Tekken 8 Review: Love Letter to the Series
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
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We’ve waited for this moment for years, and it’s finally here. Tekken 8 is releasing within days of this video, and boy I sure hope you don’t have anything planned on the weekend of release, because if you’re a fan of Tekken, or even someone who just recently got into the series, there are many good things here for you.
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Feel free to ask any questions about the game, I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability. Just try to avoid hyper specific stuff, like frame data changes for specific moves.
Will Law finally be able to pay the medical bills?
Have you tried Reina? Is she easy to pick up?
@@Buhngo She definitely has a learning curve, like any Mishima.
@@Lightfellow oh damn you got to play her?
@@Buhngo Can't say that she's easy to pick up. It's not Yoshi or Lei tier, but she definitely has an extra layer of complexity thanks to her stances and transitions. I'd say if you played/were comfortable with Lidia or Heihachi, you can pick her up just fine. And obviously, don't let complexity discourage you if you think she looks cool. She's pretty fun to play.
He said the story of Tekken transpired before he was born. I'm old as hell 😂
You and me both bro!
I'm old!😂
Tekken 5 is older than people that turn 18 this year. Shit is so old it turns 20 in November
Fr Tekken didn't even come out until i was almost 10 lol
I was 2 years old when tekken started wtf.
I was -1 years old when Tekken franchise came out
I am so fucking hyped man, I've been looking at the release countdown every few hours. Feel like a kid waiting for Christmas.
Same dude. This week is going so slow
Same.
I watched every review but I know everything already 😅
Bruh its been 8 years waiting for this next gen game.
Their marketing team have been racking up W's, starting with the Lenne Hardt voiceovers in the character trailers. Almost no misses.
I was so blown away by the new modes i completely forgot team battle is missing.
I hope they add it on another patch or something. That’s the best way to really get familiar with new characters
Yeah it's bonkers that something like Team Battle, which is the best local party mode, is missing as well as survival mode.. One of the easiest to implement and manages to give offline content that I've been missing out on for the length of T7 already.. It's time to add those back in asap.
@@mestarimuna yeah, i am not mad, the game is still filled with so much content (especially in comparison to T7), but team battle would make the game 11/10.
But as you said, they can add it later and what i have seen, the game has planted strong seeds to make it last longer than T7.
So maybe will be blown away in few years how vanilla T8 was “barebones” haha.
Playing the Tekken 8 demo has been thrilling, makes me prepared for the final game.
Yes, even though I’m gonna play someone else its still great practice
Dude, if at any point during this game's lifecycle they did a DLC collab with Kotobukiya to make the bishoujo outfits for Asuka, Lili, Jun (especially Jun), and Xiaoyu, then this game would be even better than ever before! 😍
I honestly hope that happens sometime after the game comes out, even though it seems somewhat unlikely to do so.
Thank you for created this amazing game Namco 😊❤
We’ve already had the Devil Within.
We’ve already had Death by Degrees.
We’ve already had Tekken Force from six.
We’ve had the RPG World Tour mode in Street Fighter six.
This idea could’ve been really awesome in Tekken 8, so how could they screw it up, when it should be quite clear by now what works and what does not. Hopefully it can get some retooling with patches, which wasn’t possible in years past.
The game without question is definitely worth a pick up.
I have 1 major problem with the review. The recommendation for someone just getting into Tekken “maybe wait for a sale in a few months” is such a bad way to prospect newcomers. The first few weeks are the absolute best in any fighting game. Everyone is trying out new characters, the new systems, and just generally messing around and having fun. If you want someone new to have fun it is the undisputed best time to play when we’re all learning.
Completely fair criticism, so thank you for expressing it. I think anyone who is not sure will likely try it through gamepass, but when it comes to actually buying it, 70 dollars is a serious price tag for a game unless you're sold on it. I hope going over how good the game would give people a good idea, but I also I would never want to discourage people from joining later. The first few weeks are definitely the best, but Tekken community is so large that a new player will always have someone on their level to play against and have fun.
"I hate mechanics, that pause the game and show off some animations!"
Someone have to tell them (fighting games creators) to stop doing that stupidity!
