I didn't know what to expect but I was pleasantly surprised. It's weird to get a variation with abilities similar to Kung Lao's base moves but I guess it's a nice mix with arrows.

I thought Ancestral was fun. People are quick to point at Green Arrow and it's obvious they decided to work on a bow user after liking Green Arrow, but they don't feel the same at all.

Bojutsu on the other hand... this was beautiful. I absolutely loved everything I saw. I want to play as him asap.

Kung Jin....

He did make an impression on me.

I'm just not sure if it was good or bad yet.

Will save my judgement until April 14th.

Eh, he was alright.

They both have a set of differnt types of arrows. He also has some of night wings moves and he basically has a boomarang.......

Maybe Kung Jin will be the most closer fighter to Shinomune's bow, so I'm hyped to hell with him.

Bojutsu variation seems fairly unanimous. Sweet.

My staff is bigger and better than your staff!

I also really like the fire breathing head of the staff. All the newbies shown so far have enough of their own attributes and unique moves to set them apart from their kin imo. Which was a general concern amongst us. Cassie and Jacqui might muddle the line a bit, but we'll know for certain SOON!

And that's enough to discreet him? He has much more arrow moves than Green Arrow, a lot more staff combos than nightwing and what's wrong with the boomerage? It's a wink to Kung Lao, nothing more. Just like Takeda's final variation is a wink to Baraka and Johnny Cage's final variation is a wink to Noob Saibot.

I'm not impressed with him at all. Should have been left out of the game. Way too much family bs and he is the straw that breaks the camels back. Will not use him.

How is two swords a wink to baraka? And no he doesn't green arrow could change his too. And I meant his specials-_- also last time i checked it has similar properties to a boomarang. He can't place the chakram on the ground. Also no they are not winks. They totally took what would of been those characters play styles

My mistake. I was under the impression they were releaed from his wrists like his whips.

It has similar propreties to a boomerang if you Ex it. Else, it's just a chakram.

Kung Jin made a good impression to me. Ancestral does seem like a lot like Green Arrow, but with his own flare and style added to it. Giving him the ancestral buffs was an idea I had for Nightwolf, however Kung Jin seems to use it just fine himself. Shaolin has an homage to Kung Lao's Hat and has more of the martial arts Lui and Lao used. So he can rush and zone with the best of them. Bojutsu looked interesting as well. Having a bow that doubles as a staff, ANDS breathes fire. Aweosme.

Since NIghtwolf and Kung Lao were my favorites in MK9, Kung Jin is defiantly on my radar.

Saying all of that, Takeda really impressed me. He is a straight up future ninja. His main attire looks very over done, but give him a cool alternate and you might have my new main.

I'm totally fine with the chakram being used in combos but it needed something more. His ex version does not seem as good as kitanas who took jades. It didn't look like u could combo after it but maybe the person just messed up.

He's not standing out to me in the way Takeda and Cassie are, but he's got a ton of potential.

I feel like it's his design, like they should have gone a bit further out of their way to give him more of a traditional shaolin monk outfit.

I thought he was the best part of the stream, and so far he's my favorite new character.

So yeah, he left a good impression for me.

He was okay. I'm not digging his outfit all that much, but I liked his gameplay. He looks like he's going to be annoying as fuck to fight against, lol.

The moves where he just wacked then with the bow-staff was pretty hype.

Kung Jin was the offspring I was most excited about after Jacqui, but after seeing both him and Takeda in action, I feel Takeda won me over. Kung Jin still looks fun to play as, still distinctive, but Takeda seems more so, at least gameplay-wise. design-wise, Kung Jin is more interesting.

Either way, both of them get points for differing significantly from their parents. Here's hoping they put as much effort into Jacqui.

Who? Me? On the NRS team?
If it's the case. Sindel is the end boss.
Next game is a Kitana, Jade, Mileena Mythology game.


Lol

Not really. He felt like a combination of multiple characters rolled in one: bow (Green Arrow), Boujutsu (Bo'Rai Cho), Charram (Jade / Kung Lao). Basically a copypasta character with little going on, on his own. In that he is not very different from MKD newcomers.
His design is also rather plain and his pesonality seems to be generic.

Takeda is also quite on generic side, but his gameplay seems fairly unique (depsite some idiots saying that he is based off Mavado, WTF?). Though, I am pretty sure, that his plasma swords, most likely rule out Baraka and, potentially, cyborgs, who could use this weapon.

Oh damn, I would hate to see you talk about Cassie Cage then.

Basically Stryker,Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade with little to nothing going for her.

It would also be a nightmare to see you talk about Reptile, he is basically the same character he was in MK9 with a few changes that show there is nothing creative they could do with this character.

He has a good design, and pretty cool voice acting.

His arrow moves aren't tweaked enough from GA's (yeah, I'm restating it because it's true!) to set him apart and his staff attacks are just big clumsy swings with no finesse. You look at this guy and think he'd use a staff weapon artfully, but he's going Robert DeNiro in Untouchables on dudes and it doesn't seem right.

I like the flying kick and the X-Ray, but those are about it. He leaves a lot to be desired.

He is just a replacement for nightwolf. Don't think he will make any further appearances.

Cassie has justification in that she is the daughter of Johhny and Sonya, so it's natural that she picked up some of their moves.

Kung Jin...unless he had contact with Green Arrow and Jade, doesn't have this.

I am not entirely against characters who borrow some moves, if its done "tastefully". Kung Jin looks is like three different movesets rolled in one character and none of them are unique to make him stand on his own.

Also, I understand that you are salty and everything, but don't low yourself to the point of saying entirely ludicrous bullshit. Why should I criticisize Reptile for having his own moves? It's like, if I started to criticisize Sub-Za\ero for having freezing moves or Scorpion for using spear.

I LOVED his ancestral variation!

He seemed like a cool character that is overshadowed by his unfortunate descendant backstory/expectations

Not really salty, I'm just allergic to hypocrites.

I didn't say judge Reptile because he stole someone's moves, I said Reptile is unchanged, you seem to preach that Kung Jin isn't all that creative, so why don't you judge Reptile on the same notion?

The developers themselves thought Reptile is so bland and there is nothing you could do with him so they basically gave him Flash's trait from Injustice, literally one variation where he only goes invisible(something you can do in all variations), and a variation where he is smelly and kills you by his awful smell.

I'm just judging Reptile the same way you are judging Kung Jin, so I don't get why you'd think I'm salty, unless you are yourself salty.

I don't remember ever Bo Rai Cho having amazing moves with his staff, just because he has a staff doesn't mean he and Kung Jin are the same, I guess you also think Bo stole the staff from everybody before him who used a staff.