Not everyone is a hardcore fighting game fan, and Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm knows it.
"One of the things that we did to bridge the gap between the casual players and the hardcore players is the implementation of a tutorial mode — that’s something that fighting games haven’t really done before," said NetherRealm producer Hector Sanchez during a recent conference call with PlayStation Universe. "We don’t want to be one of those fighting games that just go out there and assume that people know how to play the game without walking them through it."
The studio crafted a deep tutorial mode that will teach casual players the basics of the Mortal Kombat — moving, blocking, attacking and so on — but will still offer hardcore players valuable lessons in the likes of juggle combos, the combo breaker system, resource management, the super meter system and more. To encourage players to play the tutorial, NetherRealm attached PlayStation Network trophies to the mode.
Prepare to be skooled — yes, that’s right, everything is kooler with a ‘k’ — when Mortal Kombat hits store shelves this coming Tuesday, April 19, in North America, and two days later, April 21, in Europe.