Warning: lots of gifs.
We're back to solo Tekken, and the combos seem the same when it comes to length. You could do a combo similar to this in Tekken 6, not the same combo, but a similar one that includes a bound/wall carry, into a wall combo. Tekken outsiders usually say they quit Tekken when Tekken 6 came out because the combos were too long, well, they were really long in Tag 2, and now, they aren't shorter, they're just back into the same vein of Tekken 6.
To me, this kind of combo is the absolute most I'm willing to tolerate in a solo game, in Tag 2, the excuse was that there were combos that involved two people. The wall breaks/floor breaks/and balcony breaks were cool when you got to use them with two people.
Now, we're back to a mainline Tekken, and the balcony breaks work similarly. I'm not gonna get into if they're exactly the same as Tag 2 or not, because I don't know but, guys, I think this is just..ugly. It's wack, because the first combo is long already, so if it's gonna break the balcony, why would the character bounce back up into the air like a basketball? To continue the combo, right, but, outside of that reason, it puts more wait time into that combo. This balcony break in particular is short, and because it's short, it's passable I guess, but this is unacceptable to me.
It's cool, yeah, it's creative, yeah. In Tekken I do notice that a lot of the combos are DIY, and that's really cool. I enjoyed that aspect in Tekken. When I see stuff like this, I can't help but think it's a little silly. The opponent got knocked off the balcony, so that creates a minor stage transition, OK. The opponent pops back into the air after hitting the ground, impractical, but it's a game mechanic. Then, the combo continues into the wall, and the guy gets wall splat, and the combo still isn't done, there is more combo to be done if the person wants to. Then, a super? Isn't that a little much? No, like I'm asking, I want you guys to weigh in on this, and try to separate yourself from being a Tekken fan, and try to answer this as an observer of the match.
Warning, I'm not trying to star a Dead or Alive war, I'm just using this as an example. This is cool as shit, it's cinematic, it makes sense. The opponent gets knocked off the "balcony", the other character jumps off after, the opponent takes fall damage, and then she gets up, and then, they continue the match. Pretty short and to the point right? Once again, I'm asking you guys, so feel free to say what you think.
That ruin stage in Tekken 7 is trash, because firstly, it has three floors, with the first two looking dull as hell, nothing creative or aesthetically intriguing about it, it's just a ruin. The first two floors look the same, why are there floors like this in a ruin though?
I don't know how I feel about floor breaks just yet, but in this stage, they seem arbitrary. They are just there because "more combos and stuff", and that's it. This is ugly too, after a grab brehs? A grab? C'mon son
And, look at that, not only did the character bounce back into the air, she's back turned and upside down.
This combo, is pretty long like the combo I posted before, but what makes it longer is the floor break, and it's ugly once again, especially even more so because it happened before the tailspin.
Thoughts?
