I thought he had an awesome introduction. Hype up his legend/backstory but keep it in the background for a whole game, and then in the next game he appears and Deception has the coolest opening cinema in the whole series with him strolling into the castle and just walking straight through all their fire. He's just as interesting and intimidating to me as Shao Kahn is. Story-wise, anyway.
Gameplay-wise, he is kinda easy but to me, It's not really fair to judge a boss by how easy to beat they are since, well...every boss has patterns and exploitable weaknesses while also having incredibly dickish moves and AI, like...in the early games, you can usually beat Goro and Motaro just by jumpkicking over and over and over again. Is that threatening? They're so repetitive and frustrating, it's not really ever been fun to fight an MK boss IMO. It'd be better if they just fought like normal fucking characters but with more health and damage, instead of having such a limited amount of punches, kicks, and jumping ability.
I like the way Dark Kahn fights in MKvsDCU, because he moves and reacts like every other character, you can even use projectiles on him, he's just legit tougher. It's still a decently challenging boss fight, at least for me, sometimes I can beat him on the first try, more often than not it takes me two or three, that's how I like it, not impossible, just tricky. Sometimes I really legitimately hate playing the original MK2 or 3 because once I get to Kintaro or Kahn, I feel like I might as well turn off the game 'cause I ain't gonna make it any further and see the ending. I really hate that feeling, that arcade-based "we made it impossible to end the game so you'll have to keep putting in more quarters and keep trying" difficulty level that's still in the direct ports. I'm playing at home, I don't need this shit, I just wanna finish the game.
