Mortal Kombat 1 is a fighting game created by the company NetherRealm Studios. The game was released on September 14, 2023, and updates are still being released for it. After the great games that came before, this game was one of the biggest disappointments in their series.
Mortal Kombat 11 was the 5th best game in the country, while Mortal Kombat dropped to 8th. The game let down fans all over the world, including the new content they are releasing. The game got lazy with cosmetics, the story, and gameplay.
The gameplay of the characters has become very lazy. The characters were designed with detail, and the graphics were great, but the move sets seem repetitive; some characters share the same animations and moves. The other problem is the game campaign named the crypt. In the newest game, it’s the made fun of for how boring and how the game repeats missions.
Even with the story, it isn’t gratifying since it’s very easy, even on the hardest difficulty level, and it has bland storytelling. An extension of the story is locked behind a paywall, which is crazy since the game costs $49.99 before tax, while the extension costs around the same amount as the game itself. It only adds about an hour of gameplay and about five characters.
The series story has been letdown after letdown in the series. They have been doing every cliche in the history of time and evil versions of characters, and it’s become very lazy and straying away from the original idea of the story.
The gameplay has become worse over time. The combat mechanics are slow, and some characters are so bad that no one plays them online; for example, Sub Zero is ranked one of the worst characters. An older game that had great gameplay was Mortal Kombat X. Even with the flaw of both Leatherface and Jason being too overpowered, it had fun and engaging gameplay for players to enjoy for a long time. While also having more game modes to play and better designed characters. In the entire series, Mortal Kombat X is the best.
Less important game problems: they released the game seemingly like it wasn’t finished. Some players have talked about how match-making is one of the worst so far, that people who play for fun are matched with competitive players. Also, people say this is one of the worst game roasters created, with missing characters and just used as a backup character.
The company has made beloved games one after another, but if they keep making games like this, their sales will go down. People will stop playing it. The game was only bought with the idea of how good the last game was.