@sharkyslegoandotherstuff same I hate the fact that it's a sickness now but glad to see Baraka back. However one of my favorite parts of his character was the pride he took in his race
With Li Mei, Tanya, and Darrius (cameo fighter). This MK’s direction seems to be bringing back 3D era characters. I won’t be surprised if the final villain for this MK is Onaga.
Why? She already was in MKX, albeit unplayable. She was one of the most likely returns from the 3D era, hence why so many fans predicted her inclusion.
I'd put Li Mei under the potential for other 3D-era characters though like Havik, Frost, Hotaru, Kai and Drahmin. But she's the most interesting character revealed here
@@richardw1043 Khameleon is more interesting in my not so humble opinion. We know next to nothing about her, unlike Li Mei which has been featured before in several MK games, both playable and unplayable.
I don't know which of these designs I love the most. Lei Mei gets her own moveset after almost a full decade, Tanya looks amazing with the bostaff/flail, and even Baraka looks great with those fiery swords. This game has so much promise.
Li Mei looks awesome. Baraka too. Surprised Tanya only has her glowing eyes in what looks like a stance. Darrius being a kameo is surprising to say the least.
Tanya from the MK4, MK Deception and Armageddon to the MKX (her best version without a doubt) had brown skin, long, straight and simple hair and had Arab/Egyptian features and the appearance of an woman between 25 and 30 years old and with a voice that sounds very young and attractive, and is a thousand times better than the new version, now they made her full wakanda with a look of a 60-year-old veteran.
Its the spirit of age i guess....and Its another different time line....but her look is still egyptian from her outfit, and skin and hairstyle is african, but Egypt is part of the African Continent (and the Asian continent as well)...so why not.
@@charlesmannhighm635 still a different culture though. Africa is still a diverse continent with different cultures and backgrounds, Egyptians for example.
@@zerotodona1495Sure but their were Black Pharaoh's though as well as a Black population in the Kushite literally just south of Egypt with a similar culture.
Now we're getting more insight on the story of Liu Kang's timeline. Nice! And I love the rivalry between Li Mei and Tanya. Very different personalities on here and their powers and moves are so crisp. In addition, this also answers about Tarkatans. So it's a disease in this timeline and those Tarkatan are infections, including Baraka. Very interesting. Opens up an inquiry about who Baraka use to be and what his human form looked like in this timeline.
I'm guessing that baraka is the original infectee and is trying to infect others to create a new race. Would be pretty cool to finally see my boy get a big role
I've been waiting since MK Deception to see Darrius again. Even though he's only a kameo, I'm still happy to finally see a forgotten 3D Era character. Li Mei also looks awesome
that second baraka combo was pretty righteous. I loved the almost 100% combos you could do with him in the last game. I've always loved mortal Kombat since the 90s but baraka is the first character i ever took seriously and tried to master
Gotta be honest, I don’t like Tanya’s design in this game. She looked better in MKX, however, i am super excited that she’s in this game by default. Still a W
I'm really liking what I'm seeing here, this story should be fun and I love the twist in lore, especially the new take on Baraka and his species being diseased humans instead of separate monster warriors from Outworld.
@@anthonychilds3504 If you're talking about the time stamp a previous person gave me that ain't it. It looks more like the flying fists more than any other move probably but it's not. She's on the ground as she's doing it
I don’t think there is an official answer for Tanya’s ethnicity and even if she is canonically supposed to be black they could have tried harder to make some sort of resemblance to her past game counterparts. Plus I never even mentioned race in the first place lol.
Y’all don’t understand how happy I am Tanya is back. When I was 10, my step dad introduced me to Mk and I was happy to find someone who looked like me.
@@scaryperi3051 Yikes. Why be blatantly racist? I never claimed to have those things but I am black like she is so…why feel the need to play coy and nitpick? Especially mentioning hair type to further justify your point that should’ve never been made over my experience over loving a character.
@@BrutaIities Yet more evidence that the term 'racist' has lost all meaning. How was anything I said alluding to the claim that one race is inherently superior to another? What a straw man on your part! And no, she's not black or any other human ethnicity because she's not human, but Edenian. Human ethnicities do not apply to non-human species and/or characters. Now you know.
@@scaryperi3051 She’s black and it’s been confirmed so I won’t argue with you when it can easily be searched. Secondly, why feel the need to make the comment in the first place and try to nitpick over my childhood experience? You’ve failed to answer that.
I would like to see Dairou again in mk but I would like to see him as a Japanese samurai as planned from the beginning... Dairou has a lot of potential, he just needs a good moveset inspired by the samurai from anime and video games. Dairou deserves a good redesign and I insist that Dairou would look perfect as a Japanese samurai in the new mk12
Awesome to see Li Mei, Tanya and Baraka back, all three are awesome! But I wished they would have sticked with Tanya's look from MK X, better than the one here.
I had to look for this video as someone posted a picture of Tanya in a Discord. I couldn't believe it. Looked like the most racist caricature of a black woman I've ever seen.
@@d0xys78 They couldn't have picked a black woman with a pretty face for the face model? You sound more racist by implying this is the best looking black woman they could find.
How glad I am to see Tanya! I buy the game just for the sake of it. And I'm a little disappointed with her new design, something more from the Amazons, forest witches, like in the first game where she appeared. But I fell in love with her MK10 design so much that I'm saddened by this new way
@@RonsquaremyIt's not Tanya: the weapon has changed, the looks has changed, the physical attributes have changed, even her storyline apparently has changed... I understand what a "reboot" is but she looks more like she was reborn.
Can't wait to see reptile! I wonder how they're gonna have his character look like whether it'll be more human like or reptilian like, I also wonder how they're gonna implement him into the story!
Reptile should be like classic MK2 where he is a green ninja using a human mask and takes it off for fatality only, I remember that was so impacting when he was introduced in the franchise.
@@deathmanuI do like it when his reptilian anatomy is incorperate as much into his moveset as possible though. I would imagine you'd see his reptilian mouth if they were to give him a tongue attack or acid spit
From now on in the entire history of mk I hope that LIU KANG stays as the new protector God of the earth and that RAIDEN always stays as a human since those excellent characters so iconic in fighting games deserve this excellent development, evolution and improvement and not being pigeonholed or stagnant. In addition, the public that grew up playing the mk1 of the 90s feels more identified since LIU KANG and RAIDEN evolved together with them and from now on they have a new path to follow on their own. Also LIU KANG deserves his reward and RAIDEN deserves his freedom
@@charlesmannhighm635 yeah but North African differ a lot from other African nations by their looks, u can't tell that and Arabic character can become Chinese just because they're both technically Asian right?
I'M SO I LOVE WITH TANYA'S AFROCENTRIC DESIGN!!! As one of the few black female characters they are really leaning into her ethnic features!!! ❤️❤️😍😍😍😍. And I LOVE the twist with Melina and Baraka, it's like the equivalent of turning into a zombie, I LOVE IT!!!!
