Machiavellian on 11 December 2014
| Trentonater said: Everyone needs to realize that the complaint is that the character is the silliest introduced yet. Even more so than Alisa. She represents the increasingly less serious tone of the series with each iteration since harada took over. Most new characters are joke characters and previously important and serious characters are being reduced to jokes. Characters like Kuma and and Roger actually weren't jokes anyway at first. I don't think the presence of supernatural and sci-fi elements make fetish pandering fit in any more. The "just ignore them" argument doesn't really hold up though in a fighting game. There are resources that are put into these characters and those resources could have instead been used for a character that would be better received. It is essentially taking up a spot. It also wasn't nice of Harada to assume everyone on Neogaf was american or to associate the opinions of neogaf with an entire country. He did just use the incident to make it clear he was joking and is listening to player feedback. |
I played Tekken when it first appeared in the arcades a long time ago. The series was never serious. It always had that tongue and cheek type of story and the charcters prove it from the beginning. I remember at the time when Tekken first arrived and it was compared to Virtual Fighter. The same people during that time talked about Tekken as not being a serious fighter like Virtual Fighter etc. At the end of the day, no one plays Tekken for the story but instead for the characters and how they work and if they are fun to play with.