I knew customization wouldn’t be that much better lol but imma buy the game cause tekken was is and always will be my number one game it’s that easy.
I’m not a fighter game guy but I’ve played every tekken game casually and with that being stated. It’s personally my favorite since Tekken 3. Nuff said it’s my favorite game in the series with out any mental contemplation. I have no problem giving thanks when it’s obvious to do so
You know what, at this point, im not mad that the force mod is not that good. Im just stoked that its there
Great Review! But I have a question, how long is the story mode?
It will depend on which difficulty you choose. I like bashing my head against FG bosses, so I went with Hard and had to replay some of the fights quite a bit. Even then, it shouldn't take more than 8 hours, likely around 5-6 if you play on normal or below.
Sweet. Five fights for character episodes! I was hoping we'd have some sort of actual arcade mode and not that's lame single fights in T7
Me too. I love Arcade Stile Story Modes
Finally time for the best fighter of this generation 🔥💪🏼
3:13 this is all subjective ladies and Gentlemen. I absolutely enjoyed it this mode.
Tekken 8 will be the biggest fighting game of all time. This will be my first Tekken game, my friends and I are jumping straight into ranked on launch day to get our asses whooped. The demo has been amazing. See you all there!
imo, what makes the tekken series so good? it never lost its fundamentals, always stayed 3D, moves never changed. shxt even the 10 hit combos still there! but while there is new things, it never strayed what made tekken…well tekken!!
super turbo and tekken series forever!
The game is flawless for me and absolutely the best Tekken. Cant wait to play it.
I'm actually super hyped for tekken 8. Except I'm bummed out a bit that my fave character, Heihachi, will not be around 😢
I think with reina's stature and moveset you will enjoy her as much as the old man did.
I feel the same way about Bruce Irvin. But then again, I'm old.
Here’s my review of Tekken 8. Other than the music sounding a lot like Tekken 6, This game is basically a remake of Tekken 3 from the pre fight character intro to “hit confirm / red mist” being blood red like in tekken 3.
Great review! Tekken 8 BABY!!!!
The character episodes are gonna be cool
The only thing really decisive is if the rollback works. And that we will only know when the game launches.
I'll buy it the third day... if the connection is good.
Reviewers are saying the netcode is much better since the CBT, all around better than T7 so hurray!
Had me until "If it had used The Devil Within controls". Still, really good review.
As long as they say ‘CHICKEN’ in Tekken Force I’m sold
Please tell me, does Asuka at least show up in the story?
yeah she shows up in the story
Hey great review ! Do you know if loading while playing in lobby or online in general are as long as they used to be in T7 ? Thank you very much :)
I had both Tekken 7 and 8 on an SSD and T8 was still going at light speed compared to 7. Any single player stuff loads remarkably fast, but online it's going to vary, obviously, since you need your opponent to load fast too, and that will depend on their setup to some extent.
Finally here? Good for you Mr review copy 😢
Haha, true that, but I can't wait for you and everyone else to get your hands on the game. I'm super curious about how the community will react to the story mode, and I want to hang out in the lounge with everybody.
It can be one of the Kings if it plays well online.
i hope they bring back tournament mode
I haven't played a tekken since Tekken 4. But i wanna play this, but I don't know if i should buy it, lol.
Definitely give demo a try, if you enjoy how the game feels, it should be a safe bet. If you have gamepass or can get it, it should be on that as well.
You had me at Tekken Force returning. Until it went down....
I'll see for myself when I play the game. But man if its true, that sucks Tekken Force still hasn't been perfected. That mode was my shit back when I played Tekken 3 for the first time as a kid. My first Tekken game too.
Everything seems good except for the Tekken force segment you described, hopefully if becomes its own separate mode and gets updated controls/ mechanics.
I know its a bit spoilery.
But does the story give a good conclusion to the mishima feud or does it pull a gotcha! And "wait for next installment" bait?
There is definitely sequel bait there in terms of where the story will go next. Won't spoil anything specific, but I don't think it's something that hurts the resolution of the Mishima storyline. Even if they continue with it, it's going to have to be a completely new direction.
