An OK arcade port, let down by the lack of blood & gore.

User Rating: 6 | Mortal Kombat: Shinken Kourin Densetsu SNES
By smokerules123 | Review Date:
Mortal Kombat meets no introduction. Its one of the best fighting games out there, trying to tackle with Street Fighter II. Now comes to the ports. Sega said "If we don't include gore, the fans will hate us!" so they included gore. Nintendo? "Oh my. We can't have blood & gore." They didn't. Ok, you start the game & its just like the arcade game, with no blood. Like in the arcade game, you kill the CPU & fatality them until you get to Shang Tsung, then you kill him. Also, they had to change most of the fatalities & some other things:

-Sub-Zero now freezes the opponent & back punches the iced opponent & it breaks, instead of him ripping off the opponents head & spinal cord.

-Kano rips out nothing, rather than a red heart.

-Rayden electrocutes the opponent until it turns into dust, rather than blowing the opponents head off with electricity.

-Johnny Cage kicks the opponent in the stomach, rather than upper-cutting the opponents head off.

-The pit, like the Genesis & Amiga version, has no decapitated heads & bodies & blood.

-In Sub-Zero's ending, they had to replace the word "assissination" with "destruction", so it goes like "the destruction of Shang Tsung"

-They had to change the blood into grey sweat *ewww*

If you want an SNES Mortal Kombat game, go for MK II or MK 3 or UMK 3
If you want an MK 1 port with blood, stick with the Genesis/Sega CD or Game Gear, plus some others, or MORE notably, the arcade version.
Other than that, if you don't like blood with your MK, then this is for you

Good:
Just like the Arcade
The secret character Reptile is in it
As well as all the playable characters
The music is near-Arcade accurate
The graphics are at its best
Bad:
No Blood
Most of the fatalities changed :-(

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