Tekken 8 Review (Unholy Lightning)
This game is in a very though position to talk about for me. The design behind Tekken 8 forces you to forget almost everything you already know from Tekken, in a fundamental perspective. Characters have lost their identity in general because of game design itself. Most of the cast have a very powerful 50/50, momentun is not a thing since the game greatly benefits you for mashing. The more you mash, the farther you can climb, theres no other way to say this. There is just way too many powerful strings that will make you eat one 50/50 after another. Completely removing one way to play and forcing another feels wrong and I can't understand this game, it's just casino simulator. I've been playing Tekken for almost 10 years and this just feels like something else and I cannot say what it is.
Rank system is garbage and frustrating. It's just not fair to be going with like 7 to 9 win streak in a higher rank (talking about bushin, tekken king, kishin and so on) and only be getting 100 to 200 points maximum per match, and when you lose ONE match (not the ft2, just one match) you lose 1.500 points in just o n e match, even if it is one rank higher. This is just unfair. It would make sense in a lose streak, not in a win streak.
Characters have no real weaknesess, power crush mid that is also heat engager AND safe is stupid. There is a lot wrong with this game and I don't feel like it will be getting fixed anytime soon, I do actually belive that it will become worse if the standard balancing keep going in the casino direction (Eddy).
If you are not playing offense offense offense in this game, you are just dead. Even if you have good defense, the punish you usually get from reading your opponents is not a big of deal most of the time (you can tell by the rage art not being universally launch punishable). Theres soooo many bad decisions in this game that I can't see myself playing much more of this. It's tiring, not fun and stressful.
I think I don't even need to say anything about microtransactions coming out of nowhere, a BUNCH of them added in just a few days. Tekken Shop and Battle Pass??? Battle pass is just greedy since it's just a bunch of items from Tekken 7 and retextures. They didn't even put some efforts in hiding it.
In a much more casual level, this game is amazing, looks awesome and feels very good to play, but thats about it.