• Amazing story. It's really the only fictional story that I can think of that uses time travel antics in a way that I can follow.
• Equally amazing characters. My three favorites are Frog, Ayla and Robo! (Also my end game team, which I've never seen anyone else use before...) I don't think there's any characters that I dislike.
• And the soundtrack? Amazing. (Alright, I'll stop repeating myself.)
• The Kingdom of Zeal is my favorite video game area of all time. It's just so damn cool to explore!

• Some of the end game dungeons in the DS and Steam remakes are boring and repetative.

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• The characters are much more balanced and fun to use. Cyan's Bushido is finally worth using!
• Lots of fun sidequests and dungeons to complete. The end game is very fun and rewarding.
  
• It's difficult, but not TOO difficult. My regular team of Terra, Sabin, Mog and Gau were more than capable of taking down the majority of the bosses once I figured out the strategy behind the fight.
  
• The different outfits are so cute~ All the characters have modified default outfits and the sprite work is incredibly well done.
  
• Great translation.

• Some of the late game dungeons were too long and tedious.
• FUCK THAT RED DRAGON FIGHT

• The graphics are amazingly well done. I can't think of a single bad thing about the visuals. Plus, every character all the human characters are just really, really, really attractive. UNFAIR.
• I love Fujin!! Never thought that he would end up being my favorite character in the game but! I just adore him so much. The writers really did a great job with his character and I'm glad they made him and Raiden have vastly different personalities. It's a nice balance. This scene from Aftermath is my favorite moment in the story. Here's hoping he's in MK12!
  
• Despite coming back as a jobber villain, I'm very happy that Kabal's playable in MK11. He was my favorite character in MK9! I do miss his Hatsune Miku ponytails, oh well... I also prefer him being a good guy but it is his younger, Black Dragon self after all. (Well, the non-revenant version.)
  
• Jade's back!! Despite her... sudden relationship with Kotal, I'm glad she's in the game and better than ever. She's my favorite female character in the series. :)
  
• As usual, Nightwolf is a complete badass and I love his moments in Aftermath. It's great to get more backstory on him, too, and I really hope Grey Cloud is in MK12.
  
• I like Erron Black a lot, as I did in MKX, even though his new penchant for southern idioms is rather cliche.
  
• I'm glad that Scorpion and Sub Zero are still buddies. it makes shipping them easier ;)
  
• Sooo glad that Skarlet is her own character now! I mean, it sucks that she's pretty much just a tool used to serve Shao Kahn, but at least she has a personality this time! And I love her voice, I know that some people don't like it but I am certainly not one of them.
  
• For the most part, I like the majority of characters in the game. It's a pretty solid roster and the new characters are decent. The guest characters are cool, even though I never play as them.
  
• I LOVE exploring the Krypt! So, so much better than it was in MK9 and MK10. If you're wondering how I changed the player character in the second screenshot, I used the MK11Hook mod.
  
• The customization aspects are pretty cool...
• ... but some of the outfits are just amazing.
  
• I adore all the Friendships!! My three favorites Friendships are Fujin, Jade and Nightwolf.
  
  
• As someone who is garbage at fighting games, I really appeciate the option to have the AI fight most of the towers for you. Most of the best AI setups for the characters have them spamming the same move over and over again (hope you like the animation of Erron Black pouring acid on his opponent playing at least twice a minute!!) but it's preferable to having to repeat the fight over and over again because I can't land decent combos.
• I use NVIDIA Ansel to take some of my screenshots and I find it really fun to play around with the camera options to get unique looking screenshots. (The majority of my screenshots are just from my default Bandicam screenshot hotkey. You do have to adjust the Ansel options every time you load up the game and it's just easier to spam pressing the hotkey I have set up with Bandicam to get a good shot.) I do need to fix the anti-aliasing... spikyness (?), as you can see in the shots below.
  

• Not a fan of the premium currency, of course. Then again, you get it for free while completing towers and the tutorials and I haven't had to use it yet.
• I'm never sure if I like the story or not. Some parts are good, some are bad. The writing is pretty consistant, but then you get stupid changes to some characters, well, character...
• Speaking of characters, it was bullshit to see Dark Raiden literally fade away from the story. I suppose it could make sense lore wise, but it would've been cool to see more of him.
  
• I like Mileena a lot, but it's kinda obvious that the main reason she was DLC was because of all the backlash about her not being in the game. Well, maybe she was planned all along to be in the final DLC pack (was it the final one? idfk), who knows.
• I certainly hope the rumor about some developers developing PTSD from researching fatalities isn't true.

