited until I played Story mode before watching. I had a great time, I have some thoughts on the story overall but as a game, it felt great to pick up and play with the new Kameo mechanic. A few times, I figured out how to do a couple cool things with the kameo and I felt awesome afterward haha. Really looking forward to diving into this game deeper. Great video!
I love how much you love MK dude
Your reviews are kick ass
Thanks Ian, you're the guy we trust on matters of Kombat!
Dropping a like gor support. Will watch after I complete story mode!
Even if i love the new roster and i wouldnt change anything about it, i noticed, that there is no completely new fighter, as i remember, first time in MK history.
MK9 had skarlet, MKX has the kombat kids, MK11 has geras, kollector, cetrion.
My point is, that this may be the only fighting game franchise, where people are super hyped for returning characters instead anticipating new ones.
Dude! great video as all the MK restrospective videos... are you gonna put it togetherit with the other MK videos? I mean like the mk11 video continuation.?
While Mortal Kombat 9-11 are reimagined versions of the first four Mortal Kombat games, Mortal Kombat 12 is a reimagined version of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Mortal Kombat Deception and Mortal Kombat Armageddon, all fused into one game with a trace of Avengers Endgame as Prime Shang Tsung (the one from Mortal Kombat 11) going to Liu Kang’s timeline and destroy it just to spite Liu Kang, making him the meanest heel in Mortal Kombat history and an all out battle erupts between the heroes and the villains known in the Mortal Kombat lore.
Also, Alan Lee, Shang Tsung’s new VA, does a good job of replicating Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa’s performance.
Thats a very good description! I'll just warn you that your comment is kinda of a spoiler.
I'm finding myself out of things to do after finishing Invasions. I'm hoping they add some new things soon bc I didn't have this problem with IJ2, and MK11 at their launches bc of the Multiverse and Towers of Time respectively. Invasions was fun but after you clear the boards, that's all there is
The towers of time are in invasion mode. There are 2 worlds separate from the rest of invasion one is a practice world and the other is a tower worlds with towers that are daily weekly and monthly
I just love to hear the Journey to Silius OST in the back. Good choice !!
Just finished watching this in Patreon, now i'm gonna watch it on youtube to boost those numbers 😎
Side note: Geras's time loop fatality may be the best fatality I have ever seen!
The MKX story mode is my favorite out of the reboot series because it shows off the new generation of fighters (The Kombat Kids) like Jacqui Briggs and Cassie Cage and I had a blast.
Ian as i saw the ending of MK1 i immediately thought of you haha
I was wondering if you are you to pick back up on the mortal Kombat deception series and finish that up?
Great video, and it reminded me of something I have thought about a lot in the past regarding games in general, but this video made me realize MK is a great example:
I wonder if it is any game series' destiny, should it stick around long enough, to drown in it's own 'legacy content'?
When I was a kid playing the first Final Fantasy game, I remember seeing the little pixel art of every new monster being exciting. It made the world feel so dangerous, so wild and unpredictable. Today if I play a new game in the series, I know most of the monsters before I even hit 'new game'. Bombs, tonberries, malboros, cactaur, iron giants... sure, there will be some new monsters, but the majority are returning foes. This extends to the equipment you find and the magic you learn, with even the story elements often being remixed concepts from older games. Many long-running game series have this problem, from Dragon Quest to Elder Scrolls to Castlevania to Zelda.
Before anyone who may reads this begins frothing at the mouth, I love these games. LOVE them. In fact, I use them as examples to make it clear this happens to even the best. Yet as much as I love them, I long for these talented teams to have a cleaner slate to work with, to add some mystery and unfamiliarity back to these fantasy worlds.
It's like these games become so... clogged... with legacy content - with legacy *requirements* - there is precious little room left for anything new. I think Mortal Kombat has reached that point of critical mass when it comes to legacy content and expectations.
MK has so many characters now, with so many relationships, grudges, 'signature' special moves & fatalities, etc., that as time goes on there is inevitably less and less room for anything else. Sadly for you and everyone else who is tired of the timeline stuff (myself included), I don't think it's going anywhere, because it allows the writers a way to shoehorn in any piece of legacy content they want at almost any time (I haven't played through MK1 yet, so if all the different timelines were destroyed, more the fool I).
