RazorsEdge701 Wrote:
It's not like it's hard to make it make sense. All you need is for Shang and Kahn to tell Kitana a convincing enough lie. And apparently they're pretty fucking good at lying to her what with it taking her ten thousand years to find out she's adopted.
"Y'know how our realm is filled with rebels and enemies to the throne? Well you had a twin sister, but one of them kidnapped her when you were little, and we never told you 'cause we thought she was dead, but we finally found her."
Honestly, that took me ten seconds.
And the reason people complain about the MK9 version isn't just because it's different from her MK2 story, it's because it's just plain not very good all on its own. There's no emotion, depth, or nuance to either the way the dialogue was written or Mileena's new personality, and Kitana doesn't even discover the truth on her own, Kahn just DECIDES TO TELL HER "Hey guess what, I'm not even your real dad!" for no good reason, because apparently he never liked Kitana. And WHY did he never want Kitana? Only because "bad guy has to be bad in every possible way, no way can we show Kahn like or care for or want to keep his stepdaughter. Loving your family isn't evil!" I'm sorry, but that's called bad writing. If you're gonna go to the trouble of having a story mode with cinematic cutscenes, then you should also at least bother to make the characters 3-dimensional, give the villains some positive traits and give the heroes some negative ones so they're not just bland action figures.
Totally agree.
I think they should have kept the original story, but just filled in the gaps. Like you said explain how Kitana and Mileena were told they were sisters or whatever when Kitana has a good 9000 years on Mileena. Not thoughtful writing at all there.
Another thing. It was pretty dumb that Shao Khan just out of the blue told Kitana hes not her father and then hes like lets kill her too. Like uh did you not raise her for 10,000 years and stuff? If he didnt love or even like her that much, why would he keep her around for that long? Sindel convinced him of her worth or whatever, but he kept her that long, he had to have some affection for Kitana.
Yeah the retcon gave Mileena a new personality and now shes not bound to Kitana, but c'mon. They had an iconic rivalry. How are you just gonna cancel all that out?
