Yoshimitsu Returns To the Fight In Tekken 7

Ollie Barder 
A long running and fan favorite Tekken and Soul Calibur character, that of Yoshimitsu, has returned for Tekken 7 with a very interesting re-design.
Released in arcades on May 12th, Yoshimitsu is returning in a new almost Eldritch-esque form, as he’s now seemingly merged with an octopus and consequently has tentacles.
The result (shown above) is something quite unnerving but looks impressive though a bit weird in motion.
Yoshimitsu is one of the staple characters in both the Tekken and Soul Calibur series, and has always been popular with fighting fans.
The leader of the Manji Clan, he is an honorable and rather mysterious ninja. Each version has also undergone quite a major visual redesign and it’s clear this latest entry is no different.
Using Unreal Engine 4, Tekken 7 is one of many beat-em-ups to use Epic ’s popular engine. Considering the origins of the tool-set stem from first and third person shooters, it’s interesting to see the engine being re-purpose for different gaming genres.
While Tekken 7 was released in Japanese arcades on March 18th, there’s still no word of a Western arcade release or a home console port. In terms of the latter though, an announcement will likely surface at some point.
Unlike previous entries, Tekken 7 is not using a standardized board but a custom board based on PC architecture. In theory that means porting the game to modern consoles and PC should be much less of an issue.
It also seems that Yoshimitsu is that last of the planned post release characters, so the game’s roster of fighters should be deemed relatively complete for now.
I’ve also been keeping an eye on the community side of things in Tokyo and it’s clear that players are already feeding back to Bandai Namco in terms of balancing changes.
It’s still decently popular as well, which is interesting considering the never-ending and misplaced predictions of doom for Japan’s arcade gaming industry.
Anyway, check out the new Yoshimitsu in action (shown below) and hope that Bandai Namco get around to making the game more available outside of Japan.

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