When Mortal Kombat X‘s announcement talked of characters having variants which play differently, I quietly hoped the man-puncher’s lightning-charged “thunder god” Raiden might get one with actual thunder powers. Perhaps he could clap loudly to stun opponents, set off car alarms to distract them, or scare dogs into panicking and biting people.
A new trailer introducing the variant system with Raiden as the example shows that while his three new flavours might all taste quite different, none make opponents blithely ignore him because they’ve counted five seconds between the flash and clap and are quite confident he’s a mile away.
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