

The Mishima Saga explores the healthy and emotionally stable relationships within the Mishima clan, where sons are obsessed with murdering their fathers and fathers can’t help but throw their sons into the nearest lava pit. The introduction to Tekken 7’s pace comes from The Mishima Saga, the ambitious new story mode created for the console and PC versions (as opposed to the arcade).

Movement is more deliberate, and carelessly jumping or dashing can be disastrous. Attacks are inspired by Asian martial arts and other fighting styles from around the world, placing most of the emphasis on strikes and very little on the projectiles you typically find in other fighting games.

On the surface, Tekken 7 is familiar, taking place on the series’ signature three-dimensional stages which allow you to move to your opponent’s sides as well as forward and back. In a pretty good time for fighting games, with Injustice 2 knocking it out of the park, Killer Instinct continuing to give us quality content years after its release, Street Fighter 5 hitting its stride after a rocky start, and a new version of Guilty Gear Xrd air-dashing our way, the King of the Iron Fist Tournament will not be outdone. Yet somehow it still manages to be accessible to just about anyone wanting to mash buttons, and its huge amount of customization unlocks constantly give you something to strive for beyond its silly and slightly cliched story.

Tekken is such an incredible fighting game to experience under the conditions that you're not playing against some obscure character whose moveset is atrociously unclear as to whether or not their moves are high mid low, like yeah you can lab the character and figure it out that's fair but then delay based netcode is such stone age bs that makes it so if the guy has a spotty connection YOU'RE the one to suffer for it as the match will stutter and freeze eating your inputs so that when the game unfreezes you're already inputting the next part of the combo but your game froze so your inputs didnt come out.Tekken 7 is a love letter to this long-running franchise and its staggering complexity. Spend hours labbing characters only to drop punish / combo due to the horrific online this game has
