So in a bit of a surprise we got a Kazuya Trailer for Tekken 8. The boy is exactly as you hope he'd be, cool but rude, and looks like the devil form is more at the forefront than ever since its been moved to the heat system now instead of being tied to rage! Changes to Kazuya himself, and potentially big changes to the combo system as a whole, give a watch and lemme know what you think!
I'm so used to ArcSys trailers where they'll show you like 12 seconds of gameplay for their characters, that I was astounded on how great this trailer was
In the recent community post I said there wouldn't be any Tekken 8 news for a while and happy to be wrong! I hope this trailer means a steady flow of trailers for everyone else thats been shown so far like Jack/King/Paul/Lars etc! Make sure to check the video linked at the end of this one if any of the heat lingo confuses you, as we've gone over it all before.
Man, happy to see them give some videos on announced characters. They kinda went through too quickly within general trailers, so this is a great refresher
Hey Roofle, great video but there is a correction at @7:03, that IS a heat engager. The effects are the same with the second engager we see later on at @8:06 with the screen darkening and slow down, as well as the lack of a wind/whirlwind burst when he dashes. If you look back at your systems breakdown (you actually had it at the beginning with Paul) you can see that the heat dash has a big wind burst but no screen darkening effect nor slow down. Also in both cases for Kazuya, we see him turn into devil form as the attacks come out and hit; he wasn't in devil form prior to the moves' start ups. Just wanted to share this man. Keep up the great work, and looking forward to more of your breakdowns!
The thing I like the most about this trailer is how menacing Kazuya is. Especially in the shot where he’s staring at the camera in devil form. You can imagine him marching into a business meeting at G-Corp and everyone falls deathly silent.
Yep. Reminds me of his T6 ending where he emerges the pyramid holding devil Jin's body. The way he stares at the Tekken Force, that same expression 👌🏾.
I guess with Heihachi gone they are gonna give Kazuya moves of his. Maybe the same deal with Jin if Devil Jin is not a separate character. Works for me.
Can’t wait to see how yoshi, miguel and asuka will play with this new heat system (also is it me or does the announcer remind me a lot of the coliseum announcer from yakuza lol)
It is Lenne Hardt, same one from Yakuza 0, not sure if others. She was also the VA for Anna in Tekken 5 and it's a famous announcer for IRL Mix martial arts and wrestling in Japan. Cool old lady.
Kazuya's been learning some new tricks. I personally like that he took notes from his former rival, Paul for one of his strings. With what looks like bounds returning in place of T7's Screw/Tail Spin, we'll have to re-adjust our combo routes accordingly.
I love seeing you making content about Tekken aswell ! I don’t remember seeing a Roof video about Tekken before except a tutorial one from ages ago, so yeah Im happy to see tou covering this. Keep it up Roof❤
Super awesome video, Rooflemonger. The Tekken 8 trailer for Kazuya Mishima was super awesome and hype. If you watch the trailer again carefully, you will notice some Leroy Smith easter eggs. Even though Bandai Namco don't normally drop Tekken trailers at this time, they sure know how to surprise us fighting game fans. Keep up the awesome content 😎👍🏼
In Tekken 2 kazuya was the final boss as the devil form. Seeing him now in tekken 8 really gives a reminiscence vibe the heat burst devil mode and combo strings are so smooth and the electric power attacks gives that solid pounding impacts. The wall splat electric charge kind of parry reminds me of his father heihachi from the old games like tekken 3 I also loved his eye laser turning blue or purple now in a demon form he shares a lot of devil Jin’ movesets so harada is taking tekken games to next gen approach and he’s going to uproar the tekken fans for tekken games and years to come and finally his super rage art electric stomp was so eerie to watch and satisfying the graphics and stages are clean too
one thought about bound instead instead of screw as a combo extender mechanic, is that a lot of screw moves in T7 contributed quite a bit of wall carry, and it looks like a lot of bound moves are more like a closer range splat, this could be part of an effort to reduce the wall carry of combos in general.
I think what you're saying is his back 2,1 is actually a back 2,2 since he hits his opponent with his right arm twice(after the thunder God fist bound)
of note: i can't really say for certain but it REALLY sounds like the announcer for these trailers is Lenne Hardt, former voice actress for anna williams AND big-name announcer over in the world of japanese pro wrestling! she also announces for a kinnikuman video game and puts her WHOLE lungs into it
8:25 He has that move in T7 story mode when you fight him as Heihachi. He shouts "feel the power of the devil" or something like that as begins the animation. Glad to see a lot of new animations instead of typical legacy stuff that gets tweaked solely to accommodate a new system (bound, tailspin, etc).
