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geebsContinuing my Tekken character commentary:
Sergei Dragunov- Since I didn't play the Tekken games between 4 and 7 all that much, hadn't gotten to use him hardly at all previously. But now that I have, I like him. Strike wise, to me he feels in between Lee and Bryan, as you can see a lot of similarity in the animations- I'm sure when he first came out they cribbed a lot of his attacks from those two. But being a sambo practitioner, he's grapple heavy. I like that a lot of his attacks transition straight into throws on counter hit.
But he's another one with a lot of good customizations. His latest outfit is all WWII Hugo Boss designed German military officer style, but his previous outfit is quite smart looking as well. Plus he has the stealth suit, and has a lot of good accessories with the stealth goggles, stealth mask, gas mask, and cyborg eye, on top of the guns and swords you can equip. Alas, he doesn't get any special personal weapons like Katarina did with the bazooka, or Bryan and his rocket pod backpack or girder, he just gets a few remote control toy tanks.
Anyways, yeah, between his outfits and accessories I was able to make a bunch of distinct, bad-ass looks.
Bryan Fury- The bad-ass replicant himself. He was my main in Tekken 3, and he's still a hard hitter. He's another one with a lot of good customizations, since he has a whole bunch of varied tops and legs to go with them, plus extra weapons on top of the ones everyone else gets.
Look 1 is the standard head with the lower skull face bandana, metallic rainbow hair, night-vision goggles, the special version of his jacket with the skulls, carrying both the shotgun and assault rifle. Look 2 is the combat bionics body with the kevlar helmet and night vision goggles, the T6 pants with the ammo belts, and the rocket pod backpack. For look 3 I went with the ripped version of his T-shirt from the I wanna say.. Tekken 3 ending where there's a hole in it from the round the tanks shot at him, with his special camo pants, and the giant girder on his back. For look 4, I went with the green-ish cyborg body paired with his normal legs, plus a beret and skull face paint, and armed with the survival knife to give him a nice scary cyborg commando look.
Its cool that he and Dragunov have multiple unique distinct combat looks. I mean, everyone gets the bulletproof vest, so you can give any character a soldier look, but the two of them have their own thing going, looking tough and scary to boot.
Mishima-style karate guys- Heihachi, Kazuya, and Devil Jin. The karate bad-asses of Tekken. Say what you will about which video game fighter would come on top, but c'mon, at the very least the Mishima clan looks like they would wipe the floor with Ken, Ryu, Ryo Sakazaki, Jean Kujo, Ein, etc.
Its funny, because as the game progressed, they made sure to change up the properties and animations of what were previously shared moves so they'd all be distinct. But all of them seem to have lost the twin pistons. At least performed via d/f+3, 4. I think a Kazuya can do it while rising from a crouch. But to be fair, that was a cheesy move, since it was easy to pull off for decent damage and good juggling opportunity.
Kazuya is easily the best of the 3 in my opinion, since he has the simplified inputs for his godfists and the hell sweeps, plus the gut punch and easy tsunami kick (d/f+4,4). Honestly, you can get a lot of damage spamming the gut punch and following it up with the tsunami kick. Actually, following up a lot of his moves with the tsunami kick will get good results. I mean, there are prolly better combos to follow up on from a gut punch or wind god fist, but the tsunami kick is an easy follow up.
Devil Jin plays very similarly, gets all those devil moves standard, plus a few more tools from his mother. Which lies the problem with me, I like Kazuya because he's simpler, Devil Jin has a bit too many more things in his tool belt that my need to "try something different" and try moves and combos I'm not used to can get me in trouble with him.
Heihachi is one bad-ass looking old dude. Again, while he does share some moves with his son and grandson, he has his own thing. He used to be a combo of Kazuya and Paul, which is a pretty deadly combo. I mean, the wind god fist AND the hammer punch to fist of death? Which, the latter has turned into a palm strike that doesn't hit nearly as hard as Paul's fist of death.
I wanna say he comes with some more heavy hitting moves in his arsenal, but he's also slower and has less stamina. Actually, I guess he was my other main in T3, and its been disappointing how many moves they've changed or taken away from him over the iterations. Like my bread and butter combo in T3 was to stun them with a Demon Boar, juggle them into the air with a twin pistons, do a left uppercut, followed by Demon Massacre.
But since he no longer has Demon Boar (he has something similar) or Twin Pistons, I can't do that in T7. Not that he doesn't have a bunch of good tools in his toolbox. Its just he plays less similarly to his son and grandson then they do to each other. So I have to remember that he's his own man and remember the things they have that he doesn't and not to try doing them, as well as remembering he has some pretty unique moves of his own.
Outfit wise, they all have some pretty pimp looking outfits. Literally. I'm just sad Heihachi no longer has a hakama option.
But yeah, those are all the characters I've played for at least 50 bouts to unlock their first title. I've done 100 with Kazuya and Katarina for their second title. And yeah, all the titles unlock at 2000 battles, but since that's well 2000 battles, you're going to be playing 100 battles with at least 20 of these characters to get everything.
