Reviews of tekken 7
When you are nearing the end of your health bar, you essentially are given a git gud button which is bound to R1 or RB by default. Rage is a mechanic that, while not technically new to Tekken (Tekken 6 had a rage system), has been a mechanic that a few other fighters do. Power Crushes ignore the stagger produced by a mid or a high move, so you have to nail them with a low attack to interrupt. Power Crushes are essentially hyper armour, which allows players to mitigate some incoming damage and proceed uninterrupted in a combo. As is tradition, each character has distinctive movesets and attack speeds to both utilise and learn to counter if you want to be the biggest bad ass of them all.ĭespite feeling mostly familiar, there are a few new mechanics introduced in the form of Power Crushes and Rage manoeuvres. Street Fighter’s Akuma is also on lend for the latest instalment. There are 37 (including Eliza the DLC character) playable fighters in Tekken 7, with many familiar faces like Yoshimitsu, Law, King, Bryan Fury and Eddie Gordo joined by fresh faces like cutesy freestyling otaku Lucky Chloe, and hulking red cybernetic beast Gigas. In many ways its style and feel are redolent of the older Tekken games, and this is only a good thing in this case. In terms of actual fighting, Tekken 7 sees the return of the static flow that made the older games so good. In fact, there was a specific character story which was so goofy that it reminded me of Gon ’ s Arcade Mode completion cutscene in Tekken 3 (people who know this will remember how weird it was). While these character stories are small, they ’ re great at conveying the goofier side of Tekken. How does she get to her target? By being the bride.
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For example, series mainstay Nina finds herself as an assassin where her next target is the groom of a wedding. The coolest thing about these is they give some insight into the characters that are being played. These little missions consists of one fight and a cutscene which follows. Once the short story experience is complete, you unlock little stories for all the characters that you didn ’ t play as called Character Stories. I don ’ t think a Tekken 8 would surprise anyone, but the open-ended conclusion of Tekken 7 makes it feel unsatisfying in terms of story arc. This plot point is visited once and then never looked at again until after the final battle, which leaves a large amount of room for either a story DLC or just a new game in general.
Furthermore, during the story there is a strong emphasis on a certain character being the means to end the war. The first few chapters set up an intriguing narrative flow, but then the pacing quickly changes and the story progresses faster than you can comprehend. The main issue with it being so short is that its pacing goes all over the place.
It ’ s very, very short and the ending leaves a lot to be desired.
But even playing on Hard, (with a fair amount of beat downs being endured), the story mode only lasted a couple hours at most. Now, I ’ m not the greatest at fighting games, though I would say Tekken is the one I ’ m best at due to the familiarity with the characters and their move sets. Unfortunately, while the premise behind Tekken 7 ’ s story is great, it ’ s got a fair few issues. Tekken 7 ’ s story answers various burning questions, like the origins of Kazuya ’ s devil powers, why Heihachi is an absolute turd to his son and grandson and the reason behind Kazumi Hachibo ’ s death. Tekken 7 ’ s story mode is told from the perspective of a journalist whose family was completely wiped out by the events of Tekken 6. This is also present in Jin Kazama, but he ’ s not really a part of whole Mishima Saga so we ’ ll leave him out for now. Kazumi ’ s bloodline is somewhat cursed, and people of the Hachibo lineage have the blood of a devil inside them and can transform into devil forms of themselves. The three notable characters are Heihachi Mishima, Kazumi Hachibo and their son Kazuya Mishima. A lot has been left fairly unanswered in the franchise’s many years (almost two decades and change actually), and now we finally get answers. For those to whom the story is unbeknownst, one of the main themes of the Tekken games is the intergenerational feud within the Mishima clan. Tekken 7 is based around the conclusion of the Mishima saga.