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It's a really fun and nice game!

This is a game that has simply hurt me too many times. I don't mind strong characters, I really don't. I could get my balls handed to me on a silver platter and still have fun, but that's just the thing. Sometimes, this stuff just ain't fun. Maybe it's just me but as a person who's been playing since Tekken 7, I'll just get to the point, I'm not going to say anything like, "OH, old Tekken good new Tekken bad", in fact i really enjoy the heat system and overall aggression. But it feels just, way too mashy? You get so minus to a point where sidestepping is literally not an option, and sidestepping itself is already really tricky to get the hang of yet very rewarding, sometimes however it simply feels impossible and you feel trapped and as a player it sucks. I play Paul, Jin, Kazuya, Leo, Dragonouv, and Devil jin, and I notice that I only do well once I start "cheesing" which might mean many things to many different people. So I'll be a bit more blunt and just say what my heart feels as of this moment, writing this review.

Neutral does not exist

At least that what it feels like to me, I don't see a point in doing a heat engager cancel in neutral when i'm gonna end up JUST AS MINUS if I had missed it anyways. Countless times I would think, "Yes this is a safe distance, I will engage heat to utilize my resource advantage over the enemy. Only for them to just RA in response and magically magnetically gravitate towards me? Perhaps this is just a skill issue on my end but aside from that. Some times you feel extremely boxed in. Characters like King, Lidia, just sorta lock you in and once again, this might be a knowledge check, and I might just be bad but keep in mind I'm like the average purple rank. I have a Tekken King level friend that claims I am Kishin level, yet whenever I try to climb the ranks it just feels impossible? I swear I'd be on a 6 winstreak, lose once, and I'd be where I statred. Became a bit of an inside joke where we'd celeberate our ranks by going

"Hey guys! I ranked from up from mighty ruler to mighty ruler!"

And I wish this was a joke but occasionally I would throw a demotion game, just so I can repromote and get that boost.

Ranking is messed up
Footsies feel off
There's no other game like tekken but sometimes it just hurts.

I'm open to any comments but I'm really just not in the mood for any git gud or tips. Too heartbroken for that.

I want to love Tekken but as I kept playing I realised that this is NOT healthy for me. I'd play Tekken with my friends and it'd always end in me going into a complain session. The worst part is that they'd just agree with me. All my complaints about random mid combo sideswaps, input eating, sidesteps turning into jumps and ducks, dropping combos because of wall jank. I wanted to be wrong, I wanted to be told "Hey, ur just bad, here's a tip on how to overcome this" But no. I'm sure some of you had those moments, maybe they're a lot more rarer than mine, how knows.

But yeah, I'm writing this, with pain and salt in my mind, having just uninstalled it after being deleted by my buddy playing Lidia and Reina.

Tekken is good game. but it's just not good for ME. So, I'm quitting for now.

Maybe I'll come back after a year or two, or when the heihachi DLC drops.

Maybe then it might feel better.

EDIT 25/9/2024
I recently reinstalled Tekken 8 after seeing heihachi, i got filled with hope and motivation. I joined some ranked matches and immediately get reminded of everything I had complained about in the above statement. Maybe it really is a skill issue, but once more.

Can't sidestep because I get locked in. People would rather mash their way out instead of going for parries and sidesteps or simply blocking and waiting for a gap. Which is fine! IF, it didn't work like 80% of the time.

Neutral? What's that? It's a contest of who can overwhelm the other guy first. Footsies only last for like 5 seconds before somebody, be it me, or the opponent, feels the compelling need to throw out some random heat move.

But compared to before, my head is clearer.

So I have suggestions, some of you might like it, some of you might not.

Ngl, KEEP OFFENCE THE SAME. I honestly think this is the most "FUN" Tekken in the same way that Guilty Gear STRIVE is the most "FUN" Guilty Gear to the masses.

My only problem is that as a player of both games, Guilty Gear has a more streamlined defence, block high, block low, occasionally try a parry and dust grab.

