I must be the only one who thought story mode was far better than mk9. The only characters who didn't get a fair show were erron and f\t. From a story telling perspective, I found it a lot more enjoyable than the way MK9 shit all over two decades of Canon like a drunk guy trying to tell a story.
And then there was some of abominable decision making. The Sindel scene is the clumsiest 'stake raiser' in history, cyber sub zero, shang tsung getting routinely shit upon, goro Baraka reptile smoke sheeva kintaro and ermac getting shit on, the total absence of rain, the fact that they wipe out the back story of kitana and mileena making mileena 5 minutes old thus removing all the depth from her in place of a Harley quinn style crazy hot chick and removing the autonomy and intelligence from kitana (ostensibly your female lead) all so you can have mileena in bandages for a scene or two.....christ mk9 got so much wrong.
Mkx isn't perfect but I'd consider it competent. They at least paid mk4 it's due homage, gave shinnok what he deserved as a boss,redeemed raiden, made mileena an interesting character again and didn't take the cheap ass route of reviving Shao. If we take some of the intros as Canon, they also acknowledge a lot of the 3rd era.
The dark raiden twist was the nest and most logical development of the 3rd era and they brought it back perfectly
As a Canon nut who loves mk lore, MK9 bugged me not because it changed things because some changes were good e.g. Nightwolfs prominence. It bugged me because it replaced some of the best parts of the original Canon (like kitana and mileena) with idiot plots and pointless removal of depth of characters. Mkx isn't perfect but it's as well written a fighting game story as I can imagine with exceptional production values and real attention and love poured into it.
