Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Female Characters

[Suanne Forte]

TheTekken series is a fighting style game series, initially developed and published by Namco (which is now Bandai-Namco) in 1994. Competing with other gaming franchises like Mortal Combat and Street Fighter, it is a feat that Tekken has managed to stand the test of time against others, making its mark as one of the most popular fighting games of all time. One of the best features of the Tekken series has always been its graphics, interactive arenas, in-depth story telling and character building, as well as its diverse fighting styles that serve to give each character distinction.

Of course, I was a lot more hopeful for the future than many would give me credit. I had hoped that Tekken 8 would be a huge turn around mainly because the base roster in Tekken 7 was a fantastic mix of old and new characters, story-liners and throwaways, and as much as I hate DLC (downloadable content), many of the characters that came with the package were actually really good characters, ones that I had hoped would become base characters eventually in future games.

Considering her interest in joining the Tekken Force, it would have been interesting to see where her story went from there. She was a new character, and many new characters in the past needed time to grow and evolve. So why not her? Yet, the potential to expand on that story seems lost. And, to be honest, I do not think she will return even as a DLC.

Of course, most of these female characters are not exactly as integral to the story as the ones in the current base Tekken 8 roster. But the one female character that surprised many fans by her absence on the T8 roster was Lidia Sobieska. Lidia is a prime minister from Poland who was on a mission to take out the Mishima Zaibatsu organization due to their worldwide destruction and chaos. Although Lidia was released very late in the game (she was the final character released in 2021), by her introduction trailers alone, it was pretty obvious she would be an important part of the story. After all, in lore, she challenged Heihachi to step down from the Mishima Zaibatsu, and it was he who challenged her to join his tournament if she wanted his removal.

Tekken is overall a solid franchise. So far, Tekken 8 looks like it will be a fun ride. The design and mechanics of most of the characters they do have are great. But even with great games, there is always room for improvement. To add, I think it is good to examine how the future of gaming will be affected by the overuse of DLC on game quality. Hopefully, some rewards of gaming can come from actually playing the game and not just after buying a ton of useless, meaningless, pointless characters.

Updated on March 23rd, 2024, by David Heath: Tekken 8 has been out for just over 2 months now and has managed to live up to the hype with its wild story mode, smooth online mode, and its new, more aggressive approach to gameplay. Though in an age where update patches can make or break a game, only time will tell if it stays that way. It's doubtful it'll get as bad as, say, Dragon Ball FighterZ's last update, but fans who recall Leroy's reign of terror in Tekken 7.

There's always a chance a new DLC character or season will turn them or someone else on the roster into a demon that makes Devil Jin and Kazuya look like choirboys. They could even be one of the women as, thus far, two of Tekken 8's female characters have been riding high in the tier lists. Thus, this list has been updated to include the new game's top women alongside other updates and tweaks.

T8 only had 3 newcomers on its base roster, with Reina Mishima being the most interesting. Another one of Heihachi's illegitimate children (one of 18-24 such kids, according to Harada), she's as cruel and ruthless as her dear old dad. Only she mixes up some of his Mishima-style karate moves with Taido, a more dance-like, Capoeira-esque version of karate with broad, swinging kicks.

This actually gives her a wider, effective range than her 'brother' Kazuya while being just as good at creating and closing distance. She can get deep into her opponent's face, then move away when the time is right. That said, she's not an easy character to learn. Master players will get the most out of her stances, cancels, and auto-parries. Average and beginner players may feel overwhelmed. Chances are most Reina players online will be more predictable than her opponents are expecting.

After having Eddy Gordo share the Capoeira role with Christie Monteiro for the past few years, Bandai-Namco decided to switch things up for T7. Eddy would return, but Brazilian women would get a new representative in Katarina Alves. She was snarkier than her bubbly predecessor, and she had a new Savate style that, according to EventHubs, made her T7's highest-tier femme fatale.

One of the ways T1 separated itself from VF1 and other fighting games at the time was by combining tropes. Instead of having a kung fu girl and a Native character, they had Michelle Chang, a Sino-Native American who mixed kung fu with suplexes. She had fun moves with spinning kicks and sharp, stunning elbows. With Tekken 3 skipping ahead in the timeline by 19 years, she was succeeded by her daughter Julia Chang.

