Pure energetic and soul restoring tag team action
I'd like to preface that I am not a fighting game guy at all in the modern times. I'm not good at them at all and a complete casual in this space. Funny enough, this technically isn't the first time I ever played this game, it's actually the first game I ever got for the PS2 at the time since my stepdad was a huge tekken fan at the time and where I ended up becoming a fan myself. Definitely had positive experiences back then but then I wondered if the magic is still there, laying in dormant for the past twenty two years. To put it bluntly, I missed this game so much.
Something about the whole experience is just extremely enjoyable from start to finish no matter what mode you play. Amazing visuals for a launch title, beautiful stages, one of the best fighting game soundtracks in my opinion, surprisingly feels easy to pick up and beat from a casual perspective (against Normal CPU). Back when fighting games always kept content heavy from the start, you had essentially every character up to this point (barring Gon and Doctor Bosconovitch), all your usual modes and one of the best extra modes Tekken ever introduced: Tekken Bowl. The amount of time I've spent bowling in this game alone probably surpassed all the bowling I've done in any video game ever and combined.
Hazy school days. White forest. Flashing lights of the carousel. The ugly evil. Who are you?
Even with unlocking everything, I still come back to this one every now and then. It almost takes you back in a sense. Could be the nostalgia talking but I wouldn't like it more now than I did before if it was. Man where does the time go?
I'd like to preface that I am not a fighting game guy at all in the modern times. I'm not good at them at all and a complete casual in this space. Funny enough, this technically isn't the first time I ever played this game, it's actually the first game I ever got for the PS2 at the time since my stepdad was a huge tekken fan at the time and where I ended up becoming a fan myself. Definitely had positive experiences back then but then I wondered if the magic is still there, laying in dormant for the past twenty two years. To put it bluntly, I missed this game so much.
Something about the whole experience is just extremely enjoyable from start to finish no matter what mode you play. Amazing visuals for a launch title, beautiful stages, one of the best fighting game soundtracks in my opinion, surprisingly feels easy to pick up and beat from a casual perspective (against Normal CPU). Back when fighting games always kept content heavy from the start, you had essentially every character up to this point (barring Gon and Doctor Bosconovitch), all your usual modes and one of the best extra modes Tekken ever introduced: Tekken Bowl. The amount of time I've spent bowling in this game alone probably surpassed all the bowling I've done in any video game ever and combined.
Hazy school days. White forest. Flashing lights of the carousel. The ugly evil. Who are you?
Even with unlocking everything, I still come back to this one every now and then. It almost takes you back in a sense. Could be the nostalgia talking but I wouldn't like it more now than I did before if it was. Man where does the time go?