Getting punched in the face sucks. I had this inkling from the get-go in my behind-closed-doors Mortal Kombat 1 hands-on, when Liu Kang punched me in the face 10-15 times as I tried to remember the buttons from Mortal Kombat 11. Then I mixed it up again by being kicked several times in the face as I realized all of those old button combos aren't all that useful as Mortal Kombat 1 hasn’t just rebooted the lore of the franchise, but also how it plays.
Characters feel a little more sluggish in general, even the fastest fighters feeling somewhat unwieldy if you’re not throwing them into combos. Sub-Zero, a fighter I’ve been playing since Mortal Kombat Trilogy on PS1, feels trickier to use now even if firing ice balls is the same button combination and he can still cheese your opponents with a variety of bone-chilling hijinks.
