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Fun fact: The reason the game was renamed in France is because deception literally means disappointment in french.

The best storyline in the entire series

Love how these are both retrospectives on both the games and the story. Grew up through the Deadly Alliance-Armageddon era so this is so nostalgic.

Definitely one of the greatest and most entertaining MK games. Amazing Konquest mode. Great fatalities, music, arenas, stage transitions, death traps, mini games Chess and Puzzle kombats and Hara Kiris. Mileena, Jade and Tanya had the greatest costumes in Deception. This game introduced three unique, yet so criminally underrated characters: Ashrah, Havik and Hotaru.

Hara-kiris are such a brilliant addition to the MK series. It's a shame that they've never been utilized again.

I miss konquest mode from deception. It felt like it really helped flesh out the world. I appreciate all the work that goes into their story modes now but the exploration and the fact that they basically gave us several games in one really made this feel special.

If MK 1 turns out to be half as good as deception, than we’re in for a hell of game 🕺🏻

I really do not see why people dislike this game and Shujinko so much. this game and the Konquest mode were amazing Shujinko is a great character and fun to play as imo.

This game took the deadly alliance formula and perfected it. 2 fatalities for each character, returning classic characters, Onaga as the villain, konquest mode has the gamer traverse through out each realm. Time jumps in Konquest mode led to gold treasure chests that unlocked new characters and alternative customes. Also the select character music is a banger

Im grateful for you doing vids on these on games idk why people today think the 3D games were huge failures when they really revived the series

Been having a horrible weekend in my personal life. This upload was a nice break from feeling. I loved the chess mode on this game.

I really hope Onaga comes back in MK 1. Imagine how he would look in current-gen graphics 🤤🤤

I poured hours into the Konquest mode looking for Liu Kang. I had the Game Cube version so I had Goro and Shao Khan and they were pretty fun. My personal favorites to use in chess kombat.😁 This one scratched an itch that had been there since the 95 movie for me. Getting to explore and get lost in the MK worlds.

I remember playing deception so much as a kid. It's always pissed me off that I went through all that shit just to help out the bad guy lol

Mortal Kombat will never again be as cool, mystical, and dark as MK Deception.

MK-Deception is easily one of the best Mortal Kombat games in general cause of how unique it is entertaining wise aside from MK-Trilogy

My all-time favorite MK game ever. I played it for 2 years straight. Endless amount of things to do. The Conquest mode alone took me forever to complete.

Favourite mortal kombat of all time

Can you imagine the sound of the souls leaving the temple when it was destroyed?? Deadly alliance had a creepy sound effect with the souls flying in the temple

Watching this made me realize what a complete game Deception really was. Man how times have changed. 😅 Excellent video!!

Deception was soooo good!

Best game in the series imo

In my opinion midway should have keep shujinko as the protagonist in the next game instead of introducing taven.

Chess Kombat really is a whole new game on it own. I'd do unhealthy things that I am not allowed to discuss if it meant the return of chess kombat in a modern title

Konquest was just insane. I wish they would go back go an semi open world style like this again

Deception was great because it was the first time the “good guys “ didnt win in mortal kombat . There was also a evil far greater then what he had seen with the previous villians .

When it came to mk deceptions overall, favorite 3D era when I was just fifteen years old. After deadly alliance I had to know how it concluded… I was not disappointed and I was terrified when Onaga just walked right in. That feeling of “ oh my god… who can even slay this guy if not these guys?!! “ this was pure desperation and they fn nailed it. Jon quest mode was just joy for it answered many questions for me, but for me if I had just admit enjoying new characters it have to be Havok cause of how he just gives off a unsettling feeling that he will just do what he damn well anything he wants. Armageddon sadly disappointed me. I felt nothing for that conclusion, and worse off it was also midways last chance before bankruptcy.

Onaga is one of the best Bosses in the entire series

This was when they were really in their bag. The intro, konquest, chess Kombat. I still haven’t seen a fighting game made with this amount of content

This was the game that introduced me to the mortal kombat universe absolute beast

my absolute favorite thing about Deception was Konquest mode. We would always hear and have art for the Realms but I couldn't IMAGINE it. Even in Shaolin Monk it's hard to know for certain what it is like to be inside these realms. Although, with Konquest mode, it gave me EVERYTHING I wanted when it came to questions I had about each realm from civilians, where each main character lived, the atmosphere, etc… AND THE SIDE QUESTS!!!! i could rave about it forever !!

This was by far my favorite Mortal Kombat game. The konquest mode was so fun, and I loved customizing my move set. Thanks for the video!

