@@PAINNN666When they are both in base forms,Kazuya has lost 3 times of 3 matches. -Tekken 4,Jin won(although the manuals say it was a very hard fight) -Tekken 8 New York Jin was CONSISTENTLY winning till they BOTH went Devil -Tekken 8 Final Fight Jin had the edge MOST of the time(otherwise the cinematics dont initiate) and he ultimately won. Stronger my A$$. Jin also SLIGHTLY overpowered him in their head butt clash. Jin=Slightly stronger Kazuya=More power
Like Kazuya said, it's just a means to an end. He killed Heihachi after being beaten out of his devil form, it's his strongest weapon but he's too mentally resilient to lose composure after no longer having access to it. The only thing that knocks him off balance are people who are themselves strong-willed beyond all reason - Heihachi and Lars coming back with the headbutts those respective times and Jin constantly standing up here after being knocked down many times. Even then Kazuya himself will just scream a new healthbar into existence until he's totally KO'd.
Jin was gonna make sure he went down even without him having the devil gene. Because at the end of the day, Kazuya would have still kept the war going.
@@dx_Rain_xbLMAOO SAMEE. Immediately after, the joy i felt being able to WGF into 2,1,2 was immense. Literally the only combo i knew since playing on the original old T3 arcade machine when i was like 7
@@OrangeLightning86 I dont think so no. Reina definitely already knew she had the gene. She made it clear she was observing jin to see how he activates his devil powers, she confirms its when he gets close to death and so puts herself in a situation to mimic that (standing in kaz's beam). It was her whole reason for joining the main gang and fighting kazuya from the start, so she could activate her devil gene Also the devil gene doesn't jump to hosts or anything you're born with it
Question is definitely how she got it. She’s supposed to be younger than Jin (at least his Junior at Mishima Tech) but Kazumi died when Kazyua was a boy so….
Man I swear that was the lamest twist. They desparately need to add story DLC to explain how she could even have the devil gene, it feels so out of nowhere.
@@konkaiwa515 The move is also called "Patricide Fist", the same move Kazuya used to kill Heihachi. It's very fitting that a Kazama move could counter it, thus breaking the cycle lore-wise.
This is the Tekken equivalent to the Solid Snake vs Liquid Ocelet boss fight from the end of MGS4. Just unleashing the full extent of your 30 year long legacy in one big final boss fight between the series most iconic hero and villain. The definition of peak fiction. You don’t get to do stuff like this unless your franchise is truly this longstanding and legendary it just won't work.
The Solid Snake vs Liquid Ocelot fight had a lot more emotional weight behind it than this one. You actually felt their struggle as the fight went on. Maybe if this game had the last rounds with them struggling to even throw a punch, it'd feel like it had more weight behind it.
Jin was never a hero in tekken though, that's why i loved tekken's characters: all the main characters are assholes. Redeeming him into a more generic protag is kinda weak imo
Kazuya is definitely alive. The breaking of the chain isn't just the devil gene being overcome. The symbol represents Jin breaking free of the Mishima's cycle of sons killing their fathers.
And coming to your home screens in Tekken 9 is father and son beating up the fathers half-sister/cousin or whatever she might exactly be. Stay tuned for the next episode.
20:45 Is one of the best bits in this fight from a narrative perspective. "Anyone who tries to dictate how I live... Will suffer for their transgression! ", says everything you need to know about Kaz with only a single sentence. He just wants to break free from everyones control, from Heihachi, G corp, Azazel, the devil gene, and the entire world. Dude just wants to be free from the shackles of destiny, and power was the only way to do it. Hence his entire stance in this game of might makes right. Even then he hesitates for a split second as he sees his son nearly defeated, showing that a small peice of him loves Jin, and feels remorse for what he is doing, and about to do.
I don't know if I would call it "love" or "remorse", I think it's more like empathy because he probably sees himself in Jin as well, since Jin has suffered in the same way and also wants to be free of this fate that the devil gene and his family has brought upon him. At the end of the day, I think both of them were fighting for the freedom of their lives.
Yeah, I really like the small bits of humanity that they've injected Kaz near the end of the storyline. Definitely gonna be Vegeta on the next installment, and I'm here for it.
@@gfhhfgZ And he was gonna leave him as well after hitting the initial final blow, walking away before Jin rallied back. Hence the alternate ending when Kaz is like “Well if your not gonna stop bothering me…” and throws Jin off a cliff 🤣
I'd like to believe that he was gonna say "if anyone tries to dictate how I live, they shall die!" But since it's Jin he has more remorse and the little feeling he has left made him change his sentence to what he actually said
Only issue I had with his stance is for someone looking to break the chains of destiny, idk why he feels like only "strong" people deserve that. Imo any person who hates living under the boot of others wouldn't think that the fate should be cast to others
All the references and callbacks with the music and Jin switching between all of his stances were just godlike. I didn't expect the story mode to go this hard, but it was absolutely amazing.
And then on the last fight, he can just do EVERYTHING. Steel Pedal Kicks, Heihachi's stomp, Electric loops, Kazama parries, the works. This is peak Jin.
@@ToyotaKudoFan they'll either give him this story moveset in T9 or they'll make it properly playable in T8 with DLC. After we get a proper Tekken Force/Tekken Warriors mode.
Post credit scene: Jin is standing alone on a cliff overlooking the ocean, thinking about his fight with Kazuya. He is suddenly distracted by footsteps, and a voice behind him. "Jin Kazama?" The camera pans to reveal Solid Snake: "That was some good ass Tekken" Cut to black.
Really flexing the budget with Tekken 8 with these last few fights. Honestly all the fights at the end with Kazuya felt like it had higher production value than like 95% of games I've played.
The choreography was impressive too - the bit with Kaz doing repeat electrics to juggle Jin felt like a fun little meta bit. Like yeh, that's how he canonically uses that move.
I find it poetic that said parry was not only the thing that beat Kazuya, but also that the parry was a technique from Jun. Even now, Jun is protecting her son.
@@insanemindset2667Someone else in the comments mentioned that it's the same punch that stopped Heihachi's heart in 7, so the Kazama style counter saved his life.
I finally know how Metal Gear fans felt when the finale of 4 happened. The callbacks, the implementations of other fighting styles to represent his acceptance of his entire existence I love they did Jin so much justice in this ending and I couldn’t be more happier to witness the amount of love and care that was put into it. So happy I’m a Jin fan ❤️🔥
Max's reaction once he realizes was how I and every other fan since Tekken 3 felt, I'm sure. Funny how all it takes to turn Jin from a cool guy to the hypest thing ever is simply have his theme music in the background while he's doing signature Mishima moves and parries.
The extra story you unlock after the story mode explains that Jun escaped to that Kazama shrine location to use its power to drive Ogre back at the cost of being put in stasis, so she's very much alive.
@@TKMacstaUnless Harada completely defies everything done with Tekken to this point, I don't see a Tekken 8 Aftermath like this is MK11. Tekken 9 is just straight up confirmed.
@@itellyouhwhat7153 @TehParismio Biggest missed opportunity, hyping her up as alive only to appear at the very very end. Same set way they did with Reina too where there's way more questions than answers and kinda going against the whole purpose of what Jin was doing.
This story really shows that since the very beginning of Tekken, Heihachi was the true villain all along. He's the cause of everything. If he hadn't tried to kill his son and ruined his whole life, Kazuya wouldn't have turned out this evil. And even after he's dead, he's still responsible for whatever nonsense Reina is going to do now.
