
The New Tekken 7 character list features Akuma, Claudio, Gigas, Jack-7, Josie, Katarina, Kazumi, Lucky Chloe, Master Raven, and Shaheen. We also got ten new fighters to go alongside the legacy ones. Eliza, technically also a returning character, made her main game debut as a pre-order DLC. Tekken 7 legacy characters include Alisa, Asuka, Bob, Bryan, Devil Jin, Dragunov, Eddy, Feng, Heihachi, Hwoarang, Jin, Kazuya, King, Kuma, Lars, Lee, Leo, Lili, Law, Miguel, Nina, Panda, Paul, Steve, Xiaoyu, and Yoshimitsu. More than half of those were previously featured in the series. Initially, the Tekken 7 roster consisted only of 36 fighters – a decent number further boosted by the DLC releases. The seventh mainline game featured improved visuals, and tighter gameplay and controls, thanks to the decision to move from the proprietary engine and make the game on Unreal Engine 4. Even so, everyone’s gaze quickly shifted to it from the previous entry that was Tekken Tag Tournament 2. The latest entry in the storied franchise was released with all the fanfare that the game of this caliber is entitled to, and it didn’t disappoint.Īs is always the case with the series, Tekken 7 has first arrived on Arcades full two years before the game saw the console and PC release. "We’d like to try some violent features like that, but I don’t like Nintendo would agree with that.It’s wild to think that Tekken 7 has been with us since 2015. "We would like to try some violent features like raising poison mushrooms below the stage and then you can take them online and when you’re fighting your friend you can shove it in their face," Harada joked. Not all of the Tekken team’s ideas were Nintendo material, though. There aren’t many third party games that go as far with Nintendo properties so you can see how understanding they were this time."

We didn’t expect to get as far as we did. They actually were and they made it into the game as you can see. Some of these are things we really wanted to do, but we thought Nintendo would not be OK with.

"We do use some of the sound effects from Mario and remix some of the music. We also told them we wanted to use the stars for invincibility and they were OK with that," Harada disclosed. "That was an an idea from our side that they approved.