Mannn I remember that intro cutscene being one of the coolest things I had ever seen as a kid, especially coming from the sprites of MK3. Would love to see MK return to the semi-open world Konquest mode along with the Krypt, chess and other fun modes. Deception had so much content (kontent?) and while I may be blinded by nostalgia some, I remember so much of that content being great! I remember running around punching random people in Konquet mode and just getting completely lost in the world and lore, ah good times

God do i remember Deception's conquest mode . One of the best i ever have seen or remember. Nothing tops it.

I love Deception so much. My teenhood was just playing Deception and watching the "MK Conquest" over and over again for what felt like a decade. I remember in MKX and 11 the characters kept making such a big deal about Shinnoks amulet and I was like "SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS!?" Up until that point it had just been "that random thing Quan Chi had on his belt in the Deception Intro Cinamatic." I also never knew any other MK fans and so this intro cinamatic was something that was exclusive to me and my little love of the game, so to read this comment section and see so many others who loved it is a little bit of a gift to my past self. Wow, what an era.

Onaga is such a Beast! I hope to see him in the latest MK1 game. In the meantime, I'm gonna enjoy Deception

This is my personal fav of the '00's MK games. I've spent hundreds of HOURS playing this sequel.

First MK I ever played and it is still my favorite today especially Komquest Mode

Greatest MK game of my childhood. Learned so much about the Mortal Kombat universe through this game. Spent hours and hours with this game.

Deadly Alliance and Deception were the absolute best. Better than now even, in my opinion, XL or 11

My favorite 3d mk game. Miss this one.

Deception to this day is my favorite Mortal Kombat game it's just so good which is saying a lot because shujinko is one of the lamest characters in MK history but freely exploring the realms was so good and the fatalities where my favorite of the whole series

By far my favorite Mortal Kombat game. I absolutely sucked at it when it first came out but still managed to beat it. I bust the game out every once in a while. I love puzzle and chess kombat and really wish they would bring them back

My favorite MK man.. puzzle kombat, chess kombat, konquest were my childhood. Also Havik is one of my favorite characters.

Many people actually miss the fact that right before Raiden detonated his attack, Quan chi runs off possibly surviving the blast but losing tge amulet in the process

for me, it was all about having Liu Kang playable in the 3d era and seeing Jade and Ermac make a comeback. Konquest was the best!

Still the best MK game IMO, most open world games nowadays aren’t a patch on Konquest mode.

I've had so much fun playing Konquest when I was 10 years old, even though I didn't understand English at all (It's not my native language) I just liked running around and exploring the world. Btw, the character design here is amazing, especially Kitana's, Mileena's, and Ermac's outfits, these are better than their outfits from recent MKs in my opinion.

I liked this game way more than I thought I would. I remember freshman year of college, me and my roommate always rushing back to the dorm after class to hop on to Konquest to find everything. GameFAQ’s was invaluable.

Konquest mode was so fun

I love this game. It made my whole childhood. I have so many memories of playing with my dad or my cousins. I remember when I figured out how to play konquest it felt like I did some secret glitch lol I was so pumped because I could never play cuz I never made a code lol. Good times and good memories this game holds a special place in my heart. Thank you for covering it. Nice video essay bro.

This was my favorite game. I still go back to it. The story was bomb

Thank you for making this. Beautifully done. Love this game. I sucked at the trilogy arcade games but when i finally had a console i played this game with my brother such fond memories

This is my favorite mk 3d era! The falling cliff stage was the iconic stage! This should come back

Thanks for all the work you put into this series. These videos have been awesome to watch. 👍

Honestly I feel like it’s a bit SUS that NRS always focuses on only the 2D era characters and costumes when they have a huge catalogue of 3D era costumes and characters they can use as well…like why has our boy the Dragon king 🐉 for example been sidelined for 3 games in a row it makes no sense to me. Like I respect the hard work they put for making the MK games but it's a nitpick I have with NRS.

this one right here🎉 Top tier. This game is so good that it's easy to ignore the imperfections it does have. This is my second favorite

Playing the Konquest mode as we speak. I have friends that come over and when I told them I had MKD on my emulator we've all been playing that a lot (we played it alot as kids). I've actually been tasked with playing the konquest mode to unlock more guys lol. I'm using old fashioned cheat websites. this is the most nostalgic MK for me.

Video games from back in the day had so much more content than they do now smh I miss the old days

Man, Deadly Alliance and Deception/Unchained got me into the franchise. Best character design imo. Great vid, btw.

To me this was the pinnacle of MK. The story, gameplat, new characters, world and the redesign for old characters were great. Vogal was a great successor to Tobias and while I still think Tobias is better since he seem to create story beyond what is just seen in the games, the 3D era had the advantage of story presentation.

Quan Chi escaped through a portal in the intro cutscene.

