I finished the story mode and man they were so damn close to making a perfect modern mk story mode. It is phenomenal the first half and then quickly drops the ball with the crap NRS constantly does. It feels like they dropped half their writers and just thought, “bring everyone together and do fight and member berries.” So disappointing..
Agreed. This was basically just a retelling of MK11 aftermath. Not to go to far into spoiler territory but this whole game could've just been a 5 to 10 min cutscene at the end of aftermath to explain the route they are going to take.
@@bobisuncanny2760 It could. My fear is though with everything they are obviously going to try to do going forward it could just become way bigger and more confusing if they don't take the time to condense it, reign themselves in more and stick with final outcomes without more retcons 1 or 2 games later. As of now I am in "probably should've done a hard reboot" camp. They could've cleaned up and polished a lot plot issues and story beats that way. But that's just me.
Thank you for being one of the only true MK fans left in this space. I'm not gonna name names but most MK content creators are shills who suck off NRS for free perks. You've proven many times that you can't be bought like most.
I won't use the term true fan, but he definitely isn't as much of a simp as a lot of other MK CZcamsrs, who constantly suck off MK and act like abused house wives everytime MK does something they don't like. I mean it's always like oh you didn't mean to hurt me, I understand why you did it baby.
Translation they like something I don’t like so I take it personally. Not everyone trying to review learn to let people have fun. Same way you rightfully let fpssnake have a opinion.
Hope you enjoy the story with their ups and downs. I personally liked it a lot, it felt really fresh after the mess in MK11. It's not perfect and I have some issues with it, but I'm happy with the result either way. I see a lot of potential with this "new era", but you can never fully trust NRS so, we'll see. I've enjoyed your content for almost 5 years now and I look forward to keep doing that 👌
I just wished they showed Onaga, he's been teased so many times. I don't wanna say spoilers cause all I did was watch the cutscenes cause I gotta wait for the 19th
I also have an addictive personality but don't make money on CZcams to afford such things like these collectors editions. Can't wait for you to cover this game. It's better than the most recent MK stories, but I know you'll still have cool things to talk about with it
Personally I kinda like the Blue Steel/Gold/Krimson ninja skins from MKX since they kinda look like what they'd wear in a Bruce Timm/Paul Dini style animated MK series. I love those looks on those guys. Altho Injustice 1 Scorpion is best Scorpion look fite me mortal.
I look forward to seeing what you'll say about the story. I imagine that even with it being better than MK 11 (about as high a bar as the floor people walk on, tbf), it still will have some wasted plotentials that would be interesting to explore, especially with the third act
I watched the story mode for the game, and it absolutely has a lot of “Wasted Plotentials”. I won’t spoil it, but while I was mostly pleased with the first half of the story, you really felt every second drag during the second half. It was very painful at certain points to watch, especially when the NRS writers fell into the same pitfalls I’d seen in the previous installments of the franchise.
@@Blyegh Eh, I don't mind it, I already saw the events of the Story Mode early, and it feels like its lows are at the very least not as low as MK11's, but the second half of the game really did feel like it lost steam and fell into the trappings. At the very least, I didn't want to pull my hair out like I did with the wasted potential that was the entirety of MK11. It was nice they at least learned one thing from a The4thSnake vid and (SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT) have the final chapter not be consigned to a singular character, rather actually letting us choose who to go into battle with, but then it also felt like it wanted to be what Armageddon's final battle was about, but rather than it being the earned story beats up till the last game, it was the equivalent of NRS throwing a bunch of action figures into a playset and smacking the figures against each others while Across the Spider-verse plays in the background. I am curious what they intend to do for the story mode outside of their stinger to tease what they intend to do
Good news Snake Sindel’s ending is really good not Deception good but still good with Sindel dying but Jerrod saved her soul as Ermac and they both work together to become one soul
I enjoy videos like this from you. Simple feedback toward things like these. As much as Scorpion is my favorite character in MK, you are correct. I think Boon took that "story mode is no good" video seriously. I hope you find more things to enjoy within the story. I rolled my eyes and called out some nonsense for a handful of things but id say this was the best MK story since Armageddons Konquest mode. I wasn't annoyed like in MK9, bored like in MKX, or confused and frustrated in MK11. I Was enjoying myself while still calling out some issues like Injustice 2. I hope you enjoy it much
It's really annoying how gaming content farms are just able to upload the entire game to the internet right on release. I don't have a console but I'd imagine it really ruins the experience of people who waited years and paid to complete it for themselves.
