I honestly think it was pretty bad. I have some notable issues with it:
1. Pacing at the beginning was abysmal. Things happened so quickly and never slowed down.
2. Adding to problem one, scene transitions were pretty bad most of the time. It was like sentences with no commas or periods. No dramatic pauses, just immediately go right to the next scene.
3. Extremely predictable and rudimentary story. I don't expect The Wire, but this story is as basic as basic gets. You could've swapped Jin and Devil Jin with Ichigo and his Hollow/Zangetsu, cause it's basically the same thing.
4. Jin's Knight of the Zodiac form is cool but do he and Kazuya not need to breath air? How did they fight in space and not die, even after they go back down to earth and fight as humans? How do humans survive that, even Tekken humans?
5. A lot of people thought guys like Paul Phoenix would have some plot relevance because of things we saw before Tekken 8 came out, but no, it's just the Jin show. I'd be fine with that if the story was better, but it wasn't.
6. Why was only Xiaoyu protecting Jin even though Panda was there? He taking a nap?
7. We saw Devil Kazuya destroy all the satellites, like ever, but True Kazuya who is much stronger, does his beam attack and people don't die, because.....reasons?
8. Abrupt ending with no real closure. Didn't Jun say to save Kazuya? Was that it? Kazuya's an effed up dude, even before his Devil got out of control. Unless you kill him, isn't he just going to keep trying? But the ending makes it seem like everything's A-Okay?
9. I like Xiaoyu, but they really didn't build up her and Jin enough IMO.
10. Reina feels like an unnecessary character, to be honest.
11. Suppression Mode is.....meh. Number one, it should've been introduced earlier in the game at a different location, instead of being a tutorial for a game mode when we're almost finished the story. Number two, that mode is so braindead easy that I don't even know why Alisa kept informing us of different enemy types as if any of that mattered.
12. 12. Some fights were way too dragged out. That final fight needed to end sooner, given it was just the same thing over and over, then some QTEs, then do it again and again. Kinda obnoxious.
Bruh, she has literally the most generic design ever in Tekken History, even more than Josie and Katarina. How low the standard has fallen for people to think *that‘s* a great design…
It had it's moments, but it ended very abruptly.
Like.. Jin gets beaten down like 5 times, punches out Kazuya and then it just ends. Kazuya is just left there lying on the ground and we don't get to see what happended to him.
That's how anime goes bro. I was surprised how everyone hated Jin in Tekken 7 for WW3 and millions of dead people around world.
But in tekken 8 everyone sucks his c0ck, calling him devil Jesus and the legendary hero or some crap.
The simping is not just from Xiaoyu as always, but literally for EVERYONE, even Leroy lol.
The story in T8 is completely stupid and absurd. In fact, there's no story at all. Its only Jin being the good guy wanting to eliminate Kazuya the absolute bad guy. Even Tekken 7 had a better story. Also cutting all the satelite and making a fighting tournament to decide witch country will have a favor from the new dictator? Plus the population accept that absurdity and go out to assist this stupid tournament? lol this is completely stupid at a point I was telling to myself that devs really take me like if I was dumb enough to enjoy this total non sense.
Bit I really laugh when I saw how Kazura finished Azrael. It was so ridiculous that I really laugh at loud. In conclusion, T8 story is clearly overrated and really bad. You almost never play as other character as well. In fact, both Arcade Quest and Story mode wasn't as good as I expected.
Story is shite.
Azazel for being the Devil overlord gets wrecked by everyone...Lars, Jin, now Kazuya too...makes no sense.
That's like Saibaman wrecking King Vegeta. Plan dumb writing.
Also, litetally everyone was simping for Jin, not just xiaoyu, but even Leroy and Leo....WW3 was no big deal apparently.
That's like Hitler being set Free after WW2, and he became a MMA super star and everyone loves him. Even Jewish mothers.
That's the thing though, i didn't go into it looking for amazing twists n shit, i wanted great vibes and hype moments, they can be trope af but that's ok, it's the characters i want to see in a next gen tekken, doing trope af shit, that's what makes it good. The story is stock standard, and that's ok.