Tekken 3-5 were my favorites, I didn’t really care for the dubstep anime stuff they’ve gotten into with 6 and 7 so I’m really hoping 8 is worthwhile
13:28 ayo what song is this
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/6Y5_CoRDC3Y/v-deo.html
Appreciate it 💯
Did the online improve when compared to previous betas?
There was only a small window to check out online play, with not a lot of people around, so it's hard to judge. I think they largely (if not entirely) fixed the shader compilation issue on PC, so that should improve the experience by itself. Unfortunately, we'll all have to wait till release so see how good it really is, since we'll get thousands of people running every possible connection and hardware.
One note I have though, is that leaving rollback setting on normal is probably preferable to choosing responsive option. The lowest possible input delay leaves only a small buffer for rollback to work with, so you'll see more artifacts.
The lag was with the optimization of the game in the demo they added NVIDIA filters to combat and fix that shit. we are now good to go for online.
I highly disagree about the "tediousness" of character episodes in this entry. The endings feel more earned as opposed to getting mostly crappy endings after one measly fight, like in T7.
Yeah this clown absolutely doesn't understand the casual appeal of classic arcade Tekken. The reason people bought Tekken 5 was BECAUSE they wanted to grind through arcade to unlock each character's ending. Tekken 7 completely dropped the ball with that. I left a dislike and am never watching this idiot's videos again.
@@dickthebirthdayboy2132 Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Morons like you don't realize that Tekken 5 was almost two decades ago at this point. People played arcade mode because there was almost nothing else to do. Doing 160 easy CPU fights to unlock cutscenes is boring as fuck, and there is literally zero reason for it when there is an actual arcade mode with boss fights and ghost fight, which has better AI to fight against.
Is the force mode seperate or once only in story mode?
Sad to say that it's just one chapter in the story mode. It's a pretty beefy chapter, and you get to play as several different characters, but it is limited to only one point in the story mode. Hopefully they flesh it out and add it as a whole new mode in the future, kind of like how they added Tekken Bowl with a DLC.
Not gonna lie, Tekken 8 story was super disappointing for a MULTITUDE of reasons. One reason is because of how unrealistic it was. For instance, in the fact that Jin is responsible for the deaths of MILLIONS of innocent people including WOMEN and CHILDREN and NONE of his friends give him shit for it. Keep in mind characters like Ling and Asuka are supposed to represent the pure and kind hearted characters, with Asuka specifically having a strong sense of justice, and technically Ling hasn't met Jin since T4 canon wise I believe, so this was a good opportunity for her to show her dissapointment in all the things the man's done while still understanding the necessity of him giving the situation, since he's the only one with the power to beat his father. So the fact that she has nothing to say on this dark subject is silly. Heck, Alisa who outside of Miguel, suffered the most out of cast under Jin's actions in T6, and the guy never officially apologized to her for his evil actions toward herself. Then there's the end of the main story in the fact that there is absolutely no way the surviving countries with their governments would be cool with Jin roaming around after all the crap he pulled. And it doesn't matter if Jin destroyed an even greater evil in Kazuya, the fact is the man has TONS of blood on his hands of people from various other countries and I imagine in a real world scenario they wouldn't let would Jin did slide and demand justice.And the problem is Jin's ending (presumed to be the canon one) sees him getting off relatively easy. I also was disappointed that Most of the cast STILL hasn't developed as characters at all, and are just as one dimensional as Kazuya. Finally, Reina not being foreshadowed in the series at all despite the story signifigance she has in this game and to what's to come is annoying too.
I have not been a fan of the story direction of many Tekken games as of late, with it really going downhill after 4, with Tekken 7 currently being the WORST game story wise in my opinion, and agree with MANY of criticisms hurled at it, including Heihachi's motivation being inconsistent for mistreating Kazuya as well. For example, in the original Tekken 1 story line. Heihachi believed his son was too weak to ever inherit his conglomerate, and decided to throw a 5 year old Kazuya into a ravine, and thought that if he were truly strong enough, he would be able survive the fall and climb back up. Tekken 7 retconned Heihachi motivation for throwing Kazuya, which was a test of strength into being about trying to rid the devil gene when that was NEVER a factor in the previous games. I have issue with this, since it not only retcons the previous games events, but changes a fundamental aspect that we know about Heihachi's character, since he's always been shown to be a ruthless self centered character that would do things that he felt worked best for him, and didn't care about ridding the world of the devil gene. Heck , in Tekken 4 Heihachi's goal was to create a new life form by splicing Ogre's genome, and devil gene with his own. The story definitely isn't on par with the likes of BBCF, and GG, and even early MK that's for sure.
