Since mortal kombat deadly alliance, they have been using the unlockable reward concept to access and unlock characters. I really hate this Idea.

For one, the characters really arent hidden, you cna see their darkened picture on the fighter select screen, so you get an idea what they look like. Also, you know immedietly how many characters there will be to unlock. This severely takes away from the mystery. In the classic mortal Kombats, before everything was discovered, you never really knew how many hidden characters there are let alone and Idea what they looked like. This added great element of mystery which only made you want to keep playing to see if you could discover something new. Once jade, smoke, and noob were discovered in MK2, you still wondered if there was a 4th hidden one (hornbuckle maybe?). Im MK3 you still wondered if there were others hidden besides cyber smoke, or rain for UMK3.

But with the unlockable reward scheme, you already know how many there are. once you get them all, the element of mystery totally goes away. I dont like this. One of the things that Made MK stand out from all other fighting games was its element of mystery, it was famous for having easter eggs hidden in it, and you never would know if you found them all. The unlockable reward thing takes this away.

Also, The cool thing about the old way where you had to either do a code or figure out some secret to get a character or fight a character was that the game would be "out" for a while before anyone found it. So once the game started getting old, someone would make a discovery about the hidden character, and this easter egg would bring life back into the game. But If your a good player, you can unlock all unlockable characters all in the 1st week if you wanted to. after that then what? And plus, what if you just werent good enough to unlock all characters?

What boon needs to do is go back to the old way, get rid of the unlockable reward thing, remove the darkened pictures fro mthe fighter select screen. Bring back the element of mystery. Go back to secret codes and secret procedures that you must follow to unlock or fight a hidden character.