He even causes Tekken 5 with jinpachi who was a good dude. That's why I didn't like Tekken 7 tried to humanize heihachi since he's literally responsible for everything. The devil gene isn't even inherently evil as confirmed in this game it depends on the disposition of the person who is using it and their mental and emotional state which heihachi caused
@@garytaylor8193 Kazumi was originally secretly sent to get close to Heihachi in order to kill him because he was a threat to the world. I wouldn't blame her for Heihachi already being evil.
Tekken 8’s story mode is what Street Fighter V: A Shadow Falls should’ve been. Awesome presentation, everyone gets some time in the spotlight, a satisfying conclusion to a long-running conflict, and a long, drawn-out, epic final battle with the big villain.
Except everyone didn't get time in the spotlight, it's arguable if half of them. What this game has over SFV is visual representation,.and that had a greater focus on who mattered while not pushing those who didn't.
"Each punch I throw has the weight of everyone I love and everyone who loves me behind it. You feel the force of who I'm fighting for with every blow. Your punches have nothing behind them but your own strength" -Invincible
Jin also completely flipped Kazuya's ideals on him. Kazuya says a fight is all about who is left standing, while Jin retorts that it is about survival. And these are not mutually exclusive - the fundamental difference is that Kazuya believes "victory goes to the person who is in it to win, no matter the cost" while Jin believes "victory goes to the person who can keep getting up no matter how hard they keep getting hit." It's effectively unstoppable force versus immovable object, but the immovable object wins. Jin wins not due to his physical strength, but because he has a plethora of techniques as well as people he cares about and wants to live alongside. Kazuya has nothing besides his sneaker collection
20:23 'Chat I'm gonna cry' I did man... the emotions and excitement from the music, the fights, the story and old memories of a Tekken lover. Such a beautiful game.
Jin embracing ALL of his old fighting styles is the coolest bloody thing ever, I WISH we could use his styles in multiplayer, Karate Jin, Mishima style Jin, Kazama style Jin and multi style Jin, just switch into them before each match.
The shot of him saying "Do I have the right to desire life?" where it looks like Jun isn't there anymore genuinely got me. They left her reply just long enough that it really feels like she's gone.
A lot of Jin’s flashbacks/thoughts glitched in Max’s playthrough and didn’t show for some reason, but he thinks of Devil Jin, Jun, and Xiaoyu when he says he wants to live. The symbolism of it being those 3 is great. They really made Jin’s development so good 🤌
Previously the man wanted to kill the Mishimas and himself so the cursed bloodline would end and the devil gene wont go on. Now here, Jin wanted to live and no longer has murderous intent on Kazuya, but still wants to knock him out.
"almost admirable" coming from kazuya was high praise. For him to approach a compliment shows he was proud of his son. I think Jin had to hear that just as much as all his allies cheering him on
If you lose the hurricane fight against Kazuya during the very final stage of that fight there is an alternate ending where Kazuya wins the punch clash, and are then given a cutscene of a victorious Kazuya.
I got that ending via Skill Issue 😅 I played it the night it came out so by the time i got to the last fights,i was beat. Kaz straight wooped me on that last fight.
Thats weird, I died many times to that phase and i still got a retry message, thought getting the bad ending had to do with failing the QTEs Maybe im misremembering??
@@kacpercicharski4193 It must the absolutely last phase, when Kazuya is glowing red. I remember that failing was hard for me because Jin got all of his health back once (maybe due to doing all QTEs?). The only QTE that you cannot fail is standing up.
It's from the VERY last phase. When you lose during the last part you get some health back and rage. I tried holding onto the rage for extra damage (since both you and Kazuya take less damage per hit on that chapter) but I couldn't really land a blow. I tried using the rage art and Kazuya sidestepped it like a Skyrim NPC. I thought it was gonna give me an option to continue as well, but it didn't xD@@kacpercicharski4193
my friend made theory that Jun has devil gene. However, not Mishima, some different bloodline from Azazeal spawns. Devil Gene awakens when somebody is close to death. After her fight with Ogre, she survived and was reborn as Unknown. Unknown is canon
@@TaigaXsenpai Unknown is not canon. The Kazama's are purifiers which is why Jun was able to barely beat Ogre when they stepped into a Kazama sanctuary as she got powered up and it weakened Ogre. The Tekken 6 artbook revealed that Unknown was originally meant to be Jun's sister but the idea was dropped as the main story element when Tekken Tag Tournament became non-canonical. So even if Unknown was canon she'd be Jun's sister.
Actually Harada confirmed in a recent interview that Jun wasn’t dead, she escaped Orge by fleeing into that sanctuary place. He even said that his team never once said that Jun was dead and everyone just assumed that she was. My guess, Tekken 9 will have Reina as the main villain and possibly a redemption arc for Kazuya…or maybe a tekken 3 style time skip, just a guess
As someone who has only played the T7 story mode through, and having only a little bit of info on the other games stories, this was still incredible I even recognized that Jin's moveset changed! It was so cool
This had me in nostalgia tears. 25 years after first falling in love with tekken 3 finally coming to a conclusion. Jin finally got the recognition he deserved from the fanbase. ❤
Okay... Everything about this had my jaw drop... But as a Jun fan since T3, seeing Jin adapt her style had me tear up ngl. What a wonderful love letter to Tekken fans!
There has never been a more hype moment in Tekken's history than the return of Mishima-Ryu Jin Kazama using Electric Wind God Fist, Demon Steel Pedal, and Laser Scraper with the Tekken 3 Jin theme needle drop. I would pay obscene amounts of money for final battle Jin to be a fully playable character 😅
Borderline suicidal Jin yelling “I…I want to live!” After going the entire game thinking the world would be better off without him unironically made me feel both hyped and emotional. That’s one of his arcs in this story. Finding the will to live again, even after he defeats Kazuya.
The best part was when it went through the remixed versions of Jin's Tekken 3 & Tekken 2's Staff Roll theme & Jin's fighting style changing in correspondence to that.
I haven’t played a Tekken game since Tekken 3 when I was a kid, yet this finale was so incredibly hype for me I couldn’t help but constantly pop off with every new fight, every new set piece, every single new music drop, this finale is just PEAK Tekken and encapsulates why this franchise is so incredibly cool man
Wow 25:13, this is one of those perfect lightning in a bottle moment, and by that, i mean how Max plays this final round The start with the armoured counter then karate into aggressive Mishima style offence then Kazuya counters so then Max/Jin tries the stone head throw, Kaz counters and then tries to attack but mid animation Jin/Max catches him with another stone head and it connects then, after exchanging some hits the cinematic slow mo lighting uppercut race which Jin/Max wins ("that wasn't a cinematic like i did that") then some strong back and forth with Kaz gaining momentum with an armoured punch into lightning kick but then Max/Jin he does a tekken 3 counter which then leads into a frame animation perfect Kazama style throw reversal. Edit: Talking about like key moments, I know there were a lot of hits exchanged in between Like, i'm probably just crazy but this felt so clean that it looked choregraphed I so hope one day we get a playable Jin that has this mix of moves (which I know would probably be unbalanced) even as DLC I'd be happy
2 laser scrapers into a roundhouse or hellsweep was THE combo a sweaty teen in 1999 who read the guide could realistically hope to pull off against friends and in 3 it was practically a death combo. No rage spam after that!
This story mode in T8 literally surpasses and destroys T7’s Story Mode in my book. I absolutely love the finale. Now it’s making me want to play the story mode once more or better yet rewatch the cutscenes, cause it was just so damn good.
What's great about Jin using his T3 moveset, is that it isn't him in Devil Form nor is it a mod, it's literally Bandai Namco and Harada acknowledging his old moveset using Jin himself. I would actually like it if in Tekken Tag 3, we were somehow given a chance to choose between the 2 movesets with Jin.
