9:15 Believe it or not there is actually a reason why Nina is wearing a wedding dress, she assassinated a man at his wedding and she stole the brides wedding dress to get close to him...the bride was Anna. That also explains why Anna's costume is a widow's dress.
The funny thing regarding Eliza's turn from vampire to succubus, is that a very recent Harada's Bar episode actually talked about it, where he basically revealed they turned her into a succubus without him knowing.
@@FixTheWi-FiWhich also had an entire Magikarp stage, and Magikarp as an assist, and when the time came to make a playable assist... They chose Croagunk.
I remember hearing about Miguel's sister being the Zombie Bride a few years ago. That sounds crazy but you remember Tekken has The Devil Gene, robots, and mythical beings so having a zombie doesn't sound so crazy.
Quite actually, Bryan could be considered a zombie. Yes, he is mechanized, but his story is that he was a corrupt ... private investigator or somesuch, and got kiled in a shootout. Dr. Abel then revived him with robotic parts. So yeah, Bryan is a cyber zombie. Put him in a wedding dress and you've got your zombie bride running alright.
If she were a playable character, I imagine her story for that instalment would be Miguel trying to restore her to normal. Like, fully living, and not a zombie. Maybe have an unlockable outfit where she's human, like in MK: Armageddon with Lui Kang.
@@griefingg0lem685 Could have been a mechanic where you have to start the match with the magikarp and if you manage to hold out for long enough it evolves into Gyarados. Completely changes the moveset and hitbox.
Harada has some wacky ideas about who should be in Tekken. Dude wants Colonel Sanders in the game and considered putting Donald Trump in the game. (Although tbh some part of me hopes he does circle back around to adding a US president, just because I can't imagine the character not being insane. I don't want a real President, please don't put Trump, Biden, Obama, whoever in the game, just make up a new character who's President in the Tekken universe and is just an exaggeration of how Harada perceives the US/US President(s) generally speaking.)
@@brunfranc Maybe that'd work better as an assist in Pokken that's basically Saitama in the One-Punch Man fighting game, but instead of being just a pseudo-time limit, is physically present on field and must be played around
Fun fact: in 2006 the Baki manga had Baki fight a giant mantis. So a little less than 10 years before Baki fought a mantis, tekken could have been first
"Because speaking as a DarkStalkers fan, yes, we do just go around asking people at random if they'll include them in their game because that's all we have to hope for at this point." This is so true and it HURTS SO MUCH When Ono left I just lost all my hope And its frustrating cuz capcom still is trying to capitalize with skins but never give us a game I just dont need AAA game, just let some indie devs do a game
Well this is Capcom we are talking about. They aren't making MegaMan or a dino crisis game. All they care about is street fighter, resident evil and monster hunter. And i know theres other games like ace attorney and devil may cry and many more. But compared to how many installments are released and the advisement for SF, RE and MH. It seems like they only care about those 3 series
@@maverick9357 Street Fighter has been largely recycled content since 4. Same with Resident Evil since VII. That's all Monster Hunter really ever has been. It's maximum recycle/DLC/Day1/Season Pass/Microtrannies/etc. for max profit. Modern Crapcom has no idea how to do Dino Crisis, Ace Attorney, DMC, DarkStalkers, Super Fighting Robot, Breath of Fire, Final Fight, Onimusha, Viewtiful Joe, Rival Schools, Strider, Commando/Mercs, Lost Planet, Sengoku Basara, Okami, 194X, Power Stone, Gargoyle’s Quest, etc. and be able to suck money they're not entitled to from players with cheap trash _costumes_ of characters from better IPs and season passes full of content cut from the actual initial $70+Tip alpha release. You are now imagining a modern, Ace Combat-style 194X.
To think.. at one point in this crazy Tekken universe.. instead of Eliza being in Tekken Revolution.. we would of gotten a salmon. I'm so glad that we got Eliza over a fish.
I love it when Harada gets nutty and when Tekken fans get salty when something nutty happens in Tekken, so I'd personally welcome the fish. :D (I do like Eliza though.)
Part of me hopes Tekken isn't quite done with ridiculous animal characters. Word on the street is Roger might return as T8 DLC, but I'd love a T9 or beyond that gives us some other crazy animal BS we aren't ready for. Kazumi's tiger, a big dog on it's hind legs, an octopus, Sake, an angry sloth, just something nutty.
@@gregvs.theworld451 a sloth that is a straight up grappler would be cool,super slow but if he lands one of his command grabs you might as well say farwell to a good chunk of your health bar.
