Recent reviews by YaronK

masterpiece.

must play, masterpiece.

Masterpiece.

garbage.

It all started with T8 CBT, back then I only had like 2.5-3k hours of Tekken exp but I felt like it was enough to understand whats going on and whats the diraction, I could feel how some characters are way different in a bad way, like Lili and Bryan, jabs felt less effective due to more intended added crushing, I hated everything about it but I hoped for the best cuz it was still a pre - beta test of T8.

then the CBT came out , the netcode felt horrible , terrible matchmaking, on top of that broken moves, could feel how tracking was buffed from T7, hitboxes were inaccurate , addition of broken moves like famous Jin D2 and 21(4) CH.

then we got the full game, it was chaotic and toxic, added MTX with fortnite battle pass , 72 hour early access for DLC characters with unknown question marks as the next revealed characters.
a lot of moves felt no tekken like Drag QCF4 , Jin FF2 and a lot more, they NEVER did a playtest to this game (for S2 as well), they nerfed some characters in unfair way while keeping other broken for more than a YEAR.

the community tried its best giving a healthy feedback with hope for the best for S2, example : delete Ling's free mixup after her backturned heatsmash ON HIT, reduce + frames, tweak heat plus frames (heat engager, heat dash) to allow more place for healthy mindgames. we asked for tracking/realignment changes for ALL the characters, including strings, single moves and heat moves, we asked to tone down heat so this game will focus more around neutral play and movement.

now comes the funny part, a day or two before Anna's Tekken talk panel, they had a promo vid on EVO for 15 minutes long they were promising things, they said that they will "reduce" the situations where the game almost becomes "single player" , reduce chip damage, "buffing" defense and some more worthless promises.

with Anna's Tekken talk we got introduced to the new moves that seemed out of place (+ on block homing mids, frame data changing for some moves, new stance cancels, more chip damage) , it already looked terrible, then they showed the new very defensive friendly mechanic, the return of HOMING THROWS that deal CHIP DAMAGE ON BREAKKKKK , that was already super alarming and I lost all motivation for T8 at that point.

Mr.Harada tweeted "just wait and test the patch before you criticize it...", now with the new S2 patch out, it's actually way way wayyyy worse than we all expected from them, this game is diabolical abomination, toxic , not Tekken at all, I always called this game Tekken from Ali express or Wish, now they proved me right. they added more chip damage, never fixed tracking, made semi - reactable lows unreactable, more damage , more full screen space control and more abominations that never were part of Tekken more hard reads for your life , more reaction tests etc....

with the addition of so many moves , canned 50/50's with almost every existing string, extended tracking on everything, deleting existing counterplays to moves like Leo's B1,4 , buffing characters that everyone was crying for nerfs like Bryan, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ netcode and performance (high end PC and internet connection on my side) , this game went into the "irreversible damage zone", I cant see any future for Tekken 8 and Tekken in general, they killed a 30 year respective legacy franchise with 1 single patch ( for me this game was ruined from its release anyways...) even if they try their hardest , they wont be able to fix this mess of a game with the amount of new moves that were introduced , that no one ever asked for, the only way to save the game and the entire franchise is by reverting S2 to the end of S1, nerfing the abominations , fixing hitboxes and tracking , fixing bugs and netcode , buffing movement to T5 days level , and let the game run for a whole year with slight buffs and nerfs if really needed, it wont happen anyways, that S2 patch WASNT an April fools joke, unfortantly.

at this point Im not reccomending this game to anyone, from here its gonna get worse, you have a bit veriaty of 2D fighters to chose from, just stay away from Tekken 8.

Masterpiece!

Masterpiece of a game 10/10.

Masterpiece!

Too laggy right now, how come a game in 2022 has such a garbage servers.
Will change the comment when they fix it.

Edit : Still ♥♥♥♥.

Best campaign game I'v ever played. Thanks FromSoftware and Bandi Namco.