Tekken? You give me side steps, you give me Highs, Mids and Lows to worry about. You give me not just grabs, but different kinds of grabs from tackles, to feints, each with their own unique uses for repositioning, and unique ways to break them too. You give me power crushes, you give me while standings, all these moves, and I get to use NONE of them because I'm minus 100 and the Reina/Lydia/Lars/Victor/Jun is bullying me with their 50/50s and homing stance locks. Once again, maybe to the better players she's not an issue but wouldn't it be nice to actually be able to sidestep in what is basically the ONLY game worth playing that allows it?

TL:DR, Just buff defence. That's it, the options are there, just give the players more opportunities to use them and honestly the game will feel so much better.

Once again, I am the average purple rank player, I play this game for fun, climbing ranks? Sure it's nice to climb but at the end of the day what everybody wants is some GOOD A$$ TEKKEN. Maybe I'm just too defensive in an offense oriented game, but a majority of my playstyle's strength comes from defence. Maybe that's why I feel so limited?

EDIT 2 AS OF 26/10/2024

This time this is a salt review, THE GAME IS STILL TRASH NOTHING HAS CHANGED PEOPLE CAN JUST GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH FORCED 50/50s I DONT GET IT, I CAN'T SIDESTEP, I CAN'T PUNISH AFTER A SUCCESSFUL SIDESTEP (Though I skill issue on my part, I'm talking about the moves that just send the characters flying so far i.e. dragonouv smash) BACK TURN COMBOS ON THE ON THE WALL ARE STILL BEYOND JANK)

is this Tekken or is this 3d Strive man? Because if that's what your going for, Strive executes the aggression idea WAY BETTER.

You are NOT rewarded for having good defense in this game!
(Typed this after losing to a sidestep stance spam jun and Victor with that lanky af CH launcher sweep)

Stuff needs to be more minus on whiff so people can't just throw stuff out willy nilly, that or make it so that sidesteps actually work, I swear, in one ranked session alone I have encountered FIVE SITUATIONS where I have sidestepped so hard, that I swapped sides with the opponent, ONLY TO GET HIT ANYWAYS?????

Good news tho, I reached Blue rank (it's the same issue there too...)

Also, I want characters that are hard to play because they require SKILL to use, not characters that are hard to play because they SUCK. Bamco wtf are you smoking with that DLC money bro.......

Edit fir 26/1/2024
Hey guys, I reached blue rank with 3 characters, Jin Paul, And Heihachi, and I'll be honest. Things haven't changed. My blue rank friend is now a Tekken Emperor and even he still agrees it's sort of the same up there in ramks, that is, mashfest. I've improved as a player and have come to realise that it's not neccessarily the characters in this game that are busted and moreso the game itself being busted. That is all.

Blah blah Defense should be buffed, blah blah 50/50 spamfest you know how it goes.
I do have one new complaint though, some characters just seem to have the weirdest autotracking stuff. You'd sidestep something flawlessly and still magically get hit by the second part of the move as they magically lock onto you.

As riduculous as it sounds, Armoured Core 6 (Another game I have been playing) Is a better and more fun fighting game than Tekken, and it's not even remotely close to a fighting game. Weird.

I'm not even writing this update with salt, I've gotten past the salt and reached the point where I'm just empty?

SEASON2...
KMS

Good game, awesome story, difficulty is something that I don't mind when it's something this fun.

I wanted to buy it on summer sale, but ended up missing the timing, bought it anyways, no regrets. This is a really good game and it's something that I wish I had gotten into long ago, glad that devs are still updating this awesome game.

It's a really good game with constant updates. Teamwork is awesome and this game does nothing but encourage it.

It's an amazing game. But no spoilers!!!!!!

Good game, NOW. But it should have been this good from the beginning. I look forward to Phantom Librety and genuinely hope they don't mess it up as bad as they did on release.

16/10/2023 Edit: They didn't mess it up

It's a really good rat slap game, I enjoy it and hope that it gets the love it deserves despite the issues that it has
Also don't get winds of magic!!!

I love this game

It's nice but i hate losing my stuff :(
If you play this game, please be ready to not just take Ls, but accept them. You can't give em back.