#1119 Mortal Kombat Unchained (PSP) Exclusive Characters (3/4): Jax playthrough.
0A playthrough of the exclusive character Jax in Midway’s/Netherrealm’s Mortal Kombat Unchained.
As with Kitana, Jax’s inclusion here feels appropriate, and a better choice on the whole. It makes me wonder why they included Frost when they could have included someone like Sonya or Johnny Cage instead, but this was a weird era for MK, if I haven’t already gone into that enough already.
I talked before about balancing issues with Frost, but holy fuck is it apparent here with Jax. He just absolutely tears into opponents. Fucking obliterates them with ease. His combos are easy to perform, hit like a truck, knock back the opponent with each hit (which deals to easy death-trap wins), and in general just do substantial amounts of damage. He can easily tear through an opponent in a matter of seconds if he can get the hits off. His most damaging combo of all is one for his tonfa fighting style; (back+triangle, square, square, u+Square). While latter parts of this can be blocked, if the entire combo is unleashed it will do 35%. When most characters struggle to get above 20%. It’s insane, and turns Jax into a goddamn human-killing machine, a point which even his ending references. Everyone else falls, but Jax’s arms are obviously fuelled by rage because he beats the everloving shit out of a God, before impaling him with his own icon of power. It’s one of the most absurdly badass things I’ve ever seen in a fighting game, and goddamn if it doesn’t just encapsulate what Mortal Kombat really is.
As a returning character from Deadly Alliance, Jax’s special moves and his fatality return as well. The thing is though, like many characters in Deadly Alliance he suffers a real disconnect between his specials and his combos. There’s basically no reason to use the ground pound or the machine gun specials when close-combat is the name of the game, and especially when his Piston Punch hits harder, has an easier input and in general is just more useful. A bizarre disconnect, it must be said.
On the whole therefore, Jax is a goddamn badass here. Just brilliant.
Up next is the last exclusive character, who’s a fair bit more important this time around.
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