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Tekken 8 Director Apologises for Current State of the Game, Promises More Fixes in the Future

April 21, 2025 4 Min Read
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Since Tekken 8 With the update of season 2 Major 2, the game has seen considerable criticism from the player base. The game’s problems have become serious enough. Just a few days after releasing the game’s 2.00.02 patch, game director Kohei Ikeda took him to social media platform X to apologise for the current state of the game.

For context, with Season 2 renewal, Tekken 8The overall gameplay of . This appears to have been done to discourage players from making their attacks all over, and Bandai Namco wanted players to adopt a slower, more defensive playstyle. This move has been widely criticized Tekken 8 Since then, players have posted negative reviews about the game on Steam.

Steam evaluation at the time of publication Tekken 8 Currently, we are sitting on an overwhelmingly negative collective towards recent reviews, with 5,412 negative reviews. This made the overall rating of the game mixed for all reviews, with over 35,000 reviews in total.

“All in all Iron Fist Fans around the world, as always, thank you for your continued support,” Ikeda posted to X.

Ikeda concluded the post by talking about how the team is consistently working on the game after taking into account player feedback. According to him, there are plans to continue releasing more updates and bring meaningful improvements Tekken 8 One at a time.

“We take all your feedback and comments very seriously,” Iwata wrote. “The whole team is working with a complete commitment to solving these issues and providing a better gameplay experience.”

“We will continue to stabilize, improve meaningful improvements one by one, and do our best to regain your trust.”

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A big criticism of the Season 2 update is that almost every character on the roster has acquired the ability to turn some scenarios into 50-50 scenarios. This has led players to criticize the lack of defensive options that players can access.

Update 2.00.02 was announced earlier this month. Its main purpose was to solve the problems surrounding unblockable attacks by Paul and Jack 8 characters. The update has changed the slow break, which means no longer causing chip damage.

The team behind Tekken 8 I also mentioned that I’m working on more updates to the game and focusing on community feedback and knowing what I can do next.

Tekken 8 Available for PC, PS5, and Xbox series X/s. The final major update of the game began the second season and brought back the character Anna Williams as a new addition to the roster. Despite recent problems, fighting games have proven to be extremely popular. As of February, more than 3 million copies were Tekken 8 It was on sale.

See the review for more details Tekken 8.

To all Tekken fans around the world,
As always, we would like to thank you for your continued support.

As the game director for the fact that the recently released season 2 did not meet your expectations and caused inconvenience due to its importance, I would like to offer you a heartfelt apologies… https://t.co/k9pxhwpmrv

— Kohei Ikeda (Nakatsu) (@nkt_dreamer) April 17, 2025


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