Playing this without nostalgia is... oof.
My Tekken knowledge is very limited, i only played a single T7 aracade run with King and that's it.
I wanted to play some PS1 fighters and decided to try the first Tekken game out of curiosity... it has not aged very well.
It's not horrible, but it's stiff and not very fun to play. I felt like the cpu never let me do any cool moves (oh yeah, the game has no training mode or movelist so i had to go watch King's movelist on youtube) because it would counter me with their cool huge damage moves so all i did was spam crouching LP (almost always hits them because they want to do big moves) and grabs. It works and it's consistent but it's not fun.
Beating it was worth it just for the ending cutscene, it was so weird and charming i had to go watch all the other endings on youtube.
Not a terrible game and a good starting point compared to the first entries other fighters had, but i don't feel like there's much here unless you're curious or played it back when it was new and have nostalgia for it.
My Tekken knowledge is very limited, i only played a single T7 aracade run with King and that's it.
I wanted to play some PS1 fighters and decided to try the first Tekken game out of curiosity... it has not aged very well.
It's not horrible, but it's stiff and not very fun to play. I felt like the cpu never let me do any cool moves (oh yeah, the game has no training mode or movelist so i had to go watch King's movelist on youtube) because it would counter me with their cool huge damage moves so all i did was spam crouching LP (almost always hits them because they want to do big moves) and grabs. It works and it's consistent but it's not fun.
Beating it was worth it just for the ending cutscene, it was so weird and charming i had to go watch all the other endings on youtube.
Not a terrible game and a good starting point compared to the first entries other fighters had, but i don't feel like there's much here unless you're curious or played it back when it was new and have nostalgia for it.