As a filthy casual who isn't very good at fighting games, I loved Tekken 8. It looks, sounds, and FEELS tremendous. Easy to pick up, tough to master, with plenty of tools to help you get there, and a bevy of weird and wonderful characters to mess around with.
The suite of single player modes for casuals like me is really impressive. Arcade Quest is a solid tutorial, and Character Stories streamline the arcade mode and allow you to quickly see those great, great, great endings. Unfortunately, I found the main MK-style story mode to be pretty tortuous. Lots of boring yapping with uninteresting characters. These stories are better conveyed in the stylized, often quite short arcade endings - stretching them out with a full story mode didn't help them, and you're often listening to minutes upon minutes of waffling before you get to a single fight, which is quickly followed by more waffle.
[Steam Deck notes: temper your expectations, set it at approx 50% internal resolution, and you can have a great time]
The suite of single player modes for casuals like me is really impressive. Arcade Quest is a solid tutorial, and Character Stories streamline the arcade mode and allow you to quickly see those great, great, great endings. Unfortunately, I found the main MK-style story mode to be pretty tortuous. Lots of boring yapping with uninteresting characters. These stories are better conveyed in the stylized, often quite short arcade endings - stretching them out with a full story mode didn't help them, and you're often listening to minutes upon minutes of waffling before you get to a single fight, which is quickly followed by more waffle.
[Steam Deck notes: temper your expectations, set it at approx 50% internal resolution, and you can have a great time]