Reptile Saves the Mortal Kombat Franchise

When Sindel said "MK12_148_154,11", I've felt that

It would be kind of poetic to pick good Shao Khan for the final chapter, making a full cycle with mk9's reboot " He must win! "

Reptile getting the respect he finally deserves, the good boi he is

A little bit of a correction, the Titan versions of the characters from Liu Kang's chapter are implied to be the versions from their ladder endings, not strictly the endings of MK11's dedicated story mode.

No matter the MK timeline, Sonic always knows how to make it extra entertaining. 🦎

1. The reveal that ALL the MK11 ending are canon is awesome 2. I love how so many people agree that Reptile should be the final fighter that helps Liu Kang. Our boy went from secret boss fight, to a jobber to a main character in his own right and its GREAT! 3. I love the reunion between Liu and Kitana. These characters have been denied a happily ever after so many times its not even funny anymore. 4. Can we just talk about how good this game is? Sure the multiverse storyline has been done to death by this point, but they did it well and they took the time to give a soft reboot so many characters, while also acknowledging the history of the franchise. Its just such a breath of fresh air. Baraka, Reptile, Mileena and Geras were the biggest winners here in my opinion.

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Titan Havik being the reason there's so many goofy chaotic combos like Sonya Kano is pretty funny when you think about it.

Finally a game where Syzoth gets the most praise. Especially when the game almost never calls him "Reptile". :_RepSexy::_RepSexy::_RepSexy::_RepSexy:

Og MK: we're gonna make reptile a lizard wearing a green ninja disguise Mkx: we're gonna make reptile a human with lizard features Mk1: we're gonna make reptile a lizard that can turn into a human

The good: All of the first two acts. No joke. Everything in the first two acts is really strong. Baraka and Reptile being good is awesome, Mileena and Tanya being good is awesome, Johnny rules, the flipped Liu Kang/Raiden dynamic is great, Ermac’s creation rules, and Sindel is back to being good too. Choosing to keep the events of MK11 canonical was risky but they pulled it off. It makes sense for Shang Tsung to be the villain, because he will ALWAYS be the bad guy. The bad: The chapter system (as usual), Sub-Zero turning evil (done poorly, Sub-Zero isn’t evil unless Bi-Han becomes Noob), everything about Nitara (Megan Fox is a complete waste), jump straight to multiverse instead of staying grounded with just two timelines (kinda overwhelms the third act), the Armageddon ending being very rushed (leave that for an MK2 reboot), no Sonya or Kano (if you’re gonna rename the series MK1, you should at least have the original 7 characters all be playable)

18:17 this moment moved me to tears, I had to pause for a few minutes to clean my self up. Such a powerful line.

I think the biggest problem with this story is how quickly act 3 gets resolved. Titan Shang reveals himself and then in one chapter we defeat his entire army and in the very next we stop him from enacting his backup plan and send him back to his timeline. We needed at least one, maybe two more chapters between 12-14 to let the story flow better. It would have also helped with the sudden gut punch of the multiverse as well if they saved that drop till 14 and we got multiple chapters of just assuming it was the two after Shang revealed himself.

Is this it? Have we finally seen their army’s full strength?

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Hearing Raiden being voiced by Travis Willingham was something I didn't expect, but want more of.

i think what sets MK1 apart from MK11's story is that it feels very indulgent in its ridiculousness in the third act. as much as i don't like how hard it fell apart, it's at least just goofy with it whereas with MK11 i felt like the bad shit was actively egregious and annoying lol

16:17 I think that it's commendable that Shao can even fight, cause in his bio it basically says that Lu Kang nerfed him into oblivion.

I figured he'd choose reptile for the last chapter.

I honestly feel the story falls apart as soon as it focuses on different timelines and getting random characters from there for the final showdown. Give me more of the low power mortal kombat from the beginning, I really loved that part.