Or Heihachi found another woman with the devil gene. Or she got it from Azazel and/or True Devil Kazuya with Azazel powers (as Azazel can grant the devil power). Whatever the truth is... it's gonna be in Tekken 9.
I think she's a semi-recent clone of Kazuya with a dormant devil gene, which would explain why she seems so young compared to her half-brothers and even Jin
@@KapitanWasTaken Back when fighting Jin she was very curious about his devil powers which was before True Devil Kazuya had his powers. I'm assuming she was so curious because she didn't know how to activate her own powers. I mean she could've gotten it from Azazel before he was sealed but why would he give her the power and not teach her how to use it. He could've found another woman. But considering Tekken is known for genetic tampering (Steve, bringing Kazuya back to life, freezing Nina and Anna, etc) test tube baby seems more the series' style.
This was easily one the greatest fighting game story modes I’ve ever seen. I honestly can’t recall a time being this hyped by a story, this was done exceedingly well, Hats off to Harada and The Tekken team, they delivered.
During the angel vs demon space dbz stuff, I was starting to miss the man vs man stuff, no laser beams, no wings…. Then they lost their super powers, the music kicked in and they started throwing hands! Damn that felt good and made for a perfect epic conclusion.
I went crazy in the final boss. I'm so glad Max loved it at least as much. The callbacks are so peak and even if someone didn't have the necessary context the presentation and flow of the fight are just so well pulled off, it'll turn out to be something special.
This story mode is chefs kiss, when you take a cliche pretty basic storyline and intertwine it with nostalgic music, throwbacks references, nods to OG players and keep the story tight without straying off plot and really hone in on the final battle is when you have the ingredients to make a great delivery. The hype that built throughout this mode for me was tangible, a big round of applause to the whole production team, what a feast for the eyes
What this game told me is that real heart of a story is the characters. You can have the most bullshit nonsensical plot ever, but if the characters are compelling and resonate with the audience, it can still be a winner.
@@AICW In a similar vain that's exactly why I love Kingdom Hearts. Besides, I feel like too many people complain about plots without really knowing what they want from it. It's extremely easy to fall into a mindset as a writer where you see the audience as your enemy, and you need to outsmart them all the time. And that mentality leads to really shitty plot twists as such.
Absolutely wild how they managed to top the final battle of T7's story, like holy shit it was absolutely beautiful and hype as hell! Definitely one of the best final battles ever!
Tekken might be the only series I've seen that has effortlessly have the final battle transission from being a Dragon Ball fight to a Baki fight and still make you feel something.
@@JosephFlores-yn4yi not quite. It has been done before that existed series, but the way this game goes about it is so close to Naruto that it seems as if the staff traded notes. I say traided because BAMCO also created the storm games for the Naruto franchise.
@@fightingmedialounge519 Gotta go even further back than that...hokuto no ken was the first. check the series out, almost every shonen series has found inspiration from it one way or another. This final fight in tekken remined me so much of the kenshiro vs raoh final fight its insane!
I really hope they give Kazuya a redemption arc. He definitely needs one. Maybe even have him now be the Vegeta of the Tekken series. I'd be down for that.
The little tease at the end with Jun definitely makes me think he’ll get a redemption arc in Tekken 9 since Jun’s really the only person Kazuya truly kept loving even after everything he did and went through, if anyone could fix him, it’d be Jun
Guessing Tekken 9's plot is gonna be like DMC5 aka the family reconciliation game Since Jun is seemingly alive she's gonna whip her boys into shape, Reina's probs gonna be the new big bad
I don't think he should have a full redemption. He should stay as the selfish, might-makes-right, villain as always, but make him start to care about more things now that he no longer can just be defined by the devil gene
Ending was so good. They kept the final fantasy mega fight for chapter 14..and kept the final simple but epic. And hearing Jins theme was the ice on the cake.
Max i cant confirm that this is 100% true because im only saying this based on the fact that this songs sound kinda similar to Heat Haze and Electric Fountain, BUT! If you listen closely to the first phase of the Angel Jin X Devil Kazuya fight the song Fallen Destiny sounds slightly like Karma Electric Fountain, then the second phase of it or the climax version of the same song shifts into a style that kinda sounds like Heat Haze, its like the fight is a rearranged fight of both the Kazuya X Heihachi fight and like the second phase is going backwards until the theme of Jin from Tekken 3 starts playing. You are literally fighting your way backwards in the franchise with the last battle against Devil Kazuya, that's why it has seven phases, each for all the games in the franchise.
Such an incredible story! The fact that we saw Jin and Kaz change at their most strongest form to their most base form without the story losing hype or the ending feelin lackluster is insane.
It just sucks that max's QTE scenes decided to bug out and not show anytime he pressed one it just had a black screen except for i think once during the mind palace devil jin fight
They were so engrossed and hooked on the story that they could forgot about the cliche And it's for the best! Tropes are tools and not everything needs to be a snarky nitpick, just let the story cook 🔥
The ending of this game. I literally have no words to describe how good it was to see Tekken 3 Jin back. I had to literally pause the game because i started crying. It's crazy. Tekken is life for me. The music, the fight, the history behind Kazuya and Jin. It was all great to see.
This whole story mode had me going OOOOOO SHIIIT the whole god damn time, literally made for tekken fans through and through, Jin getting his old moves back was like the dopest shit ever I swear 😭 Good Ass Tekken!!!
I know literally nothing about the story of Tekken and your videos on this games storymode is my first time seeing any of it. This is the coolest anime ever!!!!
What kind of sorcery had the entire story mode in Unreal 5??? They may've finally tapped into the PS5’s potential, the result of leaving last gen behind, you get a fantastic looking piece of art
What I love the most about Jin when he uses his Tekken 3 moves more precisely the Mishima Ryu Style of Karate, is the fact that his stance is the Omen Stance, the same stance his grandfather Heihachi Mishima takes when he fought, he's not only accepted his past and who he is, he also has accepted the fact that even though his grandfather betrayed him and tried to kill him, he accepts the fact that it was him who trained and taught him how to fight after Jun's disappearance.
Their base forms seemed stronger than ever despite not having the Devil Gene anymore, obviously not as strong as in Devil form but i feel it made Kazuya push his human form more than ever and Jin also said "Then i must surpass you" With Kazuya summoning lightning from the sky i think he surpassed Heihachis base form(obviously not Heihachis crazy ascended buff form in Tekken 7,thats even a special skin called Final Heihachi,Jin and Kazuya may show that form in Tekken 9) Jins red lightning also seemed to have evolved a lot. Makes sense, Heihachi pushed himself more cause he didn't have a Devil Gene, since Kazuyas parents are stronger than Heihachis parents he should have more potential(Heihachi beat Jinpachi in lore). He just got comfortable over time due to having the Devil Gene
I wouldn't even say comfortable, he just focused on the Devil powers instead. As you can see, that worked out pretty well for him. It's just once those were gone, he had to fall back on his other strengths, like you mentioned.
I had just finished the story mode and my god what a ride it was. My ass was glued to the couch and eyes to the TV, beating the story mode all in one sitting and man the end where Jin finally lets go of all anger hatred towards the Devil and deciding to combine the Mishima and Kazama styles with a remix of Jin’s theme from Tekken 3 had me giddying at every moment. In realizing and accepting both sides of his family he realizes he wants to live on and protect those he cares for, all feels like a natural evolution of Jin’s character. Underneath the mistakes he’s made in sending the world to Hell, this is one Devil that had more of a heart than he realized.
that was a really good story mode. Good story, beautiful cinematics, lots of nods to the past, crazy finale, funny moments, well-paced, and a good cliffhanger. 10/10
Test tube baby, absorbed some of Azazel's power, Heihachi found another Hachijo woman to knock up, pick one. They'll explain it in the future, right now it's just sequel bait.
