There is a lengthy legacy of visitor characters in combating video games. And the variation in high quality between company is as large because the listing is lengthy – the custom offers the tough with the graceful, to be trustworthy. In Tekken alone, we have had Gon from Masashi Tanaka’s manga (a farting dinosaur), Negan from The Strolling Lifeless (a boring fart), and Akuma from Avenue Fighter (a troublesome previous fart).
However Tekken 8 launched with none of that. Although there was a reasonably respectable quantity of content material on-disc when the sport truly launched, producer Katsuhiro Harada and his workforce of builders did not package deal in any licensed characters. And that is as a result of, it seems, they have been saving all of it for later.
At The Recreation Awards 2024, Geoff Keighley hosted an enormous announcement that’s liable to make some followers glad… and others fairly darn offended. So, what is the information? Clive Rosfiled from Closing Fantasy 16 is coming to Tekken 8 as the ultimate Season One DLC character. And why are individuals offended? Nicely, as a result of they weren’t anticipating somebody fairly so… new.
For the previous yr or so, individuals have been clamouring for Closing Fantasy 7’s Tifa a lot that even Harada himself needed to weigh in and discuss it. “Everyone knows she is enticing and I perceive that,” he tweeted some 10 months in the past. “However as but now we have not determined something about visitor characters and so on.”
Quick-forward to late 2024 and evidently Harada and Bandai Namco did certainly liase with Sq. Enix about all issues Closing Fantasy… however the chips did not precisely land the place many followers would have needed. And the noise hasn’t exaclty died down but, both – merely search the phrases Tifa and Tekken collectively on both Twitter or BlueSky and you will see what I am on about.
However, oh properly, proper? She’s not coming. We’ll need to cope with Clive as a substitute – however that is not essentially a foul factor, is it? Noctis was a reasonably good addition to Tekken 7, even when lots of people did query why he was allowed to deliver a sword (or, swords) to a fist-fight. That criticism is moot, right here, although, as a result of Tekken 8 launched Victor – and he is obtained a freakin’ gun, for Christ’s sake.
If you wish to see what Clive’s about for your self, and maybe mentally weigh up whether or not Tifa would have been a more sensible choice in spite of everything, take a look at the trailer under.
This is not the primary time Bandai Namco has brought on controversy with its Tekken 8 DLC plans. Again in October, with the discharge of Heihachi, the developer needed to renege on its plans to promote the veteran fighter’s stage outdoors of the season cross after followers started boycotting the sport and sinking its Steam overview rating.
Clive can be out there in Tekken 8 xxx.