The lighting in MK:DA was actually very well done in my opinion. It may seem dark but it's very well done. Kind of a neat thing to see what I mean is to like go into training mode and walk around the stage. When you do you should see how the light on the fighters changes based on where they are.

The lighting in MK:DA is fine.

sometimes it seems that the shadows on the characters does not fit with the rest of the level- particularly for the indoors levels. There seems to be always ~45 deg from vertical projected hard shadows for the characters.

Yah, the lighting is really nice, stylisticlly - uh, yeaaahhhh....

Anywho, I loved the atmosphere in DA. it was one of the few things that kept me playing past a couple of weeks.