I’m glad Jim got some love. First character I was draw to when my dad bought me tekken tag tournament. After 4 he just was bad but still loved the character.
Mad shout outs to the devs for making a final boss in a fighting game actually epic. After Titan Shang Tsung in MK1 went down like a chump, I was ready for another disappointing finale, but Kazuya's last stand more than lived up to the hype.
Tekken 8 definitely has the best fighting game story mode I’ve witnessed. The ending makes me feel like I’m playing Yakuza all over again. Pure badass.
I love how Kazuya loses the Devil Gene and his reaction was basically "That's crazy. Im still gonna beat your ass."
That made Kazuya cooler to me.
I think it was more like whatever, I'm still gonna beat your ass
More like I"m still strongest here
@@PAINNN666When they are both in base forms,Kazuya has lost 3 times of 3 matches.
-Tekken 4,Jin won(although the manuals say it was a very hard fight)
-Tekken 8 New York Jin was CONSISTENTLY winning till they BOTH went Devil
-Tekken 8 Final Fight Jin had the edge MOST of the time(otherwise the cinematics dont initiate) and he ultimately won.
Stronger my A$$.
Jin also SLIGHTLY overpowered him in their head butt clash.
Jin=Slightly stronger
Kazuya=More power
@@newhybrid101 Say this to Kazuya. He thinks that. I retranslate his position
I love how even though they lost the devil gene Kazuya was indifferent and still wanted to throw hands till the end
He probably figured he could do the same thing he did in 7, find another Devil gene to transplant after killing Jin.
Like Kazuya said, it's just a means to an end. He killed Heihachi after being beaten out of his devil form, it's his strongest weapon but he's too mentally resilient to lose composure after no longer having access to it. The only thing that knocks him off balance are people who are themselves strong-willed beyond all reason - Heihachi and Lars coming back with the headbutts those respective times and Jin constantly standing up here after being knocked down many times.
Even then Kazuya himself will just scream a new healthbar into existence until he's totally KO'd.
Jin was gonna make sure he went down even without him having the devil gene. Because at the end of the day, Kazuya would have still kept the war going.
Just an evil prick right to his core. The devil didn't corrupt Kazuya, just made him stronger lol
in his alt ending he literally says "whatever, I'll fight to the end either way" basically so yea
Bandai Namco: How do we top a volcano finale?
Harada: ……We go to space.
JoJo part 2 ass ending
The TRIGGER method
Kazuya: The one place that hasn't be corrupted by cliffs....SBBAAACE!!
"We go to space due to the initial impulse of a volcanic eruption"
Someone in the Tekken team is a JoJo fan.
The second I heard Jin’s T3 theme, my instincts told me to go for his T3 combos. Imagine my surprise when *most of them worked.*
Same I was like T3 Jin combo has to be back and I'm glad it did lol
Fr tho, my instincts were telling me "Hellsweep this MF RN!!!" and my god, I laughed because I actually had it at that moment, lmao.
LMAOOO
It felt like my younger self is taking the controller again
@@dx_Rain_xbLMAOO SAMEE. Immediately after, the joy i felt being able to WGF into 2,1,2 was immense. Literally the only combo i knew since playing on the original old T3 arcade machine when i was like 7
Jin: With that, the devil’s blood is gone from the world.
Reina (exactly 2 Minutes later): *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT!?!*
devil reina has to be dlc right? they a whole model for her and everything
It's like the Tekken 3 intro, the devil gene looked for a new host with Mishima blood. Right?
@@OrangeLightning86 I dont think so no. Reina definitely already knew she had the gene. She made it clear she was observing jin to see how he activates his devil powers, she confirms its when he gets close to death and so puts herself in a situation to mimic that (standing in kaz's beam). It was her whole reason for joining the main gang and fighting kazuya from the start, so she could activate her devil gene
Also the devil gene doesn't jump to hosts or anything you're born with it
Question is definitely how she got it. She’s supposed to be younger than Jin (at least his Junior at Mishima Tech) but Kazumi died when Kazyua was a boy so….
Man I swear that was the lamest twist. They desparately need to add story DLC to explain how she could even have the devil gene, it feels so out of nowhere.
The Rise (T3), The Fall (T6), and The Redemption (T8) of Jin Kazama
Facts
I couldn’t have said it better to Jin’s journey.
Jin killed millions of people around the world, he can't be redeemed.
@@shababchyit was the awaken Azazel to end the devil gene cycle
@@RatedShadowXrd ok and Reina is still a devil, so it didn't work
Max beating Kazuya with the Kazama counter was *chef's kiss*
Great observation. Chef’s kiss indeed
the Mishima wavedash into getting Kazama countered couldn't have been more perfect
Very poetic, yeah.
@@konkaiwa515 The move is also called "Patricide Fist", the same move Kazuya used to kill Heihachi. It's very fitting that a Kazama move could counter it, thus breaking the cycle lore-wise.
For the most part, Jin automatically performs it. You gotta just hold the back button
This is the Tekken equivalent to the Solid Snake vs Liquid Ocelet boss fight from the end of MGS4. Just unleashing the full extent of your 30 year long legacy in one big final boss fight between the series most iconic hero and villain. The definition of peak fiction. You don’t get to do stuff like this unless your franchise is truly this longstanding and legendary it just won't work.
And then the music changes. And you play different. Then the MUSIC CHANGES AGAIN. AND YOU'RE PLAYING TEKKEN 2 OUT OF NOWHERE. I LOVE IT.
The Solid Snake vs Liquid Ocelot fight had a lot more emotional weight behind it than this one. You actually felt their struggle as the fight went on. Maybe if this game had the last rounds with them struggling to even throw a punch, it'd feel like it had more weight behind it.
Jin was never a hero in tekken though, that's why i loved tekken's characters: all the main characters are assholes. Redeeming him into a more generic protag is kinda weak imo
Not trying to Dissagre with MGS saga but, tekken had different feels and mostly because best story on fighting game i know so far
@@AlriikRidesAgainI lost my mind when I heard the tekken 2 credits theme
Kazuya is definitely alive. The breaking of the chain isn't just the devil gene being overcome. The symbol represents Jin breaking free of the Mishima's cycle of sons killing their fathers.
True because he didn’t throw him off the cliff. He just left him there to sleep.
Damn that's deep !
"The cycle ends here"
And coming to your home screens in Tekken 9 is father and son beating up the fathers half-sister/cousin or whatever she might exactly be. Stay tuned for the next episode.
@@itshanhan1 probably DLC
20:45 Is one of the best bits in this fight from a narrative perspective. "Anyone who tries to dictate how I live... Will suffer for their transgression! ", says everything you need to know about Kaz with only a single sentence. He just wants to break free from everyones control, from Heihachi, G corp, Azazel, the devil gene, and the entire world. Dude just wants to be free from the shackles of destiny, and power was the only way to do it. Hence his entire stance in this game of might makes right. Even then he hesitates for a split second as he sees his son nearly defeated, showing that a small peice of him loves Jin, and feels remorse for what he is doing, and about to do.
I don't know if I would call it "love" or "remorse", I think it's more like empathy because he probably sees himself in Jin as well, since Jin has suffered in the same way and also wants to be free of this fate that the devil gene and his family has brought upon him.
At the end of the day, I think both of them were fighting for the freedom of their lives.
