Mortal Kombat: 10 Craziest Features We STILL Can't Believe

With Mortal Kombat: Deception, content was king. No longer relying on the classic arcade mode, the game stretched its legs into new avenues of entertainment. Among them was this bizarre little footnote in the annals of Mortal Kombat history.

Puzzle Kombat was a relatively simplistic block-matching game in the same vein of Tetris or Super Puzzle Fighter. Similar to the latter, each player would choose an avatar of one of the core Mortal Kombat characters, who had shrunken bodies with giant, Chibi-style heads.

Each side would attempt to match colors and build up super meters, with unique abilities tailored to each character. Scorpion could rearrange his opponent's blocks, while Kenshi could make their entire stack invisible for a brief period.

Curiously, despite the cute and cuddly re-design of the characters with some playful attacks between the two during the competitive round of brick-breaking, the game chose to keep some surprisingly gory fatalities when one of the players failed to keep their bricks from reaching the top.

While undeniably Mortal Kombat, the aesthetic was still a bit jarring.,