• The entire game requiring you to be online the whole time you're playing it. What the FUCK.
• Quite a few characters had retcons that did them no favors, Sindel being far and away the most obvious one. Here's a great post on /r/HobbyDrama about the drastic change to her character and backstory. I really liked Sindel pre, well, MK9 so it's a shame to see the writer's butcher her.
• Other characters that had weird retcons that I didn't like were Jade (her relationship with Kotal out of fucking nowhere, like whut???), Kabal (see below, holy shit), and MAYBE Erron Black if the writer's forgot that he's hundreds of years old and not just a random cowboy merc. I don't think he has any intros with Shang Tsung about giving him his extended life but then again Skarlet seems to hint at the fact that he's more than what he seems? ("Does Kotal understand what you are?") Who fucking knows.
• Kabal's stupid fucking ladder ending was so fucking bad that I just have to mention it. Here you go. (I love how fucking BORED he sounds, though.) Okay, so, his character ladder mentions that he has a crush on Sareena but that's it. Literally. Like Jade and Kotal, their relationship came out of fucking nowhere but at least those two had moments in the story together. It's so fucking weird. (The fact that I ship him and Stryker is not the source of my ire, I swear it.) And he also wants to raise a family? Shut the fuck up. I heard a theory that his ending was actually supposed to be Noob Saibot's ending, which would make more sense when it came to Sareena's appearance. Plus it doesn't even look like Kabal - but then ago, it doesn't look like Bi-Han either. Whatever. I fucking hate this ending so much. I don't even like the weird ass Bichon Frise dog that Sareena is holding. Why does he have a fucking TANK AND BATTLESHIP IN HIS FRONT YARD?! Thank GOD the ladder endings are not canon. Oh, and for comparision, here's his MK9 ending, which is MUCH BETTER. (Holy shit, I NEVER noticed that his respirator is actually deattached and broken in the gameplay before the ending starts!)
• Sonya's VA... oof. Just oof. I think she actually sounded the worst during her own story mode chapter! But at least she's not as bad as that Sub Zero skin VA...

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• The battle system was simple but fun. It was nice having Pluto as overpowered as she was in the anime/manga and I enjoyed having my favorite senshi, Sailor Jupiter, being a powerhouse as well. I think my end game party was Moon, Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn and Venus.
• I adore the sprite work done in this game!
  
• The fan translation was pretty good, although I forget which one I used.
• Makoto: "I'm going to Canada."

• i didn't get all the puzzle pieces lol, i think i was two or three away from completing it
• The story was nothing special but not terrible either.

• Mercury's solo boss, however, was TERRIBLE. There's a patch here that makes the fight easier and while I didn't use it, I wish that I did.
• The main part of town was annoying to navigate at the beginning of the game and I got lost more than once.

These will be for the PSP and PC versions. Obviously some, like the voice acting, will only apply to the PC port. All of the screenshots are from my first Reborn playthrough.

• i love lans omg~ He's tied with Terra from FFVI for my favorite video game character ever. The updated script suited him much more than most of the other characters. I love the fact that he has such courage and yet will admit to feeling fear before a battle - when I saw the music box scene (second screenshot) for the first time in the PSX version I was blown away by his humility. Every single scene with him in it is so well done. It's just a shame that CODA 3 is such a chore to get to...
  
• Fantastic story. I know the different alliances can be confusing to new players, but if you're not sure about who's who, read the Warren Report. The Law (lol i typed "Lans" at first) route is my favorite way to play the game.
• The voice acting ranged from 'incredible' (Denam, Catiua and Ozma would be my top three) to 'good but doesn't fit the character' (Arycelle...).
  

• I'm still up in the air about the "random buff cards" aspect that Reborn brought around. The animation and gathering of the cards just prolongs the battle by a lot but I suppose it could be helpful to newer players.
• They nerfed the Paladin class. >( I don't care though, Lans is getting all my stat boosting charms and food regardless!!
• this is 1000% saltiness on my part but wtf isn't ob64 taking place around the same time?? and yet there's no mention of palatinus at all. Then again, Valeria is quite a long way from Palatinus if I recall correctly. BUT SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WOULD'VE BEEN NICE!! I think the closest thing to a nod at OB64 would be Lans mentioning the hero of Xenobia travelling to a faraway land at the end of CODA 3.

• My main complaint with the game is the extremely tedious quests you have to do in order to unlock everything. Mostly having to complete the Palace of the Dead, a 100+ floor dungeon, more than once if you want to see all the cutscenes. The Shaman sidequest took me fucking forever to complete as well. Using the AI to fight for you sounds good at first but when it comes to the PotD and the tiles that your characters can fall down to their permadeath... well, I don't recommend using the AI for those maps.