Tekken 8

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Speaking of T7 it was a fine game and all but the single player content was rather poor. Once you were done with the story mode, that was it.

How is that much different than almost any other fighting game? Generally there is some kind of "story mode" which is the way Mortal Kombat and Tekken have been doing lately which has a beginning, middle and ending, and then some kind of arcade mode or solo mode that also has a more abbreviated ending specific to the character you choose. But you generally don't get much more than that out of fighting games.

Arcade mode was so bare bones. I understand fighting games must prioritize the competitive scene but I only play Street Fighter competitively, so I need solid single player content in Tekken to keep me interested. Mortal Kombat does the single player content thing the right way with its tower challenges.

I'm not sure how MK's tower challenges are any different from "Arcade Mode" in Tekken. Minus the tower.

Speaking of single-player, yesterday I finally sat down and played through the whole story mode of Tekken 8. Tekken's story has gotten sooooo convoluted and ludicrous (the entire world has been taken over by Mishima Zaibatsu now? the King of Iron Fist Tournament 8 is now to determine which countries WON'T be destroyed? like, if you fight for Colombia and win, Colombia doesn't get zapped) but it works well enough. It's all Jin's story, really, and how he can get his devil mojo back. The last chapter is super annoying in that it makes you (as Jin) fight Kazuya about 7 or 8 times back to back. And annoyingly many of those times when you win, it'll cut to cinematics where Jin is getting beat up by Kazuya. I found myself yelling at the screen: "Whaaat the F******?!? How many times do I need to beat this guy?!!?" You actually fight in outer space! I do really hope they're done with the Jin-Kazuya-Heihachi-Devil stuff after this.

Also, starting with I believe Tekken 7 Namco stopped dubbing all the characters. So it's pretty ridiculous (also annoying) that everyone in the story mode just talks in their own native language and pretends like they can understand everyone else. Which is fine when it's just a couple of Japanese characters talking amongst themselves... but there's whole scenes where there's a French guy speaking French, a German speaking German, a Japanese guy speaking Japanese, an American speaking English, and a Chinese woman speaking Chinese, and they're all understanding each other perfectly.