Cool to see that you have the Kollector’s Edition. Hope you have fun with the game 👍 As for the story mode, i’m 50/50 on it. I enjoyed the first half. The second, not so much. I would say tho that i enjoyed it a lot more than both MK11 and MKX story modes.
I don’t have a next gen system yet but I plan on buying one within a few days and my first next gen game will be mortal 1 kombat followed by resident evil 4 remake and dead space remake then sf6
Have you actually played it? You beat the story mode in a single day/weekend and then spend your time with invasions and online. The Kameo system is fun!
I personally prefer the design for fire god Liu Kang in in MK11, it felt more imposing, more elegant, more godlike, the new design is fine but I find it a bit boring compared to how he looked in MK11, I know blue is more of raiders thing but they could've mixed red and blue I feel
cant wait for the 4 hour wasted plotential for MK1, what a shitload of fuck of a story, the same recycled garbage and not issues from previous games addressed.
Pretty much. You get the towers (arcade mode), multiplayer and various practice modes, with the initial download. Story Mode and Invasion you *have to* wait for. It's ridiculous that people have allowed games to reach this level.
Not trying to hate, but seeing the statue in person makes me happy i didnt get the collectors edition. The statue looks like a 3-D printer amateur print and it looks unfinished
I know it’s like 4 hours after the fact, but doesn’t having the game open usually slow the install speed? I remember that would happen with stuff like DOOM (2016) or Battlefront (2015) where the games’ installation speeds would slow because I was playing them while they were downloading.
The first 2/3 of the story was really good, I liked it, except for the tournament being speedran, Kuai being Scorpion and Sun Zero being an understandably frustrated character to a cartoonish unredeemable one. Other than that, chapters 1-10 are pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good. But man 11-15 are just trash. Awful. Garbage. This timeline stuff has such a DC feel to it. It all just feels like flashpoint paradox or marvel what-if garbage. In the beginning, I could understand subzero. He owns a warrior clan that never sees combat, and for his first fight in years he’s staging his whole clan losing to two farmers. He wasn’t just a flat out evil character, and while hot tempered he was still an understandable character, then they ruin it by saying he killed his dad and then trying to have him kill Kuai. Chapters 11-15 should’ve been about chapters 1-10. Also, they base the story around you playing as one character and winning 5 or 6 times in a row. Who you play as should be determined by the story, the story shouldn’t be determined by that character needing to win 5 times in a row. I think the Jerrod thing was rushed. Everything 11-15 is rushed. Had they just stuck to the story they set up in chapters 1-10 and not had the alternate timeline stuff, they might not have forgotten that Ashrah, Baraka and Reptile existed. Worst part is, I would’ve forgiven it all if they had character creation and more than one game mode to play with friends. Given the end of the game there’s no reason to not be able to create your own character for casual matches. The premium edition was $116, that’s the most I’ve spent on a game before, and now that the story is over, if I want to play with friends the literal only option is still 1v1’s. No tag teams to play with 3 friends, no chess combat for variety in game modes. This was $116 for 2/3 of a good story and 1 game mode for friends. Invasion isn’t bad I guess. Sorry this is so long, I hope at least someone read it, I just had a lot to say, and I didn’t even say it all, I’d literally have to make a rant video to cover it all, but that’s why I’m here, I know Snake will call out this story for what it should’ve been. It had a good start and I was open to change, but they really just shit the bed in the end.
agreed, they could've left it at that he's glad his father did not survive his injuries instead of Bi-Han purposefully letting him die, and betraying what he believes in quickly was dumb, hell, even noob saibot wouldnt have been this dumb should've stuck with the 2 aftermath timelines instead of all endings are canon. Hanzo being younger that Kuai and Bi-Han etc was dumb, though all ladder endings fit
@@ETHOS444 8/10 best story mode since mk9. mk11 wasn't the worst in my opinion. mk x was bad bad. kombat kids, green energy johnny shinnok and the chapter system oh boy
Just finished the story and I’m sad to say but Mortal Kombat is a joke now. At first the story started out promising but turned into a mess at the end. Because now there are multiple timelines reality now. They should have called this game MK 12.
