of the 3D era, Bo Rai Cho, Kenshi, Quan Chi, Sareena, Havik and maybe Shujinko, Frost and Nitara deserve another shot in an MK game. If they don't add at least 2 or 3 MK4-MKA characters in the game I will be disappointed.

God damn it. No Kenshi sucks. They better not give his spot to Rain or Stryker.

Man I really like Kenshi. He is my gave outta the new era of MK games. I hope they put him in.

And actually I'm a big fan of Reiko and Drahmin. But nobody seems to like either. Actually I think there are more fans of drahmin than reiko.

Quan Chi needs to be in this game in some type of form. He is the greatest MK villain hands down.

It depends on how many characters they want to put in this game. This might be only my opinion but I want to see Goro in the game as well. As Shang Tsungs body guard again.

Kenshi is uninspired and unoriginal. He looks like Jean Grey's boyfriend with a blindfold on. His alt karate gi costume is one of the worst designs I've seen in MK since the freak show that was MK3 to MK Trilogy. So he's Zatoichi, great. They would've come up with a more original blind fighter because the blind samurai gimmick has been run to the ground too many times already. You want a samurai character, just put an urban samurai in there and get rid of the swordsman with cataract shit.

Kenshi's story is also not interesting. He came from a culture that share European and Asian traits, really? I could care less if his blindness came from contracting syphilis or the clap.

He shares the same moves with Scorpion in MKDA. He's a character I would gladly not see in any future MK installments along with the other rejects: Sindel, Drahmin, Quan Chi, Kira, Bo Rai Cho (I kinda like Bo but he's too fucked up in the design dept.) etc.

Make the blind fighter, a broadsword wielding warrior for a change with his fighting style rooted in Wu-shu or some other Chinese weapons based martial art. Kenshi may look cool to others but to me, he's just a boring waste of memory space. Give his slot to a more deserving character like Ermac or some other popular but less obvious tribute character (for example, I think Uma Thurman's character in Kill Bill, "the Bride" dressed in Bruce Lee's Game of Death get-up, would make a great tribute character in MK like Liu Kang or Johnny Cage.

Well an interview recently said that this game will feature the longest story mode of any MK game so far and the longest story mode of any fighting game in history


I wouldnt be surprised if in a couple of months a new trailer is released and its exactly like the first one but has all MK4 - MKA levels and characters

I'm casting my support for Kenshi. He, Quan Chi, Sareena, Li Mei, Nitara, and Fujin were the character from the 3D era I felt were interesting.

Kenshi in particular was just fun to use because, c'mon, it's great mocking people after a match with "you just got beaten up by a blind guy". Wasn't so fond of his telekinesis stuff though. That's Ermac's thing.

I think they'll just stick with characters from the first three games and probably add some of the other ones later.

That being said I hope Daegon AND Kenshi fall off that bridge they're fighting on and die.

I agree.

Your crazy if you think Kenshi is uninspired.

Why are there so many Nitara fans? She hasn't really added anything to the Mk universe. Shes just a space filler

So is Kenshi. He just wasn't as bad as the stuff we got around MKDA so people seem to see him as being actually good.

Kenshi is awesome. He had great visual appeal, was quite competent and competitive in combat, and had a good, if not altogether original, background story hunting down Shang Tsung for revenge and redemption.

As much as I love Kenshi, and i DO love Kenshi, I think he'd be a more fun and interesting character if he was rid of the tele-moves and just given a whole crap load of amazing sword moves like throwing his sword into someones stomach and then ripping it back out.

Hm, I wonder how Kenshi would work in a weaponless MK game. I guess like Deathstroke in MKvsDCU.

I'm really confused about what part of reboot of the first 3 MK games is so confusing for people. With the possible exception of Quan Chi, I doubt we'll see ANYONE who wasn't present in the series as of 1996.

Well looking at what actually happened in the MK story and when, jsut because we diddnt see certain characters until MKD doesnt mean they werent around in MK1's timeframe.

We could verywell see Shujinko, Kenshi and Quan Chi. Although I doubt we will See Havik Or Hotaru, they are certainly possible also. Its not out of the question to see their stories implimented into the MK1-3 timeframe.

