(Dec 8th, 2023, 05:54 PM)Mr EliteL Wrote:

I think I saw that leak when I wasn't even looking for it, ugh stupid people making a video/short/community post, I forgot which of those I saw it on, and those who were in it did not look like the T8 model style/deisgn so I disregarded what I saw, thankfully. I only remember one character in there anyway.

T7 introduced Leroy, Fahkumram and Lidia as brand new Tekken characters but those were in later Seasons and not 1 or 2 which were planned. I'm doubting a new character for the first Season for T8 anyway, likely all veterans but if not then a single guest character.

• Story Mode was definitely the highlight and the only thing I had no criticisms for. Unfortunately, everything was downhill for me after finishing it and going into the other modes.
  
• Arcade Quest as it was presented in the demo is fucking atrocious. From a raw gameplay standpoint, it's fine, but what I hate is the excessive amount of dialogue. Move prompts on the left side of the screen that I couldn't turn off, a stupid pop-up every time I did a combo, Heat move or won a round that looks like it was plucked straight from Facebook Live, and every time my health was low enough to enter Rage a dialogue box had to accompany it telling me to be careful and obscuring the lower third of the screen, which was wonderful when trying to read attacks from characters who were using low kicks that got obscured by the dialogue box. If everyone could just shut the fuck up and let me play instead of covering my screen with garbage the mode would've been significantly more fun for me.
  
• The mode to train your own ghost is good, but seems very buggy at the start when the AI doesn't know much. I had one fight where the AI ghost chose to take a nap and just lay on the floor permanently once it was taken off its feet, which then highlighted that very few attacks (at least for Paul) will connect with an opponent doing that. I had this happen for a few rounds before the AI finally learned how to pick itself up, but it was painful having to deplete most of a health bar with weak low attacks because it wouldn't get up.
  
• Heat Engagers are irksome. I may be wrong but I got the impression the face button combo to trigger it isn't the same per character because I found I'd trigger it even when trying to actively not use X and Triangle at the same time. I'd rather it just be only tied to L1 so it can't be triggered by accident.
  
• I think I know what my gripe is with Tekken in general since T6, which is the complete lack of any sense of progression in the game anymore. Having everyone unlocked right away feels like entering a cheat code in an old school game to unlock everything, and it just isn't for me. I prefer characters being locked and each one having a full Arcade mode run to unlock their endings, not just for the satisfaction but also because for me it gave me a reason to actually try every character. I don't care to try out all 32 characters off my own back and the Story mode seems to be the only thing that will give me different characters for an actual reason.
  
• Although the demo is limited, I can just tell the lack of mode variety would kill it for me. Tekken Ball would be neat, but besides that most of the other modes are all just the same thing. By this, I don't mean I expect something other than fighting. What I mean is that for me, Arcade, Time Attack, and Survival are all different in that the goal isn't the same in each. You can play the classic style, see how fast you can clear an Arcade run, or see how many rounds you can survive endlessly until you lose. T8 is just basically all fight to increase a rank and get some currency, and I found myself getting bored with the demo rather quickly just doing the same thing over and over again.