Very nice. ^^

I admit, at first I was very sceptical about Kitana's looks as she looks more like an otherworldly fantasy princess and not a killer assassin like in she's supposed to in this timeline, however, she does look good indeed.

I like how her Fan Lift has that swirling wind lifting up the opponent. I've always associated Kitana's powers being associated with wind, so that's a nice touch. And also, her Square Wave Buttcrusher move is simply awesome! She doesn't punch the opponent, she uses her fans to make her dash forward in the air and basically uses her butt to smack the opponent down.

Overall, Kitana is indeed a cool character and still one of my favourites. I will definately use her alot along with Jade.

Thanks

her looks look fine to be honest, but i guess they changed that move it let me edit my post then. Also her mk3 costume is available for dlc for those who do not like her new look. I would preferred her mk2 costume downloadable aswell but i can't complain much.

Appearance Wise: I think she looks way more like the typical anime/video game version of a Kunoichi (female ninja) assassin then a "princess" or "harem girl". People keep saying that she doesn't look like an assassin just a harem girl but I don't know what they must mean by assassin? Like full body suit in black wearing a cloak of some kind?? Is that the ONLY thing you can wear to "look like an assassin." I mean other than the vaguely tiara style hairband and possibly the earrings she looks very similar to Mai Shiranui, Kasumi, and most other anime/video game fantasy Kunoichi. Same EXACT argument goes for Jade. They both look great. Don't get me wrong in the new concept art pics released I MUCH prefer the bottom left most one for Kitana as it is the most "classic" looking in terms of proximity to UMK3 but still updated because she has the long long braid instead of the boring bun. But second to that I like this look. I wish her ALT was more different than just a mask-less minorly tweaked variant of this one. Mask-less is good but having almost the same outfit is kinda lazy. Her retro-alt is pretty sweet though. I've never been a huge fan of the bun style hairdo but hey Kitana is so beautiful she makes damn near anything look sexy, lol. I hope the DLC costumes/fatalities are released for everyone soon after launch and aren't ridiculously expensive. I still want them all (particularly for the fatalities ESPECIALLY Scorpion's because god does he need it, lol) as much as I love their current looks. But yeah the female ninjas look like fantasy, sexy kunoichi to me but then again I'm a huge samurai/ninja/japanese history buff so I see them and say oh look a kunoichi most people that only look at or care about western stuff are like why she not look like 90's batigrl or catwoman (fully covered but skin tight and still sexy) with a cloak that covers her completely? lol.

Gameplay wise: I can't wait to play as Kitana as she has always been my favorite of the female cast. Followed very close by Jade and Sonya. I'm hoping she will be back to her full on, ultra dominant, goddess tier, somebody release a patch to tone this girl down MK2 glory. And if you didn't know yes they actually DID release an update patch for MK2 arcade games back in the day because Kitana was TOO good and was the only one with an infinite at the time. Long live Kitana.

You can't really give an in-depth of a character you've only seen in videos. I'm going to go ahead and move this to the MK 2011 forum.

Also you might wanna fix your HTML

This doesn't make any sense. I did exactly this with Jade, yet my thread was put into the Strategy Zone.

have no clue :p

anyways will update thread as soon as I get more info on moves and get more videos so stay tuned.

I'm not sure why yours was moved but I moved this one because it deals mostly with the aesthetics of Kitana's special attacks and doesn't really go in depth with it.

And my thread is about the same, but with Jade's moves, however, Mick-Lucifer moved my thread from this forum to the Strategy Zone, and when I IM'ed him about it, I never got any responses...

So that leaves me rather confused...

I guess you can probably IM another admin

That's what I did. ^^
Tony the Tiger told me that it belonged in Strategy Zone. So I assumed that's where it should be. But now that this thread has been moved to here, I'm getting all confused. XD

I guess i didn't talk to much about my opinion on her moves in depth and just bascially listed her moves. My other thread I was much more thorough, I know alot more about sub-zero and been using him for a long time since mk1

The reason the Sub-Zero thread wasn't moved is because Sub-Zero is available in the demo so people already have had a hands on with him. No one has played as Kitana so we can't really discuss her.

For now let's get back on topic and discuss Kitana's moves, not the moving of threads

fair point

back on tpic
anyways I really want to know what her second fatality is?

also do you think Kitana has an aggressive playstyle?

I hope they increased her power a bit. I know when I used to play as Kitana in MK 2 I could fire off some of her combos so quickly I was almost unstoppable. It was especially easy if you could corner your opponet against the screen. I know they made her combos less powerful in MKT afterwards.

I love her boots. Where can I get a pair?

a costume store or edenia :p

Kitana is an assassin, but she is also the princess of Outworld at this time.

Yet her looks in the first four games she was in (MK2, UMK3, MKT and MK Gold) didn't reflect her "princess" side. She wore her assassin suit. And since this MK is happening in that same timeline, she should wear something like it again. Mileena and Jade's new outfits reflects their original looks, where Kitana's outfit doesn't do a good job on doing so.

She might be a "princess of Outworld", but she was first and foremost an assassin working for Shao Kahn. Her job was to kill people, not to represent Outworld as an ambassador or be treated like royalty.

We don't know anything about her life in Outworld at this point. We got a crappy bio and a short ending and a tiny little sprite limited by the technology of the day :P For all we know she was like Princess Leia. Well versed in violence and fighting, but also skilled in diplomacy or politicking. From what we saw her do later, I would think she's also very intelligent and able at ruling.

I do think she should be wearing a different outfit but that's because I think this one looks lazy and dull as opposed to "too princessy". And her alternate I'm not a fan of....

But as much as some of us wish she was more assassin, it seems the developers have gone the other way now that they have a chance to actually go into detail.

Remember, this is a "re-imagining" of the first three games, NRS can change whatever they want, this time it seems Kitana is more princess of Outworld and a little less assassin, but she is still both.

Plus, Kitana's costumes were getting really old, she has pretty much had the same costume in every game. I said in the other thread, Kitana really needed something new. We have seen her assassin costumes in every game, so maybe NRS was like, lets give her a princess costume this time.

Did you guys read the leaked story mode script?

I have read the leaked story mode script, and that part of Kitana's role hasn't been "re-imagined". She still acts as Shao Kahn's assassin and is not treated like a princess at all. So that is no valid reason.

As said, Mileena's and Jade's outfits are re-designed versions of their classic outfits, and they look terrific and definately not old. They could have done the same with Kitana's outfit instead of her current outfit which I find rather unfitting to her at this point of the timeline. It would suit her alot better AFTER she had freed Edenia from Kahn's grasp.

It would suit her better, later but I can'r complain. I am really digging the current one.