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LeonhartFour 02/11/20 6:50:20 PM #398:	#52. Mortal Kombat II I have a weird relationship with the Mortal Kombat series. I havent physically played a game since Mortal Kombat 4, but Ive actually kept up with the lore for the most part the whole way. Like I said before, fighting game lore tends to be pretty fascinating for me, but I wasnt willing to put up with playing bad games to get it. However, even though the series started getting good again with Mortal Kombat 9, I still havent played any of the most recent ones. Ive just watched their story modes on YouTube. If you enjoy a crazy plot, then Id recommend Mortal Kombat 9 because thats one of the craziest fighting game stories Ive ever seen that still managed to be good. Anyway, the first Mortal Kombat was one of the original controversial video games because of all the blood and the Fatalities. I dont know that it was actually that good of a game, although it certainly looked cool and it was a neat homage to Bloodsport (the best Jean Claude Van Damme movie, for the record). Mortal Kombat II felt like an upgrade in almost every way. The fighting mechanics are better, the graphics are really good for the time (the characters and especially the backgrounds look fantastic), and the expanded roster introduced some fan favorites that are still around today, like Kitana, Mileena, Smoke, and Jax. Ive always been a Sub-Zero guy throughout the series, but MK2 has a lot of fun characters. They expanded on the number of Fatalities each character could perform, as well as adding silly things like Friendships, Animalities, and Babalities. Mortal Kombat II had so many secrets and Easter Eggs, and a large part of the fun was trying to unlock and access them all. This is also where the story started to get crazy (like finding out that the Sub-Zero in MK2 is the younger brother of the MK1 version, who ended up being killed by Scorpion) and you learned that anyone could die. Also, I remember the arcade mode in Mortal Kombat II being hard, especially toward the end. The difficulty slowly scales as you progress, and it culminates in back to back fights against Kintaro and Shao Kahn, who almost always destroyed me. Kintaro was crazy, and in the rare event I managed to get past him, I usually got bodied by Shao Kahn. I havent played MK2 in forever, so Im not sure if it was just hard for me as a kid and wasnt really that tough, but I dont recall having anywhere near this amount of trouble with Goro/Shang Tsung in MK1 or Motaro/Shao Kahn in MK3 (Motaro in particular was super easy to cheese because he couldnt handle any kind of jump kick). Maybe MK2s final bosses really are that much harder! --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq <cite>LeonhartFour posted [p:934245315] in Leonhart R... [t:78360286]...</cite> <quote>#52. Mortal Kombat II I have a weird relationship with the Mortal Kombat series. I havent physically played a game since Mortal Kombat 4, but Ive actually kept up with the lore for the most part the whole way. Like I said before, fighting game lore tends to be pretty fascinating for me, but I wasnt willing to put up with playing bad games to get it. However, even though the series started getting good again with Mortal Kombat 9, I still havent played any of the most recent ones. Ive just watched their story modes on YouTube. If you enjoy a crazy plot, then Id recommend Mortal Kombat 9 because thats one of the craziest fighting game stories Ive ever seen that still managed to be good. Anyway, the first Mortal Kombat was one of the original controversial video games because of all the blood and the Fatalities. I dont know that it was actually that good of a game, although it certainly looked cool and it was a neat homage to Bloodsport (the best Jean Claude Van Damme movie, for the record). Mortal Kombat II felt like an upgrade in almost every way. The fighting mechanics are better, the graphics are really good for the time (the characters and especially the backgrounds look fantastic), and the expanded roster introduced some fan favorites that are still around today, like Kitana, Mileena, Smoke, and Jax. Ive always been a Sub-Zero guy throughout the series, but MK2 has a lot of fun characters. They expanded on the number of Fatalities each character could perform, as well as adding silly things like Friendships, Animalities, and Babalities. Mortal Kombat II had so many secrets and Easter Eggs, and a large part of the fun was trying to unlock and access them all. This is also where the story started to get crazy (like finding out that the Sub-Zero in MK2 is the younger brother of the MK1 version, who ended up being killed by Scorpion) and you learned that anyone could die. Also, I remember the arcade mode in Mortal Kombat II being hard, especially toward the end. The difficulty slowly scales as you progress, and it culminates in back to back fights against Kintaro and Shao Kahn, who almost always destroyed me. Kintaro was crazy, and in the rare event I managed to get past him, I usually got bodied by Shao Kahn. I havent played MK2 in forever, so Im not sure if it was just hard for me as a kid and wasnt really that tough, but I dont recall having anywhere near this amount of trouble with Goro/Shang Tsung in MK1 or Motaro/Shao Kahn in MK3 (Motaro in particular was super easy to cheese because he couldnt handle any kind of jump kick). Maybe MK2s final bosses really are that much harder! --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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