GAME SINS | Everything WRONG With Mortal Kombat 1 

Imagine rebooting the universe two times in three games, and the first game after the reboot you go straight back into time travel and multiverse bullshit again.

Devs: “what did everyone hate about the previous games?” “The time plot” “Ok let’s bring that back in full force”

Two things: 1. The Shirai Ryu is named that in Scorpion’s tower ending. He names his new clan after he and Smoke flee to Japan to hide from the Lin Kuei, and names it after a childhood friend, who it’s implied that he marries. 2. Hanzo is mentioned in the game, just in Smoke’s tower ending. Basically, Hanzo is an orphan who tries to mug Smoke to get money for food. When Smoke learns of Hanzo’s backstory and how it’s similar to his own, Smoke decides to make Hanzo the first initiate of the Shirai Ryu

46:39 "These two aren't evil. They're just gay." ☠☠☠

"I don't want peace... I want problems, always!" 🤣

Mk1 is written like a tumblr/twitter fan fiction.

My biggest problem isn't that they changed too much, it's that they didn't change enough. Ultimately, with the exception of a few characters, nothing's really different.

"Like who gives a damn about Havik", he's actually one of the most popular characters from the 3D era (like seriously top 3). People were begging for him to come back for years.

I think Dart is the only person keeping track of Mortal Kombat lore. Watching his live streams of this game were pretty crazy. He was all "So and so's not a member of the Whatever Clan!" without skipping a beat so you know he wasn't looking it up on the fly. I mean, good for him for having the head space for Mortal Kombat lore.

Tarkatt becoming a disease was unplanned by Liu Kang, he wanted to give Tarkatans a normal life but certain things just have to happen sorta like "canon" in the spider verse, Liu Kang didn't want it to be disease

Comparing Dartigan 10 years ago vs Dartigan now is literally the Breaking Bad meme of Hank smiling and then scowling

Couldn’t Fire God Liu Kang use his powers to give Nitara a better voice actress, anyone who isn’t Megan Fox and actually has done a lot of Voice Work in the past?

44:20 "Evil Sindel beats up everyone here with relative ease..." I was expecting you to bring up that it's a repeat of what happened in MK9. 😕

In fairness to Liu Kang, the game does establish that he cursed Shang and Quan Chi to lead empty lives… but added a caveat that they could escape this destiny by coming to open up to and care about others. They were just so purely evil from birth that the escape clause never kicked in, I suppose. Also, that “Alien” reference with Johnny was SO close to being really funny, but they dragged it on too long and spelled it out too much. If they’d ended it with his friends going “What!?” And then him giving an annoyed sigh at no one else getting it, it would have landed.

seems like multiverse are the universal solution for anything you did wrong in your piece of media nowadays. wish i could enter my own multiverse to fix all the problems in my life, too...

Why did OG!Shang Tsung disguise himself as Kronika other than to trick the audience? What, did he think posing as the main villain of the last game who isn't supposed to exist would be less likely to draw Liu Kang's attention than posing as just some random guy?

I really want to ask what the point of cuffing Scorpion is. He can teleport. And it's not like those chains interrupt magic or something, he can still use his hellfire on it. Why the hell does the ninjas need to sneak around when they can teleport. Hell, Smoke can go invisible too. Also, during that Scorpion vs Sub Zero cutscene, did Scorpion forget that he also has a knife? Did Sub Zero forget he can create bigger weapons than a knife? Did EVERYONE forget that Smoke was there too? Wtf was he doing, just watching?

"If Shang Tsung were Albert Wesker" sounds like a crossover to me. Wesker should be a guest character

Honestly, I would like to see a Mortal Kombat game where Shang Tsung and Quan Chi began at the bottom rung and were society's punching bag, but it made them humble and had them become heroes as a way of showing that people can improve and change in their lifetimes, kind like a karmic change similar to the serial killer that the Buddha made one of his most devoted disciples. That would be interesting and at least it would be unique and different from the multiverse crap.

