With Mortal Kombat X‘s story spanning some 25 years after the events of Mortal Kombat 9, it’s no wonder former Shaolin monk Kung Lao is looking a bit long in the tooth. It beats being dead.
Not that he was dead at the end of the last game or anything. Well, not that being dead at the end of the last game matters. Hey kids, it’s hat guy!
According to a translation of the January 2015 issue of Finnish game mag Pelaaja (ask for it in Finnish) over at TestYourMight.com, Kung Lao is the latest returning warrior to join the roster of Mortal Kombat X, following in the footsteps of that other Asian warrior who was famously killed in the series but came back as if nothing ever happened because it technically didn’t, or something. One day we’ll straighten all of this out. In the meantime…
Kung Lao, like all of the characters in the upcoming game, will have three styles for players to choose from — the spinning Tempest, hat-tossing Buzz Saw and magical hat manipulating Hat Trick. The latter two sound the same to me, but then I never was much of a Kung Lao.
When asked if Kung Lao would be getting a trailer, as had previous character reveals, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon replied with the following:
“@Tyren5000 @noobde Will there be a.trailer for kung lao. EB: Ooops… sorry about that. Here you go… pic.twitter.com/wtGcSKkJm2
— Ed Boon (@noobde) January 2, 2015
Other information gleaned from the translation includes a faction-based social online multiplayer feature and the return of the challenge tower, now with challenges that change on a regular, sometimes hourly basis. You should really go read TestYourMight‘s translation. They worked really hard on it.
So that brings the returning character roster to six — Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Quan Chi, Raiden, Kung Lao and Kano — seven if you count pre-order Goro, or nine if you count the bits of Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage that made it into their daughter, Cassie. Who else will make it in before all is said and done? I’m holding out for a wizened Jax with cybernetic replacement arms for legs.
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12 responses to “Kung Lao Appears In Mortal Kombat X As An Old Man With A Hat”
Smithers: “But he has a new hat!”
Has taken ages to announce another character, last was Quan Chi if I remember correctly, maybe they are just dragging it out now
Because fighting game developers have noticed that the average person is pretty hesitant on learning the matchups for 40 plus characters and are experimenting with less, more varied characters with selectable fighting styles.
Each character in Mortal Kombat has 3 different styles that can change the matchup slightly, but still retain the overall character style.
Personally, I prefer the less is more approach. If they have less characters with more variation and substance, I say go for it.
What has any of that got to do with my post? I simply stated they have taken a while to announce a new fighter and might be dragging out the process now, where for the first several they announced were only a week or 2 apart.
Never mentioned anything about the smaller number of fighters, or fighting styles at all.
That is my point, there’s less fighters to announce.
And for those wondering, the release schedule is set for the 15th of April this year.
Nothing wrong with being dead – it didn’t stop zombie Liu Kang!
Or Scorpion for that matter.
Or Sindel.
I guess there are plenty of characters that are technically dead in the MK universe…Ermac (he’s made up of many souls of the dead), Noob Saibot (he’s a wraith), Drahmin and Moloch (they are demons), Nitara (she’s a vampire), Meat (he’s basically a corpse), I guess Raiden and Fujin aren’t technically alive either (as they are gods) and I’m pretty sure Johnny Cage has died and been resurrected a couple of times too. And are Cyrax and Sektor considered alive or dead?
But Scorpion is the original undead 🙂
Scorpion was undead before it was cool.