MK´s story has been in decline since MKDA, with MKD being not as great but still pretty good, and MKA, MK9, and MKX being different levels of shit, all for diferent reasons. The revenants are lame, all of them. They feel like old stupid rage consumed Scorpion, just bland.
The past two games created so many contradictions and did´t even fix the plotholes the old story had. I´m so dissapointed, MK´s story was better than this.
Tell me about it. The whole Cassie Cage beating Shinnok at his 200% power level with no sweat just diminishes so many characters.
Liu Kang first of all. He was trained his entire life to oppose super natural beings, he was taught by Shaolin monks, a Thunder God and an Outworld kung-fu master Bo' Rai Cho and all of his achievements were through hardwork. Now, why the hell do you need all this if in order to be ultimately strong is to glow green?
Raiden and Fujin TOGETHER couldn't stop Shinnok when he was in his normal form in the beginning of Story Mode, but Cassie defeated Corrupted Shinnok powered up with Jinsei as if like it was a piece of a cake, just because she saw her dad being bullied.
It was a Marie Sue case. It could've been much better if Cassie was discovering her powers throughout the story and beyond it (through comics and such), learning how to use it, but even then she should've been struggling against Corrupted Shinnok and have at least some bruises and broken ribs, that fight should have been something like Neo vs Smith, where Smith prevailed a few times during the battle before Neo finding in himself enough stength to make his final attempts and finally defeating a bad guy.
And don't get me started on Jax who retired for some time, then just returned from the farm and defeated Kitana, Sindel and Liu Kang in a row. Seriously? Jax? Not to mention that Sindel one shotted him in MK9? And Liu Kang was the strongest Earthrealm's fighter? Kitana a 10 000 years old assassin? Jesus Christ.
Being a person who values honor, duty, intergrity, respect, love, forgiveness and peace is a personality. Like it or not.
For some reason people find these qualities boring and it really sucks that NRS is trying to replace Liu Kang's character with others now, like they gave Johnny Cage Liu Kang's role from MK4 of defeating Shinnok (which was again thanks to green thing, not years of training with masters from different realms). Though I think this is exactly these qualities that made original timeline Liu Kang so great, because being good with all the shit going around you is what really hard to do, to remain your head clear and going by your principles no matter what, with all the temptations that life throws at you to remain good takes a lot of hard work and shows exactly how strong personality of this character is. I mean remember that in MK Deception Liu Kang corpse was resurrected and corrupted by Dark Raiden? Even that didn't made Liu Kang to turn backwards, but actually trying to find a way to fix things, starting from working with Ermac (whose storyline was also much better in original timeline when he turned good) and saving his freinds from Onaga.
But again, I'm still holding hopes that Liu Kang will eventually come to his original timeline self, just through the journey in darkness first. Have you ever played Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic? The main character Revan was a Jedi, who turned into Sith Lord and then came back as a Jedi again, using benefits of both sides of the Force to do even more good than he could before.
As for Liu Kang and Kitana, I have a thought that if they restored their original selves or at least were regaining their goodness in the process of ruling Netherrealm, instead of this realm being a hell, they both could have made this realm a sanctuary for lost souls and help lead their way into afterlife, since Liu Kang is a sort of spiritual guide, being a spiritual Shaolin monk, as his MK9 bio says "
Orphaned at a very young age, Liu Kang was raised by Shaolin monks, who taught him the way of the spiritual warrior." and Kitana being a royalty by nature, a princess of peaceful Edenia, could make Netherrealm into a better place as a realm, thus together Liu Kang and Kitana could be helping purify dead ones from the evil they were corrupted in. Then maybe later they could have free Edenia and rule it as king and queen, after being restored and learning so much from both sides of life and death.
To be honest, when Cassie Cage was announced and we saw Liu Kang and Kitana in their resurrected forms in trailers, I had a hope that we will Liu Kang and Kitana's descendant, maybe a son or a daughter (or both). Can you imagine how badass their kid could be? Liu Kand is a master of fire, while Kitana controls the air. Fire + air is a deadly combination, imagine their kid throwing fire balls like dad and then make it faster and bigger by swinging razor fans in the same direction like his/hers mom does.
A male razor fans user who also wields fire magic, this character could be amazing. Too bad that resurrected sking of Liu Kang and Kitana were just skins, they remained revenants in the story.
