an anime reference im certain 99% of my audience won't get. anyways hopefully it won't be long before i start on the next upload. / discord / jswagdog #tekken8 #meme #fgc #t8 #jarlswagdog #Reina #Shaheen #kazyua
www.patreon.com/JarlSwagDog sorry if the video felt underwhelming/ "underbudget" its a new game. most of the video editing tools aren't available just yet.
I gotta agree with some of Shaheen’s criticisms though. Like he looks cool, but he’s just generic serious guy in a series where other characters do the serious guy schtick better. He’s supposed to be super acrobatic in a series where everyone is acrobatic. His surfboard move is the only really cool standout he has, other than that he just feels like generic uninspired middle eastern representation. I saw another comment that said Shaheen feels like a teacher gave a student a task to make an arabic character and the student did the bare minimum required to pass. Only furthered by the fact that Rashid is a much more fun representation of a similar archetype.
The last bit is what really does it. Because Shaheen only has the personality trait of being middle eastern, you'll immediately compare him to any other middle eastern fighting game rep. That's a huge problem, because against my boy Rashid, Shaheen looks like a wet paper towel.
@@Goremocker "like a wet paper towel!" So basically Shaheen is the Ryu of Saudi Arabia is what your saying!? Look I get it but there many characters at least in Tekken that have a bland personality but makes up for there gameplay. Lars,Raven,Kazuya all serious sticklers but there gameplay is fun as hell.
@@akilcharles3473 Here I actually need to disagree with you. All three examples there are much more interesting than Shaheen. Lars may be boring in terms of personality, but the dude dresses like an anime superhero and uses his dad's powers to act like one. Raven has the entire personality of "cyborg ninja" which would be boring if it weren't still underutilized. Then Kazuya is anime Hitler. I just can't find an anime devil man that wants to structure a world under social darwinism all that uninteresting. Even Ryu, boring as he is, got a touch up in SF 6 that really fleshes out what it means to be fully immersed in the spirit of fighting as communication with the world. Shaheen just, does nothing. I can't glean anything off him at a glance. I don't say this because I WANT to dislike Shaheen. I want an interesting middle eastern rep. I was excited to see what they did with him for the 8th installment. I was really hoping to like him. But it just didn't happen. Just plain old bread and mayo Shaheen.
id rather not listen to the opinion of anyone in the community, especially if the community makes bryan so popular (literally the most plain boring character if it comes to personality and visual design, limited to just laughing like a maniac)
At least Bryan has a play style exclusive to him Shaheen is literally Walmart Lee. You play Shaheen because you are scared to play Lee or you can't do DSS with Law
In order to be female in Tekken, the character has to be a scantily clad doll. Women aren't allowed to be publicly be that in Saudi Arabia. Hell, in order for an Arabic woman to even be in this game they had to hide her nationality(Zafina). Ain't no way a gender swapped Shaheen would be allowed to exist in Tekken, without potentially pissing an entire government off
I'm so happy that you made a video of Shaheen, even if it didn't felt as up to quality as your other videos. I'll admit, I was one of the person who forgot about Shaheen too when he was in 7, but after he was revealed in Gamespot. I couldn't help but like his design, and it made me want to play the character. Although he isn't as fun as my main Miguel or as cool as him. I still liked his simple gameplay, and liked watching him. When his trailer eventually came out I was very excited and realized how much of a glow up he got. Which made me all the more excited to watch him in tournaments. I may not be able to play the game rn, but I definitely want to play him because of how cool he have gotten, and people recognizing him makes me all the more gleeful at how much he improved. Let's hope he has a better personality in 9, and have a nice day!
Shaheen needs personality, a make over, a goofy-stupid ending or something. When I look at this character, he really comes off as "Oo, look! We put an Arabic man in Tekken!" And we're like "Cool...and what does he do?" The answer "well... he's Arabic". Yeah, we need the man to have flavor, some personality like Rashid from sf6.