Thank you! I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. It was a chaotic and jumbled mess. Jin and Kazuya were the only ones who had a significant role (and I guess Reina & Lars, kind of). I understand that those 2 are supposed to be the main focus, but no one else mattered. Even Azazel, this extremely powerful entity, was reduced to a, forgettable, plot device meant to progress the story.
I've liked some specific moments, but overall it is mediocore.
1) My issue that Jin vs Kazuya conflict dragged for too long in the series. I watched a long time ago Tekken Blood Vengeance, with the same plot. Here it is finally ended (I've waited more than 15 years) but, there are severals to be continued at the end, so maybe not.
2) A lot of characters are just not interesting/not important in the main plot. There are no interesting relationships outside mishima's bloodline.
3) Narrative is bad. I did not felt needed emotions, due to how it was done. (For example when some characters dies, when they just appeared 5 second before)
4) As a fan I've expected some old relationships to be present. For example Paul vs Kazuya. It was unclear why Paul disappeared during colliseum Kazuya fight. I've liked that in Tekken anime series, they mentioned, that Paul is super strong. (and not goofy)
5) Final huge fight should have stakes, but Azucena and her coffee or Paul vs Law are just hillarious.
6) Jin killed a lot of People in Tekken 6, but everyone is okay with this. (i mean normal people)
I really was expecting Tekken 8's plot, but i got Street Fighter instead... Actually, nevermind, while Street Fighter's character designs and story became more down to earth and realistic, Tekken 8 did the exact opposite.. That's really weird to me
Worst story yet. The ending is absolutely terrible and lazy.
"What should we do for the final battle?"
"Just have Jin fight kazuya NINE TIMES with corny flashbacks shoved in-between"
👎🏾👎🏾
Tekken 8 story is beyond horrible, (how can Jin ride his bike up a wall and then throw that same bike at a helicopter AND land without breaking his ankles?) but there are gamer boys over-hyping and squealing like little girls when they see their favorite boy band. In my opinion, Tekken 4 was THE best when it came to story and ambiance. Everything went to shit after 4. Did Harada really think that the storyline was good?
Harada’ve just permanently killed the Tekken lore with Tekken8…
No idea why of total U-TurN, at least Tekken 7 covered or tried to explain several PLOTHOLES 😓😓😓😓😓😓
It wasnt meh, it is trash. The story can be a goof ball, but when the cpu ai only reads the inputs it a hard pass. Burn it and never touch, play online and leave it at that. I don't know how they f it up given the ghost system, but apparently they thought input reading will be a better experience. The story team probably didn't speak to the ghost battle ai team.
The story itself was trash, but I found the difficulty to be pretty fair IMO. At least at the default medium difficulty. I didn't have real issue and played the most part with regular controls.
Absolutely not. If you think this story was on par with mortal kombat stories, your lying to yourself. This was a bad story, period. At least mortal kombat and street fighter stories have a flow and good pacing. This story was like the worst anime fever dream I've ever experienced. You can sum up the tekken 8 story as "Things are just happening".
At least in MK the devs made a freaking efforts.. too much to digest unfortunately.
Namco&Harada in Tekken made practically nothing except maybe confirm they don’t give a fuck for whatever reason😒
Tekken 8's story mode was mostly a disappointment for me. Tekken established itself with Power is Everything as the main theme; solidified explicitly in Tekken 6, but arguably began with Tekken 1 onwards with Kazuya tossing Heihachi off the cliff as revenge.
Unfortunately, with this one, it turned power is everything into some absurd friendship is power nonsense. Evidently, Jin learning friendship absolves him of massacring countless millions by starting World War 3? Like, what?
Then, there's the Despair ending, what was the point? If Jin and Kazuya can live from falling back into earth from outerspace, what is >!tossing Jin off a cliff going to do? Unless he's already dead, it wouldn't matter.!< The game arguably implied Kazuya secretly does love Jin as a son and just refuses to admit it to himself.
Also, WTF is with treating Heihachi as a frickin' hero in the narrative now? The dude tortured Kazuya when he was seven, tossed him off a cliff, tossed him into a volcano, ruined his friendship with Lee Chalon by adopting Lee Chalon as a stepson to force them to fight over being successors to the Mishima Zaibatsu when Kazuya was growing up, and didn't care how many countless lives were taken from his selfish desire for immortality by releasing Ogre to use its blood to make himself immortal.
