I got Tekken 6. Thank you Gamestop, for your trade in deals and my discount. And for that Tekken 6 calendar. it's niiiiice. But still. Give me hours at work plzkthx.
It(the game) is awesome. You can download character packs off the website so I made an Alisa wallpaper for my needs. I find it very nice. they are gigantic highrez images, but hey! it's nice to get a picture 7500 pixels tall sometimes. Means they care. And they do, those are DETAILED.
About the game? Well, I got it for the PS3 because I don't like the 360 for fighting games and the PS controller is more my bag. It's still a good old fashioned fighting game. But there's more modes than most will be used to, and if you haven't played the older ones, I'd possibly do that first. Of course there is a very basic story recap from Tekken up till Tekken 6.
What will or maybe wont seem familiar is arcade. Arcade works different than in most fighting games. You wont be using it to unlock all the super fancy endings, it's more of a way to fight some battles and get some fight money. (which is a feature back from Tekken 5 but re-worked). Arcade mode in Tekken 5 was an unyielding battle against opponent after opponent with nicknames under the character name. A lot of the names were developer's name handlers. This is actually in Tekken 6 as ghost mode. You just fight "ghost enemies" and the hardest one is apparently named Nancy, and there's an achievement/trophy for defeating her.
There is still practice mode and time attack and all that good stuff, of course. Practice mode is good since every character usually has about 70-100 moves, and you can view them all, and even practice them on Mokujin right on the spot. No team battle like the good old days, but that's been gone for awhile. No Tekken Ball, that was lame. And Tekken force mode was an interesting yet lacking addon for Tekken 3, and it came back in a diffrent fully 3D manner for Tekken 5. But in Tekken 6, it's actually going to be the way you unlock endings, customize your characters, and generally spend just about all of your time.
Scenario mode stars Lars and Alisa. Lars is a defected rebel from the Mishima Zaibatsu. He found Alisa in a pod, a Jack went kablooie, he bonked his head, she booted up(oh, she's a robot BTW), and he was all "wtf who am I?". So you get to wander around with Amnesia with a hot robot lady flying behind you the whole time, all the while sporting a hairstyle that just screams "I put gel in my hair whilst in a wind tunnel."
You go freely from stage to stage. You fight a boss at the end. It's typical Tekken Force mode. Different from Tekken 5's though, since you aren't Jin, you can't turn into Devil, so there's really no jumping and climbing. Oh, and there's a wold map. And when you ARE fighting wave after wave of the same 10 or so people (mostly tanned shirtless musclemen, it seems), they drop eggs, chicks, chicken, bags of money, and random equippable loot depending on who you are playing as. The loot is usually a head accessory, top, bottom, shoes, waist, inner shirt, ect. After the tutorial you can choose not to use Lars, so you can collect loot for those characters as well. Alisa stays though. You can replay stages as much as you want. Lars will still be in the story progression cutscenes, but the start of the battle and at the boss you WILL be speaking through the character you are. Lee Chaolan is a bit of a douche, haha.
After the tutorial you also unlock Arena, which is basically story mode, only somehow more frustrating. It is very short. you fight 4 enemies. Three that directly have to do with the character, Jin being the last main one. Then you fight Azazel. He's a gigantic crystal dragon with a moveset that seems to be part Jinpachi, part Devil, part Gon, and all frustrating. Some of his moves, even if you hit him while he's doing it, will not stop him or cause damage. if you are impatient, I'd suggest getting a friend to do these. Also, you'll have to fight them as a boss in Scenario Mode to use them in Arena mode. So I'd suggest if you like it and don't want to unlock all the endings, just go to a friend's house or something, they might have it.
People complain a lot about the title, but I'm really enjoying it right now. I did really like 5, but I am enjoying the fact that it's actually on a current-gen console now, and the story is pretty decent to boot. Unlocking everything is maybe something reserved for that patient and die hard, but there's no characters to unlock from the get go, so Vs. mode is just peachy. And I heard there's a bit of online lag, but I've heard worse. If you're skeptical of the title, wait until the price goes down or something, or wait a few days. I've heard that a few whiny bitches returned it because they couldn't defeat Azazel. So there's a copy right there.
That's about it. It's the game I've been most excited about lately. If my coworker Patrick can be obsessed with Street Fighter, I can be obsessed with Tekken.
Bye!
-Lak
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