What can I say… from storyline we have in this game, it seems that Liu Kang would be a bad screenwriter popular in Hollywood.

Thank you for being the first person to mention that about mercury. That drove me nuts that they acted like it was deadly. You can play with mercury and be fine. It's not as deadly as people seem to think. The problem is when you are around it chronically, and especially when you are in a room without good ventilation, breathing in its vapors. You can drink it and not die because your gut doesn't absorb much elemental mercury. Now if it was organic mercury, which is clear and looks like water, even a pin prick drop of that touching your skin for a second will kill you in one of the most painful ways possible. It will take a while, but you are doomed. Trace amounts of organic mercury (carbon-bonded mercury molecule), is what is in food like tuna, and eating tons of tuna can cause mercury poisoning because of that.

I Appreciate Dartigan putting on subtitles, I'm not a native english speaker, but reading it helps, Nice vid btw

Strong painkillers are actually a great motivator in extended torture sessions. (probably also painkiller antagonists for conditioning.)

Lowkey was expecting Omni man to pop out the portal and be like, this realm isn’t your to conquer lol

Sub-Zero's ice pun in the story mode is far from the worse ice puns he makes throughout gameplay

I can't wait to see homelander interaction with mk character's 🤣 especially with omni man

20:13 I'm sorry but that clip from my countrie's MK fan movie made me laugh out loud 😂 not was I was expecting when I clicked this video

1 billion sins in advance if they don’t get Megan The Stallion to do the mocap for Jade when she’s added as DLC.

Best moment for me was easily Liu and Kitana reunion and Baraka chapter. But you hit the nail on the head on Liu and Raiden switching places. That's why raiden to me was one of the weaker characters. Also the multiverse angle did kind of.break the story so you hit a lot of good points.

Your biggest misconception is thinking Liu Kang hand crafted everyone's story you keep saying "why did Liu Kang do this" the only thing Liu changed personally was stripping Shang Tsung and Quan Chi of their magic because they would be the ones to challenge him and mess with the time for their advantage. After chronica Liu vowed not to get involved in anyone's lives, so he didn't choose scorpion to be Kuai Liang, or Cassie not to be born..."in my new era all beings will have the opportunity to find peace, whether or not they do will be their responsibility"

I can't tell if the dialogue was intentionally written to be campy, but 90% of it sounded like it was just characters explaining their backstories or how things worked. That's not a definite problem, but the issue is that it lacks charm. Especially when everyone talks about other "timelines."

I kinda wished for Liu Kang to directly give his thunder power back to Raiden instead of relying on Elder Gods' amulet mumbo jumbo. Wouldn't want Raiden getting funny ideas and change the timeline again

1:43 It took you until now to notice? Some of us realized the old Midway edge was gone in MK11 when we noticed the female fighters dressing more conservatively while patching out the circle game from one of Johnny’s poses.

Counterpoint: making essentially every ending of the last game canon is a very cool twist, and the end battle against the chimera enemies was hella hype.

The more I look at MK1's story, the more it reads like MK fan fiction

Obviously spiderman 2, that games sins will truly be a marvel to behold.

Idk how serious all the criticisms are meant to be and I think I generally agree with the overall tone of the criticisms regarding the general story direction but there's a lot of minor inconsequential things that I don't think deserve the title of a sin. It could just be satire and maybe I'm misinterpreting the tone but it all comes across very serious

You may or may not be missing an entire joke. Spanish: drunken = borracho (bo RAH cho) The drunken master's name, means "drunk" and maybe they pulled a Dragonball or something.... 🤷‍♂️

Ya know honestly this entire thing happened because of Liu Kangs sheer spite against Shang Tsung lol. This possibly could have been avoided if he just simply gave him an island or something to rule over. Instead he let his hate for him overpower his logic.