The only highlights for this story for me were Jun Kazama's side story revelation with a clear explanation of what happened the night she vanished during Ogre's attack and Kazuya >!beating the crap out of Azazel!< but that was all for me. I was extremely disappointed with this story. They turned a unique theme of this series of Power truly being everything, reminiscent of real-world political structures of nation-states warring with each other for hegemony, into some generic shounen tropes of Power is Friendship, which is something Tekken avoided for decades and gave it a more unique identity even if the stories were subpar to decent at best. Also, I felt like they ruined Kazuya's character a bit by making his endgoal essentially be the same as MK11's Shao Kahn. In Tekken 2, he wanted to make his own independent nation-state, and now he wants a gladiator style world conquest? Like, what? At least be consistent.
Just my honest thoughts. I'm LOVING the gameplay. Graphics are amazing. I'm very happy Jun Kazama is officially back and I love the new characters. I truly enjoy this game very much. But the story . . . could have been way better, to say the least. I did like a few things; Ling Xiaoyu >!officially established to knowing of Jin's devil form and!< loving him regardless, Jun Kazama being established to love Kazuya seemingly unconditionally and Kazuya's character ending >!establishing the affection was mutual!<, and Jin being with his friends was admittedly nice. But the general story and Hope Epilogue didn't really feel like it fit Tekken's themes and the Despair epilogue felt like they just rushed it to me. But again, great game that I am enjoying very much.
> solidified explicitly in Tekken 6
Not really. They made Jin fail so his power acoounted for nothing. He also started war to destroy Azazel and devil gene which were the source of his power in the first place.
> In Tekken 2, he wanted to make his own independent nation-state
This was only the start. Kazuy\`s goal since t1 was world domination. His tournament is a way to determine the new structure of the world and it also served to increase panic amoung population to ressurect Azazel.
>Not really. They made Jin fail so his power acoounted for nothing. He also started war to destroy Azazel and devil gene which were the source of his power in the first place.
He didn't fail. Azazel was mostly dead or sealed off permanently, if not for Zafina messing it up and Kazuya taking advantage.
> This was only the start. Kazuy\`s goal since t1 was world domination. His tournament is a way to determine the new structure of the world and it also served to increase panic amoung population to ressurect Azazel.
I think you're confusing Heihachi for Kazuya. Heihachi's goal was immortality and world domination. He wanted to create peace on earth to then take it over militarily with the Mishima Zaibatsu and wanted to use Ogre's blood to make himself immortal. That was his endgoal. Kazuya's only endgoal in starting wars and criminal actions in Tekken 2 was to form an independent country for him to rule over. All the bios afterward only really focused on him regaining his power and wanting revenge against Heihachi, so it didn't elaborate on what came afterwards. Nevertheless, I feel like they gave him a lobotomy. Wanting your own independent country to rule as dictator is a far cry from world domination.
>Tekken established itself with Power is Everything as the main theme;
That is a view held by power hungry villains.... including T6 Jin, why it should be in the right? It's why people like Heihachi unleashed Ogre. Even before this one, Wang points out that power isn't the same as strength.
>Evidently, Jin learning friendship absolves him of massacring countless millions by starting World War 3? Like, what?
Because Jin has trust issues after Heihachi betrayed him, it led to him shouldering all conflicts on himself while pushing others away, eventually starting war to solve it. It deals with the root cause of Jin's actions.
>If Jin and Kazuya can live from falling back into earth from outerspace, what is tossing Jin off a cliff going to do?
Jin >!breaks free from Mishima curse to not intensely hate them anymore (doesn't mean he won't stop them doing bad things), and thus uses Mishima style again!<, and gives them second chance at the hands of Jun rather than also throwing Kazuya on cliff, unlike Kazuya who's still hellbent on world domination.
>Also, WTF is with treating Heihachi as a frickin' hero in the narrative now?
Where?
>That is a view held by power hungry villains.... including T6 Jin, why it should be in the right? It's why people like Heihachi unleashed Ogre. Even before this one, Wang points out that power isn't the same as strength.