The gameplay on the other hand is pretty much what you can expect from the series. which isn't a bad thing.
I paused on 6:33 because the coat on Steve Fox!🔥🔥🔥
That intro gives me mortal kombat Armageddon vibes
The King is back ? How when the king never left the king has been here for years.
So im told in online custom rooms with friends, we CANNOT spectate fights. So is there ANY other way my friends can watch me and other friends fight in that whatever fight lobby that they added??? This seems to be a BIZARRE thing to leave out: not being able to watch friends fight!!
During the CBT, my friends and I stayed on a couple of Arcade machines in the Fight Lounge, and we were able to spectate each others matches when not playing. It should be there.
There was word that Harada and the team are aware and could be a day one patch to fix it.
Hold on is that song with that dj playing actually from tekken 8, if it is they really stepped up there music. 13:27
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/6Y5_CoRDC3Y/v-deo.html
Kinda disappointed about your take on tekken force, I don't know if its much like the Scenario Campaign from 6 since i have not seen it so I cannot tell personally if it feels butchered from it. Scenario Campaign is so underrated and fun and to this day, there is nothing like it! This mode is so slept on and they should have brought it back. What other beat em ups you can play that has a hundred plus martial arts moves and combos against a group of enemies up close and personal? The answer is plainly "none".
I really hope Namco creates a spin-off Tekken Force game with every single character from 5 to 7, but with more smoother fighting and controls from the Scenario Campaign mode, it's long overdue.
Anyway, Tekken 8 is one of the best entries in the series, hands down, they outdid themselves with this one.
Does every video need to start with that one cutscene, I just skip it. Everyone has already seen it 19741 times
Wait there’s no online tournaments !? Am I hearing this right?
Yeah, no online tournaments, at least not yet. There are tournaments in Arcade Quests though, so maybe they will implement something similar for online play later on.
Jfc, man, you spoiled some cool moments in the story section of the review...
Whoever said this is Tekken 7.5 did not seriously play Tekken 7
Tekken 8 is worth the money 💸
What song is that at 13:26? 😭 I need it!
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/6Y5_CoRDC3Y/v-deo.html
How long is the story mode, is it 15 chapters as the trophy list says?
Yeah, 15 chapters. Length can vary quite a bit, but you should be looking at around ~5 of playtime unless you go for Hard and get stuck on some bosses or the Force segment.
@@DashFight
Ok, also is the gameplay section of the story lighten up a lot? Those who posted spoilers on it show the gameplay gets brightness cranked up compared to the cutscene themselves
@@blackdarkness6798 I can only assume it's down to their settings. What you see in the video hasn't gone through any sort of color correction. There's also a cutscene to gameplay transition at 2:23 where you can see that it's pretty smooth in terms of color.
Online practice mode? Did I hear that right?
Yeah, the Lounge has a special Tekken Dojo room to the side with practice cabs where you can jump with someone else.
what song plays from 13:30 mark?
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/6Y5_CoRDC3Y/v-deo.html
Did they fix Steve face in the final version ?
😬
It doesn't look as bloated as it came off in the trailer, but it could've been just a funky angle. During actual fights it looks completely fine too.
@@DashFight Thanks for the replay.
Any experience with crossplay?
Not big enough sample size to notice something out of the ordinary, but it seems to function fine. My only concern is that hardware variation between consoles and various PCs could potentially lead to some less than desirable situation. Kind of like how Tekken 7 has issues if you play against someone who has bad performance.
I noticed you skipped over a glaring flaw in player rooms that ive heard from other outlets. They only allow for 1 spectator in the room you cant spectate idly.