You should give raven a shot, seriously underplayed character with a crouching and standing wave dash. Very flashy combos and he looks like blade. 10/10.
Doesn't matter how many people tell me Shaheen's boring, i'll love this guy every day lol he's fun to play and I think his new outfit in tekken 8 looks nice. (wasn't a big fan of the T7 one, but i still played the hell outta Shaheen there) Your video was great, would def like to see more!
Bought Tekken 8 on release (this is basically my first Tekken because I only played 7 for like 3 hours max) and put in almost 60 hours and managed to get to Garyu with King and Kuma; I have not seen a single Shaheen player
Maaan that's a great Shaheen... I did like him in tk7 and I'm playing him in tk8 just because of the hate that some people gave him... Thanks man I learned some tips from your video
While Shaheen's play style is neat, he's just so bland from a design perspective. It almost comes across as a Saudi Prince money-sponsored self-insert character that they have no clue what to do with. If that is precisely what Shaheen is (which I do doubt), I mean then I guess I'm happy that said Saudi Prince got their wish through. But in a game where you have biker one punch man, Bear 'lectricities, the simple bear 'lectricities - forget about your parries and your heat, a woman with a demon locked in her hand and a luchadore wrestler that speaks only in Jaguar - Shaheen certainly comes across as super bland. Honestly, if they made him somewhat bland and repressed but let out just a playful "Yahoo!" or something when doing the skating moves on people to display that he's actually playful and enjoys skateboarding or that he just has a more playful/fun-loving side to him would be a small thing but helpful thing in making him come across as just "Stoic Middle East Male".
His slide alone should make you want to play him, looks much better than Law’s and Lee’s one, then his surfing on your ass, and his Bird/Altaïr animation after the parry and the fb2 is the cherry on top
Shaheen is boring looking in a number of aspects, presentation, move set, visuals, behavior, personality and story. Shaheen specially drops the ball with story, while a lot of Tekken characters outside the Mishimas have been underutilized and wasted in this department the only thing Shaheen has going on is that he’s a good guy avenging he’s dead friend (this is literary all of Shaheen’s lore).
There's the spacetoon dubs if you can find them. Spacetoon in the Middle East is like 4kids in the us. It broadcasted several anime that they dubbed in arabic
Hokuto no ken, Ai wo Torimodose. But the middle eastern music over it was dope af. Anyway, really appreciating the love for Shaheen, our favorite neck breaking Saoudi!
Thank you for making justice to all Shaheen players. People's opinion on him is mostly just wolf pack mentality where someone relevant said he was boring and everyone followed through, but thats not true. Shaheen is really cool to play and he has great outfits.
No I’m glad he doesn’t use it It would make him a generic poor man’s soul calibur character in a tekken game The classic old fashioned tekken he plays is what makes him unique
@@kalxgamingx1224 he is not generic at all. For the reasons I already explained. Him being a character who plays good old fashioned tekken in a game where a lot of the roster is too flashy for their own good he stands out that way and makes him a breath of fresh air to play He may be “generic” to you if you’re a weird anime edge lord who only appreciates flash with no substance But for me, as a player who loves good old fashioned tekken, he’s amazing
Brother says "to my surprise" like he isnt looking like the most casual arab looking guy in a movie , fuck that shit he has nothing , no personnalité, no drip , not that good of a gameplay too , nothing to save
In Gigasthiccas's chat earlier today and we were basically talking about this same thing: the most direct comparison character-wise is Lee who has a fairly unique identity in that literally everything he does is incredibly difficult to do consistently and he's a very flamboyant character, and then Shaheen does very similar things but he's got less execution and just "I'm middle-eastern man". Compare him to a character like Rashid and it's night and day
Obviously most of the people who say Shaheen is boring haven’t tried him yet in training mode, i was one of those people but now he is one of my favorites because i love Birds and he is basically a Desert Bird, a mix of Lee and Law (also in my favorite characters list) with a touch of Altaïr ( who doesn’t love Assassin’s Creed ? )