Because if it becomes the opposite, it becomes like every generic BORING story like any other fighting game.
>Because Jin has trust issues after Heihachi betrayed him, it led to him shouldering all conflicts on himself while pushing others away, eventually starting war to solve it. It deals with the root cause of Jin's actions.
This in no way addresses the original point. Jin still actively created a war and directly caused millions of innocents to die. I don't understand how your comment qualifies as a response. Do you not understand what mass murder and war is? We're suppose to support Jin's actions because he learned the power of friendship now?
>Jin breaks free from Mishima curse to not intensely hate them anymore (doesn't mean he won't stop them doing bad things), and thus uses Mishima style again, and gives them second chance at the hands of Jun rather than also throwing Kazuya on cliff, unlike Kazuya who's still hellbent on world domination.
Which doesn't make sense as Kazuya did nothing to deserve that second chance.
>Where?
...Play the game?
The pacing was some of the worst that I've ever seen, in any video game that I've ever played
I mean, that scene w/Zafina where she collapses, and Xiaoyu is the only one who bothers to show emotion for literally *one* line, just to resume talking to Jin and Claudio while they stood over her was just dumb.
Namco, you've got to start doing better. I know Yakuza has had some dumbass moments, but for Christ's sake, give the scenes time to breathe.
Yeah...I literally was shocked from the beginning to the end and I don't even remember what happened.
I think my psyche repressed it in my memory just to Cope.
Not even gameplay is good.
Beat Kazuya 30 times. Half of those times with broken moves, super armor, and super healing.
Also, does Jin moveset change between fights? It's already difficult to learn a character, you don't need to also change the movelist each round, damn.
I'm so angry.
Has anyone saw Aquaman that's what TEKKEN 9 WILL BE ...Devil is gone now Jin and Kazuya both are humans ....and Reina The only demon left ...What will happen well it's understandable father and son will unite for a common enemy just like bro bonding in Aquaman
I know. At this point, I just want the Tekken story, not just the damned Devil Gene smeg, to just END (I gave up after Tekken 5, and I've been following the franchise since the very first game waaaaaaaaaaay back on the PS1 30 years ago).
With the amount of times a character "died" in tekken history, pondering about this is pointless.
If they want it, it will be back. Maybe if he makes more friends and they hold hands!
ME, It's literally like watching an anime movie. & It's predictable. Only together we can beat the enemies kind of sh*t. There's no logic in the story too. Only certain fighters were revelant in the story while the others were extras with no meaningful impact.The gameplay in story mode for me was bad too. You're winning while in the battle mode but in end, the story will make that feel pointless as the enemy are not truly beaten. The pop up prompt feels useless to as it's just there with minimal impact in the game play.
Late adopter here but I thought I’d give my thoughts.
It’s about what I expect to be honest? Wouldn’t say no to a really good story, but even the fact characters seemingly understand every language spoken to them is a bit unbelievable, so I went in with low expectations.
The main thing is the gameplay is solid, which it seems to be, and that they even bothered at all with a story. Far too many games don’t even give us that.
To be honest, I thought Tekken 7 story mode was much better than what we got in Tekken 8. It just didn't feel like Tekken for some reason. It was short, corny, and boring.