8:37 Roof that move is the Devil Activation from T7. Also has those same armor properties with a knockdown. However, I don’t think it does damage and Kaz may even take damage. I can’t Remember.
Great time for Kazuya mains, design is badass and one of his best redesigns period, suprised at the new options from moves like 122, hellsweep, & combo extensions from bound not counting whatever else he'll get from dash. One of the best trailer showings of T8 imo since the intial reveal.
Keep in mind, Kaz's last fight was against some boy with a key, a little electric rodent, and Ryu. They might be pulling some inspiration from Smash. Hopefully
Great video but just a minor correction: his ff2 seems to be a heat engager because for a split second before landing the move you can see he's not in devil form (or heat mode). also the heat dash has a slightly different visual and audio effect (like after df 1,2 @8:45) than the automatic dash they do after a heat engager. getting hit by his ff2 seems pretty scary, you end up in a nasty 50/50 with his heat smash lol.
at 5:09 that's not back 2, 1 if you look closely you can see he uses his right hand for both hits, so a new move which would probably be back 2, 2. this is relevant because not only is it a new move, but we can also guess he still has the move that tailspins.
The Heat System feels like T8 is taking a page from SamSho's Rage Gauge, when entered you gain access to higher damage and additional moves? I would if Tekken Project saw how Project Soul implemented Haohmaru's Rage Gauge mechanics for SC6 and got the idea for thir Heat System? Wouldn't surprise me if so, sense Papa Harada is really good pals with multiple SNK teams.
I mean, I don’t think a gameplay for Kaz was necessary since we’ve already seen some gameplay snippets from him. But, it’s nice that they’re showing off legacy/returning characters. Now we need a Jin trailer soon to even it out.
oh maybe that one move is a devil jin move? I aggressively do not care about jin or know anything about him lol. I saw it and that just read exactly like nightmare to me what with the armour
One of the first major things I did on this channel years ago was make Tekken 7 beginner guides, feel pretty confident I will be doing much the same for Tekken 8
Is it me or just the tekken 8 characters are been focus in who there are? For example Nina Williams is an assassin so she need a gun and she got one, or Marshall law has nunchucks because is base on Bruce lee martial art
@@Rooflemonger good afternoon. Do you think that street fighter 6 characters could be the same thing? I wish that Kimberly should use kunai or shuriken to make feel more like a ninja but she use smoke bomb spray
@@alexspyro563 SF seems about the same it will always be. Lily looks to be using weapons, but other than that its mostly martial arts and energy attacks
Kazuya B+2,1 does not tailspin cause the hit animation is different. In fact, going by the hand, it might just be B+2,2 instead. In T7 he does the spinning left hook, while in the T8 trailer he goes for a right back hand instead.
Do u think theres any secrets or clues in the background of this stage? There seems to be a coffee shop owned by leroy. Also a billboard with a classy high heel with the name “william teal”. Maybe leroy and anna will be base roster?
oh im sure there is, in the city stage theres straight up a statue of leroy and his dog. Sometimes the easter eggs are only that, but I feel Leroy is popular enough he will show up again, they even retconned Tekken 3 to put him into it in that netflix anime.
Kazuya looks strong but the side step looks like standard side step. I'm waiting for one of my main either Miguel, Julia, or Lidia to show up and makes me a bit more hype for this game.
Lots of chars seem to be doubling down on a weapon gimmick of some sort(although not all), going hard on the chainsaws would be a strong possibility for Alisa keeping that in mind.
Looking fantastic. Though on the visual side I would have liked them to maybe give Kaz a little gray in his temples or something. Devil genetics or not, he's been perpetually 37 for like 25 years now. New strings looking kinda spicy too...
Nina has been 24 for over 30 years. Other than a select few bandai namco in general seems to be terrified of aging their characters in any game. Forget it extra if its a lady, only woman in fighting game history that was allowed to look older over time is Sonya in MK.
@@Rooflemonger Yean I guess at least Kazuya and Nina have the clone plot armor thing but really the entire cast has barely aged changed. Unless ironically you're a literal robot (jack and yoshi).