Suddenly, Snake’s room was flooded by hot women attracted to his collection prowess!!
Im surprised they didnt make it scorpion themed lol
Thank god Liu Kang
Well Liu Kang is basically in all the other promotional material so it would make sense to have it themed after himinstead of Scorpion.
suprisingly not a main character so much this game
They did but its for ed boons eyes only
@@boogasuga300and scorpion wasn’t a main character in mk 11 so your point is
I finished the story mode and man they were so damn close to making a perfect modern mk story mode. It is phenomenal the first half and then quickly drops the ball with the crap NRS constantly does. It feels like they dropped half their writers and just thought, “bring everyone together and do fight and member berries.” So disappointing..
Agreed. This was basically just a retelling of MK11 aftermath. Not to go to far into spoiler territory but this whole game could've just been a 5 to 10 min cutscene at the end of aftermath to explain the route they are going to take.
at least Aftermath of this game "COULD" be interesting
@@bobisuncanny2760 It could. My fear is though with everything they are obviously going to try to do going forward it could just become way bigger and more confusing if they don't take the time to condense it, reign themselves in more and stick with final outcomes without more retcons 1 or 2 games later.
As of now I am in "probably should've done a hard reboot" camp. They could've cleaned up and polished a lot plot issues and story beats that way. But that's just me.
They shouldve just done an actual hard reboot
All this multiverse nonsense is ruining the lore
@@MorKmbt 100% agree, should have stuck to a new story with zero to little ties to the previous NRS games
love the byleth and edelgard plushies on the mic
Them.
Remember people the Critique will come once all the DLC is out
Snake has treated himself to 12 inches of Liu Kang
Can't wait to see your breakdown on MK1's story.
I personally thought it was decent but it still has a few of NRS writing issues.
it's definitely better than mk11 which makes me happy
@@nothillybillyThey actually managed to explain what Kronika’s deal was in the previous game, which was quite nice to see
What are the NRS writing issues??
@@ejx.33 you must be new here
@Vinchenzo2k1n no been watching him for years and watched all his mk videos, tell me what writing issues?
Thank you for being one of the only true MK fans left in this space. I'm not gonna name names but most MK content creators are shills who suck off NRS for free perks. You've proven many times that you can't be bought like most.
I won't use the term true fan, but he definitely isn't as much of a simp as a lot of other MK CZcamsrs, who constantly suck off MK and act like abused house wives everytime MK does something they don't like. I mean it's always like oh you didn't mean to hurt me, I understand why you did it baby.
Translation they like something I don’t like so I take it personally. Not everyone trying to review learn to let people have fun. Same way you rightfully let fpssnake have a opinion.
@@rances4418 why even engage with his comment if you're taking it in such bad faith
@@skepsisrollins1711you could say that about anything really.
People are allowed to have and voice opinions
Even if they’re negative
@@skepsisrollins1711bad faith? You sound like a damn cultist
Honestly, the statue looked better than I anticipated
It looks too smooth-textured to my liking. And Liu Kang looks really pale in it
Me staring at the Byleth plushie on the right side. Edelgard too, later on. And they're hung in a way that they are forehead locking.
Hope you enjoy the story with their ups and downs. I personally liked it a lot, it felt really fresh after the mess in MK11. It's not perfect and I have some issues with it, but I'm happy with the result either way. I see a lot of potential with this "new era", but you can never fully trust NRS so, we'll see.
I've enjoyed your content for almost 5 years now and I look forward to keep doing that 👌
I just wished they showed Onaga, he's been teased so many times. I don't wanna say spoilers cause all I did was watch the cutscenes cause I gotta wait for the 19th
Typical biased 3-D era fanboy.