I know legacy content is here to stay, and in a huge way. Street Fighter III tried to do what I'd love to see so many game series do, a bold, light-on-legacy new entry, and it flopped, despite (from what I hear from far better fighting game players) being one of the best fighting games ever from a gameplay perspective. Where's Blanka? Where's Dhalsim, and Honda? For the record, I'm not saying I hate legacy content, I just think it's one of those things that fits the description 'less is more' perfectly, but developers are taking the opposite tact, and I suppose I can't blame them.
(I know someone may pick this apart but I am writing it very tired and so in this state it stays so I can sleep. Sorry for the novel)
Can we talk about dat Journey to Silius OST in the background though 🤘
Man I'm with you, Mortal Kombat isn't just my favorite fighting game franchise, it is one of my absolute favorite game franchises, like you said one of my favorite media franchises. I have a huge attachment to this world and these characters and 30 years worth of lore and storytelling
Because they are wiping that slate totally clean and doing some drastically different things with these characters I already wasn't super excited to see that, especially because they are rewriting some of my favorites, hell they are rewriting my all-time favorite.
That and then seeing that it was taking cues from team/assist fighters with the Kameo system I was further disappointed in the direction of the game.
So this is ultimately probably the least hyped I've ever been for a new mainline Mortal Kombat entry, and yes I'm including MK versus DC in that
But I've been seeing that it's pretty solid overall, and no matter what there was no way I was going to just write it off, instead it was more like thinking maybe I would wait until Black Friday or Christmas to check it out on a sale, especially since there's so much else out there to play right now and my backlog as usual is enormous
But the game is reviewing really solidly, and there are some things that I'm definitely intrigued about in the more and more I hear about it the more and more it's harder not to whip out the credit card and download this thing onto my PS5
Overall I didn't think I would dislike it or anything, I just have a feeling it's not going to take its place amongst my top favorites, but I'm more than open to be pleasantly surprised
Just so you know, Towers of Time are in the game, but under a different name- they're in the central island in Invasions. I've not had much chance to play them yet so I don't know if they unlock similar stuff to 11 but one assumes so. Also, Kia is one of Quan Chi's Brotherhood of Shadow assassins, like Sareena. She's from Mythologies. So that alternate version of Ashrah is "Kia's Sister" in a "sisterhood" sort of way.
Can't wait for the story mode. I don't have adequate hardware. You are doing my playing for me... which honestly works, because I am getting too old. Arthritis and blindness suck the fun out of gaming sometimes 😅.
Ooh man , regardless of the games quality or whatever , I'm always happy that a new game come out so we get more MK Kontent from you ✌️😸
Awesome video game review man 😎!
Like i said l, i wasn't exactly sure about MK1R (the Mortal Kombat 1 Reboot, as i like to call it), it'd be best for me i wait for the special edition on sale on Steam.
I love that in the new era the Mortal Kombat tournament is used as a way to keep peace rather than wage war
It was meant to keep peace in the previous era... but it was corrupted by Shang Tsung.
I remember when I got Mortal Kombat for Christmas and the excitement I had when I first popped it in my Sega Genesis. I haven't played one or paid much attention to the franchise since MK3 because burned out on fighting games but MK11 kinda piqued my interest a few years back although I never got around to actually playing it. This one has my interest even more so I may actually end up buying it.
Never stop using wrestling terms in your vids, dude lol. I love trying to catch ‘em all
"I'm a one man crew"
"You are one...we are many"
personally i'm glad more characters like baraka and reptile are used more because they really didn't matter in any of the other games and were usually used as minions or will die off very early. I'm also very happy about the reward system because normally when I win a fight in the towers I would get the reward of lets say.. sonya blade even if I don't use her. but overall Mortal Kombat 1 is a excellent game 9/10
Next weekend story mode and this new invasion mode got my switch ready let's do this 😊😊
Mk11 didnt have stage fatalitys until Aftermath. maybe we will get them later on
Hello ian are we going to see an mk1 first playthrough of the story mode?
Invasion mode was an instant-win as soon as I heard Johnny Cage's password!
Hey Ian, I don’t know if you started writing your script for the story mode review but did you plan talking about tower’s endings in that future video? I believe all of the characters endings are cannon.