11:00 kenshi didn’t steal cause he’s trying to break away from crime and become honorable and robbery is the opposite of that 11:30 made it so 11:50 he wrote the broad strokes of history like events happening in general but he didn’t write specifics like he didn’t write that Jared would get murdered or that tarkat would exist his not omnipotent or all knowing cause if he was so would’ve been kronoka which means she wouldn’t have had to restart the timeline so much 16:10 Liu didn’t write tarkat that come about naturally

23:15 honestly it's hard to pin down because the timelines are so fucked up. But in several games the Tarkatan race hasn't been exactly kind to other races, that and all the eating and slaughtering people. Also just as a personal note IDK why but tarkatans in this game look like diet Volatiles from dying light.

The video barely started and he gave all the explanation about the story one needs to know. The writers clearly have their heads up their asses.

Finally, someone giving this story the justice it DOESN'T DESERVE!

This was beautiful. Folks can like what they wanna like but this story was so off. All the praise it gets, I'm just looking around thinkin "Do y'all not like good storytelling?"

So Dart and Yahtzee are both aware of each other. I wonder if there will ever be crossover?

That Alec Baldwin joke! 🤣

There were quite a few things in this video you labeled as "wrong with the game" only by intentionally leaving out details they had already elaborated on

2 minutes and 14 seconds in, you hit every point and made me laugh out loud as if I already watch the entire vod.

I am around 17 minutes into the video, how is Sindel the Queen of Outworld? In the original timeline, she was Queen of Edenia which was forcibly merged into Outworld after they lost to Shao Kahn, her husband Jerrod also died against Shao Kahn in combat. *removed*

The change in dartigans voice caught me off guard. Had to replay that part like 4 times to make sure my headphones weren't broken😀

I think it's important to note that Liu Kang did not preordain everything in this universe. He kept severe threats in check and leaned everything more towards peace, but held no sway over where everyone else was headed. He never intended Mileena to take Kitana's place as empress, he merely gave Mileena a fair shot at living a peaceful life at Kitana's side. He never orchestrated the Tarkat disease as a new interpretation for Tarkatans; in fact having Tarkatans at all was never his plan; it seems like he wanted Baraka to have a more successful life as a well-accomplished Edenian merchant. Liu Kang has stated in multiple character interactions that he can't control everything and even if he could, he wants people to choose their own path in life (besides the more dangerous ones).

The laugh track bid was perfect lol literally was thinking the same thing. 😂

Would just like to clarify that Mileena wasn't retconned in MK1 to be gay. In MKX, she was confirmed to be bisexual based on the story and multiple pre-fight interactions with Tanya

Dartigan's first sin is always an introductory paragraph of "fuck you" and I am here for it. Every. Single. Time!

A Spider-Man 2 & MW 2 GS & God Of War DLC videos would be amazing!!

Bro's fluent in Yapanese

The Alex Baldwin joke was wild

Mileena being a lesbian isn't exactly new

Did you seriously sin the game for NOT having Bo Rai Choa? But you gave mkx a sin for having him. Wtf

Mileena was bi/lesbian in MKX that wasn't Liu Kang's doing. That carried over 1:40

Also, jarrod taking over ermac was a plot point in the 3D era

Thank you for bringing back the subtitles.

I'm not even that astute of a story analyst and I lost count of how many times I was able to point out a plot hole. It's really strange how they decided to make Liu Kang recreate the timeline, but then make so many obviously bad and short-sighted decisions that anyone, let alone a deity with eternal life, would be able to anticipate. His treatment of Shang Tsung was honestly vile if you ask me, as he punished the man for machinations from a timeline that was erased, IE, no longer his fault. Different person now. Still he makes him society's punching bag.

I know he's critiquing Megan Fox for her awful performance in voice acting, and he definitely should, it's absolutely abysmal. But why is his own cadence changing like every 3 lines? Dude, practice what you preach.

They have to keep rebooting because people care about the story sooooo much, as though it has anything to do with gameplay, and the roster has to match the story. That's the only way to keep bringing back fan favorites

Yahtzee calling another game critic a "twat" is the height of irony.

