Tekken 8: The Full Game Awards Trailer Breakdown With Katsuhiro Harada
We’re still waiting for Tekken 8, but fighting game fans got a little something to tide them over until the next King of Iron Fist Tournament at this year’s Game Awards: a brand-new trailer, complete with a look at the game’s story mode, a bunch of returning favorites (and one we haven’t seen in the Tekken canon since the original PlayStation), a glimpse of Tekken 8’s Heat system, which encourages aggressive play, more on what might be the final showdown between protagonist/anti-hero Jin Kazama and Father-of-the-Year nominee Kazuya Mishima, and a glimpse at the new tech powering all of it.
It's quite a bit to take in. Luckily, IGN got to sit down with Tekken 8 executive producer Katsuhiro Harada to break everything down.
It’s no surprise the upcoming showdown between Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima remains front and center, just as the fight between Kazuya and Heihachi Mishima was in Tekken 7. While that fight resolved itself in what seems like a pretty definitive win for Kazuya – but really, who would be surprised if one of the first (or last) moments of Tekken 8 was Heihachi climbing out of that volcano – the stakes are just as high the showdown between the last two members of the Mishima bloodline (and the last two carriers of the Devil Gene): Jin wants to kill his dad and put an end to the whole thing. Kazuya, fresh off of his win against Heihachi, is destroying cities and encouraging humanity to unleash the dogs of war.
According to Harada, Tekken 8 takes place six months after Tekken 7, and while the father/son conflict in Tekken 8 mirrors what happened in Tekken 7, the conflict between Kazuya and Jin is a little different than the one between Heihachi and Kazuya. While the two of them were ultimately motivated by power
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