@@emperormegaman3856 The only other character that ranks right up there with Morrigan is Felicia, but she's the weakest of the Darkstalkers. Weird how the strongest and the weakest Darkstalkers are the most popular.
9:13 Fun fact: When Anna was added into Tekken 7 as DLC, she wore a widow outfit and the reason behind it was because her fiance was offed by Nina before their planned wedding (Harada tweeted about this during her release). In fact it's the reason Nina's wearing bridal gear... Cuz that was actually meant to be Anna's. Here's hoping they don't give my girl Anna more bad luck when she comes back
I think Kyo Kusanagi would have been amazing for Tekken. The move lists for modern Tekken are brain-rendingly huge, and Kyo's rekka chains always get something new added in each game, so he could have every existing rekka plus some new ones created for Tekken, plus a bunch of DLC costumes that each have a different Rage Art or Super.
Somehow I think they're going to remedy that in tekken 8 if they release a bunch of DLC Although just imagine the XV system clashing with the heat system + the anti-throw shatter strike
Darkstalkers really honor their name with so many almost happening, slightly in the background moments. Imagine what could have happened if Morrigan would have been in Tekken and popular. Back at Capcom at least someone must have wondered if that could mean something...
I'm betting Tekken 8 will have Morrigan as a DLC guest character like Akuma & Geese, but I'm hoping for the best if Harada is okay with it, and Capcom is okay having her in a guest character. Also, they better put a rival dialogue with Eliza to know she took her spot in Tekken 7 as a reference.
@@sabbathjackal I'm not the biggest MK fan, but I hope someone reaches out to NR and lets them guest somewhere since Ed Boon seems really desperate for it. It feels like he really wants to be recognized as a great fighting game like other franchises, I'd feel happy for him knowing it'd make his day if Harada or someone smirked one day and said "c'mere you, yeah we'll ad Scorpion or Sub Zero into our game. We see you, MK's cool alright?". It's not gonna happen, but for the fact Ed Boon wanted an MKxSF to happen, while I don't see Capcom signing off on that, I do think a few characters from SF like Bison or Akuma would fit as guest characters for MK.
@gregvs.theworld451 it'll probably never happen because apparently in Japan MK is banned regularly because of its violence, so it's a virtually unheard of franchise
@@sabbathjackal Yeah, I know. I'm guessing that's probably a big reason why MK is in an odd spot despite Ed seemingly wanting MK to feel as big as Street Fighter, Tekken, etc. I agree it's not likely but theoretically couldn't a Japanese game have an MK guest star that just doesn't go as hard as MK typically does? Like, say, Scoripion shows up in Tekken but just doesn't attack with blood splatters or tear out Jin's spine and crushes Kazuya's brain and stuff?
The whole Eliza having a super bar could also be the team testing out super meters, EX moves, etc to see how they would work in Tekken X Street Fighter cuz that game was also in development at the time. Adding those types of characters that rely on Super meters like Eliza, Akuma and Geese was definitely them figuring out how that system could work in a Tekken game.
Perfect timing, just got done of learning literally every bit of tekken lore and watched all the endings in anticipation for the new game, never been into tekken till I seen this one, I’ve played but never dove deep till now, hype as hell for this game
Same, I'm familiar with the basic plot with Heihachi and the Mishima family, but I've never really played any of the Tekken games before, I decided to try the Tekken 8 demo and now I'm super excited to get my hands on the full game.
In the game files of T4, there was characters names pronounced by the announcer, many of them were previous characters being absent from the game ! Characters like Armor King, Anna, Devil, Jun, Unknown, Ogre and even Jinpachi even if it was years before Tekken 5 !
That taekwondo girl's design looks amazing! 😍 Her color scheme might be a bit too close to asuka but I hope she makes it in 8 somehow! Also can't say I'm not at least a little bit salty knowing that we were the closest we've ever been to bringing darkstalkers back to life and making it popular again 😅
Eliza was the reason i started playing Tekken revolution when that game came out bc she felt like a lost Darkstalker and it made me really happy when she got to come back in t7 but im getting conflicting feelings now bc Morrigan is my favorite character period and learning about not getting her in something kind of hurts. I hope at least that Eliza can come back for another game eventually bc i still really like her either way
I'm kinda hoping if they revisit the idea of a Darkstalkers character in Tekken, then they choose to add Lord Raptor. Morrigan makes the most sense since she is THE Darkstalkers character, but it would be nice to see some more representation across the whole series. Also I just feel Raptor would fit in with cast really well, however, if I were to pick any character it would be Hsien-ko.