It's funny how technology goes backwards and forwards at same time. Could achieve a Centaur in a more primitive game but not anymore with this new advanced tech. Can't have a game with 64 characters and a character creation and Konquest mode either. :u Also whats with Reptile and Asharah randomly leaving plot to go make demon lizard babies off screen? 👀

I lost it at the laugh track. Good bit😂

I mean this in no other way, after finally getting through this video. This is your worst one. There are a lot of problems with the MK1 narrative, But somehow, some way, you picked the worst things to criticize on top of that. I know people say sin videos are just for fun and shouldn’t be taken seriously, and to be fair, when it comes to your videos lately, I agree. But sins (in this context) are criticisms, jokes too, but criticisms more so than not. And a lot of these “sins” are unfounded, or given with the most bad faith interpretations of writing I have ever seen. What’s worst is you actually are one of the few RU-vidrs out there that actually can make good sins videos cus you have a great voice for it. But I wish you’d put more effort in actually pointing out things that are legit wrong with a narrative rather than go cutscene by cutscene, say somethings wrong, then move on without giving even the most basic critical thought. But hey, you get the views and get paid so you know it is what it is

Part 2 133. Murder by inaction is still murder. 134. He clearly didn't melt the cuffs, just heated them up. 135. Ever heard of strength in numbers? Also, Scorpion is just really powerful. 137. Havok can heal almost any injury. He keeps his jaw that way to be more intimidating. 139. Smoke didn't know they were captured, and he probably doesn't have the ability to destroy the Soul Stealers. 140. A character being a hypocrite is not a sin of a story. 144. This but unironically. 145. The fact that he has lived a million lifetimes and never saw something like this is what disturbs him. He should know about something like this, but he didn't. 146. The Soul Stealers are active, genius. Also, the crisis is not averted as long as Damashi is out there. 148. Obviously there are also soldiers in front of the carriage. Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That's something we’re supposed to learn as babies. 152. Lui Kang, Raiden, Sindel, Mileena, Syzoth, Baraka, Tanya, and Smoke. All quite different from the old timeline. 154. Outworld started a war with Earthrealm, obviously people have already died. No main characters, but they're not the only people that exist. 156. The amulet is an evil object. Liu Kang wouldn't want to use it, or he might be corrupted. 157. It's a covert mission. 158. You assume the Soul Stealers have a very limited range. 161. Jerrod still helps the heroes, even if you don't control him. 162. I imagine they'd notice Ermac having a different face. 163. Shang Tsung is established to just be that petty. And he recruited non-Titan Shang because he needed him to turn the realms against each other and assemble the Dragon Army, while Titan Shang was busy preparing his own timeline for war. 164. Better to use souls from the timeline you're invading rather than use your own people that can fight for you. 167. It comes up again in Sindel's arcade ending. 168. He probably plans to, but that's not the point. He needed a force already in Liu Kang’s timeline. 169. It sounds like they can do practically anything with this series now. Sky’s the limit. 172. No he hasn't. Almost everything bad that's happened has been due to Titan Shang Tsung’s meddling. 174. Conquer easily? That was never established. But magic can level the playing field. 177. Smoke still disrupts vision, even if it doesn't irritate eyes. 180. Just because the titans kept their powers, doesn't mean they obsessed over creating a perfect timeline like Kronika did. 182. That's true. And also not a sin. 183. Yes? That's what learning means? What The hell are you trying to say? 186. The same reason that there's a Shang Tsung in Liu Kang's timeline. When Titan Shang Tsung restarted time, a new Liu Kang was created. This is basic stuff. 188. There are other characters present at the battle, they're just not playable. 189. Pretty small army. And Liu Kang obviously avoided the timelines run by evil people. 190. Those are clearly two different Mime Johnny Cages. 191. Same soul? No, they're different people, even if they look the same. This is very basic multiverse stuff. 194. Liu Kang teleported them out too. 196. They murdered countless people. Saving the world doesn't change that fact. They deserve to be in prison. 197. In Scorpion’s arcade ending, we find out he named the clan after his childhood friend/love interest. 199. No, Raiden and Johnny Cage have quite different lives. And it doesn't matter anyway, because their lives are still different than they were at the beginning of the game. 201. Titan Havok obviously did not miss the battle, since he directly talks about how great it was. Dartigan's sins: 112

