Tekken 7: Fated Retribution (2016)

Bought Tekken 7 in 2019, absolutely love it. I used to play Tekken 3 on PS1 in the mid 2000s, so T7 being basically the only other Tekken game I've played since makes it pretty special to me. I've played through the campaign, and all the character episodes, obviously story isn't the strong point for Tekken, and never has been. The mechanics of the game, and the meat of the game, almost chess-like really stuck a chord with me ever since T3. T7 feels as good as T3 in that respect. I played some online and got my hiney kicked relentlessly, I never said I was good at the game. The bowling mode was a fun addition. Character customization was an added bonus too, although limited. All characters feel fun to play, my favourite being Yoshimitsu, whom is also a blast to watch in the high tier competitive scene. Overall I spent about 200 hours in Tekken 7, and I love it, and the Tekken series as a whole, fantastic. Can't wait for Tekken 8.

5/5

“A little more than kin, and less than kind.” -Shakespeare’s Hamlet

This game has taken forever to make its way to our homes.

Tekken 7 was first released in arcades in 2015 in East Asia, then an updated version, Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, dropped just a year later. Yes, arcades still exist, but in lands far, far away! Us, depraved Tekken fanatics in the “West”, couldn’t help but be a bit more than jealous of this. Our only respite was to play Tekken Tag Tournament 2 on our underpowered PS3’s up until this month, June of 2017, when the home version of Tekken 7 came into our lives and washed away the the pain. I cheated just a bit though; I vacationed in South Korea last summer and got to play Tekken 7: FR in the arcades, as a side-mission. Read about it here, if you are so inclined.

But, let’s turn back the sands of time for just a moment before the 8-bit review, to when the universe was covered in red ticket dispensing arcade games and plastic-grassed put-put golf terrain, when the smell of peach rings and popcorn filled the air, and the sounds of Dhalsim’s elephants trumpeted shrilly out of the din of lasers, laughter and shouting.

I was in middle school when I was first introduced to the Tekken series at the local arcade, which just so happened to be the size of an entire warehouse. I loved fighting games, probably because I was good at them. In the real world, I was an anxious, nerdy, lanky kid with weird hair, at the arcade on the other hand I was, well, still an anxious, nerdy, lanky kid with weird hair, but I was also a warrior, looked up to by my bepimpled peers. Yes, for a glimmer of my childhood, I was the local arcade prodigy who could in almost any fighting game best any opponent if I put my mind to it. Any game excepting Tekken 2.

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