Mortal Kombat Master Post

 

Here are all the MK links in one place and a tier list now that I (completely) finished the series. What a completely bonkers series.

Mortal Kombat (Mortal Monday Retrospective, Arcade/SNES/Genesis/Master System)

Mortal Kombat II (SNES)

Mortal Kombat III + Ultimate Mortal Kombat III (SNES)

Mortal Kombat Trilogy (N64 + PS1)

Portable Mortal Kombats (MK1+2 on Game Boy and Game Gear)

Portable Mortal Kombats II (MK3 on Game Boy, MK4 on Game Boy Color, Deadly Alliance and MK Advance on Game Boy Advance)

Mortal Kombat: Special Forces (PS1)

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (N64 and PS1)

Mortal Kombat IV (N64)

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (PS2)

Mortal Kombat: Deception (PS2)

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (PS2)

Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (PS2)

Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe (PS3)

Mortal Kombat IX (PS3) - Part 1, Part 2

Mortal Kombat X (PS4)

Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4)

Mortal Kombat 11 - Aftermath DLC (PS4)

Mortal Kombat 1 (PS5) - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Mortal Kombat 1 - Khaos Reigns DLC (PS5)

The Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection Platinum Trophy. The hardest thing in the Kollection was beating Noob Saibot in MK3, since he's triggered by code and isn't subject to the same difficulty changes as everything else (nor can you rewind). So no easy-fying him, no cheating. Just have to take him down straight up. Most of the rest is pretty simple to get.

The Tier List - This is a really evenly-distributed series. The only really bad games are the spinoffs, and it went through kind of a "Mid" era in the middle there (I may be selling MK Gold short). The cheating computer in UMK3 and MKT really messed up what should have been two of the better ones. Everything in the top two tiers is really good and worth playing. I'd give the overall duke to MK2 for the early series and MK11 for the later series, though MK9 and Shaolin Monks are both really excellent recreations of the beginning of the series.