Thankfully, there are more classics like Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Ermac, Liu Kang, and Baraka just to name a few. Dairou, for example, is absolutely boring to play as with only three special moves and small combos. Shujinko, Hotaru, Dairou, Darrius, and a few others are boring and don’t really fit in the MK universe. There are some new characters added to the series, like in Deadly Alliance, and most of them are boring duds. You have to enter the Fatality stance so your character stays put for the code input, but otherwise, it’s all the same. The Fatalities are only executed a bit differently. These are just as interesting and a very neat idea that I would like to see come back to the series. This allows the loser to perform a Fatality on themselves to steal the glory away from the winner. A new feature is a reverse Fatality which is a Hara-Kiri. They’re as awesome as anyone remembers, but there are a few duds. There are a lot of new stages here, but some old ones appear like The Cesspool, Living Forest, and The Pit.įatalities are intact with each character having two pre-made Fatalities. Each stage is very unique and nicely designed with even some weapons on the stages like in Mortal Kombat 4. If you are on the edge at that time it’s instant death for you. There’s one level that is suspended in the air and the outside slowly crumbles apart.
Knocking opponents off these yellow lines will cause damage, but red lines cause instant death.
The stages are multi-tiered with yellow lines that represent hazards, and red lines that represent death. This makes the overall play slower, but more tactical, and really makes you think before jumping around like an idiot. Each style has its own combos, but to do the longest you have to switch back to their default style to start it. The combos spread across two-fight styles and one weapon style, but you can switch between the three on the fly. Free-forming combos are a bit tougher because you have to memorize all the long combos and kind of manipulate the fighting engine to get extra long combos that aren’t there.
Sure the animations are sharp and smooth, but the 3D depth takes away that lightning-quick feeling between each move, and the combos are canned. Using each fighter’s three fighting styles is great fun, but I felt it didn’t feel as quick and fluid as the 2D games. The game plays just like Deception and the controls are just as tight and responsive as the console versions. Unchained adds a few characters, plus an endurance mode. All the modes like Puzzle and Chess Kombat are here, as well as the full Krypt, Konquest, and Arcade mode. Unchained is probably the best portable MK in recent history and is an excellent port of Deception. The past portable Mortal Kombat game’s quality ranged from mediocre to abysmal.
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