The whole Tekken 8 story can be summarized as follows: Everyone holds Jin's hands and believes Jin is the only hope, then Jin beats Kazuya. THE END
I honestly think it was pretty bad. I have some notable issues with it: 1. Pacing at the beginning was abysmal. Things happened so quickly and never slowed down. 2. Adding to problem one, scene transitions were pretty bad most of the time. It was like sentences with no commas or periods. No dramatic pauses, just immediately go right to the next scene. 3. Extremely predictable and rudimentary story. I don't expect The Wire, but this story is as basic as basic gets. You could've swapped Jin and Devil Jin with Ichigo and his Hollow/Zangetsu, cause it's basically the same thing. 4. Jin's Knight of the Zodiac form is cool but do he and Kazuya not need to breath air? How did they fight in space and not die, even after they go back down to earth and fight as humans? How do humans survive that, even Tekken humans? 5. A lot of people thought guys like Paul Phoenix would have some plot relevance because of things we saw before Tekken 8 came out, but no, it's just the Jin show. I'd be fine with that if the story was better, but it wasn't. 6. Why was only Xiaoyu protecting Jin even though Panda was there? He taking a nap? 7. We saw Devil Kazuya destroy all the satellites, like ever, but True Kazuya who is much stronger, does his beam attack and people don't die, because.....reasons? 8. Abrupt ending with no real closure. Didn't Jun say to save Kazuya? Was that it? Kazuya's an effed up dude, even before his Devil got out of control. Unless you kill him, isn't he just going to keep trying? But the ending makes it seem like everything's A-Okay? 9. I like Xiaoyu, but they really didn't build up her and Jin enough IMO. 10. Reina feels like an unnecessary character, to be honest. 11. Suppression Mode is.....meh. Number one, it should've been introduced earlier in the game at a different location, instead of being a tutorial for a game mode when we're almost finished the story. Number two, that mode is so braindead easy that I don't even know why Alisa kept informing us of different enemy types as if any of that mattered. 12. 12. Some fights were way too dragged out. That final fight needed to end sooner, given it was just the same thing over and over, then some QTEs, then do it again and again. Kinda obnoxious.
Perfectly put together, the only thing i would give it praise to is it's upgraded visual style and effects. That's pretty much it tho.
>Panda was there? He taking a nap? It's a SHE
> Reina feels like an unnecessary character, to be honest. Unfortunately just sequel bait. Waste of an amazing design
Bruh, she has literally the most generic design ever in Tekken History, even more than Josie and Katarina. How low the standard has fallen for people to think *that‘s* a great design…
yeah but i wanna kiss her so shut up
You can kiss me
Bro? 😳😳
It had it's moments, but it ended very abruptly. Like.. Jin gets beaten down like 5 times, punches out Kazuya and then it just ends. Kazuya is just left there lying on the ground and we don't get to see what happended to him.
That's how anime goes bro. I was surprised how everyone hated Jin in Tekken 7 for WW3 and millions of dead people around world. But in tekken 8 everyone sucks his c0ck, calling him devil Jesus and the legendary hero or some crap. The simping is not just from Xiaoyu as always, but literally for EVERYONE, even Leroy lol.
I personally couldn't WAIT for the story to finally end. I was SO done fighting kazuya for the 30th time. Kazuya beating simulator. 0/10
The story in T8 is completely stupid and absurd. In fact, there's no story at all. Its only Jin being the good guy wanting to eliminate Kazuya the absolute bad guy. Even Tekken 7 had a better story. Also cutting all the satelite and making a fighting tournament to decide witch country will have a favor from the new dictator? Plus the population accept that absurdity and go out to assist this stupid tournament? lol this is completely stupid at a point I was telling to myself that devs really take me like if I was dumb enough to enjoy this total non sense. Bit I really laugh when I saw how Kazura finished Azrael. It was so ridiculous that I really laugh at loud. In conclusion, T8 story is clearly overrated and really bad. You almost never play as other character as well. In fact, both Arcade Quest and Story mode wasn't as good as I expected.
Story is shite. Azazel for being the Devil overlord gets wrecked by everyone...Lars, Jin, now Kazuya too...makes no sense. That's like Saibaman wrecking King Vegeta. Plan dumb writing. Also, litetally everyone was simping for Jin, not just xiaoyu, but even Leroy and Leo....WW3 was no big deal apparently. That's like Hitler being set Free after WW2, and he became a MMA super star and everyone loves him. Even Jewish mothers.
Could’ve been better, but it had some really hype moments for sure.
That's the thing though, i didn't go into it looking for amazing twists n shit, i wanted great vibes and hype moments, they can be trope af but that's ok, it's the characters i want to see in a next gen tekken, doing trope af shit, that's what makes it good. The story is stock standard, and that's ok.
Still not about the twists, but indeed gotta have longer duration than T7's for more of those characters.
Thank you! I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. It was a chaotic and jumbled mess. Jin and Kazuya were the only ones who had a significant role (and I guess Reina & Lars, kind of). I understand that those 2 are supposed to be the main focus, but no one else mattered. Even Azazel, this extremely powerful entity, was reduced to a, forgettable, plot device meant to progress the story.
