Fighting games can be very difficult for newcomers. The skill ceiling is often very high. Control is a technique. And timing is clearly marked in highly skilled play. All of which can be daunting. Additionally, most fighting games are built around competition and focus on multiplayer game modes. Perhaps that’s why Tekken 8 feels like the perfect approach to creating a game that pleases the fighting game masters. At the same time, it invites new players to come and see what it is all about.
It starts with all sorts of QoL options for gaming needs. You can extensively adjust the sound and colors to look the way you want to best see what’s going on. And also add visual and audio signals to help as well. If you just want to play the game for fun, Tekken 8 has many single player game modes. Includes an extensive story mode and arcade style gameplay with unique endings for each character. If you have trouble winning You can enable Special Controls for one-button combos. It depends on your situation.
There are also many ways Tekken 8 helps you train and grow. Experimenting with combos and training modes is just the beginning. The game introduces save state play, which allows you to save your play state during a game in training and revert to that state with the push of a button. Suitable for working in various parts of your combo string that may be delayed in the combo. You can also participate in punishment training that teaches you how to properly respond to blocked attacks or attacks that miss completely. or even load a replay of a previously recorded match. And jump into the controls and see if there are options you can choose that will work better.
Tekken 8 is the inventor of very important features in fighting games, such as save/load state in training mode. And some features like Replay Takeover have been rolled out to other games as well. Because the barrier to entry is as high as a fighting game, Tekken 8 feels like the full package it aims to help. Allowing players of all skills and conditions to overcome that obstacle. And we saw its impact on the genre in real time, which is why it received the 2024 Shacknews Award for Outstanding Achievement in Accessibility.
Be sure to read about the rest of the Shacknews Awards in our Year of Games: 2024 feature.
