My introduction to this hard hitting series was during the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3
T3: This game has a very special place in my heart. I spent many hours playing this game with my cousins and a close family friend, he was the 'cool guy' (first guy in our group to have a PS1) of the group, while I was the 'cute shy kid'.
-We both used
Jin Kazama as our main and ended up developing a 'rivalry', he and I became close friends.
-I absolutely adored Jin, his character design and Mishima Ryu fighting style intrigued me.
-Everyone had their favourite character that represented them on some way:
Yoshimitsu: Quiet, mysterious and calm cousin.
Law: Crazy cousin who had a hilarious temper when I block punished his flip kicks.
Jin: Him and I
Gon: Little cousin ^^
I adored: The announcer,
Jin, 60fps, character voices, kicking True Ogre's behind, K.O! and of course
CHICKEN!
TTT: Nostalgia filled euphoria, I first played this game when I came to New York 11 years ago with my American/Pakistani/Spanish cousin XD
-The graphics still look spectacular as I remember, I became obsessed with Devil/Angel, Jin, Kaz, Jun and Testujin of all characters. The tag mechanic gave this game a fun
party element to it.
-TTT has my favourite box art in any game period, so simple yet elegant. Kaz reminded me so much of my 'cool guy' friend XD
-This
ending scared the crap out of me as a kid.
-I also
bought my first PS2 along with this game when I came back to Ireland.
T4: This game man, so many memories from this game and I only rented it.
-Story? In a Tekken game?! I absolutely loved the aesthetics of this game. I started to like every character in the game, mainly due to everyone having a background. I especially liked
Kazuya's,
Jin's and
Hwoarang's prologue.
-I love the artistic sketches the prologues have.
-Let's not forget the best
announcer in the Tekken series!
-T4 also has my favourite stage in a fighting game
(Building: I really wanted this remade in TTT2 but the Saudi Arabia stage + Tekken tuning made it pretty close ^^) and
soundtrack that I still listen to this day.
I loved: the outfits (Kazuya's casual attire & Jin's Parka), the stages, intro poses, announcer's/ narrator's voices, character endings, the overall 'realistic' aesthetic Tekken 4 was going for.
I wonder what direction the series would've went had Namco patched Tekken 4. I think they that could have fixed almost everything save the uneven terrain.
T5: I played this with the same friend that played T3. My memory of this game was blurred with T4, I thought they where the same game for some odd reason.
-Can't really recall anything except: Devil Within mode.
-First time seeing Devil Jin playable and loved that.
T6: At this point in my life, our group split into different directions (college, school, fights), I felt really alone at this point on my life, I just transferred to a new school where everyone was new to one another.
I stumbled upon this game in a GAME store during the winter, the box art caught my eye. The game looked like it had a hardcore vibe to it.
-I randomly started playing with every character but one really stuck out to me, Lars. I really liked the animation of blue bolt and his SE DE moves.
-I moved through the move list and practiced every move, then I noticed the
sample combos, I realised that this game had a juggle system.
-I dropped by a local game store during my lunch break, they had T6 set up on a PS3 and I beat everyone's ass, I loved the competitive nature of it (we weren't very good, I only won because of the juggles).
Oh and 'LET ME GO FROM THE AIR!' X'D
-I was really disappointed with the story, Lars and Jin very very flat and dull. I detested some of the newer characters such as Alisa and Bob. I expected campaign mode to be an evolved version of Tekken Force mode.
Lars' P2 gave me assailant vibes, wouldn't have guessed he was a Mishima. Also love his custom gauntlets.
I wanted to learn more so I stumbled upon a T6
tutorial on
Lars by
LUYG on youtube. I didn't realise this game had so much thought and detail put into it, never heard of okizeme or the crush system. I had a slight grasp on the spacing game but was unaware of BDC.
It was cringy to watch and I felt like a massive nerd for doing it but I really liked the detailed explanation and appreciated it. I also really liked watching MYK play Lars in tournaments and I'd love to play against him someday, and Rip too.
I joined TZ and later on I just Gaf, and here I am playing TTT2 rocking college in NY with near perfect grades and looking forward to T7.