I personally liked MK1’s story a lot more than MK11 and MKX. It’s not perfect by any means, but it was interesting for the most part.
@@jackjax7921🤡
I consider the ending to be the worst part of it. With the whole timelines bullshit
Man 4thSnake is gonna have a Aneurysm with The Timeline Shenanigans in MK1 or Mortal 1 Kombat.
Glad that they included the physical edition. I heard that some collector Editions did digital codes instead.
I also have an addictive personality but don't make money on CZcams to afford such things like these collectors editions. Can't wait for you to cover this game. It's better than the most recent MK stories, but I know you'll still have cool things to talk about with it
The statue looks pretty nice.
Let us know your thoughts on MK1 story mode. Sadly it completelty falls flat in the last third
Matter of opinion
Personally I kinda like the Blue Steel/Gold/Krimson ninja skins from MKX since they kinda look like what they'd wear in a Bruce Timm/Paul Dini style animated MK series. I love those looks on those guys.
Altho Injustice 1 Scorpion is best Scorpion look fite me mortal.
If you ever see them unmasked, like when Scorpion cuts their face off, it looks VERY Batman Beyond.
Am I the only person who looked at Snakes chair and thought Raphael's head was on it?
I look forward to seeing what you'll say about the story. I imagine that even with it being better than MK 11 (about as high a bar as the floor people walk on, tbf), it still will have some wasted plotentials that would be interesting to explore, especially with the third act
I watched the story mode for the game, and it absolutely has a lot of “Wasted Plotentials”. I won’t spoil it, but while I was mostly pleased with the first half of the story, you really felt every second drag during the second half. It was very painful at certain points to watch, especially when the NRS writers fell into the same pitfalls I’d seen in the previous installments of the franchise.
@@Blyegh Eh, I don't mind it, I already saw the events of the Story Mode early, and it feels like its lows are at the very least not as low as MK11's, but the second half of the game really did feel like it lost steam and fell into the trappings. At the very least, I didn't want to pull my hair out like I did with the wasted potential that was the entirety of MK11.
It was nice they at least learned one thing from a The4thSnake vid and (SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT)
have the final chapter not be consigned to a singular character, rather actually letting us choose who to go into battle with, but then it also felt like it wanted to be what Armageddon's final battle was about, but rather than it being the earned story beats up till the last game, it was the equivalent of NRS throwing a bunch of action figures into a playset and smacking the figures against each others while Across the Spider-verse plays in the background. I am curious what they intend to do for the story mode outside of their stinger to tease what they intend to do
Oh boy, I hope you will enjoy playing through the story mode
Just in time for 100k! Cheers tho!
Cheers.
KK in a wheelchair gets a chapter
I also hate all the spoilers floating around. The game just released. People need to chill.
kinda wish i ordered that edition, but tbh i would probably end up breaking the liu kang statue so probably best i didn't
Good news Snake Sindel’s ending is really good not Deception good but still good with Sindel dying but Jerrod saved her soul as Ermac and they both work together to become one soul
I enjoy videos like this from you. Simple feedback toward things like these. As much as Scorpion is my favorite character in MK, you are correct. I think Boon took that "story mode is no good" video seriously.
I hope you find more things to enjoy within the story. I rolled my eyes and called out some nonsense for a handful of things but id say this was the best MK story since Armageddons Konquest mode.
I wasn't annoyed like in MK9, bored like in MKX, or confused and frustrated in MK11.
I Was enjoying myself while still calling out some issues like Injustice 2. I hope you enjoy it much
It's really annoying how gaming content farms are just able to upload the entire game to the internet right on release.
I don't have a console but I'd imagine it really ruins the experience of people who waited years and paid to complete it for themselves.
i love your acceptance speech 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Have you seen the whole story? Quan Chi got a retcon.
I can’t believe you mentioned sir Francis Drake and show the ring saying Greatness from small beginnings 8:53
Look forward to hearing the kombat kings talk about the game now thats it released.
2:52--OBEY.