Dunno if the capture is just subpar, but this is far less visually impressive than the first trailer . Aside from the post-processing downgrade, the reflections on the ground are clearly not raytraced. I'll have to say, SF6 is looking much better. Still hoping both games hit the ground running, but my opinion of both games has flipped since they were both revealed.
A lot of my friends don't want to get this Tekken 8 unfortunately cuz they think they added way too many comeback mechanics in it I'm still going to get it because I've gotten every single Tekken was sort of disappointing a lot of games these days have a bunch of comeback mechanics in it in a bunch of super armor and other stuff which isn't my favorite thing but it doesn't bother me as much as it does other people
Well its got no comeback mechanic besides rage, and rage is strictly worse cause it lost rage drives as a thing. With heat system the game is favouring defense less and less honestly.
@@Rooflemonger heat system rage art and the screw knockdown if it's still there and the new spin bounce or whatever it is the gist of it is my friends don't like that you don't just juggle people in the air like it was before Tekken 7 I'm okay with it
So in a bit of a surprise we got a Kazuya Trailer for Tekken 8. The boy is exactly as you hope he'd be, cool but rude, and looks like the devil form is more at the forefront than ever since its been moved to the heat system now instead of being tied to rage! Changes to Kazuya himself, and potentially big changes to the combo system as a whole, give a watch and lemme know what you think!
AHHH FUCK YES THEY DID MY BOY JUSTICE! HE'S SO FLASHY! LOVE THE NEW STRINGS I APPROVE!
I'm so used to ArcSys trailers where they'll show you like 12 seconds of gameplay for their characters, that I was astounded on how great this trailer was
yeah thankfully most companies dont work on the dbfz trailer model lol
In the recent community post I said there wouldn't be any Tekken 8 news for a while and happy to be wrong! I hope this trailer means a steady flow of trailers for everyone else thats been shown so far like Jack/King/Paul/Lars etc! Make sure to check the video linked at the end of this one if any of the heat lingo confuses you, as we've gone over it all before.
Man, happy to see them give some videos on announced characters. They kinda went through too quickly within general trailers, so this is a great refresher
Hey Roofle, great video but there is a correction at @7:03, that IS a heat engager. The effects are the same with the second engager we see later on at @8:06 with the screen darkening and slow down, as well as the lack of a wind/whirlwind burst when he dashes. If you look back at your systems breakdown (you actually had it at the beginning with Paul) you can see that the heat dash has a big wind burst but no screen darkening effect nor slow down. Also in both cases for Kazuya, we see him turn into devil form as the attacks come out and hit; he wasn't in devil form prior to the moves' start ups. Just wanted to share this man.
Keep up the great work, and looking forward to more of your breakdowns!
I like how Kaz can just straight up do Terry's Power Geyser now. Likely figured out from a single conversation with Geese
The thing I like the most about this trailer is how menacing Kazuya is. Especially in the shot where he’s staring at the camera in devil form. You can imagine him marching into a business meeting at G-Corp and everyone falls deathly silent.
Yep. Reminds me of his T6 ending where he emerges the pyramid holding devil Jin's body. The way he stares at the Tekken Force, that same expression 👌🏾.
Gaming's worst Son, Father, _and_ Grandson finally returns let's go
Father will not return
Back and better than ever!
I guess with Heihachi gone they are gonna give Kazuya moves of his. Maybe the same deal with Jin if Devil Jin is not a separate character. Works for me.
Can’t wait to see how yoshi, miguel and asuka will play with this new heat system (also is it me or does the announcer remind me a lot of the coliseum announcer from yakuza lol)
It is Lenne Hardt, same one from Yakuza 0, not sure if others. She was also the VA for Anna in Tekken 5 and it's a famous announcer for IRL Mix martial arts and wrestling in Japan. Cool old lady.
@@lucastonoli3256 oh really, I guess that explains why, that’s pretty awesome
Askua. Should we tell him?
@@CD-ek3iq lol Jun
@@lucastonoli3256also the announcer of very obscure Japan only fighting game Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix 2
Kazuya's been learning some new tricks. I personally like that he took notes from his former rival, Paul for one of his strings.
With what looks like bounds returning in place of T7's Screw/Tail Spin, we'll have to re-adjust our combo routes accordingly.
He swallowed his pride and started learning from others instead of only relying on his own raw strength and what little he learned from Heihachi
Kazuya really got a mini power wave from Terry. Must've learned when he was in Smash
Have some travel monies for evo
Thank you very much for the support!