That was great! Can’t wait for the next one! These videos are very informative and brings lot of memories. Thank you a ton

I feel like mk’s story has lost its charm that DA or deception had. The ambiences, the boldness etc. Killing off those main characters were so good adding to tension to the story. After Armageddon mk has become more comical and inconsistent level of powers between the characters. Also the ambience, it was more darker and had medieval settings in DA and deception.

Mortal Kombat deception will forever and always be my number 1 video game

Deception is still my favorite MK Game of all time/best fighting game for me. Nothing will top it

I played a good anount of MK while i was young from family/friends owning the game but Deception was the first MK game i owned and man it was so amazing

The "open" world of Deception needs to return. Same with Wizard Chess, Mortal Kombat AND the Tetris Mortal Kombat. Hara Kiri ALSO needs to return. Absolutely awesome.

I think its a shame that the Trilogy is often thought of as MKDA-MKD-MKA, simply because of the gameplay style. The actual storyline begins with MK4 and concludes with MKD. MKA is just Trilogy 2, and I consider that story to be like a bonus chapter. If they eventually do an HD port, or a full-fledged remake, I really hope that MK4 is included. Otherwise, the entire impotus for MKDA will be lost on newer fans, and MKA is irrelevant to the Dragon King Trilogy. Sidebar: if they DID make that brand new game, I hope that when they get to the Armageddon portion of the story, the characters whove died up to that point don't just magically come back. They had to do that in MKA, because it was a standalone game, but you could absolutely keep the parts with characters like Sektor and Daegon, while cutting the parts that had characters like Onaga, Quan Chi, and Shujinko, who were canonically dead when Deception concluded.

your work is amazing, you deserve so much more recognition.

This game was what made me a hardcore MK fan for life. The extreme roster, stage transitions and trans style combos made my kid self feel so badass with movie like fights. I would sell a kidney for a remaster.

Glad you did this buddy. Now you have to keep doing this to MK 1! 😈

Another excellent video in the series keep it up These are just pure quality

Just got myself an sealed copy of the xbox port...my god i cant say enough how much i love this game ❤

Hey man your videos are incredible thank you so much for sharing this with us the community is so rich and the hype is building like crazy! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I just stumbled onto your videos. I've enjoyed watching your Mortal Kombat videos, now I'm going to check out your other videos.

Yo Don! About to watch. Keep this up man, these vids are legendary.

Easily my favorite and overall childhood game I loved playing the game as Scorpion (easily my favorite design alongside with Shredder-Zero) and being traumatized by the fatalities yes as a kid I was squeamish of lots of gore

It's crazy how much better the models from Midway 3D era look than MK9.

Love these videos!

This is so strange, but the edits in that intro are so good!

One of the Best. Thank you Ed Boon for this Game.

Did anyone else feel like the MK:DA, MKD, and MKA mirrored the release of MK1, MK2, and UMK3/MKT respectively by almost 10 years? It was like the next octave of the same idea in the next dimension of gaming, if that makes sense. MKDA felt like MK1 all over again; it revived the series and lore and aesthetic, etc. MK Deception fixed and rounded out the gameplay and added even more to what the first one built; it felt like the peak of this generation of games, as did MK2. MKA was like our Trilogy; it had everything and had a ton of compromise because of it lol. Just my thoughts! AWESOME content!

Amazing video, I am enjoying these so much 😊

I was so hyped for this!!!!!

amazing video on the greatest game ever made…thankyou for this!

The konquest mode itself could've been a game I'd love a mk the journey of shujinko giving us this story just more HD it was so amazing to see all the realms

Been waiting on this and i subbed maybe 5 days ago! I think im falling in love with another youtube channel... its been so long! 😂 but naw fr keep them coming!! Appreciate the content

Honestly, the DA -> Deception -> Armageddon trio are still my favorites of the 3D MK’s. I loved Decption’s Konquest and Puzzle Kombat, I just sucked at Chess Kombat 🤣 I can’t remember which one had Kart Kombat, but I would’ve bought an entire spinoff game based on that lol

5:50 that kick through the wall was to cool

I can’t wait for the next mortal kombat video. I used to play it so much on my grandma’s Mexican arcade which had a bunch of games. So fun

The secrets were the absolute best. Loved the story mode.

Another great episode 💯

literally unlocked my memory of playing through konquest and getting bamboozled by onaga

Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armageddon are the best trilogy in the entire series.

Deception was the best 3D game they made.

Deception was really a nice package.

This game was a lot of fun. I had some good times playing this with my younger brother on the original Xbox. If this game had one downfall, it was the roster. I applaud Midway for at least trying to introduce new characters, but the fact is there were too many bland, throwaway characters that were quickly forgotten. Dark Raiden was awesome though.

Can you give us more videos like this. First time here going to subscribe, great job