DO NOT BUY TEKKEN 8 - VERY disappointing

Hello, welcome back to another video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new,

or to be soon released, Tekken 8. And as

an avid fan of fighting games, I knew I

just had to play this game.

Unfortunately, so far it's kind of been

bland, boring, disappointing, and rather

lacking in a certain kind of luster that

we'll be getting into in today's video.

So as someone who does quite enjoy the

fighting game genre, I have to admit the

fighting game genre space is getting kind

of crowded. There's so many games out

right now. You've got the Mortal Kombat

franchise, came out with a new one,

Mortal Kombat 1. You've got Street

Fighter, came out with a new Street

Fighter 6 recently. And then we have

Tekken, which has to be one of the most

bland fighting games out there in

comparison to the competition. It has like

the most bland fighters, the most bland

visual appearance, the most bland feeling

when you're playing the game. Doesn't have

the very graphic fatalities of Mortal

Kombat, doesn't have the ultra stylized

characters of Street Fighter 6, doesn't

have the cool weapons from Soulcalibur.

It's just kind of like a very kind of

looking game. So my first complaint of

this game would have to be the difficulty.

Now it's been a very long time since I

last played a Tekken game. Last time I

played Tekken very seriously was probably

like 6 or 7 years ago. I think it was

Tekken 6. At the time I was staying in a

guest house in Japan and they had Tekken 6

and a PlayStation 3 or 4, can't remember

now, and we used to have competitions in

the guest house and I was actually one of

the best players. I used to destroy

everyone including the guest house manager

and it's been a while since I last played

a Tekken game, but I put the difficulty up

to the most difficult level, which is

ultra hard. And even with just some basic

button mashing, I was able to defeat the

computer on ultra hard mode whilst not

even knowing how to play the character.

Now you see in the gameplay I'm pretty

good right now because I've at this point

memorized most of these special attacks

and I've got a good feeling of the moveset

of my character, and I know what attacks

to use and at what range to use them. So I

did eventually start getting a lot better,

but even when I just started the game, I

was already destroying the computer just

by button mashing, and I don't know why

the computer is so pathetically weak. And

you might be saying, well, this is a game

you're supposed to play online against

other people, you're not supposed to play

against the computer. Well, I didn't

really have much choice because, you know,

the demo version only lets you play

against the computer. But also, one of the

big new features of Tekken 8 is going to

be the story mode. I've heard that they've

put a big emphasis on the story mode,

which I never really understood for

fighting games. Why would they think

anyone would care about a stupid story

mode in a fighting game? No one cares

about the fighting game They just want to

fight online against other players, or,

you know, fight against their friends or

family in the same living room. But the

computer in the story mode, which is

obviously going to be played by the

computer— because how are you going to do

story mode against other players?

Obviously you're going to fight main

characters and big characters that appear

in the story, and they're going to be

controlled by the computer. But it's just

going to be really boring because the

difficulty is not challenging at at all,

and I can't imagine how a story mode is

going to be interesting in a fighting

game. I think they should have just not

bothered with a story mode and just

focused on the fighting mechanics of the

game. I also found the destructible

environments very annoying. So what

happens is on some levels, if you're about

to have a draw— so you've won 2 matches,

your opponent has won 2 matches— the level

will then destroy itself, and then you'll

get taken down to a lower level, and it

will play this very lengthy cutscene,

which I find very annoying to have to

watch. Through every time. Yeah, one thing

I have to say is the cutscenes in the game

are really long and slow and you can't

skip them. So when you start a new match,

you got the ready fight little thing takes

up a few seconds, and then before that

happens you get like a little cinematic

intro of your character entering the

fighting stage, which takes like 10-15

seconds. It's really annoying because you

gotta see that over and over again.

There's no way to skip it. And then when

you nearly get a draw, the level will

break down, the floor will collapse, and

then you'll get taken to a lower level, a

different part of the level. And that

again is like a very lengthy cutscene,

which is very annoying to have to sit

through every time. And also the special

attacks also have an annoyingly long

cutscene that you have to sit there

watching. There seems to be a lot of

features missing from this game as a

fighting game. For example, there's no

character customization menu. It doesn't

seem like you can create your own

character like in Street Fighter. There's

no open world like there is in Street

Fighter. The fatalities are not very fatal

looking compared to Mortal Kombat. So I

just don't really know how I can recommend

this game at this point because it just

seems like a very bare-bones fighter game,

which is— I guess that's what they're

going for. They want to focus on the

fighting mechanics, and maybe a lot of

people won't really care about being able

to customize their own character or not,

but I feel like that's part of the fun of

a fighting game. You have your own

character, you feel like It's your own

unique creation. So as of right now,

just from what I've seen from the demo

version, I don't know if I would be buying

this game. Maybe when the full game comes

out, there'll be way more features and be

way more interesting. Maybe they'll let

you skip the cutscenes, all these little

intro animations which are extremely

frustrating to have to sit there watching,

and then maybe the game would be

different. But until it does get released,

I don't really know if this game is going

to be good or not. I had an okay time

trying to master this character, but after

I was able to figure out how to beat the

computer almost every single time on ultra

hard mode, it got kind of boring.

Round 3,

fight!

Help!

Round 4, fight!

Final round.

Fight!

That's disappointing.

Round 2,

fight! We're finished.

Round 3,

fight!

You win.