Yeah, I really like the small bits of humanity that they've injected Kaz near the end of the storyline.
Definitely gonna be Vegeta on the next installment, and I'm here for it.
@@gfhhfgZ And he was gonna leave him as well after hitting the initial final blow, walking away before Jin rallied back.
Hence the alternate ending when Kaz is like “Well if your not gonna stop bothering me…” and throws Jin off a cliff 🤣
I'd like to believe that he was gonna say "if anyone tries to dictate how I live, they shall die!" But since it's Jin he has more remorse and the little feeling he has left made him change his sentence to what he actually said
Only issue I had with his stance is for someone looking to break the chains of destiny, idk why he feels like only "strong" people deserve that. Imo any person who hates living under the boot of others wouldn't think that the fate should be cast to others
Jin won by realizing the real Tekken was the friends we made along the way
Thats basically it. Power of friendship! Except its not anime level. Just Jin powering through the pain.
@@scarlightemperor3410it's literally anime level 😂 Tekken is 100 percent anime
@@scarlightemperor3410who is gonna tell Bro that Tekken Is 1000% anime
The real tekken was tekken 3
I understand now father...
I am the Tekken 8.
Here's an interesting fact
Counting both Chapter 14 and 15. Jin and Kazuya fought *8 times* overall in the finale of *Tekken 8* .
😮
They're making up for lost time. The only time they fought in the entire timeline was the ending of Tekken 4.
@@sebastiancintron29well also blood vengeance but we don’t talk about that looney bin.
@@dereknight861 hey man atleast the fight in the end is decent lol😆
@@dereknight861 I don't consider that canon
All the references and callbacks with the music and Jin switching between all of his stances were just godlike. I didn't expect the story mode to go this hard, but it was absolutely amazing.
And then on the last fight, he can just do EVERYTHING. Steel Pedal Kicks, Heihachi's stomp, Electric loops, Kazama parries, the works. This is peak Jin.
I always think Story in Fighting game are not so important
But, Tekken prove me that wrong
@@hyliandoctorwhen T9 Jin is a mix of Mishima style, Kazama style and traditional Karate
@@ToyotaKudoFanI’d fucking love it but I doubt they will
@@ToyotaKudoFan they'll either give him this story moveset in T9 or they'll make it properly playable in T8 with DLC. After we get a proper Tekken Force/Tekken Warriors mode.
Post credit scene: Jin is standing alone on a cliff overlooking the ocean, thinking about his fight with Kazuya. He is suddenly distracted by footsteps, and a voice behind him.
"Jin Kazama?"
The camera pans to reveal Solid Snake:
"That was some good ass Tekken"
Cut to black.
lol
Fitting considering how this whole story mode felt like an Avengers movie lol
Really flexing the budget with Tekken 8 with these last few fights.
Honestly all the fights at the end with Kazuya felt like it had higher production value than like 95% of games I've played.
there was more of a budget for the ending, than the entire tekken 7.
The choreography was impressive too - the bit with Kaz doing repeat electrics to juggle Jin felt like a fun little meta bit. Like yeh, that's how he canonically uses that move.
@@alastormedial and the fact Kazuya starts wavedashing in the last few rounds instead of running? An inspired choice
Like SF6, it's AAA done right. Creative vision and boatloads of money combined.
26:19
Kazuya dashing forward and max getting the parry while also getting scared by it was great moment
Bro when I was playing, I was popping off seeing Kazuya wavedash at mach speed and kick my ass every time he was more than 5 feet away from Jin
I find it poetic that said parry was not only the thing that beat Kazuya, but also that the parry was a technique from Jun.
Even now, Jun is protecting her son.
@@insanemindset2667 While also beating her husband/lover, lmao
@@insanemindset2667Someone else in the comments mentioned that it's the same punch that stopped Heihachi's heart in 7, so the Kazama style counter saved his life.
"Why, Mr. Anderson, why, why do you persist!?"
"Because I choose to."
Definitely has the same energy
That's who I want as a guest character. NEO
U know what I was was getting that vibe
@@eliminator173 I'm not a guest character guy, I pretty much never use them, but Neo would be a good choice.
man i miss hugo weaving from matrix trilogy
I finally know how Metal Gear fans felt when the finale of 4 happened. The callbacks, the implementations of other fighting styles to represent his acceptance of his entire existence
I love they did Jin so much justice in this ending and I couldn’t be more happier to witness the amount of love and care that was put into it. So happy I’m a Jin fan ❤️🔥
What a treat for TK3 fans who've been with Jin since Day 1, with Mishima-style Jin AND a sweet remix of his theme.
Max's reaction once he realizes was how I and every other fan since Tekken 3 felt, I'm sure. Funny how all it takes to turn Jin from a cool guy to the hypest thing ever is simply have his theme music in the background while he's doing signature Mishima moves and parries.
Reina: “Finally. I now have the power to push people off cliffs now”
The final fight reminded me so much of the end of MGS4 where Snake fights Liquid-Ocelot using the various forms of CQC from previous games.
I thought the same thing
snake for tekken
Definitely the same vibes
Yeah using his style cgc and changing to naked snake
check DEVILMAN whole Tekken series is based on it.
Even final fight on moon has nod to it
The extra story you unlock after the story mode explains that Jun escaped to that Kazama shrine location to use its power to drive Ogre back at the cost of being put in stasis, so she's very much alive.
I wish she was more involved though. She was barely relevant at all.
@@TehParismiosetting that up for 9 probably
@@itellyouhwhat7153or possibly a story expansion for tekken 8
@@TKMacstaUnless Harada completely defies everything done with Tekken to this point, I don't see a Tekken 8 Aftermath like this is MK11. Tekken 9 is just straight up confirmed.
@@itellyouhwhat7153 @TehParismio Biggest missed opportunity, hyping her up as alive only to appear at the very very end. Same set way they did with Reina too where there's way more questions than answers and kinda going against the whole purpose of what Jin was doing.
This whole story and the ending were a big love letter to all Tekken fans, especially old ones. I loved every second of it.
23:11 "I feel my energy, that voice is telling me--" FIGHT.
Music hits, memory floods. So damn good. Adored the story and these moments.
This story really shows that since the very beginning of Tekken, Heihachi was the true villain all along. He's the cause of everything. If he hadn't tried to kill his son and ruined his whole life, Kazuya wouldn't have turned out this evil. And even after he's dead, he's still responsible for whatever nonsense Reina is going to do now.
kazuyas a poor traumatized boy and has his own son traumatized by the same dad that traumatized him and makes them both start a world war lol
He even causes Tekken 5 with jinpachi who was a good dude. That's why I didn't like Tekken 7 tried to humanize heihachi since he's literally responsible for everything. The devil gene isn't even inherently evil as confirmed in this game it depends on the disposition of the person who is using it and their mental and emotional state which heihachi caused
Heihachi was the villain but kazumi is what started this shit even if on accident
@@garytaylor8193 Kazumi was originally secretly sent to get close to Heihachi in order to kill him because he was a threat to the world. I wouldn't blame her for Heihachi already being evil.
Thank You! 👍😇
Jin transforming into a Saint Seiya character and fighting Kazuya in space was not what I expected from this game, but I’m so glad we got it
Kazuya becomes radamanthys from the Hades arc lmao
that was way too over the top for me personally, but hey im just one guy
@@monstersinthecity Bro Jin literally Hypnos the god of sleep from saint seiya too. 😂
@@DragonHeart613hows liu kang Goku?
Tekken 8’s story mode is what Street Fighter V: A Shadow Falls should’ve been. Awesome presentation, everyone gets some time in the spotlight, a satisfying conclusion to a long-running conflict, and a long, drawn-out, epic final battle with the big villain.