We seen them make Kung Lao present in MK1 by being disguised as a Temple Guard. easy and amkes sense. Anything can be flipped around this time. And we are forgetting, since this a Re-launch. They could just up and say Stryker or Noob Saibot Never existed (lol sorry MINION i swear thos were random choice). Its a re-telling so they can essentially change whatever they want.

I would expect we wont see a few characters from MK4-MKA era ever again.

Man i was hoping we'd see Reiko in this game bcuz i actually think he's pretty badass nd i wouldnt mind Hotaru either but he's not rly relevan to the story at all so were mostly gna see mk1-3 era characters and maybe like 3 mk4-mka era characters

I really think they'll do this with a lot of the characters. Especially the MKDA-MKA ones.

I think a lot of characters should be condensed/ combined. For example, instead of making Mavado the head of the Red Dragon, why not just have Kabal and Mavado be one man...have Mavado be before the attack, and have him be Kabal after?

Similarly, I think Shinnok and Onaga should be combined; Basically a combo of Shinnok's story/ place as the top baddie in MK with more of Onaga's look and feel...it always seemed dumb to have a fallen elder God look like a Court Jester.

IMAGINE:
in the Rebootverse
Kenshi is actually one of the warriors that makes up Ermac.

Care to explain on that?

i would love to see kenshi in but only if he doesn't steal any of ermacs moves..unless they were totally different.
His swordplay could be used for special moves.
But really it's just like the people that keep saying that they want frost in the game, while she might be a cool character we don't need 3 characters that have ice based attacks...really. The only way i'd want to see frost in the game is if sub-zero 2 dies.
btw.. i'd love to see fujin, seerina, reiko, quan chi, shinnock, and daegon in the game even if dlc.. I'm not sure about seerina's story line but any of these other characters could easily be placed into the story.
give sheeva and sindel the axe, and stryker as well.
sorry kabal fans but i'm not sure he'll be in cause IF shao khan never invades earthrealm than kabal never gets shot by shao khan's hit squad thus he has no reason to fight. (I used to main him so it sounds depressing but ooo well just a guess).

I would like to see Kenshi in 2D,best newcomer in MK-DA

Drahmin was an awesome character for sure. He may not be my type, but he was among one of the more creative types, not the same recycled crap you see in every fighter (Oh ninja in spandex! Oh Bruce Lee knock-off! Oh sassy half-naked Asian girl!). He was a skinless demon with an iron club fused to his hand (reminiscent of Baraka's blades fused in his arm), and the flies added a very very nice touch.

A lot of the MKDA character's had the best potential in my opinion, most of them weren't typical in a sense; referring to the original thread topic, Kenshi was a blind swordsmen with telekinetic abilities who also studied Tai Chi Quan. Creative-ish story, I never liked the OH REVENGE bits, but Kenshi's at least had an interesting twist to it. I think Kenshi is a great character and he's a keeper for sure. Wish I had thought of him.

Nitara was also one of my favorites (as my sig clearly demonstrates). Her original MKDA render looked so dark and wicked, and personally, I liked how she looked like she had some meat on her bones, it made her look more threatening and less like an anorexic school girl. I especially loved how her story in MKDA gave her a personality that was like nothing we've seen in MK before. A huge plot to free her entire realm just by careful manipulation and not breaking a single nail.

I personally only liked Mavado because he had the hookswords. I didn't like his story in MKDA, but Kabal made a come back in MK Deception and created future potential for Mavado.

That's one thing that Midway sometimes were able to grasp, but not all the time. It's easier to make an interesting story for a new character if you link them with a classic character. Kobra and Kira alone were bland and uninteresting, but throw in Kabal, a lovable classic, an suddenly you have an interesting sight. Or the MAIN stories of Dairou, Darrius, Hotaru and Havik, well, personally, I LOVED their story, the chaos vs order war was genius, but it's not something that stands out in MK Deception because it doesn't show a picture of Scorpion jumping through Onaga's abdominal cavity.

Wat. Calling Kenshi a space filler. Wat.

Well... technically, for this game, Kenshi doesn't really have a "spot".

They're using characters from MK1 - MK3. Kenshi did not appear in those games.

Stryker and Rain (counting Ultimate MK3) did. So it's far more likely (almost a given) that we'll see the two of them. Especially before Kenshi. If he's in at all it will definitely be as DLC and not as part of the main roster.


Don't get me wrong.. I actually like Kenshi alot. He's one of the better new characters to be introduced after MK 4.