Actually soulless game. I played tekken 7 before and was wondering about getting 8. Well, I got it and at first its pretty enjoyable. After you rank up however you understand why it gets all the hate it gets. Forced 50/50s where you have to guess what your opponents is going to do, grab spams ( ♥♥♥♥ king, if you play king you are a drooling ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ) and just the general lack of defense options make this game extremely dumbed down. Also, don't forget being in the air for 10 seconds while your opponents unleashes all his combo on you, leaving you with half health while the match started 10 seconds ago. Amazing design, ♥♥♥♥ this garbage ( I am bushin btw ♥♥♥ if you wanna say skill issue )

0 - Horrible (Don’t Buy, not enjoyable at all)
1 - Bad (Generally not enjoyable, but may have some few good things about it)
2 - Average (Solid, nothing really special)
3 - Good (few flaws, but really enjoyable)
4 - Fantastic (near perfect)
5 - Perfect/Timeless (Must Buy)

tldr: I have a lot to say about Tekken 8, so I don’t mind if you just read the tldr. I personally cannot give this a good review. There are too many mechanics that make it a 1 player game. Sure there may be a way to avoid it, but in my opinion, Tekken has been the game of many options. I can’t even say this is a game for casuals unless you are playing with other casuals, because the game is so one sided if you know the basic flow chart. There is no neutral with all these phantom hitboxes and full screen moves that lead to plus frames on block. Sidestep/walk feels very unreliable in a 3D game because of all the plus frames on moves. Tracking will follow you no matter what. The game is very inconsistent and is shown in all levels of gameplay. It feels like we are playing an early access of Tekken 8 and it may never come out of early access.

Firstly, I’m somewhat a veteran of Tekken. I started getting beat up by my uncle mashing in Tekken 3. I played competitively trying to learn how to play til tekken 6. I remember watching LevelUpYourGame’s tutorials and Bogus Journey. I don’t see those types of videos anymore, which is sad. I’ve competed in Tekken locals, Norcal Regional, and Evo. Over the years of playing Tekken 3,Tag2, 7, & 8 I played multiple characters and learned a lot of characters. I have many pages of documentation of Tekken 7 and Tekken 8 characters. Was I good? Probably not. I would like to think that I tried to be. It all feels like I wasted my time learning, because why try to adapt when I can just be plus and continue my offense where I don’t need to learn the opponent’s character. I’m honestly tired. My friends quit and I think it is time for me too.


Story Mode - I personally think the story is okay/good. It pretty much went full anime. Storyline finished up the whole Mishima story between Kazuya and Jin. I kinda wish some of the mechanics in the story was part of the main Game Mechanic like the quick muscle flex. I wish we could get more tekken force like a rogue-lite tekken force mode.

Character Design - I do like certain characters having a mechanic like Zafina’s Anathema meter or Law having nunchucks, but I do think they went too far in terms of Game Mechanics. Nina’s gun went too far, especially the mid gun move that was safe.

Netcode - This has been the best netcode Tekken has had, but it is not perfect. I would rather not go back to previous games because of this.

Art/Animation - Most Triple A games are visually appealing.

Sound/Music - I’m not really a music/sound person, but I think it's good from the first time I’ve played it. I honestly don’t listen to the music in the game anymore. There is a jukebox where you can switch music from older games, which is pretty cool.


Game Mechanic (Core Mechanics, Heat) - Let's start with Heat. Heat is an oppressive mechanic that once used will give you an advantage against the opponent in almost any situation. It's bad because once you're so positive your options become minimized from maybe 4 to 1. If you guess wrong, you might end up in a Combo that does more than 50% of your health that would lead you into another 50/50 situation. You only get 1 to 2 chances to play the game if you are defending. Hitboxes on moves are ridiculously too large for the actual moves. A lot of moves like ff+2 or heat burst just hit from across the screen, which makes things never miss. Moves will track you even if you sidestep/walk. You will also get a counter hit if you try to punish a move after sidestepping. I honestly could keep going, but this review would be 10+ pages.

Fighting Styles - They made it so every character plays the same. The same combos, the same moves, the same stances. All combos reach wall to wall, it doesn't matter the character. For example, a lot of characters now have a d2 that evades highs that never had them before. Characters like Jack-8, King, & Heihachi didn’t have stances. All characters are just homogenized. They also keep giving characters a move that removes a character’s “weakness”. I think the cool thing about weakness is that a good player will overcome them. Some characters have been made easier to do their character specific mechanics like Law. Law was unique where if you did their motion they could go into a stance by doing the notation: f,b,f. This was timing that I took time to learn and now all you have to do is hold f. My time has been wasted learning it and now it's not impressive when I see a Law player do it. What is next? Make Bryan’s TJU a 2 button execution or Kazuya’s CH d/f2, Perfect Electric easy for everyone to do. Next patch anyone? Also, can we stop giving characters weapons that used to be hand-to-hand combat with some exceptions.

Microtransaction - I will always hate microtransactions especially when you can miss them and never get them ever. Corporations prey on the FOMO and that's why people and I included buy this garbage. Speaking of garbage, most of the Microtransactions I will not use. They make us go through all this bull to get possibly something or nothing. A friend was looking for a cape and because they came back to the game, they didn’t have it.

Feedback - I personally don’t think you should make a fighting game for the casuals. Fighting games are always competitive. There's 1 winner and 1 loser. There is no inbetween. In my opinion, you should balance the patches toward the higher level players. I understand this is hard especially when higher level players have a character bias. If high level players don’t like the game, negativity will follow.

These are my opinions on how I would fix Tekken 8:
- Change heat burst or create a new heat move (that activates heat) to be a defensive move (only on block) that is invincible and pushes back the opponent leaving both players at neutral (0 frames). This gives a defensive move for the defending player.
- Remove the phantom hitboxes. There are too many moves that go way too far.
- Remove tracking on a lot of moves. Too many weird tracking that can go full 180 for no reason.
- Remove the counter hit when trying to hit a move after you have sidestepped that move. Why are you punishing players for moving and punishing a move?
- Change the large whiff state on moves. Why can a person do a 20f startup whiff punish a jab after they saw the jab? How long am I throwing out the jab?
- Remove the ease of running moves or change the startup frames higher of fast startup running moves. Moves like Dragonuv’s f,f,f+2 or Azucena’s f,f,f+3,2. This is a huge reason why the game is like this. Fast startup running moves that lead to plus frames on block.
- Increase backdash distance. I don’t want backdash cancel to be op where it's necessary, so put like a limit to backdash cancel and have the backdash go less with every consecutive backdash cancel input.
- Stop giving character stances. Not everyone wants to play the way you are forcing players to play.
- Give the option for players to buy old battlepasses and old content.

If you agree, I hope people see this and try to change the way the game is.

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