Yeah, imagining how SF5 story could have been otherwise...
Except everyone didn't get time in the spotlight, it's arguable if half of them. What this game has over SFV is visual representation,.and that had a greater focus on who mattered while not pushing those who didn't.
Now I wish SF VI had a cinematic story mode to improve upon their very first attempt at such a thing. I know we got world tour, but still...
@@tropixx_xlr1549May likely be in the complete edition
"Each punch I throw has the weight of everyone I love and everyone who loves me behind it. You feel the force of who I'm fighting for with every blow. Your punches have nothing behind them but your own strength" -Invincible
Classic shounen inspired pretty much all forms of media 😂
I forget, was that during his final fight with Thragg?
@@TheGraveKnight yes
@@MrInuhanyou123Yeah, because it fucking rules!
Jin also completely flipped Kazuya's ideals on him. Kazuya says a fight is all about who is left standing, while Jin retorts that it is about survival. And these are not mutually exclusive - the fundamental difference is that Kazuya believes "victory goes to the person who is in it to win, no matter the cost" while Jin believes "victory goes to the person who can keep getting up no matter how hard they keep getting hit."
It's effectively unstoppable force versus immovable object, but the immovable object wins. Jin wins not due to his physical strength, but because he has a plethora of techniques as well as people he cares about and wants to live alongside. Kazuya has nothing besides his sneaker collection
20:23 'Chat I'm gonna cry'
I did man... the emotions and excitement from the music, the fights, the story and old memories of a Tekken lover.
Such a beautiful game.
Jin embracing ALL of his old fighting styles is the coolest bloody thing ever, I WISH we could use his styles in multiplayer, Karate Jin, Mishima style Jin, Kazama style Jin and multi style Jin, just switch into them before each match.
My theory is Jin in any future games will be a Mishima/kazama style hybrid so his got moves from both sides of his family
"I... I want to live!"
oh my god why am i actually crying
And it comes from man like Jin , its just wow
The shot of him saying "Do I have the right to desire life?" where it looks like Jun isn't there anymore genuinely got me. They left her reply just long enough that it really feels like she's gone.
A lot of Jin’s flashbacks/thoughts glitched in Max’s playthrough and didn’t show for some reason, but he thinks of Devil Jin, Jun, and Xiaoyu when he says he wants to live. The symbolism of it being those 3 is great. They really made Jin’s development so good 🤌
That line brought me back to One Piece, watching the Water 7 Arc back then.
Previously the man wanted to kill the Mishimas and himself so the cursed bloodline would end and the devil gene wont go on.
Now here, Jin wanted to live and no longer has murderous intent on Kazuya, but still wants to knock him out.
Kazuya is confirmed to be still alive at the end of story mode, and so is Jun according to her official bio for Tekken 8.
Jin’s T3 theme remix and his classic moveset made me wanna cry in the best of ways
The hypest I’ve felt at a game’s story in a LONG time
15:00
They did it. They did the thing only fighting games can do. They told a story via moveset. I am crying with joy.
Lol not many recognize the T2 music though. I really been with the series since the beginning wow
Yeah and the fact when he switch to Juns stance. I was thinking to myself there's no way they are playing the credits theme from Tekken 2.
It's crazy how they made you fight the same character almost 10 times in a row and still managed to make it EPIC and satisfying.
"almost admirable" coming from kazuya was high praise. For him to approach a compliment shows he was proud of his son. I think Jin had to hear that just as much as all his allies cheering him on
That ending was real hype overload. The best story in the Tekken series.
They did so much good fan service for the story! When Jin's theme started playing, I got chills
If you lose the hurricane fight against Kazuya during the very final stage of that fight there is an alternate ending where Kazuya wins the punch clash, and are then given a cutscene of a victorious Kazuya.
Complete with him doing the Mishima classic once again by throwing Jin off the cliff.
There is an alternative ending if you let Kazuya win in the last phase, when he is enraged.
I got that ending via Skill Issue 😅 I played it the night it came out so by the time i got to the last fights,i was beat. Kaz straight wooped me on that last fight.
Thats weird, I died many times to that phase and i still got a retry message, thought getting the bad ending had to do with failing the QTEs
Maybe im misremembering??
@@kacpercicharski4193 It must the absolutely last phase, when Kazuya is glowing red. I remember that failing was hard for me because Jin got all of his health back once (maybe due to doing all QTEs?). The only QTE that you cannot fail is standing up.
It's from the VERY last phase. When you lose during the last part you get some health back and rage. I tried holding onto the rage for extra damage (since both you and Kazuya take less damage per hit on that chapter) but I couldn't really land a blow. I tried using the rage art and Kazuya sidestepped it like a Skyrim NPC. I thought it was gonna give me an option to continue as well, but it didn't xD@@kacpercicharski4193
13:22 naaaahhh the music sync on that was CRAZY
For those who don't know. That music playing at the end of Jin's theme, the singing part, is the credits to Tekken 1. They remade it in TTT2
The credits to Tekken 2, actually.
@@Kirbyfan87827 it's such a cool callback
You’re almost right. It was actually the credits in T2 after you defeat Devil. I thought that was cool.
The multiple iterations of Jin throughout was pretty dope and went about how I had hoped
Harada stated Jun is alive and some ingame stuff explains this as well dood
What stuff? As far as I was concerned the character episodes are non-canon
@@Cradien Its her Special Gallery that explains how she survived her fight with Ogre before T3.
@@Cradien After beating story mode, a message pops up saying "Jun side story unlocked".
my friend made theory that Jun has devil gene. However, not Mishima, some different bloodline from Azazeal spawns.
Devil Gene awakens when somebody is close to death. After her fight with Ogre, she survived and was reborn as Unknown.
Unknown is canon
@@TaigaXsenpai Unknown is not canon. The Kazama's are purifiers which is why Jun was able to barely beat Ogre when they stepped into a Kazama sanctuary as she got powered up and it weakened Ogre.
The Tekken 6 artbook revealed that Unknown was originally meant to be Jun's sister but the idea was dropped as the main story element when Tekken Tag Tournament became non-canonical.
So even if Unknown was canon she'd be Jun's sister.
*PRESS X TO LIVE*
...Become -Fire Punch- Iron Fist.
*PRESS X TO NOT F**KING DIE!*
@@GenericProtagonist118 BRUH 🤣
PRESS X TO WIN WITH YOY HEART
But what if I press ⬆, ⬆, ⬇, ⬇, ◀, ▶, ◀, ▶, B, A, START?
Actually Harada confirmed in a recent interview that Jun wasn’t dead, she escaped Orge by fleeing into that sanctuary place. He even said that his team never once said that Jun was dead and everyone just assumed that she was. My guess, Tekken 9 will have Reina as the main villain and possibly a redemption arc for Kazuya…or maybe a tekken 3 style time skip, just a guess
Ogre should be a DLC
My guess is Heihachi will be back 😂
@@cmj199318 If they did a time skip, they could make Kazuya look like Heihachi lol
they would most likely make kazuya the MC again, and maybe Reina would take over the Zaibatsu and Kazuya is forced to go on the run with Jun
Or just a new mc and tekken 9 is a 3 year time skip
Man I cried during the last fight, when Jin pulls out the tekken 3 stance with his theme redone, and then jun’s stance, literally came
He also had Heihachi's stance.
ayo-
You literally what? 🫣
@@MrBadhan95 lol u saw it.
