Bandai Namco says that Tekken 8’s story mode will be bigger than the one in Tekken 7. In 2023, fighting games have been doing well, with new content for games from 2022, Capcom’s Street Fighter 6 coming out, and NetherRealm Studios launching Mortal Kombat 1 in September. Bandai Namco will release Tekken 8 early in 2024, and people are really looking forward to it.
In Tekken 8, the story continues from where Tekken 7 left off. In Tekken 7, Kazuya Mishima defeated Heihachi Mishima, and now, the only Mishima left is Kazuya’s son, Jin Kazama.
This new game is getting ready for a big showdown between father and son, and even Jin’s long-lost mother, Jun Kazama, will be part of the story in some way. And don’t worry if you thought Tekken 7’s story was too short because Bandai Namco has said that Tekken 8’s story mode will be even longer and more extensive.
During an interview with Tekken 8’s producer and director Kohei Ikeda and marketing producer Naoya Yasuda, they talked about the game’s story mode. They said that because they have more money to spend on the game, the story mode in Tekken 8 will be even bigger than the one in Tekken 7.
🥊 NEW TEKKEN 8 INFO 🥊
In this week’s New Famitsu interview, #TEKKEN8 Game Director Kohei Ikeda and Marketing Producer Naoya Yasuda dropped some exciting info:
STORY MODE & ARCADE QUEST
🔹The Main Story is MUCH bigger than #TEKKEN7 ( IMO hinting to at least twice as big )… pic.twitter.com/U0rVUNXCyt
— YellowMotion | TEKKEN 8 (@Yellow_Motion) September 6, 2023
One of them remembered when they were told how much money they could use for the story mode and thought it was a lot, so he laughed.
Ikeda was surprised by how much story content they made for the game, especially when there were 32 different fighters in Tekken 8. He had a tough time figuring out how to make all the characters fit together in his mind.
But he thinks that in fighting games, the characters’ personalities are what make them special, and he hopes the team did a great job bringing out the best in each character. In Tekken 7, there were 14 chapters in the story mode that took about 3-4 hours to finish, as estimated by HowLongToBeat.com.
In Tekken 8, it seems like the story mode will be even bigger and more like a movie, with more battles against different Tekken fighters and a final showdown between a father and his son. But that’s not all! The game will also have other single-player modes like Arcade and a special Arcade Quest mode.