Mortal Kombat II
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Mortal Kombat II is a fighting video game originally released in 1993 for the arcades and later ported to various systems. It is the second installment in the Mortal Kombat series.
Plot
After Shang Tsung failed to defeat Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat tournament, he begs his master Shao Kahn to spare his life. He tells Shao Kahn that if they hold it in Outworld, the invitation for the next Mortal Kombat cannot be turned down, and the Earthrealm warriors must attend. Kahn agrees to this plan and also restores Shang Tsung's youth. He then extends the invitation to the thunder god and Earthrealm's protector, Raiden, who gathers his warriors and takes them into the Outworld.
The new tournament is much more dangerous, as Shao Kahn has the home-field advantage, and an Outworld victory will allow him to subdue Earthrealm.
According to official creators, Liu Kang won this tournament as well, defeating Shao Kahn and his bodyguard Kintaro.
Why It's Still a Flawless Victory
- For starters, it does so many improvements over the first game, such as better controls, more characters, more opponents to fight and had other upgrades that will be talked about.
- As stated in WISAFV#1, there's more characters and a lot of them we're introduced with this game, such as Liu Kang, Smoke (despite not being playable), Kung Lao, Kitana, and Mileena, most of them would later be major characters of the franchise.
- Great graphics that are a huge improvement over the first (despite looking good), and look very good for its time, as they are very detailed and colorful, and the characters sprites are a little bit more detailed than the first game, such as Sub-Zero and Scorpion sprites, which was especially done via a camera by recording the actors, especially since their costumes were much higher-quality.
- Also, the new characters sprites look as great as the returning one, are very detailed and had good characters designs, such examples include Kung Lao, Kitana, and Mileena, even though the latter two mostly are color changes in their sprites in comparison to the later games of the franchise.
- The environments even look like they come from a 2D Sega Saturn game rather than a 1993 Arcade game, as they look very detailed and their designs are of course very cool to look at, as well as fitting for a dark game such as Mortal Kombat, also they are darker than the ones featured in the first game.
- The Game Boy version is surprisingly pretty good, along with the Game Gear version, as their framerate is way better than in the first game port (although the Game Gear port of it was decent) and the controls being fairly fluid, and they also feature a great soundtrack and more clean graphics. In fact, the Game Boy version can be considered as the best fighting game on the Game Boy.
- Once again, the controls are very good since they are tight and responsive, which is especially true with the Sega Genesis and SNES versions.
- Awesome soundtrack, especially the Arcade and SNES ports music, all of the music fits the overall dark tone of the game and especially fit the stage theme, and of course they are great to listen to, this include but not limited to:
- Nintendo learned their lesson about censoring games from the mess up that was the SNES port of the first game and allowed blood in their SNES port of MKII, which made fans happy and as a result of also improving the gameplay from the first game SNES port, that port ended up being considered one of the best console ports of this game.
- The Arcade port included a port of Pong, which is a nice touch and what better is that it is an upgraded port of the original game.
- Besides the original ending, the game's story mode can be finished using other playable characters, resulting in different endings for each of them, much like in the first game.
- The Friendship move was introduced in this game and become one of the most famous parts of the franchise, and some of those range from awesome to hilarious.
- This is one of the few times that the Sega 32X port was good and actually makes this one of the bad console’s good games. Additionally, it also adds some stuff the Genesis version didn't have, such as more character grunts, Shao Kahn saying more stuff as an announcer, and features better graphics.
"You Weak Pathetic Fool" Qualities
- The AI is extremely unfair as the computer opponent will professionally block or dodge your move within frames of it starting and always finds ways to counter. The difficulty setting only changes whether or not the AI decides to do this, meaning the AI loves to cheat no matter the difficulty. Sub-boss Kintaro and Boss Shao Kahn are the worst offenders.
- There aren't any minigames between the fights, which is a bit disappointing especially if you liked the "Test Your Might" minigame from the first game.
Reception
Mortal Kombat II was known to be a commercial success and received numerous awards from many gaming publications. It was given a 4.3/5 star rating on Arcade Spot.
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