@@MrBadhan95 you read that right 😂
As someone who has only played the T7 story mode through, and having only a little bit of info on the other games stories, this was still incredible
I even recognized that Jin's moveset changed! It was so cool
Especially in the tournament when they did music references you missed out on great stuff.
Check t5dr devil jin theme and t6 chara selection
This had me in nostalgia tears. 25 years after first falling in love with tekken 3 finally coming to a conclusion. Jin finally got the recognition he deserved from the fanbase. ❤
Okay... Everything about this had my jaw drop... But as a Jun fan since T3, seeing Jin adapt her style had me tear up ngl. What a wonderful love letter to Tekken fans!
There has never been a more hype moment in Tekken's history than the return of Mishima-Ryu Jin Kazama using Electric Wind God Fist, Demon Steel Pedal, and Laser Scraper with the Tekken 3 Jin theme needle drop.
I would pay obscene amounts of money for final battle Jin to be a fully playable character 😅
We're gonna have to wait like a decade for Tekken 9 to feature Final Battle Jin bro 😭
as a offline secret moveset for sure, but I can see fully banned from online ranked, way too OP
@@giovane_Diazbasically Devil Jin from T7 lol
Borderline suicidal Jin yelling “I…I want to live!” After going the entire game thinking the world would be better off without him unironically made me feel both hyped and emotional. That’s one of his arcs in this story. Finding the will to live again, even after he defeats Kazuya.
The best part was when it went through the remixed versions of Jin's Tekken 3 & Tekken 2's Staff Roll theme & Jin's fighting style changing in correspondence to that.
I haven’t played a Tekken game since Tekken 3 when I was a kid, yet this finale was so incredibly hype for me I couldn’t help but constantly pop off with every new fight, every new set piece, every single new music drop, this finale is just PEAK Tekken and encapsulates why this franchise is so incredibly cool man
Wow 25:13, this is one of those perfect lightning in a bottle moment, and by that, i mean how Max plays this final round
The start with the armoured counter then karate into aggressive Mishima style offence then Kazuya counters so then Max/Jin tries the stone head throw, Kaz counters and then tries to attack but mid animation Jin/Max catches him with another stone head and it connects then, after exchanging some hits the cinematic slow mo lighting uppercut race which Jin/Max wins ("that wasn't a cinematic like i did that") then some strong back and forth with Kaz gaining momentum with an armoured punch into lightning kick but then Max/Jin he does a tekken 3 counter which then leads into a frame animation perfect Kazama style throw reversal.
Edit: Talking about like key moments, I know there were a lot of hits exchanged in between
Like, i'm probably just crazy but this felt so clean that it looked choregraphed
I so hope one day we get a playable Jin that has this mix of moves (which I know would probably be unbalanced) even as DLC I'd be happy
2 laser scrapers into a roundhouse or hellsweep was THE combo a sweaty teen in 1999 who read the guide could realistically hope to pull off against friends and in 3 it was practically a death combo. No rage spam after that!
This story mode in T8 literally surpasses and destroys T7’s Story Mode in my book. I absolutely love the finale. Now it’s making me want to play the story mode once more or better yet rewatch the cutscenes, cause it was just so damn good.
What's great about Jin using his T3 moveset, is that it isn't him in Devil Form nor is it a mod, it's literally Bandai Namco and Harada acknowledging his old moveset using Jin himself. I would actually like it if in Tekken Tag 3, we were somehow given a chance to choose between the 2 movesets with Jin.
T3 Jin coming back is the biggest apology video ever and i love it.
Reina is a test tube baby.
Either she is a female Kazuya clone (hence the devil gene)
Or she is an experiment using the devil gene.
Or Heihachi found another woman with the devil gene.
Or she got it from Azazel and/or True Devil Kazuya with Azazel powers (as Azazel can grant the devil power).
Whatever the truth is... it's gonna be in Tekken 9.
If any of it is true it pretty much proved that Heihachi was full of bs about wanting to destroy the devil gene
@@williamcorey4700Let's not forget he wanted to create an ultimate life form using the Devil Gene and Ogre's DNA.
I think she's a semi-recent clone of Kazuya with a dormant devil gene, which would explain why she seems so young compared to her half-brothers and even Jin
@@KapitanWasTaken Back when fighting Jin she was very curious about his devil powers which was before True Devil Kazuya had his powers. I'm assuming she was so curious because she didn't know how to activate her own powers. I mean she could've gotten it from Azazel before he was sealed but why would he give her the power and not teach her how to use it.
He could've found another woman. But considering Tekken is known for genetic tampering (Steve, bringing Kazuya back to life, freezing Nina and Anna, etc) test tube baby seems more the series' style.
This was easily one the greatest fighting game story modes I’ve ever seen. I honestly can’t recall a time being this hyped by a story, this was done exceedingly well, Hats off to Harada and The Tekken team, they delivered.
Tekken 3 on PS2 huh?@@ErmacOfOutworld
During the angel vs demon space dbz stuff, I was starting to miss the man vs man stuff, no laser beams, no wings…. Then they lost their super powers, the music kicked in and they started throwing hands! Damn that felt good and made for a perfect epic conclusion.
I felt the exact same way. It was amazing how the fight ended with just them in base form going at it
I went crazy in the final boss. I'm so glad Max loved it at least as much. The callbacks are so peak and even if someone didn't have the necessary context the presentation and flow of the fight are just so well pulled off, it'll turn out to be something special.
The chat popping off at all the stuff that happens in this finale during the twitch stream was just magical.
This story mode is chefs kiss, when you take a cliche pretty basic storyline and intertwine it with nostalgic music, throwbacks references, nods to OG players and keep the story tight without straying off plot and really hone in on the final battle is when you have the ingredients to make a great delivery.
The hype that built throughout this mode for me was tangible, a big round of applause to the whole production team, what a feast for the eyes
Exactly. Tropes are just tropes. The execution of them matter
What this game told me is that real heart of a story is the characters. You can have the most bullshit nonsensical plot ever, but if the characters are compelling and resonate with the audience, it can still be a winner.
@@AICW In a similar vain that's exactly why I love Kingdom Hearts.
Besides, I feel like too many people complain about plots without really knowing what they want from it. It's extremely easy to fall into a mindset as a writer where you see the audience as your enemy, and you need to outsmart them all the time. And that mentality leads to really shitty plot twists as such.
When they clash the energy surge is in the shape of Heihachi's hair, the old man lives through all his kids. ❤️
Absolutely wild how they managed to top the final battle of T7's story, like holy shit it was absolutely beautiful and hype as hell! Definitely one of the best final battles ever!
25:49 The electric clash happening there and not being scripted is so insanely cool!!
there are very few franchises that can pull of a final fight of that caliber. I felt like I was Jin Kazama in that last fight
At the end of Tekken 7 when Jin said he was going to kill Kazuya, I knew Tekken 8 was gonna be good.
Dude what a cool story! It's so fucking Tekken it hurts. This was badass and I can't wait for more Tekken in the future.
Tekken might be the only series I've seen that has effortlessly have the final battle transission from being a Dragon Ball fight to a Baki fight and still make you feel something.
Eh, that's pretty much the ending to Naruto, to the point where it seems suspicious how similar these endings are.
fact@@fightingmedialounge519
@@fightingmedialounge519 it's not suspicious
It's a basic story trope
@@JosephFlores-yn4yi not quite. It has been done before that existed series, but the way this game goes about it is so close to Naruto that it seems as if the staff traded notes. I say traided because BAMCO also created the storm games for the Naruto franchise.
@@fightingmedialounge519 Gotta go even further back than that...hokuto no ken was the first. check the series out, almost every shonen series has found inspiration from it one way or another. This final fight in tekken remined me so much of the kenshiro vs raoh final fight its insane!