I thought I was going crazy bc I could’ve sworn I read that having Tekken Hybrid save data would unlock a Shin costume for Jin in TTT2. Turns out he was a cut character completely
First Street Fighter, now Tekken! This should definitely be a series. All we need now is videos about cut characters from Mortal Kombat, Darkstalkers, Soulcalibur, Dead of Alive and the SNK fighters (Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters and Samurai Showdown) :)
Okay but between the skinny scientist turning into a hulking (heh) monster (giving me Jekyll and Hyde vibes) and the zombie bride and outright Morrigan... now I wanna see the Tekken devs do their own take on a horror themed fighting game.
Thats not the reason nina has a wedding dress on. Its actually because nina stole the wedding dress from anna and killed anna's fiancé. And anna has her dress to represent that she is a widow.
Spoiler warning! 15:14 Lady Paul is actually in Tekken 8 you can find her in the Arcade Quest mode at the "Phoenix" arcade. Her name is Jet, she wears a helmet, when you fight her she will play as Paul with a skull helmet, after you win she takes off her helmet essentially revealing herself as female Paul. If it wasn't for this video I would have never caught this hidden Easter Egg.
I was actually looking up the Revolution poll a few hours before this was posted. I thought I imagined it, "Did they really make one of the options a praying mantis and an old guy? I must have imagined it." Yeah, in hindsight, no wonder Eliza won. Edit: What, no mention of the illustrious "Average, run-of-the-mill old man" which was a choice in the poll for some reason? A fighter that would've rivalled Akuma's reveal.
for the dragunov fans: according to a source i found he was meant to be in tekken 3, his design has been around since the 90s, he was scrapped and put in the series later then in this case
I'd love to have either Terry Bogard or Mai Shiranui be the KOF rep DLC for Tekken 8. Also we were truly robbed of not having Morrigan. Would really be interesting to have her fighting style translated in a tekken game. Minus the Astral Vision Soul Fist spam.
The idea of spending money at the arcade to accidentally pick a nonfunctioning fish does sound like it would hurt, but then you got to see other people go through the same thing and laugh about it too. Might have made it worth it.
everyone knows jcvd is in mortal kombat now because johnny cage was based on him but what many don't know is that mk was originally pitched as basically a van damme fighting game. it's also not that weird that he was considered as inspiration for a tekken character when you have law & lei in there
Well, technically, Dimitri from Darkstalkers is a vampire and has moves similar to Morrigan, so it would make sense for Eliza, the vampire, would be similar, too. I'm surprised a Dimitri skin wasn't used for Eliza.
Trying to imagine what it would have been like if the scrapped Tekken 1 characters stuck around. - Walrus Guy: he would have been an early Marduk. Perhaps, there could have been a history between him and King (or Armor King). Maybe, he could have even taken Marduk's place in Tekken 4 (I doubt they would have created Marduk if they already had a big, buff wrestler around), maybe making him more serious and keeping the storyline that Marduk had. I hope so, because try to imagine that infamous King-Marduk-Armor King cutscene, but "Marduk" wears a walrus suit and, probably, makes walrus noises; - Mr. Hanuman: Maybe, he could have been among the original generation, and being eventually scrapped. Perhaps, Tekken 7's Fahkumram could have been his apprentice, as we see an older version of him training Fahkumram; - Lula, the "Yoga Aura" girl: maybe she could have been an early Xiaoyu/Lili character in terms of "her story is full of typical high school anime shenanigans". Since she was a teenager, this means that, in the "current" generation, she could have been in her 30s. I would have appreciated it, because Tekken's female characters are either schoolgirls/20somethings or, when they are older, there's a reason why they are still youthful looking. Perhaps, she could have been a character akin to Zafina? - "Hulk" character: first of all, I can't wrap my head around HOW this was going to be handled, legally. Second, I wonder if he was going to fill the role of either Dr. Abel or Dr. Boskonovitch. Him changing forms could have been something fun, though, because this only ever happens with main characters, or villains (in case of Ogre); - The Van Damme-like character: first of all, I wonder how they would have handled having a Van Damme-inspired character while Street Fighter was having a movie adaptation where he was playing the main character. Second, I can see him being used in the same way as Lei Wu Long, with his own storyline inspired by Van Damme's movies. Perhaps, down the line, he could have been asked to voice this character; (Side note: for the Tekken live action movie, they planned on featuring Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Now, imagine if there was also a character inspired by Jean Claude Van Damme, and then the movie tried to include him. We could have had a Tekken movie wiith Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Jean Claude Van Damme!) These characters do seem like they could have changed the tone of Tekken. It was clear that Tekken 1 was meant to have a more colourful, funny angle. What do you think?
