‘Oh, he sucks, I hate Capos.’ It would be – it might even influence the roster decision choices if we hear more about the people who enjoy playing these characters. That said, it’s kind of tough, because, like - Eddy, who was revealed for the game recently – before we revealed him, everyone was complaining about ‘where’s Eddy? He’s missing!’ but up until then, when he is in the game, people are complaining ‘Capos are dirty, we hate them!’ We don’t hear the people saying ‘I love this character, he’s cool and I like to play him’, there’s just the negativity. We realise that not everyone’s favourite character is in the game at the moment, and we hope that they’ll give some of the new characters a try, because they are pretty cool and you might find one that you like even better. And there’s a lot of effort in making these characters appeal to a new audience as well as returning Tekken players. And even a larger amount of characters that we’ve done this time. And at the same time, we have a lot of very cool new characters that we introduce each time. “So it’s always difficult because we can’t just go and include every character that we’ve ever put in the game, because there’s way too many characters to do that and the game balance would suffer, in other areas of the game as well. So the short answer is – no, Tekken Force is not in it at the moment. We hope that they’ll check that out, because it’s more fun. It still contains a lot of mini game-type elements that people might expect of a Tekken game. So I guess you could say that, rather than that, people should focus more on the story mode for Tekken 7, because it’s kind of an extension, just with a stronger storytelling aspect. It was quite popular, so it saw another iteration in Tekken 4, and then it kind of evolved into the scenario campaign the story-based mode in Tekken 6. You should also check out some of the embedded clips, because we have gameplay of brand new stages, and of Eddy and Kuma in action! Enjoy! TEKKENFORCE: Is Tekken Force in the game? Or mini games in general? Katsuhiro Harada: Well, if you look back at the series, Tekken Force made its appearance – I think it was 3, and I was trying to recreate the feeling of the kind of games that were popular in the ‘80s.
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Please bear in mind I’ve paraphrased many of these questions for the sake of brevity, and each question is attributed to one person, even though several people may have asked similar things.
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The community responded and I collated a bunch of the best questions, then posed as many as I could when I caught up with Harada-san during his Australian visit.
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A week and a half ago I put out a call for Tekken questions for Katsuhiro Harada – the iconic face of the Tekken team (alongside Michael Murray), and an integral part of the series since its inception.