#1094 Mortal Kombat Deception (PS2) Hidden Characters (7/11): Tanya playthrough.

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Published on October 11, 2019 6:08:24 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYC-ZPod4ak

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Mortal Kombat: Deception (2004)

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A playthrough of the hidden character Tanya in the PS2 version of Midway’s/Netherrealm’s Mortal Kombat Deception.

Tanya returns from MK4, this time as a hidden character. Literally no one asked for this. Well, maybe someone did, I don’t know. To me she always encapsulated MK4’s teething pains; attempting to be a sort-of replacement for something else (in this case, the female ninjas), without ending up much of anything as a result. Indeed, Tanya this time actually appears to be a mismatch of different styles and moves of characters from MKDA. In what way? Well, for a start she’s gained Reptile’s invisibility move. What else? Well, she’s inherited Nitara’s splits-kick move, as well as Blaze/Mokap’s generic fireball.

On the whole, Tanya is extremely dull. Her combos aren’t very exciting, her special moves are all taken from elsewhere, and everything about her seems pretty phony and generic. Hell, even her ending is insanely generic; replace it with any other evil character and it would work just the same. I think that aerial fireball of hers might be a unique move, but I’m pretty sure it’s taken from somewhere else. Regardless, I’ve always found Tanya really boring, and that won’t change even in MKX. She seems like a generic placeholder character, created to fill a spot rather than to be a fully-fledged character. Everything points to that, certainly.

We’ll be seeing Tanya again though. At least the MK series is consistent with its hidden elements.

Up next, another less than interesting character.

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