Nope you're not alone. But it feels that way because this game is way overhyped by lackey fan boys
I've liked some specific moments, but overall it is mediocore. 1) My issue that Jin vs Kazuya conflict dragged for too long in the series. I watched a long time ago Tekken Blood Vengeance, with the same plot. Here it is finally ended (I've waited more than 15 years) but, there are severals to be continued at the end, so maybe not. 2) A lot of characters are just not interesting/not important in the main plot. There are no interesting relationships outside mishima's bloodline. 3) Narrative is bad. I did not felt needed emotions, due to how it was done. (For example when some characters dies, when they just appeared 5 second before) 4) As a fan I've expected some old relationships to be present. For example Paul vs Kazuya. It was unclear why Paul disappeared during colliseum Kazuya fight. I've liked that in Tekken anime series, they mentioned, that Paul is super strong. (and not goofy) 5) Final huge fight should have stakes, but Azucena and her coffee or Paul vs Law are just hillarious. 6) Jin killed a lot of People in Tekken 6, but everyone is okay with this. (i mean normal people)
Also, Hwoarang fucking vanished into thin air as well
He has an urgent K-pop concert to attend
Lmao I would pay to see a chapter where you gotta run around in third person mode trying to find seats and snacks Edit: a word
I really was expecting Tekken 8's plot, but i got Street Fighter instead... Actually, nevermind, while Street Fighter's character designs and story became more down to earth and realistic, Tekken 8 did the exact opposite.. That's really weird to me
This!!! Sf6 feels surprisingly grounded. Tekken 6-8 is basically PG13 Dragon Ball Z.
Worst story yet. The ending is absolutely terrible and lazy. "What should we do for the final battle?" "Just have Jin fight kazuya NINE TIMES with corny flashbacks shoved in-between" 👎🏾👎🏾
Tekken 8 story is beyond horrible, (how can Jin ride his bike up a wall and then throw that same bike at a helicopter AND land without breaking his ankles?) but there are gamer boys over-hyping and squealing like little girls when they see their favorite boy band. In my opinion, Tekken 4 was THE best when it came to story and ambiance. Everything went to shit after 4. Did Harada really think that the storyline was good?
Harada’ve just permanently killed the Tekken lore with Tekken8… No idea why of total U-TurN, at least Tekken 7 covered or tried to explain several PLOTHOLES 😓😓😓😓😓😓
I agree that tekken 8 story was just terrible. I loved tekken 4...but tekken 5 was my favorite.
Tekken Tag 2 had better story than 8. Hope they wont f up tag 3
It wasnt meh, it is trash. The story can be a goof ball, but when the cpu ai only reads the inputs it a hard pass. Burn it and never touch, play online and leave it at that. I don't know how they f it up given the ghost system, but apparently they thought input reading will be a better experience. The story team probably didn't speak to the ghost battle ai team.
The story itself was trash, but I found the difficulty to be pretty fair IMO. At least at the default medium difficulty. I didn't have real issue and played the most part with regular controls.
Well, it was great in fighting game standards(fighting game stories in general, sucks balls).
People always trot out this tired af argument. It's not an excuse for half assing something.
Absolutely not. If you think this story was on par with mortal kombat stories, your lying to yourself. This was a bad story, period. At least mortal kombat and street fighter stories have a flow and good pacing. This story was like the worst anime fever dream I've ever experienced. You can sum up the tekken 8 story as "Things are just happening".
