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When going through these Treasure Battles, you’ll also encounter special events against more powerful enemies (obviously rewarding you with better items too) as well as battles with certain additional gamechangers (like double damage, turbo speed, heist battles where you steal the opponents item…). The promotion you can earn when winning battles is also character specific, so you’ll have to put all of them through the mill. With 36 playable characters, there’s plenty to unlock. I really appreciate how there hasn’t been a greedy move here to get you to invest real money: the game throws coins at you with the thousands (in fact you even get 3 million when starting the game, I just blew it all on unlocking the CGI movies). If you don’t like to wait for the random drop of the item you were looking for, you can always buy it from the store as well, using ingame credits. Unless you’re oddly turned on by Kazumi with a bald head. It’s just a shame that you don’t unlock character-specific items. It’s so easy to just enter one more battle and you’re always curious what you’ll unlock next.

The main benefactor to this was the Treasure battles: simple fights against random CPU controlled opponents that let you rank up and gain both credits and cosmetic items for your characters. Speaking of going through a lot of battles: fighting games are usually great “Pick-up-and-play” type games, but I’ve never quite been as addicted to the effects of “just one more fight” as I have been here. It did grow used to it after a few dozen fights though.

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I couldn’t help shake the feeling I wasn’t in full control of them and exactly where they would end up after some directional inputs. The movement of the characters also feels a tad too sluggish, as if they’re moving on a traintrack.

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In Tekken 7 more so than other games, the combo’s feel difficult to escape from unless you perfectly know the move-set of your opponent and how to block it. While the attack above might look amazing, the most efficient method of beating an opponent is still leg-sweeping attacks or juggling them in the air. It’s told from the perspective of a reporter who has lost his entire family due to the struggle between these two giants, but he never enters the fray himself.īut this “Regular attack” has a tiger making mincemeat of Paul, so who’s complaining? It takes off after the events of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and tells us the story of Heihachi’s Mishima Zaibatsu facing off versus his son’s (Kazuya) G-Corp company for domination of the world. But Tekken 7 takes a different approach: Instead of having the story depend on the chosen character, you’ll see a pretty decently developed mythos for the Mishima family. You’d be forgiven for expecting that the story mode can largely be skipped as the many years of fighting games being released have thought us to expect nothing more than a simple intro, a fated battle vs a rival and some fancy CGI cutscene after beating the final boss in Arcade mode.

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Having skipped most of the games until now, I wonder if the series will be able to grab my attention again, some 15 years later.

When my parents would announce we would go over to their house for the day, I would already be dressed and sitting in the car waiting to take off before they even finished their sentence. In my case my fondest memories of the game go back to playing Tekken 2 at a friend’s house on their Playstation and we would go about it for HOURS on end.

Sit in a room full of random gamers, look to your left, look to your right, and chances are all three of you have played at least one Tekken game. Tekken 7 is the latest entry in a series that most of us have grown up with over the years.