As it turns out, the tournament winner is in fact his disgruntled son Kazuya Mishima. It begins with the Mishima Zaibatsu, a conglomerate of the Mishima family, run by Heihachi Mishima, sponsoring a tournament called King of Iron Fist. note That is, without any significant sequel gaps or continuity reboots. While fighting games are not traditionally known for rich storylines, Tekken holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running sequential video game storyline, period. This complexity has earned it many fans around the globe and extreme success in arcades (and later in console ports), and the series has a reputation for being one of the most challenging, technical yet highly rewarding fighting games a person can play. For example, main character Kazuya has over 60 moves by Tekken 7, and that's not even getting into characters like Yoshimitsu or Hwoarang, who have stances with their own dedicated movelists.

Combos and special inputs are thus a bit more intuitive than other fighting games, making the series surprisingly accessible for newcomers.Ĭharacters also have massive movelists, often far exceeding almost every other fighting game series. If you press a button that uses the right arms, then the character will almost certainly strike with that arm. Punches and kicks are uniquely mapped to the four face buttons, with each one corresponding to a limb. If someone punches for example, you can just duck under it entirely.

The game makes judicious use of extremely precise hitboxes for all of its characters and places heavy emphasis on frame data. Tekken is renowned for its fast paced and demanding gameplay. 'Iron Fist') is one of Bandai Namco Entertainment's most popular franchises and the most successful 3D fighting game series of all time, such that it is a Trope Codifier for that subgenre. Welcome to the King of Iron Fist Tournament.

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