{"id":972,"date":"2021-03-27T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/?p=972"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:07:48","slug":"tekken-7-fated-retribution-issue-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaminginsurrection.com\/reviews\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/tekken-7-fated-retribution-issue-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken 7: Fated Retribution \u2014 Issue 38"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tekken\u2019s fate unknown after mile\u00adstone entry<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tekken is about a cer\u00adtain sub\u00adstance and style. The fight\u00ading engine is so deep in Tekken that if you\u2019re just start\u00ading with the sev\u00adenth game, you\u2019re at an imme\u00addi\u00adate dis\u00adad\u00advan\u00adtage because you\u2019re behind. Way behind. Sto\u00adry-wise, you\u2019re behind, too. There\u2019s so much going on with the Mishi\u00adma clan that you\u2019re bound to be ask\u00ading the ques\u00adtion: Why now? Tekken isn\u2019t just answer\u00ading that; it\u2019s pos\u00ading the ques\u00adtion of what\u2019s next?<\/span><\/p>\n

For the Mishi\u00adma clan \u2014 and Tekken\u2019s ros\u00adter at large \u2014 the future is the ques\u00adtion on everyone\u2019s mind, but to get there, Tekken 7 stakes its ambi\u00adtions on look\u00ading back to tell the sto\u00adry of the future. Spoil\u00ader alert: With Hei\u00adhachi gone, there\u2019s only Kazuya and Jin left to car\u00adry on the blood feud of the clan. The sur\u00adround\u00ading enti\u00adties are on either side of the con\u00adflict between father and son, and there will be casu\u00adal\u00adties. But that isn\u2019t Tekken 7\u2019s main sto\u00adry to tell. Real\u00adly, it\u2019s two ques\u00adtions: How did Kazuya become enmeshed in the dev\u00adil gene fool\u00adish\u00adness, and how is Hei\u00adhachi entan\u00adgled in that as well? The answers lay with new char\u00adac\u00adter Kazu\u00admi Mishi\u00adma, Kazuya\u2019s moth\u00ader and Heihachi\u2019s wife. She plays a cen\u00adtral role in unrav\u00adel\u00ading the mys\u00adtery of Kazuya\u2019s trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion using the dev\u00adil gene and why Hei\u00adhachi threw his child off a cliff more than 40 years before.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Bandai Nam\u00adco is set\u00adting up the pay\u00adoff, look around. You\u2019re in a Tekken game and many things will be true at once: The sound will be phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnal, and the graph\u00adics will be stun\u00adning. After all, this is a Tekken title; the King of the Iron Fist tour\u00adna\u00adment does not slouch. What\u2019s strik\u00ading is, this is a four-year-old game and it still looks decent. Tekken has nev\u00ader been one to hold back when it comes to looks, and even with the upgrad\u00aded PlaySta\u00adtion 4 Pro, it\u2019s still a good-look\u00ading game. Tekken 7 could look worse with the ben\u00ade\u00adfit of more pro\u00adcess\u00ading pow\u00ader, and some sec\u00adtions do show the age of the game. How\u00adev\u00ader, it\u2019s min\u00adi\u00admal as far as Tekken is con\u00adcerned, and Tekken 7 is still a pow\u00ader\u00adhouse when com\u00adpared to every\u00adthing else on the market.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sound\u00adtrack is excel\u00adlent, though I want\u00aded a lit\u00adtle more from it. I real\u00adize that not every Tekken sound\u00adtrack is going to be <\/span>the first Tag, where every track was a banger. <\/span>How\u00adev\u00ader, this is Tekken, and a cer\u00adtain bar has been set by past games that cur\u00adrent games must live up to. There are some bangers here, but not near\u00adly enough. For ref\u00ader\u00adence, I have every Tekken sound\u00adtrack ever released, arcade and home ver\u00adsions. For the first four games, I have the entire sound\u00adtrack saved on my iPod. As the series pro\u00adgressed, I had few\u00ader songs from each sound\u00adtrack. As of Tekken 7, I have two tracks. It\u2019s a good sound\u00adtrack, but it just isn\u2019t any\u00adthing I haven\u2019t heard before in a Tekken game. Tekken 8, or what\u00adev\u00ader it will be called, will have to step things up in the sound department.<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as Tekken\u2019s playa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty, I can\u2019t real\u00adly attest to it on a hands-on lev\u00adel. Full dis\u00adclo\u00adsure: I\u2019m not a good Tekken play\u00ader. That said, how\u00adev\u00ader, I find it a lit\u00adtle eas\u00adi\u00ader to pick up Tekken and play with the new fea\u00adtures added in the arcade mode. I real\u00adly like that there\u2019s an easy com\u00adbo assist fea\u00adture. It makes it far less frus\u00adtrat\u00ading to learn the com\u00adbo sys\u00adtem, and it makes it much eas\u00adi\u00ader for begin\u00adners to under\u00adstand how moves flow together.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tekken, despite hav\u00ading only four attack but\u00adtons, has always been about depth, and that\u2019s scary for the unini\u00adti\u00adat\u00aded like myself. With the assist fea\u00adture, I\u2019m more inclined to take the time to learn and dig just a lit\u00adtle deep\u00ader with the series. It\u2019s a fan\u00adtas\u00adtic addi\u00adtion that needs to stick around in future entries.<\/span><\/p>\n

The char\u00adac\u00adter cus\u00adtomiza\u00adtion mode also deserves some praise as it\u2019s com\u00ading along nice\u00adly. It\u2019s been around now for at least three games, and it\u2019s got\u00adten bet\u00adter each iter\u00ada\u00adtion. This is part of the depth of Tekken \u2014 along with its engine and com\u00adbo sys\u00adtem \u2014 that makes it such a great series. Tekken 7 takes care of the details, and the obvi\u00adous love and care put into the cus\u00adtomiza\u00adtion sys\u00adtem gives the game con\u00adtin\u00adued life, even as it gets a lit\u00adtle long in the tooth. The fact that new char\u00adac\u00adters and upgrades are still being released is fan\u00adtas\u00adtic con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading the game\u2019s age.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the sto\u00adry\u00adline dic\u00adtat\u00ading growth and the graph\u00adics engine need\u00ading to catch up to oth\u00ader fight\u00ading game dar\u00adlings, Tekken has its work cut out in keep\u00ading up with the sur\u00adround\u00ading com\u00adpe\u00adti\u00adtion. Tekken 7 does an admirable job demon\u00adstrat\u00ading its sta\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty and abil\u00adi\u00adty to lead the pack as the King of the Iron Fist, and its longevi\u00adty and intu\u00aditive fea\u00adtures con\u00adtin\u00adue to make it an attrac\u00adtive option for those need\u00ading a fix from Mishi\u00adma and Co. Tekken 7 is good enough to keep its crown and can prob\u00ada\u00adbly shrug off new chal\u00adlenges for the throne until its time for the eighth go-round. Long live the king.<\/span><\/p>\n