I'm curious about hearing The4thSnake's opinion about the Story Mode
Snake can you deliver , a video of you playing the game so we can get your reactions
Edeleth cameo
OTP
cant wait for this guy to roast the shit out of this game for now we have nice 4th snake
Ok. 4th snake. Any launch users of MK1 witness the finish game.
We( i) await your dramatic reaction and explaination of MK1 story when you make it. 👍
Cool to see that you have the Kollector’s Edition. Hope you have fun with the game 👍
As for the story mode, i’m 50/50 on it. I enjoyed the first half. The second, not so much. I would say tho that i enjoyed it a lot more than both MK11 and MKX story modes.
The second half felt super rushed.
mortal kombat 1 surprise decent
I would've gotten the Kollector's Edition, only it's not available in Australian retailers, nor on MK1's website overhere.
The ultimate Komplete kollectors edition will have Raiden as the statue
I've just watched the new game's story mode and I can't wait to see what Snake thinks about it.
I was high when I was playing the story and all I could think of is wtf is going on during the end
Bro everything that you wanted in mortal kombat is actually in mortal kombat 1
I don’t have a next gen system yet but I plan on buying one within a few days and my first next gen game will be mortal 1 kombat followed by resident evil 4 remake and dead space remake then sf6
If you make a video about your mk collection, and it's not called "My Mortal Kombat Kollection" I'll... Be a little disappointed tbh.
Your analysis of the plot will be the best thing to come out of this mess called mk1
I think It was pretty good
Have you actually played it? You beat the story mode in a single day/weekend and then spend your time with invasions and online. The Kameo system is fun!
It was a mess in the second half. The first half was pretty decent. I personally thought it was more enjoyable than MK11 and MKX story modes.
I personally prefer the design for fire god Liu Kang in in MK11, it felt more imposing, more elegant, more godlike, the new design is fine but I find it a bit boring compared to how he looked in MK11, I know blue is more of raiders thing but they could've mixed red and blue I feel
I can't wait to see your initial thoughts on the story
That'll be a very entertaining video
cant wait for the 4 hour wasted plotential for MK1, what a shitload of fuck of a story, the same recycled garbage and not issues from previous games addressed.
Hey, I don't have money to spend for a new console. Personally I'm happy it came out on switch like 11 did, lemme just be happy to play as Reptile
Cant wait to see your thoughts when u finish playing
can't wait tell late 2024 or mid 2025 to talk about the story mode of m1k
What do you mean you get the disk but have to install... the full 100GB game?
Pretty much. You get the towers (arcade mode), multiplayer and various practice modes, with the initial download. Story Mode and Invasion you *have to* wait for. It's ridiculous that people have allowed games to reach this level.
9:40
Modern gaming, everybody!
Not trying to hate, but seeing the statue in person makes me happy i didnt get the collectors edition. The statue looks like a 3-D printer amateur print and it looks unfinished
I know it’s like 4 hours after the fact, but doesn’t having the game open usually slow the install speed? I remember that would happen with stuff like DOOM (2016) or Battlefront (2015) where the games’ installation speeds would slow because I was playing them while they were downloading.
Man I should have bought one
8:31 Can you only get it if you get the collecter edition?
Anyone? I'll be first. When MK1 Critique?
Is it just me or as snake been looking leaner in recent times.
Not worth 400€. Look at the Cyberpunk Collectors Edition. Only 100€ at our local brand new.
The first 2/3 of the story was really good, I liked it, except for the tournament being speedran, Kuai being Scorpion and Sun Zero being an understandably frustrated character to a cartoonish unredeemable one. Other than that, chapters 1-10 are pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good.
But man 11-15 are just trash. Awful. Garbage. This timeline stuff has such a DC feel to it. It all just feels like flashpoint paradox or marvel what-if garbage.
In the beginning, I could understand subzero. He owns a warrior clan that never sees combat, and for his first fight in years he’s staging his whole clan losing to two farmers. He wasn’t just a flat out evil character, and while hot tempered he was still an understandable character, then they ruin it by saying he killed his dad and then trying to have him kill Kuai.
