Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Tekken 8 is an incredible game. Its story mode, The Dark Awakens is... interesting. Let's talk about its successes and failures in this Tekken 8 review/analysis!
Thanks to Bandai Namco for the early review code.
Support the show on Patreon - patreon.com/writingongames
Podcast - http://anchor.fm/writingongamescast
Second Channel - youtube.com/channel/UC1xxfS_HILi09yaELQdmV1A
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I am on the record as being weirdly obsessed with the Tekken lore—centring on the Mishima blood feud between Heihachi, Kazuya and Jin (among others), but incorporating all kinds of different stories intermingling and allowing you to fill in the contextual blanks in your own head. It's why 7, with its comparatively paltry single player offering and lacklustre narrative, became pretty disappointing to me over the years.
All of which is why, with this video, I wanted to focus not on the new Heat system or online play, but on the story (entitled The Dark Awakens) specifically—what works, what doesn't, and how the game got me rethinking what I thought was always the problem with Tekken story modes. In this review/analysis, let's discuss The Dark Awakens, as well as Tekken 8's story more generally.
0:00 - I am really into the Tekken lore
2:29 - The Successes and Failures of Tekken 8 The Dark Awakens
7:25 - The Real Problem With Tekken's Story
10:18 - How Tekken 8 Fixes The Problem
12:12 - Tekken 8 Is For Everyone
13:29 - Outro
Tekken 2 Kazuya ending footage from The Gaming Restoration - youtube.com/watch?v=9z7kPZXNabc&pp=ygUWdGVra2VuIDIga2F6dXlhIGVuZGluZw%3D%3D
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Thumbnail by hotcyder - twitter.com/hotcyder
Intro text animation by Isaac Holland - twitter.com/drazgames
#tekkencartoon
Tekken 8 is an incredible game. Its story mode, The Dark Awakens is... interesting. Let's talk about its successes and failures in this Tekken 8 review/analysis!
Thanks to Bandai Namco for the early review code.
Support the show on Patreon - patreon.com/writingongames
Podcast - http://anchor.fm/writingongamescast
Second Channel - youtube.com/channel/UC1xxfS_HILi09yaELQdmV1A
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I am on the record as being weirdly obsessed with the Tekken lore—centring on the Mishima blood feud between Heihachi, Kazuya and Jin (among others), but incorporating all kinds of different stories intermingling and allowing you to fill in the contextual blanks in your own head. It's why 7, with its comparatively paltry single player offering and lacklustre narrative, became pretty disappointing to me over the years.
All of which is why, with this video, I wanted to focus not on the new Heat system or online play, but on the story (entitled The Dark Awakens) specifically—what works, what doesn't, and how the game got me rethinking what I thought was always the problem with Tekken story modes. In this review/analysis, let's discuss The Dark Awakens, as well as Tekken 8's story more generally.
0:00 - I am really into the Tekken lore
2:29 - The Successes and Failures of Tekken 8 The Dark Awakens
7:25 - The Real Problem With Tekken's Story
10:18 - How Tekken 8 Fixes The Problem
12:12 - Tekken 8 Is For Everyone
13:29 - Outro
Tekken 2 Kazuya ending footage from The Gaming Restoration - youtube.com/watch?v=9z7kPZXNabc&pp=ygUWdGVra2VuIDIga2F6dXlhIGVuZGluZw%3D%3D
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Thumbnail by hotcyder - twitter.com/hotcyder
Intro text animation by Isaac Holland - twitter.com/drazgames
#tekkencartoon