Is it me or every sin maker except for Christhan Maracle cannot decide either game should explain them all the stuff or they are smart enough to understand the plot by themselves. For example if game explain some shit this guy be like "we aren't stupid". Meanwhile this guy after 5 mins: "Why there are two liu kangs" 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

after playing Mortal Kombat 1's story mode, technically there's alot of dumb moments etc involving the characters. Like Madam Rai Chu survivng a fall from the upper deck even though the whole fight was a staged test. She was still an old lady and dont care how "tough" she is, a fall like that could really have hurt her badly lol

You spoke my mind the whole time, ESPECIALLY the end.

You know, that muscular farmer from the beginning who revealed Shang Tsung's snake oil salesman act I could've sworn was Garrus in disguise to just kick him around and further beat him down, but I ended up reading too much into it.

Been waiting for an upload 🙏

Yo this is the GREATEST video I’ve ever seen lmaooo and so accurate. ❤

Kuai Liang being Scorpion is the greatest sin of all. Fight me.

21:55 You also forgot to mention about how Geras somehow didn’t know about Quan Chi becoming a sorcerer, presumingly way way before Shang Tsung, because Shao already mentioned Quan Chi when confronting Sindel after the banquet

The biggest sin of all is the main villain being behind a paid wall like they went from a character that's not in the story to a side villain to main villain like Bruh

The mileena and tanya thing isn't new to this game. They set that up in a large portion of mileena's intro dialogues in MK11

I miss the times when games were about having fun and not a medium to pass a half-assed social agenda

1:37 I think Mileena was implied lesbian with the Tanya ending(s)? I only got 11 because Switch eShop sales XD

6:05 “..because someone considered Bo Rai Cho offensive.”💀😭🤣 We all know who that could be… Mrgstar321 😂

I’ve been waiting for this video for so long

No Joker (again) - 1000 Points

When I heard Shang Tsung and NFTs, I immediately had a grin on my face xD

Mileena and tanya been messing around for almost a decade now this isn’t new

It has begun is kind of an iconic line

Overall good video but there are a few bad points. The reason for Scorpion naming his clan the Shirai Ryu is explained in his ending, which is canon alongside all of the other tower endings. It's also weird to sin the game for including evil Liu Kang when Shang Tsung killed him, because Shang Tsung killed our Liu Kang who we follow in the story. You don't question Shang Tsung's presence in Liu Kang's timeline, why question Liu's presence in Shang's?

This is the most forgiving roast video ever No disrespect But this game was a mockery of everything MK used to be Cmon dartigan u had alot of material . U went easy on this 1

Reptile in Assasins Creed: Mortal Kombat Shapeshifter. Sounds like a great one

The new tournament rules don't state that "Outworld gets seven fighters and Earthrealm just one", they state that "the hosting realm, which switches back and forth every time, gets seven fighters, and the other one gets only one, but this one knows everybody they will be fighting against in advance, while the other side gets no such information".

This franchise has suffered the same fate as the terminater franchise but the difference between the terminate franchise and the mortal Kombat franchise is that the terminater had one final nail to the coffin that killed the franchise which was terminater dark fate but this franchise is Gavin multiple simultaneous dark fates all at once.

51:48 That was actually explained in Scorpion's ending, he traveled to Japan and met his wife there, she is the one who named the clan, with a Japanese name

46:45 "These two aren't evil, they're just gay" I F*CKING LOST THERE LMAO

There is so much god damn misunderstanding in this video it's crazy, like did you listen and understand what the story was saying, honestly hard to watch

this goddamn Budget Cuts are a Sin!

Shang Tsung saying 'Let us revel in our good fortune" is also a direct quote from the intro to MK Deception.

Been waiting for dartigan🙏

The story started off fun then got stupid near the end.