Not even 2 weeks ago you published a video how Tekken is losing its identity because Victor now exist.
Dude just calm down with your content. Just sit down, play the game a little and enjoy it like the rest of us will be doing.
Does Jin and Xiaoyu progress with any romance? 🥺 if so l can you explain a good scene and mark it as spoiler 🥺💞
No smoilers because I think you'll enjoy their scenes, but they do interact more than ever before, and you get to see Jin show his more human side.
@@DashFight okie dokie thank you so much ❤️
Ahh man please don't😆
Embargo dropped? No gaming outlet has dropped review yet
a couple of channels have before this.
@@BuhngoSaw them now. Reviews all seem extremely positive.
IGN dropped.
New Joel same devil Jin
Heihachi in Tekken 7: Grizzled old man
Heihachi in Tekken 8: 18 year old purple haired girl
I want this game, but art style and music is a no-no for me… (
12:05 bruh what are you talking about? Tekken 8 does utilize Unreal Engine 5.
The video doesn't say that it doesn't use Unreal 5, it just doesn't use the new UE5 tech, which is Lumen lighting and Nanite meshes.
can you disable the customisation to not see them online?
Unfortunately not, you're at the mercy of the other player there.
Thanks Jimmy Kimmel
Tekken - Tekken/10
Tekken 2 - 7/10
Tekken 3 - 10/10
Tekken Tag Tournament - 8/10
Tekken Advance - why?/10
Tekken 4 - 6/10
Tekken 5 - 4/10
Tekken Dark Resurrection - 4,not-enough/10
Tekken 6 - 5,9/10
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - 2x2/10
Tekken 7 on release - 3/10
Tekken 7 final form - 3,enough-already/10
Tekken 8 on release - 5/10 but is it even Tekken anymore 🤔
lol T5 was and is a 8.8/10
@@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701 😂🤚
@@Sannidor lol dude 🤣
You forgot to talk about tekken 8 roster
Spoiler.
Everyone became a Jin fan boy in Tekken 8. The main story line is like they got inspiration from the bible. It's a bad move. I expect something original.
wait, arcade quest is NOT the only mode that teaches you how to play the game, there's literally replay mode, and practice where you can literally study character moves, and how to properly react to certain situations in a fight.
Dude just spoiled the first half of the story with no remorse.
So not losing its identity ?
Any one mk1?
😂😂
we aint never forgetting about that dumbass anime video
First
Question before I watch this: Does the author whine and moan about the female characters not being ugly again?
5 fights is too tedious for ya for the character episodes? Why do you play fighting games? Lol
bo3 not ft3, there's a difference.
Why does 90% of this review feel so backhanded? If you can't learn Tekken from this level of resources it isn't for you.
All you doing is complaining about the game like it's trash
??????
Did we watch the same video? Clean your ears man.
Fuck you mean, 🅱️?
The story sucked man, nothing was explained and full of more hints and retcons.
Jin becomes freaking Saint Seiya and you say it sucks???
@@gijane2cantwaittoseeyou203 yeah. Could have had a better design, and everything leading up to that was just so tekken storytelling lol
I expected them to level up their storytelling and tie things up but it’s just dumb o’l tekken anime cliché to get to a final fight that felt incredibly rushed and unearned.
@@Tekkenandgaming It's the best story ever in fighting games. If you dont like it, then you are just an arrogant snob. Go play stuff like Last of us or red dead redemption etc and stop giving your shit opinion
@@Tekkenandgaming Tekken was always a big dumb anime cliche since day 1. Are you new?
@@dickthebirthdayboy2132 yeah and i was hoping for more this time…
nah it's not back so many missing characters
Exactly. Glad Eddy's back, though don't know about the new hair, but no Bruce Irvin.....
bruce haven't came back since tekken 6 and i still don't know why they didn't bring over bob but hey what do i know lol @@RemingtonMiles-sr9uf
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Hey Dash Fight, so what happened to the anime bullshit and stuff?
tf you spoiling for
love letter my ass
the stages are kinda generic like t7 and the customization isnt anywhere close to t6 AGAIN
and they nerfed movement