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It also shows off each Black Dragon member with Kano taking the number one spot of course, he's the Black Dragon's most famous member. Hell he's probably the head honcho if most games like the NRS timeline are to be believed.

Each BD goon does something to show off their skills. Kano throws knives and raises the roof, Tremor pounds the earth like a dirty dwarf, No Face shows off his flamethrower hoping his senpai Girdeux notices him, Jarek tosses a tchotchke and Tasia sure is there. You'll notice a lack of Kabal who was also described as a former Black Dragon member (then new founder in Deception, ignore MK11 PLEASE).

And nice of them to include some decent artwork of them, too. Not sure if Tobias drew them but I guess if he did that's all he left us when he left Midway partway through development of this game.

#YouDontKnowJax
Midway logo first, of course.

You know how on bootup Mythologies had a scene-setting intro with narration and lore?

Well Special Forces had a pretty shit development cycle so the final product just goes "Nope lol" and gives you a goofy TV intro set to jazzy Blaxploitation music featuring Jax in all his badass glory. The backgrounds are also mega trippy visuals with the occasional MK logo and iconography as if saying "oh right this is mortal kombat innit"

Also I went over Jax's metal arms in an earlier post but by this point I'm confident not really putting SF as it is in any sort of timeline spot. Still watching this clues you in that you're in for a treat.

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Now before I forget, I did all this on good ol' Duckstation, currently the big boss of Playstation emulators, or at least for those with good PCs or Steam Decks. I had my trusty 8Bitdo Pro 2 controller on hand as well since it just plain feels good.

The default controls are alright but I felt like tinkering with them just a bit. Of course I also kept the game difficulty on defaults too, mostly since you can't beat the whole game on Easy mode.

Although there IS still a Turn button, a big point of contention in this game. Personally some sort of Lock On feature would probably go down better. But I guess when you're dead set on bolting UMK3's game engine onto a platformer, well.

The game uses passwords but you can save your game as well if you prefer which is always handy.