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The problem with the new characters is that they do nothing to develop them.

Kotal Khan just looks like a punk ass chump in both games despite initially seeming like a badass. And he had that awful romance with Jade.

Erron Black is just generic southern shoot man with no discernable personality.

Jacqui Briggs has no personality and is nobody's favorite character.

Skarlet has been wildly different in her two appearances and I can't tell you anything about her now.

Ferra Torr is lol

Kollector existed to just spout exposition once and nothing else.

D'Vorah was solid but lost good will when she just butchered fan favorites.

Takeda is cool, but they didn't keep exploring him.

Kung Jin is just kind of arrogant but they failed to do much with him.

Cetrion is an elder god but is still such a nothing character despite it.

Geras was fucking cool for being a muscle for the big bad though. Neat powers.

The problem is that Netherrealm's storytelling frankly sucks. They set up the Kombat Kids and have Cassie Cage be the main character, then Cassie doesn't matter at all in the next game and becomes less interesting, and Jacqui exists to make Jax's story better, and the other two disappeared.

Kotal Khan was just completely mishandled, and far more in the follow up game.

D'Vorah would be better if she wasn't just over pushed.

And the rest are quite literally fodder. They exist to only get their ass beat, and none of them stand out enough by design except for maybe Geras.

It's just a frustrating thing that NetherRealm drops the ball so hard when it comes to telling meaningful stories for the characters. It leads to everyone's individual story being so unsatisfactory in favor of having a big dumb overarching story.

You bring in Noob Saibot and neither Scorpion or Sub-Zero encounter him at all. How do you not somehow have a meaningful interaction there? At least one scene.

My rant is over. But NetherRealm has a chance to actually make more meaningful stories coming up in this game with the reset and I hope they go in a vastly different approach than they have been.