i literally yelled when i heard this song and i saw jin take the kazama style stance. then i teared up when my old jun combos actually still functioned properly. no other fighting game story even comes close to this not even fucking close. jin finally accepting himself being represented by embracing both his Mishima and kazama upbringing is a stroke of narrative genius you usually dont see character writing this solid in a fighting game story.
Jin Kazama really became the best version of himself in Tekken 8 and I’m here for it. He’s finally fully accepted every aspect of himself. He’s reclaimed his position as the GOAT of Tekken!
@trevinodude exactly! i adore when a long-running series takes advantage of its runtime. this is the best example of long-term storytelling done right. welcome back, jin. we've missed you
@@Nungen With what the main campaign shows, it's easy to still assume Jun is dead and helping Jin from the afterlife. She isn't 100% confirmed alive until her personal Character Episode, which you unlock after beating the main story.
And this is the part that broke me, as soon as that first note hit. Tekken 2 was my first Tekken game, PS1 game, and is my favourite in the series. I was 6 or 7 years old at the time. Fast forward to now, 31 years old, fighting back tears so I can see what I'm doing in-game 😂
It’s funny you mention Bloodline, because Bloodline legit reminded me why I became a Jin Kazama fan in the first place. Tekken 6 seemingly ruined Jin, and I didn’t think it was possible to redeem him… but Bloodlines came and reminded me why I cared so much to begin with. Then Tekken 8 succeeds at redeeming Jin and allows him to use his mother’s style against Kazuya like he did to Heihachi in Bloodlines and it just clicked… whether intentional or not… Bandai had been thinking of how to redeem Jin for a while after fans yelled at them for Tekken 6. And all that thought worked out in the end, because this song and Jin’s Tekken 3 remix was HYPE!!!
@@trevinodude 6 hardly ruined Jin. It showed the full extent of the dark path that the tragic events in his life drove him down. I thought it was entirely natural following Tekken 5.
@@maxrichards3881I just felt like there was a whole chapter missing in between Tekken 5 and 6. It didn’t seem natural to me for Jin to be like: “I wanna end the Mishima bloodline” to “F**K THE WORLD”… I mean sure… they TRIED to make it work by revealing that Jin wasn’t actually evil and was trying to save the world from Azazel, but I just felt like we should have had a game hinting at Azazel and showing Jin’s realization that his journey may lead him to dark places or something. I’m glad it worked for you, but it seemed… rushed for me personally.
In my mind, I was saying for the longest time that if they’re gonna bring this theme back, it should be in 8, because Jun is back in it. I can’t tell you how happy I was as soon as I heard that first note, it’s as if this final fight was made for us
@@neardarkroad1347 funnily yesxD same to their bodys. Unfortunately the males have almost Street Fighter bodys nowadays though at least Asian martial artists aren't usually that bulky because it will slow you down. I'd hope they will change them back to before. TTT had much more diverse statures than nowadays. Maybe I should beg Harada to make them more "normal" again
@@neardarkroad1347many of us should write him then - this will improve the chances of getting their old statures or sth similar back. ❤ However I liked that they finally raised their weight a little - before their weight/height ratio was like Cristiano Ronaldos - totally unrealistic with their bodys nowadays - probably it's still not enough but at least more realistic
Wrong. The Ryoko Shintani who sang is someone else. She herself said as such here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ThT7u2ynIH0.html She uses the name Chiffon Records as that's her own label.
@@dragonkamran True, it actually is worrying that Jin ditched the Kazama style of all things, the Mishima style is understandable, but the Kazama style as well really did imply that Jin was going into a dark place.
Tekken 2 was the first game in the series I played and my jaw hit the floor when I heard this. Been wanting this song and the revamped Jin theme. Thanks.
This song and Jins T3 theme being remixed was like hearing my childhood grow up with me and this was the developers way of saying that we didn’t forget about you OG fans
i think I swore out loud when this came on bc of how special this song is to me, it's helped me get through some abusive points of my life when I was feeling depressed
•The fact tekken has always been about Jin overcoming all the difficulties he’s been through up down since then has proven talk about major developmental progress an change that he’s made Also knowledging his flawed up behavior wasn’t right ofc he’ll half to pay for in do time starting a pointless war was criminally insane for no reason but at least he knows what he Done in reality I’m soo happy to see how far he’s come through I can’t wait to see many more progressional steps in tekken history an His relationship love to xio*
Love the over-the-top DBZ-like stuff but I do like the down-to-earth and hand-to-hand fighting too. So Kaz and Jin's final fight was just overall AWESOME!
@@gentlguy1101compressed and low quality? How did you misinterpret it like that bruh. It's supposed to sound distorted because it's in Jin's messed up mind.
I'm gonna get alot of hate for this, but this song is wasted on Jin. This should've been saved for Kazuya in the next game which is clearly now going to feature the reclaim of his humanity given the extra ending we got. Understand i love this song as much as you guys, so much so I wore out my first copy Tekken 2 cd listening to it in my walkman. But this is definitely more befitting of Kazuya than Jin.
I can absolutely respect that, however, a respectful counter point. If we go with that logic, I would say the song used for Tekken 2 where Jun and Kazuya met, is still would be more emotionally potent when used on a moment for Kazuya.
I can understand the opinions, looking back at how the fight is orchestrated, the moment Jin take the Kazama style stance they could've also just switch to Jun vs Kazuya (like a flash back) and make us play Jun Then go back to Jin vs Kazuya mid fight (Naruto storm games does that, so I thought the idea was pretty relevant here)
