Tekken 8 Players Desperately Want Tifa As A Guest Character

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Tekken 8 is finally here, and fans are finally getting their hands on the game's familiar roster, as well as newcomers such as Azucena, Victor, and Reina. However, now that we know which character are in the base roster, attention has turned to potential DLC and guest characters that could be added in the future. In terms of guest characters, there seems to be only one name on the minds of fans, and that's Tifa Lockheart from Final Fantasy 7.

Head on over to Twitter, and you'll find hundreds of posts discussing Tifa's potential inclusion in Tekken 8, so much so that she was even briefly trending on the platform. There are several Twitter posts from a variety of users, all with likes and retweets in the thousands, desperately calling on the Tekken 8 team to consider her as a guest character this time around.

While she's been a guest character request for quite some time, calls for her to Tekken 8's first guest characters have been reaching an all-time high over the past 24 hours. There have been so many requests that Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada has even had to acknowledge them via his personal Twitter account, explaining that while "we all know she is attractive", the team working on Tekken 8 currently "have not decided anything" about guest characters.

Though the Tekken series hasn't had too many guest character additions over the years, they've been pretty memorable when they happen. Negan from The Walking Dead was a guest character completely out of left field in Tekken 7, though it was very welcome and a sign that pretty much any popular character across a variety of mediums was on the table. Tekken 7 also saw the addition of Final Fantasy 15 protagonist Noctis Lucis Caelum, which is probably the reason why the calls for Tifa are so strong.

Kazama Kiryu from the Like A Dragon series is also another very popular shout from fans as a potential guest character, though he's not getting nearly as many requests as Tifa. She's clearly a very popular candidate