I love seeing you making content about Tekken aswell !
I don’t remember seeing a Roof video about Tekken before except a tutorial one from ages ago, so yeah Im happy to see tou covering this. Keep it up Roof❤
Super awesome video, Rooflemonger. The Tekken 8 trailer for Kazuya Mishima was super awesome and hype. If you watch the trailer again carefully, you will notice some Leroy Smith easter eggs. Even though Bandai Namco don't normally drop Tekken trailers at this time, they sure know how to surprise us fighting game fans. Keep up the awesome content 😎👍🏼
8:13 looks reminiscent of when kazuya would turn into devil in tekken tag where he has armor on that move to transform safely
May be you already noticed, the input for the ender @ 03:39 is b22, it's from the same hand.
So he might still have b21 as a seperate move.
Great video, thanks for staying on top of things!
In Tekken 2 kazuya was the final boss as the devil form. Seeing him now in tekken 8 really gives a reminiscence vibe the heat burst devil mode and combo strings are so smooth and the electric power attacks gives that solid pounding impacts. The wall splat electric charge kind of parry reminds me of his father heihachi from the old games like tekken 3 I also loved his eye laser turning blue or purple now in a demon form he shares a lot of devil Jin’ movesets so harada is taking tekken games to next gen approach and he’s going to uproar the tekken fans for tekken games and years to come and finally his super rage art electric stomp was so eerie to watch and satisfying the graphics and stages are clean too
one thought about bound instead instead of screw as a combo extender mechanic, is that a lot of screw moves in T7 contributed quite a bit of wall carry, and it looks like a lot of bound moves are more like a closer range splat, this could be part of an effort to reduce the wall carry of combos in general.
I think what you're saying is his back 2,1 is actually a back 2,2 since he hits his opponent with his right arm twice(after the thunder God fist bound)
of note: i can't really say for certain but it REALLY sounds like the announcer for these trailers is Lenne Hardt, former voice actress for anna williams AND big-name announcer over in the world of japanese pro wrestling! she also announces for a kinnikuman video game and puts her WHOLE lungs into it
This guy is looking strong in Tekken 8. I'm curious to see the rest of the rosters new moves as well!
8:25
He has that move in T7 story mode when you fight him as Heihachi. He shouts "feel the power of the devil" or something like that as begins the animation. Glad to see a lot of new animations instead of typical legacy stuff that gets tweaked solely to accommodate a new system (bound, tailspin, etc).
8:37 Roof that move is the Devil Activation from T7. Also has those same armor properties with a knockdown. However, I don’t think it does damage and Kaz may even take damage. I can’t Remember.
Great time for Kazuya mains, design is badass and one of his best redesigns period, suprised at the new options from moves like 122, hellsweep, & combo extensions from bound not counting whatever else he'll get from dash.
One of the best trailer showings of T8 imo since the intial reveal.
Just realized Leroy's name is on the neon sign there. I guess that means he's just going to be an NPC in 8 LOL
Naw - he just knows where the easy money is. Making coffee.
Tekken 8 is about to be CRAZY! 💯
Keep in mind, Kaz's last fight was against some boy with a key, a little electric rodent, and Ryu. They might be pulling some inspiration from Smash. Hopefully
I hope Kazuya unlocks his Electric Wind Pikachu Fist, the true form of his classic move.
Great video but just a minor correction: his ff2 seems to be a heat engager because for a split second before landing the move you can see he's not in devil form (or heat mode). also the heat dash has a slightly different visual and audio effect (like after df 1,2 @8:45) than the automatic dash they do after a heat engager.
getting hit by his ff2 seems pretty scary, you end up in a nasty 50/50 with his heat smash lol.
Like the camera angle changes when Kaz hits his throw or lasers. Hoping the camera is as dynamic as possible when playing.
at 5:09 that's not back 2, 1 if you look closely you can see he uses his right hand for both hits, so a new move which would probably be back 2, 2.
this is relevant because not only is it a new move, but we can also guess he still has the move that tailspins.
The moment you said "It's LASER TIME!" I thought about Botz Master. I loved that cartoon.
Man, I can't wait to see what they do in Geese's trailer for this game!
0:22 Leroy and Sugar statue in the background
Peep the animation on the coat at 6:29. That looks good.