I couldn't agree with you more on the lack of hype I had for this one. I'm excited to check this out but I haven't been that crazy for it since 9 and 10. The time business is a little strange in 11 and that may have been why I'm not running out to grab it day 1. I am excited to see reptile with his ninja outfit, even though it goes back and forth to the other one. When I found him by complete accident in mk1, I really wanted to have an opportunity to play as him. Got that in the later entries of course. This incarnation comes as close as possible to remind me of that time down in the pit, all those years ago. I haven't played it obviously but just seeing him, that's good business. 💪🔥🙌🎃
I am a dandan and this review was signed and approved by gorilla monsoon
Ian-Boy, now that MK1 has been released, any chance of you ranking every Mortal Kombat game tier list style?
i'm curious about your quick thoughts on the Kombat Pack DLC with Omni-Man, Homelander, Peacemaker, etc being in the game
Good vid poppa dandan
Yeah I pretty much agree with everything you said. The roaster, mastery system, kameos, gameplay is maybe the best in the series. That being said I hoped for a konquest mode or at least an expansion of the Fundation they’ve built with MK11s krypt. Invasions is nice but I liked the krypt more tbh. Also, the last 3rd of the story as well as the lack of some little things like pinning combos on screen or Tag team towers leave a bitter taste in my mouth. Thankfully all of the things I miss can be added later, so let’s hope we get some good updates and dlcs in the future.
Damn Dude! I'm so excited about this game!! Im gonna have to get one of my kids to get this and let me play it😂 The graphics are Beautiful. Whats up Patches 🤘💙
I hope by the end of all the dlcs and expansions, say a year and a half or two years lol we'll be able to play all Kameos as mains and use all mains as kameos, basically making everyone interchangeable. I know that probabaly won't happen but I need to finally be able to play Motaro as a main. I am extremely thankful I can use him period, with a fatality no less, but I want him as a main.
I have to say, the reveal of Barney The Dinosaur as the new villain of the series is not a twist I expected.
Awesome review boss.
I love the game and it was a great idea to make it fresh again
Dude I was super skeptical with the kameo system. However as soon as I popped on the tutorial, it felt GOOD. I knew I was going to have fun with it.
I’ve grown to like it for this title. Still have a lot to learn with it like how to implement them into my combos and shit. But it’s been fun and fresh
Here Is What I Thought About The Story:
1- Where Are Taven Tremor Kai Mavado Drahmin?????!
2- Reiko Is One Of My All Time Favorites, Never EVER Drop Him Again!
3- Except Havik's Awesome Return In The End, The Ending It Was Just The Same As MK11.
4- Never Mess With The Characters Origins Again!
5- Don't You Never Ever Touch The Timeline And Miniplate Time Travel Ever AGAIN!
6- WHERE IS ONAGA!!!!!!
You are dead on with this review. I felt the exact same way about so many elements of the game.
- Firstly, kameos didn’t make sense to me either tbh. The game is set in a mythical universe where magical beings ride by horse and carriage in their realms, but it’s also still 2023 and Johnny cage live streams the whole thing? Does the nether realm have good reception? You could also say the same thing about the superhero DLC characters coming soon. How are any of those people supposed to fit in this universe? I think the Kameo mechanic is a great addition in terms of function, but trying to explain it is a lost cause. It’s the fact that they TRIED to that bothers me most.
- so sick of time travel. I loved the singular Mk story up until 9, but the continual retconing of the story for 3 different games + a DLC turned it into a circus. I stopped caring as soon as the new kids showed up. The storyline for MK1 started out OK (6/10), but took a nosedive as soon as time travel showed up again. Big surprise guys, it turns out we’re still dealing with the same problem even though everything is different supposedly.
- I also think that this game did liu Kang dirty. The last game ended with him basically being God and creating everything and Everyone in the universe. But in this game he’s just back to being a standard, main character. Why not just take the risk with ONE character and keep him supreme/divine? GIVE him the power to snap his fingers and turn the bad guys into dust and then explain why he won’t do it. They sold him that way in the trailer when he kills Shang Tsung with ease, but he didn’t feel anything like that in the actual game.
- WTF IS GOING ON WITH THESE INVASION MODE CHARACTERS? WHO OR WHAT IS WHITE LOTUS NINJA KAHN? Also, no idea what triggers “secret fights” either.
- also, I really don’t even know what konaumables do (buffs I’m guessing) but I’ve never used them (or any extras for that matter) just seems complicated and doesn’t add anything worthwhile to the game.
-idk how you managed to notice and verbalize that thing about mirror matches, but you are correct.
-personal thoughts on Megan Fox aside, she did an awful job as nitara. Her voice acting sticks out like a sore thumb.
