Not sure I like the new stuff they are doing with tekken. Demo too limited. Doesn't have any of my go to characters so I'm not writing it off yet, but demo put sour taste in mouth.
Pressing L1, for the easy combos and whatnot is like anti tekken for me. See when full game is released tho. Still day one buy for me. Loved tekken since I was a kid. Was hooked to tekken 3
I haven't really played any Tekken since 3, and even then I was really still just a Tekken 2 player that never made the switch, so I was quite surprised that I got all the way to the penultimate difficulty mode without losing a match just using the Kazuya moves that were still available from 2 and apply the same range game and grappling mixups I always used in 2.
Like you I didn't like the new systems kicking in at all, or where they've made attacking from distance with running far less effective. And again, like you, without my preferred character to play - Lei Wulong probably edged out about six others from the TK2 roster as my main - meant that despite the familiarity of Kaz and Phoenix, although I hate the new phoenix character's personality, I couldn't tell if I loved the ultra responsive feel of the game with a TK2 basis enough to override all my other dislikes of them making system changes for change's sake.
I really just wanted this as a Tekken 2 remake to get back in, but it feels too much dumb dude bro hollow like Dead or Alive on original Xbox for my tastes with the system changes.