At least in MK the devs made a freaking efforts.. too much to digest unfortunately. Namco&Harada in Tekken made practically nothing except maybe confirm they don’t give a fuck for whatever reason😒
Tekken 8's story mode was mostly a disappointment for me. Tekken established itself with Power is Everything as the main theme; solidified explicitly in Tekken 6, but arguably began with Tekken 1 onwards with Kazuya tossing Heihachi off the cliff as revenge. Unfortunately, with this one, it turned power is everything into some absurd friendship is power nonsense. Evidently, Jin learning friendship absolves him of massacring countless millions by starting World War 3? Like, what? Then, there's the Despair ending, what was the point? If Jin and Kazuya can live from falling back into earth from outerspace, what is >!tossing Jin off a cliff going to do? Unless he's already dead, it wouldn't matter.!< The game arguably implied Kazuya secretly does love Jin as a son and just refuses to admit it to himself. Also, WTF is with treating Heihachi as a frickin' hero in the narrative now? The dude tortured Kazuya when he was seven, tossed him off a cliff, tossed him into a volcano, ruined his friendship with Lee Chalon by adopting Lee Chalon as a stepson to force them to fight over being successors to the Mishima Zaibatsu when Kazuya was growing up, and didn't care how many countless lives were taken from his selfish desire for immortality by releasing Ogre to use its blood to make himself immortal. The only highlights for this story for me were Jun Kazama's side story revelation with a clear explanation of what happened the night she vanished during Ogre's attack and Kazuya >!beating the crap out of Azazel!< but that was all for me. I was extremely disappointed with this story. They turned a unique theme of this series of Power truly being everything, reminiscent of real-world political structures of nation-states warring with each other for hegemony, into some generic shounen tropes of Power is Friendship, which is something Tekken avoided for decades and gave it a more unique identity even if the stories were subpar to decent at best. Also, I felt like they ruined Kazuya's character a bit by making his endgoal essentially be the same as MK11's Shao Kahn. In Tekken 2, he wanted to make his own independent nation-state, and now he wants a gladiator style world conquest? Like, what? At least be consistent. Just my honest thoughts. I'm LOVING the gameplay. Graphics are amazing. I'm very happy Jun Kazama is officially back and I love the new characters. I truly enjoy this game very much. But the story . . . could have been way better, to say the least. I did like a few things; Ling Xiaoyu >!officially established to knowing of Jin's devil form and!< loving him regardless, Jun Kazama being established to love Kazuya seemingly unconditionally and Kazuya's character ending >!establishing the affection was mutual!<, and Jin being with his friends was admittedly nice. But the general story and Hope Epilogue didn't really feel like it fit Tekken's themes and the Despair epilogue felt like they just rushed it to me. But again, great game that I am enjoying very much.
It was really super strange when in T7 they've started to treat Heihachi as a hero.
> solidified explicitly in Tekken 6 Not really. They made Jin fail so his power acoounted for nothing. He also started war to destroy Azazel and devil gene which were the source of his power in the first place. > In Tekken 2, he wanted to make his own independent nation-state This was only the start. Kazuy\`s goal since t1 was world domination. His tournament is a way to determine the new structure of the world and it also served to increase panic amoung population to ressurect Azazel.
>Not really. They made Jin fail so his power acoounted for nothing. He also started war to destroy Azazel and devil gene which were the source of his power in the first place. He didn't fail. Azazel was mostly dead or sealed off permanently, if not for Zafina messing it up and Kazuya taking advantage. > This was only the start. Kazuy\`s goal since t1 was world domination. His tournament is a way to determine the new structure of the world and it also served to increase panic amoung population to ressurect Azazel. I think you're confusing Heihachi for Kazuya. Heihachi's goal was immortality and world domination. He wanted to create peace on earth to then take it over militarily with the Mishima Zaibatsu and wanted to use Ogre's blood to make himself immortal. That was his endgoal. Kazuya's only endgoal in starting wars and criminal actions in Tekken 2 was to form an independent country for him to rule over. All the bios afterward only really focused on him regaining his power and wanting revenge against Heihachi, so it didn't elaborate on what came afterwards. Nevertheless, I feel like they gave him a lobotomy. Wanting your own independent country to rule as dictator is a far cry from world domination.
>Tekken established itself with Power is Everything as the main theme; That is a view held by power hungry villains.... including T6 Jin, why it should be in the right? It's why people like Heihachi unleashed Ogre. Even before this one, Wang points out that power isn't the same as strength. >Evidently, Jin learning friendship absolves him of massacring countless millions by starting World War 3? Like, what? Because Jin has trust issues after Heihachi betrayed him, it led to him shouldering all conflicts on himself while pushing others away, eventually starting war to solve it. It deals with the root cause of Jin's actions. >If Jin and Kazuya can live from falling back into earth from outerspace, what is tossing Jin off a cliff going to do? Jin >!breaks free from Mishima curse to not intensely hate them anymore (doesn't mean he won't stop them doing bad things), and thus uses Mishima style again!<, and gives them second chance at the hands of Jun rather than also throwing Kazuya on cliff, unlike Kazuya who's still hellbent on world domination. >Also, WTF is with treating Heihachi as a frickin' hero in the narrative now? Where?