The Hulk type character would be cool! We have a lot of stance characters, but changing shape and weight class is something I've only seen in Smash Bro
Bruh , theres a story behind Nina's Wedding outfit. She disguised herself as Anna during Anna's wedding, to assassinate her fiance. She ran away after the assassination and bumped into Steve. And that's why Anna wore that black/red dress with feathers , because she went to her fiance's funeral.
I don't think the Walrus Man will not fit in on the roster when there is a Tiger mask wearing luchador that only speaks in roars, 2 bears, a kangaroo with boxing gloves and a raptor with boxing gloves at one point.
Marvel vs Tekken doesn't sound that half bad an idea, honestly. Imagine the rivalry between Doctor Doom and Kazuya! Also, I just discovered that other guest characters planned for Tekken 7 included Colonel Sanders, Red from Angry Birds, and even Donald Trump. Guess they really did want to go weirder than Negan.
Im surprised that you didn't mention that pacman was gonna be in Tekken revolution or how a cod soldier, angry birds, and colonel sanders was considered for Tekken 7. Still a great video though
Don't ever give up hope on Darkstalkers, Thorgi. I haven't, and part of that is because of you making the amazing videos about the series. I will believe until my dying breath that Darkstalkers Are Not Dead, and I think somehow, some way, we, the fanbase, can make that dream a reality some day.
I'd really love to see a Zombie Bride in a Tekken game, and to show her in Tekken 6. It'll be one awesome reveal. Also Sake should make his debut on Tekkwn 8 as a secret DLC character. Also for guest character, I want Yujiro Hanma to be included in Tekken 8.
Something I want to note was that according to an episode of Harada’s bar, he actually said that Geese wasn’t the first pick as the snk rep, and that the original pick was Ryuji Yamazaki. But it never happened because the team/him figured you can’t have the henchmen before big boss Geese. Which I for one would’ve loved to see those interactions if we did get him… or if we can get him now considering Geese was in Tekken 7.
12:34 i mean they could of still added her with the outfit tho. Ivy Valentine from soul caliber has a similar outfit and both series are from bandai namco. I wouldn't be surprised if they gave that outfit to ivy for soul calibur 6 and i wouldn't be surprised if zoey was based off of ivy
@@lukejones7164jinpachi originally was an arms dealer during WW2 turned toymaker when the war ended. Then got possessed by an evil spirit while being sealed underneath the family temple. Kazumi....I mean we know her story. Honestly if you were rooting for them, man.....
@@janematthews9087 So serving your Nation during a war makes you evil now? That speaks volumes about you lmao. And Kazumi was proven to be in the right.
@@lukejones7164 1: An arms dealer is different from regular service; Putting words into OP's mouth. (Especially when that country's military tried a coup against the Emperor after the two atomic bombs.) 2: That doesn't make her any less psychotic, you know.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 1. That's a stupid argument 🤣 2. She was saving the world from 2 future tyrants (one of which was already a tyrant before the fight), how is that psychotic lol?
I hope they bring back that one Velociraptor character back. I haven't been following Tekken 8 so I don't know if he's in it but I would love if he was because I love characters like him and Riptor from Killer Instinct
Imagine being the poor soul that put money in the Arcade and had to fight these cheap bastards. To me, Azazel was worse not just because the teleporting, but he took up so much of the screen in addition to somehow having even more overpowering stun BS (which would just be spammed one after another).
Zombie Bride could've been an interesting character gameplay wise. No idea how they'd keep the T rating with it, but it would've been cool to see her have moves where she uses one of her own limbs as a club. Kinda like the main character from Medievil
Harada also wanted to include Ryuji Yamazaki as the initial Fatal Fury villain pick, but went with Geese because he didn't feel it was right to have Yamazaki before him.
regarding that Eliza Morrigan theory - Eliza in T7 has a customization piece that's just her default outfit but with bigger boobs. I always thought that's super weird but now that I'm thinking about it it could also kinda be a reference to Morrigan actually.
she did always had big boobs even in revelation but you level it up to BIG by sucking blood and being good at revelation gameplay i think T7 has level up system for her too i dunno but it also has option as person above said
@@imarock.7662 she did always had big boobs even in revelation but you level it up to BIG by sucking blood and being good at revelation gameplay i think T7 has level up system for her too i dunno but it also has option as person above said
