But I'm just putting out my realistical thoughts about how the Tekken 8 roster of returning characters should actually look like instead. Again, this is my thoughts about it, and you can agree or disagree about this take. Other than Akuma and Noctis though, I don't mind the rest of the guest characters being missing in Tekken 8.Īnd that will do it for the roster. And then in terms of my bias, I would probably just have Noctis come back as well, just because not only does he feel more of a Tekken fighter than a Final Fantasy character, at least imo, but Lars did call him and told him about meeting up, and probably even discussing his plan about what's going on already. So if anything, Akuma is the first guest character on the list to return in Tekken 8. So anyway, in terms of the guest fighters in it, I understand about Negan and Geese not maybe being returnable, but AKUMA? Now why is HE not coming back? He's literally part of the Tekken story now, and he has unfinished business with Kazuya when we last saw them fighting each other still. But keep in mind that as long as company relationships are a thing, and as long as they can negotiate another deal again, whats stopping them on having the guest characters return too? And you gotta make the guest characters fair too, because at the end of the day, they still are fighters in a fighting game.

But if I want to be honest, there's only 4 guest characters, out of like a roster of 50-60 fighters in, and those are: Akuma, Geese Howard, Noctis, and Negan, everyone else being Tekken original. Before I go and talk about the guest characters that are in tekken 7, going or missing out in tekken 8, I understand about the reasoning why people would say that they wouldn't return, due to licensing, and/or their moves being super broken in the game. So all 3 of them should be fine.ģ.Finally, the last point might be a very debatable topic: Guest characters. So Anna being missing in Tekken 8 while her sister Nina is in will definitely feel very strange. And it's like saying that you can't have Law without Paul, or King without Armor King, Kuma without Panda, etc. They're gonna need as much help as they can. Miguel still wanting to get revenge on Jin for killing his sister, while Shaheen is wanting to save the world by defeating Kazuya, along with other people like Jin, Lars, Alisa, Lee, etc. Give that man respect.Ģ.Characters like Miguel, Shaheen, and Anna should at the very least be in very likely tier for Tekken 8, due to their movesets being fun, representation, and/or their partner already returning for the next installment. So if she can make it in Tekken 7 on 1 single scene, so can Heihachi. Tekken 7 legacy characters include Alisa, Asuka, Bob, Bryan, Devil Jin, Dragunov, Eddy, Feng, Heihachi, Hwoarang, Jin, Kazuya, King, Kuma, Lars, Lee, Leo, Lili. For all we know, he could just pop out of knowhere from said spoilers), but guess what? Kazumi is already dead from like the entire tekken franchise, but yet gets to be a playable character in the base roster too, because of like 1 scene of her flashback, and that's LITERALLY it. This list has honestly got like alot of incorrect placements:ġ.How on earth is Jack and Heihachi on 50/50, when literally both of them appeared in every single Tekken game ever? Like, I get that Heihachi is dead (in all honesty, we don't even know if he's really dead.

Tekken 4 roster