Chapters 11-15 should’ve been about chapters 1-10. Also, they base the story around you playing as one character and winning 5 or 6 times in a row. Who you play as should be determined by the story, the story shouldn’t be determined by that character needing to win 5 times in a row. I think the Jerrod thing was rushed. Everything 11-15 is rushed. Had they just stuck to the story they set up in chapters 1-10 and not had the alternate timeline stuff, they might not have forgotten that Ashrah, Baraka and Reptile existed.
Worst part is, I would’ve forgiven it all if they had character creation and more than one game mode to play with friends. Given the end of the game there’s no reason to not be able to create your own character for casual matches. The premium edition was $116, that’s the most I’ve spent on a game before, and now that the story is over, if I want to play with friends the literal only option is still 1v1’s. No tag teams to play with 3 friends, no chess combat for variety in game modes. This was $116 for 2/3 of a good story and 1 game mode for friends. Invasion isn’t bad I guess.
Sorry this is so long, I hope at least someone read it, I just had a lot to say, and I didn’t even say it all, I’d literally have to make a rant video to cover it all, but that’s why I’m here, I know Snake will call out this story for what it should’ve been. It had a good start and I was open to change, but they really just shit the bed in the end.
agreed, they could've left it at that he's glad his father did not survive his injuries instead of Bi-Han purposefully letting him die, and betraying what he believes in quickly was dumb, hell, even noob saibot wouldnt have been this dumb
should've stuck with the 2 aftermath timelines instead of all endings are canon.
Hanzo being younger that Kuai and Bi-Han etc was dumb, though all ladder endings fit
Hey snake how’s your day going so far
Not bad. Finally got to play the story mode.
It’s about to be 7pm for me and my game still isn’t done verifying on Steam. Plz I just want to play 😢
Finally sold out? XD
@The4thSnake
Waiting for your thoughts on the secrete ending (No spoilers in reply)
On Xbox game is in two disks
Now snake, what are your overall thoughts on the story?
I thought I read online that the statue lit up red and blue?
Nope.
@@The4thSnake his tattoos and eyes just glow in the dark?
One more question. Did it come with a code to redeem the custom in game color variant that resembles the statue?
@@ScubaSteve0224Yes.
Thoughts on the story mode???
No spoilers but you might either like it or he disappointed.
He'll hate it, the second half was worst than mk11
@@AlbertoGustavo-bj3ft I wouldn't go that far M1K was more head scratching where MK 11 was frustrating
I think he’ll like the first half of the story. The second half will probably disappoint him.
Hey wheres Mortal Kombat 1 Critique?
the mk1 story is good. those last 2 chapters are wow and yikes in terms of pacing
@@ETHOS444 8/10 best story mode since mk9. mk11 wasn't the worst in my opinion. mk x was bad bad. kombat kids, green energy johnny shinnok and the chapter system oh boy
4th snake i wanna know is it still forced online? Ya know like mk 11?
I'm not sure, but most likely.
@@The4thSnake Theyll probably will be extreme anti consumer again!
I mean they locked Classic Liu Kang behind a rare event in 11!
Are you streaming the game anywhere?
Nah, I don't stream.
Just finished the story and I’m sad to say but Mortal Kombat is a joke now. At first the story started out promising but turned into a mess at the end. Because now there are multiple timelines reality now. They should have called this game MK 12.
6:40 don't you mean MK11
6:39 Uh oh, he messed up, he said MKX and not MK11.
I'm sorry Snake.
I hate kameos it sucks they take away from characters that could be in the game
Cry buddy
I just... sorry I just don't think it looks that good :( I'm glad I avoided it this time.
Well they pretty much recycled MK 11's metal box and sold it like it's new.
Blind man
Hurry up and tell us how awful the game is.
Lol late review copy
APEP AT NO POINT APPEARS IN MK1 STORY MODE HAH I SPOILED YOU SNAKE HAHAHA I'M SO FUNNY
...sorry had to.
Did Mokap make it?
idk i haven't acutally finished story mode@@mr.awesome6011
Nope@@mr.awesome6011
Him buying this makes me wonder if he’s gonna enjoy it with an open mind or just have a hate boner for mk1
I always go in with an open mind. It's not my fault NRS's writing tends to be dogshit.