McPlusle
Savant
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- May 11, 2017
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I wanted to love Tekken 7 but I can only say I like it. I've been playing the series religiously since Tekken 3 and I'm not going to deny that my opinions on some of the games are probably colored by nostalgia, but the nicest thing I can say about it in terms of core gameplay is that it's better than 6/Tag 2. I still hate the rage mechanic, and I don't think super moves have a place in Tekken, but they did it as tastefully as they could so I guess that's nice. Obviously, the rage stuff still feels like a gimme mechanic for people who suck at fighting games, and some of the newer characters (FUCKING BOB) are disgustingly scrub-friendly. I still think it's a fun fighting game, and probably the best fighter we're going to get in a post-Virtua Fighter world (I still maintain that VF4 is the greatest fighting game of all time), but the series has been better before.
My main issue is with the content package. The story mode is awful and the "character episodes" are insulting. It's inexcusable for this shit to be in a series that used to have a dedicated, arcade mode-length story mode for every single character. The roster is another problem, but one that I hope the DLC will fix. Like, where the fuck are series staples like Lei, Anna, and Julia?
My main issue is with the content package. The story mode is awful and the "character episodes" are insulting. It's inexcusable for this shit to be in a series that used to have a dedicated, arcade mode-length story mode for every single character. The roster is another problem, but one that I hope the DLC will fix. Like, where the fuck are series staples like Lei, Anna, and Julia?