Recent reviews by Drawos

The vibe the game gave me was a lot like Code:Vein, but it definitely felt way better.
I did experience 2 issues though..

First is performance. Yes this is a demo, not a release, i probably have a trash pc compared to others, but i had turned down the graphics to low/medium and Direct X12, which i use for all the current games. But it was only very partially, mostly in cutscenes and boss combat (especially the Demo´s final boss was very laggy)
Second is, that i just fear that assets will be reused. As i only played the demo just now though, i can not tell anything about how its going to be, but i will just say this: You may be compared to Code:Vein, but you´re better. Dont make the same mistakes!

BUT that didnt bother me, because the game felt amazing, the combat is insanely good, it feels fluent and you have a ton of options to opt yourself into your own playstyle.
Bosses (CAN) be challenging (I´ve only felt a difficulty increase in that final boss) so theres also the repetitive assets thing. Fighting the 4 same gorillas right off the bat feels pretty bad, and one just being bigger with 2 new moves ehhh i dont know.

But again, i have high hopes, the optics and the gameplay feel great and you should definitely give the demo a try before the game releases :)

If you, like me, are a true Tifa simp, and you mostly want to play this game because of her, like i did, then dont bother. Go on youtube and watch the story. The gameplay is not worth it, the combat system is absolutely ruthless and build for people with 200apm.
Its just genuinly bad, you have to switch between your party members like every 4 seconds to fight efficently, while i personally just wanna sit on my MC. The AI doesnt support you at all the way its supposed to. The only thing they do is occasionally heal you if you equip them for it. Got your only real ranged party member with you, whos supposed to clear turrets your melees cant reach? Well you´re in luck because he will stand around auto attacking the mobs youre already fighting. So youre forced to take care of the turrets yourself.

Oh and all the while there is no way to really mitigate the damage taken except by perfect dodging every single attack, which is impossible. It feels like if you would be in Dark Souls, surrounded by about 5 mobs, that deal 1/5 of your health in a hit, and you have to parry them simaltanously. Sounds dumb right? Because it is.

Seriously. If you´re not deep into Final Fantasy, and dont want to play this for nostalgia reasons, dont buy it. It is way overpriced, asking THREE FULL PRICED GAMES for ONE REMAKE??? What the hell is Square Enix smoking?

The literal only positive thing i have to say about this game is that it looks nice. Which as i said you can see on youtube

Really good looking characters hidden behind a paywall, season pass each year for a fighting game, i call bs.
Soul Calibur itself is great but if you even think about making yourself your own character without paying extra next to original game you´re gonna be dissapointed. Im not saying the original game outfits are complete trash, but they´re ♥♥♥♥. Just comparing to SCIV, you had over 400 items and what not, but here ? Yeah go ahead and buy the whole arsenal for just i dont know, 40€, making it 100€ for a complete game. Incredible.
(Im too pissed to get numbers hop off)

Okay, so i played tekken since my childhood. When tekken 7 got released i got quite hyped and bought it pretty much immediately.
+ The story is very short, but it never was the longest anyways so thats okay. We finally got the last pieces of the story. The fights in the story can be very easy, since we have the story helper, which let´s you spam some pretty decent combos. The last fights are somewhat tricky but aren´t the hardest.

Graphics are amazing in my opinion. If you like fancy effects this is your type of fighting game.

Learning a character can be tough, which is why i recommend looking for some tips on that char for easy combos and poking. Movement is very essential as well.

Character pool is okay with all the new additions. Some may not like the new faces, but there has to be change.

Now for the more annoying parts, but only if you want to play online.
- Matchmaking is kinda broken. Sometimes you get matched with equals. However (which in my case happens about 70% of the time) you get matched with people who have 100 or more wins on one character which goes up to 800 sometimes. That can make learning a new character really hard, when these people just stomp you into hell.

Connectivity is a real problem (personal expirience). Often when i play Online, i just get kicked out of the match even though it was completly smooth the whole time. Sure the opponent could just lose connection, that happens, but not 5 - 10 times a day. Another, not really connectivity problem is, which occurs even more often, that my game randomly crashes. I dont play ranked because of that anymore. I tried finding help about it, but nothing fixed it for me. It could be my computer but i highly doubt it, since only tekken ever crashes daily.

Overall, it´s a Tekken game. Personally my favourite yet. The only drawbacks, for me, are online. Still recommend buying it.
9/10