I really hope they give Kazuya a redemption arc. He definitely needs one. Maybe even have him now be the Vegeta of the Tekken series. I'd be down for that.
The little tease at the end with Jun definitely makes me think he’ll get a redemption arc in Tekken 9 since Jun’s really the only person Kazuya truly kept loving even after everything he did and went through, if anyone could fix him, it’d be Jun
Same now that he no longer has the devil gene my guess is that Kaz Jun and Jin are gonna team up to stop Reina who is the last final Devil
Guessing Tekken 9's plot is gonna be like DMC5 aka the family reconciliation game
Since Jun is seemingly alive she's gonna whip her boys into shape, Reina's probs gonna be the new big bad
I don't think he should have a full redemption. He should stay as the selfish, might-makes-right, villain as always, but make him start to care about more things now that he no longer can just be defined by the devil gene
I'm thinking we'll get an old man Kazuya who gets kinda redeemed partially by Jun and teams up eith Jin begrudgingly to take down Reina or something
Ending was so good. They kept the final fantasy mega fight for chapter 14..and kept the final simple but epic. And hearing Jins theme was the ice on the cake.
Max i cant confirm that this is 100% true because im only saying this based on the fact that this songs sound kinda similar to Heat Haze and Electric Fountain, BUT!
If you listen closely to the first phase of the Angel Jin X Devil Kazuya fight the song Fallen Destiny sounds slightly like Karma Electric Fountain, then the second phase of it or the climax version of the same song shifts into a style that kinda sounds like Heat Haze, its like the fight is a rearranged fight of both the Kazuya X Heihachi fight and like the second phase is going backwards until the theme of Jin from Tekken 3 starts playing.
You are literally fighting your way backwards in the franchise with the last battle against Devil Kazuya, that's why it has seven phases, each for all the games in the franchise.
That's... was awesome, Max you are incredible
Sick Jojo's Part 2 reference right at the start there
Such an incredible story! The fact that we saw Jin and Kaz change at their most strongest form to their most base form without the story losing hype or the ending feelin lackluster is insane.
It just sucks that max's QTE scenes decided to bug out and not show
anytime he pressed one it just had a black screen except for i think once during the mind palace devil jin fight
Not one "Power of Friendship" joke the entire playthrough....wow, Max. Just, wow.
Simmons provided those so Max could hype out!
(Seemed that way to me.l
They were so engrossed and hooked on the story that they could forgot about the cliche
And it's for the best! Tropes are tools and not everything needs to be a snarky nitpick, just let the story cook 🔥
The chat had him covered.
The Power of Friendship, acceptance, Taking Responsibility, Ideals, Tenacity, Strength, and Pure Resolve.
When done right, you don't think about it.
This was INCREDIBLE, can’t wait for the eventual Boss Rage!
Shine On, Doods!! 😂
Tekken 9 Jin is about to go crazy. Is fighting style being a mix of everything would be cool to see.
21:12 This shows you how consumed Kazuya is with hatred. This is the same line he says to Heihachi when he kills him in T7. I loved this playthrough
The ending of this game. I literally have no words to describe how good it was to see Tekken 3 Jin back. I had to literally pause the game because i started crying. It's crazy. Tekken is life for me. The music, the fight, the history behind Kazuya and Jin. It was all great to see.
Harada used the JoJo reference to give us a spectacular battle sequence.
*SUPER-spectacular battle sequence👌
„And now you will say, that this is getting ridiculous, Jin!“ 🙈
@@ThePianist51 This is getting ridiculous, Jin! **gasp** NANI?!
@@ThePianist51 bro, imagine Jin doing some Joseph Level bs
I really cried during the entire last part, was so emotional, thank you Tekken 8! ❤
This whole story mode had me going OOOOOO SHIIIT the whole god damn time, literally made for tekken fans through and through, Jin getting his old moves back was like the dopest shit ever I swear 😭
Good Ass Tekken!!!
I know literally nothing about the story of Tekken and your videos on this games storymode is my first time seeing any of it. This is the coolest anime ever!!!!
What kind of sorcery had the entire story mode in Unreal 5???
They may've finally tapped into the PS5’s potential, the result of leaving last gen behind, you get a fantastic looking piece of art
What I love the most about Jin when he uses his Tekken 3 moves more precisely the Mishima Ryu Style of Karate, is the fact that his stance is the Omen Stance, the same stance his grandfather Heihachi Mishima takes when he fought, he's not only accepted his past and who he is, he also has accepted the fact that even though his grandfather betrayed him and tried to kill him, he accepts the fact that it was him who trained and taught him how to fight after Jun's disappearance.
Their base forms seemed stronger than ever despite not having the Devil Gene anymore, obviously not as strong as in Devil form but i feel it made Kazuya push his human form more than ever and Jin also said "Then i must surpass you"
With Kazuya summoning lightning from the sky i think he surpassed Heihachis base form(obviously not Heihachis crazy ascended buff form in Tekken 7,thats even a special skin called Final Heihachi,Jin and Kazuya may show that form in Tekken 9)
Jins red lightning also seemed to have evolved a lot.
Makes sense, Heihachi pushed himself more cause he didn't have a Devil Gene, since Kazuyas parents are stronger than Heihachis parents he should have more potential(Heihachi beat Jinpachi in lore).
He just got comfortable over time due to having the Devil Gene
I wouldn't even say comfortable, he just focused on the Devil powers instead. As you can see, that worked out pretty well for him. It's just once those were gone, he had to fall back on his other strengths, like you mentioned.
@@gunnarschlichting9886Yeah
When Jun theme from Tekken 2 came in I lost it!!!!
Jin saying I want to live almost made me cry they did my boy so dirty I’m so happy for him
I had just finished the story mode and my god what a ride it was. My ass was glued to the couch and eyes to the TV, beating the story mode all in one sitting and man the end where Jin finally lets go of all anger hatred towards the Devil and deciding to combine the Mishima and Kazama styles with a remix of Jin’s theme from Tekken 3 had me giddying at every moment. In realizing and accepting both sides of his family he realizes he wants to live on and protect those he cares for, all feels like a natural evolution of Jin’s character. Underneath the mistakes he’s made in sending the world to Hell, this is one Devil that had more of a heart than he realized.
that was a really good story mode. Good story, beautiful cinematics, lots of nods to the past, crazy finale, funny moments, well-paced, and a good cliffhanger. 10/10
Seeing Max so excited over Jin's final fight with Kazuya is pretty wholesome, specially with how important this character is to him
I can't help what think of what the Street Fighter characters are doing during all this.
I thought the devil gene came from Kazuya's mother.
Test tube baby, absorbed some of Azazel's power, Heihachi found another Hachijo woman to knock up, pick one. They'll explain it in the future, right now it's just sequel bait.
Get Ready For The Next Retcon!!
It did. But her clan inherited it from servants of Azazel who were given the gene by him.
@@SilentKGaming Like any long running comic book series the lore ties itself in knots.
As a Jin main since Tekken 4, I'm happy!
I’m glad Jim got some love. First character I was draw to when my dad bought me tekken tag tournament. After 4 he just was bad but still loved the character.
Mad shout outs to the devs for making a final boss in a fighting game actually epic. After Titan Shang Tsung in MK1 went down like a chump, I was ready for another disappointing finale, but Kazuya's last stand more than lived up to the hype.
This was the best Tekken story moment ever. Ten stars
Tekken 8 definitely has the best fighting game story mode I’ve witnessed. The ending makes me feel like I’m playing Yakuza all over again. Pure badass.