I’ve never played it since I never owned that generation of consoles (excluding handheld ports, MK9 and MK vs DC are the only MK games I’ve never played) but from the videos I’ve seen MK9 looked utterly brutal. Most seemed to be very visceral hand-to-hand mutilations that put the large array of OTT novelty fatalities in MK11 to utter shame (eg. Sonya’s helicopter, any from the terminator, Cetrion’s giant, etc).