Sergei Dragunov- Since I didn't play the Tekken games between 4 and 7 all that much, hadn't gotten to use him hardly at all previously. But now that I have, I like him. Strike wise, to me he feels in between Lee and Bryan, as you can see a lot of similarity in the animations- I'm sure when he first came out they cribbed a lot of his attacks from those two. But being a sambo practitioner, he's grapple heavy. I like that a lot of his attacks transition straight into throws on counter hit.
But he's another one with a lot of good customizations. His latest outfit is all WWII Hugo Boss designed German military officer style, but his previous outfit is quite smart looking as well. Plus he has the stealth suit, and has a lot of good accessories with the stealth goggles, stealth mask, gas mask, and cyborg eye, on top of the guns and swords you can equip. Alas, he doesn't get any special personal weapons like Katarina did with the bazooka, or Bryan and his rocket pod backpack or girder, he just gets a few remote control toy tanks.
Anyways, yeah, between his outfits and accessories I was able to make a bunch of distinct, bad-ass looks.
Bryan Fury- The bad-ass replicant himself. He was my main in Tekken 3, and he's still a hard hitter. He's another one with a lot of good customizations, since he has a whole bunch of varied tops and legs to go with them, plus extra weapons on top of the ones everyone else gets.
Look 1 is the standard head with the lower skull face bandana, metallic rainbow hair, night-vision goggles, the special version of his jacket with the skulls, carrying both the shotgun and assault rifle. Look 2 is the combat bionics body with the kevlar helmet and night vision goggles, the T6 pants with the ammo belts, and the rocket pod backpack. For look 3 I went with the ripped version of his T-shirt from the I wanna say.. Tekken 3 ending where there's a hole in it from the round the tanks shot at him, with his special camo pants, and the giant girder on his back. For look 4, I went with the green-ish cyborg body paired with his normal legs, plus a beret and skull face paint, and armed with the survival knife to give him a nice scary cyborg commando look.
Its cool that he and Dragunov have multiple unique distinct combat looks. I mean, everyone gets the bulletproof vest, so you can give any character a soldier look, but the two of them have their own thing going, looking tough and scary to boot.
Mishima-style karate guys- Heihachi, Kazuya, and Devil Jin. The karate bad-asses of Tekken. Say what you will about which video game fighter would come on top, but c'mon, at the very least the Mishima clan looks like they would wipe the floor with Ken, Ryu, Ryo Sakazaki, Jean Kujo, Ein, etc.
Its funny, because as the game progressed, they made sure to change up the properties and animations of what were previously shared moves so they'd all be distinct. But all of them seem to have lost the twin pistons. At least performed via d/f+3, 4. I think a Kazuya can do it while rising from a crouch. But to be fair, that was a cheesy move, since it was easy to pull off for decent damage and good juggling opportunity.
Kazuya is easily the best of the 3 in my opinion, since he has the simplified inputs for his godfists and the hell sweeps, plus the gut punch and easy tsunami kick (d/f+4,4). Honestly, you can get a lot of damage spamming the gut punch and following it up with the tsunami kick. Actually, following up a lot of his moves with the tsunami kick will get good results. I mean, there are prolly better combos to follow up on from a gut punch or wind god fist, but the tsunami kick is an easy follow up.
Devil Jin plays very similarly, gets all those devil moves standard, plus a few more tools from his mother. Which lies the problem with me, I like Kazuya because he's simpler, Devil Jin has a bit too many more things in his tool belt that my need to "try something different" and try moves and combos I'm not used to can get me in trouble with him.
Heihachi is one bad-ass looking old dude. Again, while he does share some moves with his son and grandson, he has his own thing. He used to be a combo of Kazuya and Paul, which is a pretty deadly combo. I mean, the wind god fist AND the hammer punch to fist of death? Which, the latter has turned into a palm strike that doesn't hit nearly as hard as Paul's fist of death.
I wanna say he comes with some more heavy hitting moves in his arsenal, but he's also slower and has less stamina. Actually, I guess he was my other main in T3, and its been disappointing how many moves they've changed or taken away from him over the iterations. Like my bread and butter combo in T3 was to stun them with a Demon Boar, juggle them into the air with a twin pistons, do a left uppercut, followed by Demon Massacre.
But since he no longer has Demon Boar (he has something similar) or Twin Pistons, I can't do that in T7. Not that he doesn't have a bunch of good tools in his toolbox. Its just he plays less similarly to his son and grandson then they do to each other. So I have to remember that he's his own man and remember the things they have that he doesn't and not to try doing them, as well as remembering he has some pretty unique moves of his own.
Outfit wise, they all have some pretty pimp looking outfits. Literally. I'm just sad Heihachi no longer has a hakama option.
But yeah, those are all the characters I've played for at least 50 bouts to unlock their first title. I've done 100 with Kazuya and Katarina for their second title. And yeah, all the titles unlock at 2000 battles, but since that's well 2000 battles, you're going to be playing 100 battles with at least 20 of these characters to get everything.
