#jack-8

Tekken 8 - Jack-8:

"Oh look, it's Gigas...I mean, Jack-8. Yeah, he looks a lot like Gigas, and even has some of his movesets. Fortunately, he also got a bunch of new moves and I do like his changes. He's very threatning."

Not how they fare on a competitive scale, just them as characters, how they look, how they play, what they are like personality-wise, for fun.

Nina Williams - 10 / 10 - Nina is my all time favourite fighting game character and second favourite video game character overall after Lara Croft. While I like the upper part of her new costume, the lower half looks weird. The fringes on her dress look extremely tacky and the fact that she has ankle bracelets on BOTH legs does too. I'm also a bit worried about the fact that she's wearing a dress and did her hair short like... These are Anna's trademarks. This better not mean that she's out of the game! Her tweaked gameplay is tons of fun and her Lara Croft dual pistols are a very welcome addition too!

Jun Kazama - 9.4 / 10 - The return or a legend! Very happy to have her back after all this time. I'm still very mad they made her look younger than her fucking son, but I'm also still thinking she's not actually alive and that's she's a spirit or something. We'll see. Otherwise the costume looks nice, but is overall inferior to both her Tekken 2 and Tekken Tag 2 looks. Her gameplay is cool as fuck though.

Ling Xiaoyu - 9.3 / 10 - Xiao got a nice redesign overall. Still fits her character and I think she even looks and sounds a bit more confident and less childish now which is definitely a big improvement. Her hits during gameplay even feel more powerful too. She's all grown up!

Jin Kazama - 9.3 / 10 - Jin looks a lot less emo this time around and much more determined. His overall gameplay still feels familiar and the addition of his devil moves finally being part of his core gameplay is a nice touch.

Lili - 8.8 / 10 - Namco has been STRUGGLING with Lili's face but, most of all, her fucking her for a while now but I think this is the closest they ever got to making it look normal lmao. Lili's rich whiny bitch personality has been a hit for me since day one and I feel like her french voice actress is getting more and more comfortable with the role as I feel like this is her best work as Lili so far. Her gymnastics and dancing also fit the new Tekken 8 gameplay perfectly.

Hwoarang - 8.7 / 10 - Hwoarang's new look ages him up a lot I feel like which is weird because he's supposed to be in his 20s still. Still a big improvement over previous looks I might say. So far nothing came close to his Tekken 3 taekwondo gi for me but this is a close second. I'm glad they dropped the one eye blind thing but at the same time what the fuck is up with continuity at this point. Did he get his ass blown up in Tekken 7 or not?? His moves feel like he has reached and even surpassed his master's level so this is another case of seeing characters grow up through gameplay itself.

Asuka Kazama - 8.7 / 10 - I was a big fan of Asuka back in her Tekken 5 days but her gradual "cuteification" when she clearly had a more "streetwise, punk kid" vibe in Tekken 5 has annoyed me and it still continues in this game. Her voice actress is even playing her lines cuter this time. Her one-sided rivalry with Lili has also damaged her characterization as she is literally relegated to Lili's play toy and her own goals have been set aside long ago. Their rivalry only works on Lili's favour as a character and Namco constantly pushing the teenage girl rivalry as the main female rivalry when Nina and Anna are literally right. there. has gone stale since Tekken Tag 2. It feels like I trashed on her a lot but I do still like Asuka, I'm just not happy with the design and story choices being made since after her debut and at this point I like what Asuka used to be before Lili and not what she's ended up being nowadays.

King - 8.6 / 10 - I haven't played King in ages but King is King you know? He's a staple and I'm always just happy to have him around even if I never pick him up at all lol.

Lars Alexandersson - 7.4 / 10 - Lars has always just been kind of... There for me, but not in the sense that King is there. King is King but Lars is, unfortunately, just Lars... At least he looks kinda hotter this time.

Claudio Serafino - 6.0 / 10 - When I first saw Claudio in Tekken 7, while it was still in its arcade phase, I felt like I was gonna like him but he eventually ended up doing absolutely nothing for me? He's extremely middle of the road for me, I neither like nor hate him, he's, like Lars, just there.

Leroy Smith - 5.0 / 10 - I kinda like his concept but he's ultimately very meh. I also don't see how or why he's still around with Heihachi dead. Admittedly, I haven't checked his profile because I don't really care for him, but if they found a new motive to keep him and his annoying drooling dog around but couldn't be bothered to do the same for Christie in Tekken 7 then I have honestly nothing more to say.

Kazuya Mishima - 4.9 / 10 - If Jin doesn't kill him in this chapter I'll be very disappointed.

Marshall Law - 3.9 / 10 - I used to play a little bit with him back in 5 but I haven't touched him in a while and it looks like it will stay that way... His redesign is absolutely disgusting. Sorry to all my roidheads out there but he looks ridiculous!

Paul Phoenix - 2.0 / 10 - Paul was supposed to be Kazuya's rival, who I dislike as well, but he used to be the series mascot so Paul being essentially the Ken to Kazuya's Ryu was, in theory, a good spot to hold. But Paul has over the years regressed to nothing more than a joke character, which is extremely weird because he's one of the very few characters who has been in every game and this is how he looks now... Wow...

Bryan Fury - 2.0 / 10 - Bryan is annoying. Yes he's been a mainstay since his debut but ehh. His maniac laugh was kinda iconic but the rerecording they've been using since Tekken 6 was underwhelming and now it has become even more irrelevant I think. Ultimately I'd rather Bruce was the resident kickboxer. I don't care for him much either but he looks cooler.

Jack-8 - 1.9 / 10 - With all the money Jane makes from G-Corporation she still can't buy a fashion sense because Jack looks more ridiculous each generation.