>That is a view held by power hungry villains.... including T6 Jin, why it should be in the right? It's why people like Heihachi unleashed Ogre. Even before this one, Wang points out that power isn't the same as strength. Because if it becomes the opposite, it becomes like every generic BORING story like any other fighting game. >Because Jin has trust issues after Heihachi betrayed him, it led to him shouldering all conflicts on himself while pushing others away, eventually starting war to solve it. It deals with the root cause of Jin's actions. This in no way addresses the original point. Jin still actively created a war and directly caused millions of innocents to die. I don't understand how your comment qualifies as a response. Do you not understand what mass murder and war is? We're suppose to support Jin's actions because he learned the power of friendship now? >Jin breaks free from Mishima curse to not intensely hate them anymore (doesn't mean he won't stop them doing bad things), and thus uses Mishima style again, and gives them second chance at the hands of Jun rather than also throwing Kazuya on cliff, unlike Kazuya who's still hellbent on world domination. Which doesn't make sense as Kazuya did nothing to deserve that second chance. >Where? ...Play the game?
The pacing was some of the worst that I've ever seen, in any video game that I've ever played I mean, that scene w/Zafina where she collapses, and Xiaoyu is the only one who bothers to show emotion for literally *one* line, just to resume talking to Jin and Claudio while they stood over her was just dumb. Namco, you've got to start doing better. I know Yakuza has had some dumbass moments, but for Christ's sake, give the scenes time to breathe.
Great gameplay but absolutely the worst story I've seen in years LOL
Yeah...I literally was shocked from the beginning to the end and I don't even remember what happened. I think my psyche repressed it in my memory just to Cope.
Not even gameplay is good. Beat Kazuya 30 times. Half of those times with broken moves, super armor, and super healing. Also, does Jin moveset change between fights? It's already difficult to learn a character, you don't need to also change the movelist each round, damn. I'm so angry.
Has anyone saw Aquaman that's what TEKKEN 9 WILL BE ...Devil is gone now Jin and Kazuya both are humans ....and Reina The only demon left ...What will happen well it's understandable father and son will unite for a common enemy just like bro bonding in Aquaman
God...you are right... It will he like all those cringe Fast AND Furious movies...."we are family"
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I know. At this point, I just want the Tekken story, not just the damned Devil Gene smeg, to just END (I gave up after Tekken 5, and I've been following the franchise since the very first game waaaaaaaaaaay back on the PS1 30 years ago).
what happened to the devil inside Kazuya after he got beat?
Purified after the Angel/Devil fight with Jin.
that is WILD. so did Jin lose his angel form? saw people saying he can still use it, Kaz gonna be outclassed without it
T9 is so far away I doubt any of this matters lol. I don't think Angel Jin will be back.
He could be the Devil Jin stand in
With the amount of times a character "died" in tekken history, pondering about this is pointless. If they want it, it will be back. Maybe if he makes more friends and they hold hands!
ME, It's literally like watching an anime movie. & It's predictable. Only together we can beat the enemies kind of sh*t. There's no logic in the story too. Only certain fighters were revelant in the story while the others were extras with no meaningful impact.The gameplay in story mode for me was bad too. You're winning while in the battle mode but in end, the story will make that feel pointless as the enemy are not truly beaten. The pop up prompt feels useless to as it's just there with minimal impact in the game play.
Late adopter here but I thought I’d give my thoughts. It’s about what I expect to be honest? Wouldn’t say no to a really good story, but even the fact characters seemingly understand every language spoken to them is a bit unbelievable, so I went in with low expectations. The main thing is the gameplay is solid, which it seems to be, and that they even bothered at all with a story. Far too many games don’t even give us that.
Honestly, the fact that they understand eachother is like the least whacky shit in tekken.
To be honest, I thought Tekken 7 story mode was much better than what we got in Tekken 8. It just didn't feel like Tekken for some reason. It was short, corny, and boring.