Mortal Kombat 1 (2023) > a half-assed review

Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities! In case you didn’t know, at the end of the story mode in MK11, some things happen which lead up to the reboot of the universe. We get a lot of retcons and changes, and the style is fully realistic. While this looks nice from a technical point of view, it feels “corporate-approved” and pretty bad. Also the AI cheats a lot and especially at the worst time. The story mode is nice to look at, but I couln’t be involved in the story and dropped it after like 20 minutes. It doesn’t help at all that I’m playing this on the Nintendo Switch and the joycons are literally the worst controllers ever made in history (and I’m including here the ones made in the 1970s). I liked playing a bit on the Versus mode, against the CPU and I can see how this game can be a nice experience played 1v1 on a big screen.…