- that seemingly random “curve in a certain character’s arc that goes nowhere” is likely due to pressure by certain members of the staff. I agree that it goes nowhere and just seems thrown in because that’s what we’re doing nowadays. Adds nothing to the story and is only there to make the person who pitched the idea happy.
Yeah, I heard her lines and I was like who the fuck is reading off of a paper? She was legitimately awful.
I have to say I Love the Story Mode more that MK11 and Aftermath, Each Chapter felt like a Short but 90% feels so Satisfying and Redeems Characters with Improvements that they needed for Years, I do have some issues some examples being that the Roster needed to be Larger like 30 Characters, Nitara’s Voice is so Bad I missed Ronda Rousey, and Characters like Tanya and Rain didn’t fit with their New Retcons, I give it a 8 or a 9 out of 10.
I give it a 9 on gameplay alone. After mk11 gameplay mk1 is amazing.
I give it a 6.1 because that timeline shit is getting old and we didn't get Onaga.
Rousey was a horrible VA, she sounded like they didn't even tell here what her character was doing or she didn't bother to ask
@@colonelhstinkmeaner8547 To be Fair if NRS was going to reveal Onaga, the would have done it already, plus MK1 was more of a Deadly Alliance Requel
@@TheWonkster say what you will about Ronda but at least she tried and gave it all compared to Megan Fox or Dimitri Vega.
love and support from Dubai
I'm getting this game eventually
Kia is one of Quan Chi's henchwomen alongside Sareena
17:40 Hilariously enough, I was doing one of the towers the other day and had TWO mirror fights in one tower... it wasn't even a huge tower or anything lol. Overall I love the game, just thought that was an odd situation
Another great job.
No stage fatalities... yet! Remember, they didn't appear in 11 until Aftermath came out.
I find the no voicelines thing really strange as there's so many guest characters. I get that people skip them but there could easily have been an option to turn it on and off in the menu.
Looks even more weird when characters intro animation starts with them getting pushed back after the voiceline
Mannnnnnn you calling Reptile the "Green Ninja" took me back. I remember when my older brother fought him in the first Mortal Kombat and I didn't know his name, so I constantly just called him the "Green Ninja". I'd draw pictures of him and just write "Green Ninja" as his name, my friends and I would play and pretend to be Mortal Kombat characters and I'd always be the "Green Ninja".
Good review
I wouldn't mind them bring celebrities in the Mortal Kombat 2 voice characters as long as the celebrities it bring in can actually fucking act. I swear to God if Mortal Kombat 13 has Neil Been, we riot.
Secret fight genuinely just means it's a secret encounter attached to the encounter you just completed. And it's a secret because you don't see if you'll get it from the map
Reptile is so much fun. 🦎
Havent gotten a chance to play this yet but sad to hear towers of time is gone I spent a lot of time on that
You need to see cameo like fight variation
This game is definitely a huge improvement over 11, and this is for coming from somebody who loves that game.
Just finished the story today andad usual netherrealm knocked it out of the park. Invasions is too much of a grind and miss the towers lol Nonetheless this game is awesome and looking forward for more mk content brotha👍
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This was an expected review.
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Shang Tsung looks like David Bowie thats the quote of the day..😂😂
Im actually taking my time with story mode and invasions. Knowing myself ive have the game beaten in 2 days, thats what happened with tekken 7, RE 7 & 8.. But im definitely enjoying MK1
I’m loving Shang Tsung’s younger look..I actually like all the designs for the characters outside of Styker
Same here man. I was not hyped like i was for the past games,BUT thats not to say im not interested.....im just knee deep in starfield and that game has DEEP hooks yall! But always good to hear your take brudda.🤘💀
If they just increase the special cancel window a bit so you don’t need to dial it in all at once, then this game is a solid 10 for me.
Wrestling, GoW and MK... I'd be this guys best friend lol
Kia's sister is Ashrah, homie. Ashrah mentions Kia being her sister in the story mode.
As I mentioned to others streamers it's kinda of like marvel vs Capcom with the kameo fighters still a amazing game
I miss the smack talking pre match. I never skip over them unless it’s a rematch. Adds to the rivalry of the and gives every fight history and personality. I miss live Towers too. I found it hard to keep playing MK1 after I beat story. I went back to MK11, the absolute best MK ever made.
Yo I'm about to buy Armageddon again that's what this game made me want to play