Mama of Jin, baby mama of Kazuya, but her own woman, Jun Kazama, has had an odd run in the series. She was in the middle of the tier list in her T2 debut and didn't receive enough arcade play to get into the sequel. This relegated her to the Tag games, where she was bottom of the pile in TTT1, then back to the middle of the pack in TTT2 in both her original and Unknown forms, despite being the game's final boss.

Then she came back canonically for T8 and became its best character! Well, until update 1.01.04, which nerfed her to just being one of its best characters instead. Her mixups are still hard to predict, her moves are still hard to sidestep thanks to their wide range, and most of them are safe, so she's hard to punish on whiff too. Higher than both her man and her boy, Jun isn't someone to cross lightly.

Thus far, Jun Kazama has been T8's strongest character, let alone the strongest woman. But after its first update, there is another who's been nipping at her heels. Azucena is just 0.1 away from matching Jun on EventHubs, and DexterTo.com has already given her the crown. But why? She is great at dodging, with plenty of mobile hops that can evade errant jabs and strikes automatically, though they take skill to use.

Her true strength lies in her launchers. Tekken has been about juggle combos since 1994, with characters rising and falling significantly depending on how they get their foes airborne and what they do to them afterward. In Azucena's case, she's got plenty of launchers that are safe on block, giving her opponent no way to punish her. With enough practice, she'll be boogying her way to first place at tournaments.

She is the granddaughter of a legendary capoeira master who taught Eddy Gordo the art of capoeira in prison. After Eddy Gordo's release, Eddy swears an oath to his master to teach his granddaughter, Christie, the art of capoeira. Becoming a prodigy in only two years, Christie mainly involves herself in The King of Iron Fist Tournaments in search for a cure for her grandfather, who has become sick during his incarceration.

The character has received positive reception from critics and fans, and, along with Eddy, has been credited with popularizing the art of capoeira to a new audience within the larger gamer and martial arts community.

The Tekken 3 development team wanted to include a Capoeira practitioner for the game and turned to the development artists to create the character. It was desired by Masahiro Kimoto, one of the game designers of Tekken 3, that the Capoeira character be female but the artist that was tasked with the character's design deemed the female character too difficult to create and instead created Eddy.[3] After some time, a female Capoeira practitioner in the form of Christie was created for Tekken 4. Originally, she replaced Eddy as the Capoeira representative of the series, while Eddy himself remained selectable as a skin for Christie. However, starting with Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Eddy was given back his own character slot, even though both characters still played near-identically.[4]

In the Tekken series, Christie is the granddaughter of a legendary capoeira master who is incarcerated in the same prison cell as Eddy Gordo. Eddy is taught the art of capoeira and after his release, his master requests that he seek and teach his granddaughter capoeira. Finding her soon after his return from The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, Eddy manages to teach Christie to become a capoeira prodigy in only two years. But soon thereafter, Eddy abruptly vanishes, leaving Christie only with the words, "Those responsible for my father's death must pay." Troubled by his sudden and mysterious disappearance, Christie goes looking for him, her only lead being The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4.

Christie is able to reunite with Eddy during or after the tournament, as the two are together to see Christie's grandfather being released from prison. Because of his incarceration, Christie's grandfather has become a frail old man and is diagnosed with a terminal illness that leaves him only six months to live, although a cure might be possible with technology from the Mishima Zaibatsu. Several days later, Christie learns of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. She sees it as a chance to save her grandfather, believing that she may be able to find a cure for him if she possessed the advanced technology from the Mishima Zaibatsu. Christie enters the tournament, but she is defeated and goes home to Brazil. Upon her arrival, she finds out that both her grandfather and Eddy are missing. She learns that her grandfather was transferred to the Mishima Zaibatsu's medical facility. In order to find the exact location of her grandfather, Christie enters The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6. In her and Eddy's epilogues, Christie finds that her grandfather is dead. She breaks down in tears over his grave, and Eddy, who was the one responsible for transferring her grandfather so he could be cured from funds he received by working with Mishima Zaibatsu, drops his Mishima Zaibatsu emblem to the ground, breaking it slightly.

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