The Heat System feels like T8 is taking a page from SamSho's Rage Gauge, when entered you gain access to higher damage and additional moves? I would if Tekken Project saw how Project Soul implemented Haohmaru's Rage Gauge mechanics for SC6 and got the idea for thir Heat System? Wouldn't surprise me if so, sense Papa Harada is really good pals with multiple SNK teams.
I mean, I don’t think a gameplay for Kaz was necessary since we’ve already seen some gameplay snippets from him. But, it’s nice that they’re showing off legacy/returning characters. Now we need a Jin trailer soon to even it out.
Tekken 8 trailers makes me feel like stewie from family guy watching the "best thing ever commercial" "I WANTED!"
Graphics look so dope and I love the combo with the fast kicks!🗣️
That's a dope title, nice play on words. Rooflemonger got BARS🔥🔥🔥🔥
yeah im pretty happy with it, works on multiple levels 😇
i noticed kazuya uppercut has a slight forward momentum when attacking , where in 7 the move ends on spot.
Games looking Better as. more and more. Trailer get released.
Thanks for the video. Keep up the good work
It sorta looks like he has moves for multiple characters I thought he had devil Jin's counter
oh maybe that one move is a devil jin move? I aggressively do not care about jin or know anything about him lol. I saw it and that just read exactly like nightmare to me what with the armour
Dude you are on top of everything lol appreciate it man if I learn tekken it will be thru this channel lol just like KOF
One of the first major things I did on this channel years ago was make Tekken 7 beginner guides, feel pretty confident I will be doing much the same for Tekken 8
Is it me or just the tekken 8 characters are been focus in who there are? For example Nina Williams is an assassin so she need a gun and she got one, or Marshall law has nunchucks because is base on Bruce lee martial art
bigger weapon focus for sure, Jack uses his railgun now too. I dig it, lets movesets get crazier
@@Rooflemonger good afternoon. Do you think that street fighter 6 characters could be the same thing? I wish that Kimberly should use kunai or shuriken to make feel more like a ninja but she use smoke bomb spray
@@alexspyro563 SF seems about the same it will always be. Lily looks to be using weapons, but other than that its mostly martial arts and energy attacks
@@Rooflemonger I understand. Thanks for the answer
Kazuya B+2,1 does not tailspin cause the hit animation is different. In fact, going by the hand, it might just be B+2,2 instead.
In T7 he does the spinning left hook, while in the T8 trailer he goes for a right back hand instead.
Do u think theres any secrets or clues in the background of this stage? There seems to be a coffee shop owned by leroy. Also a billboard with a classy high heel with the name “william teal”. Maybe leroy and anna will be base roster?
oh im sure there is, in the city stage theres straight up a statue of leroy and his dog. Sometimes the easter eggs are only that, but I feel Leroy is popular enough he will show up again, they even retconned Tekken 3 to put him into it in that netflix anime.
@@Rooflemonger yeah i do feel like leroy has very high chances of being in the main roster
Forget the hands his drip alone ain't gonna sugarcoat it
Law main. So I'm invested already.
Kazuya looks strong but the side step looks like standard side step. I'm waiting for one of my main either Miguel, Julia, or Lidia to show up and makes me a bit more hype for this game.
Leroy statue at the background
2:43 Do you see that move he did? That’s the same move he used to kill his own abusive father Heihachi. Parricide fist.
Makes me wonder if Alisa will mainly use chainsaws in Heat now or if she'll have new stuff
Lots of chars seem to be doubling down on a weapon gimmick of some sort(although not all), going hard on the chainsaws would be a strong possibility for Alisa keeping that in mind.
1:01 this is actually one of his victory poses in Smash Ultimate
It was in Tekken 7 first.
@@cetospalis4784 oh Shit Fr? God damn I can’t believe that slipped my mind wtf ☠️
It's been a win pose of his since Tekken 5 DR
That Leroy statue in the background makes me think my main isn't making base roster
He's popular, so DLC always in the future $$$
Looking fantastic. Though on the visual side I would have liked them to maybe give Kaz a little gray in his temples or something. Devil genetics or not, he's been perpetually 37 for like 25 years now. New strings looking kinda spicy too...
Nina has been 24 for over 30 years. Other than a select few bandai namco in general seems to be terrified of aging their characters in any game. Forget it extra if its a lady, only woman in fighting game history that was allowed to look older over time is Sonya in MK.
@@Rooflemonger Yean I guess at least Kazuya and Nina have the clone plot armor thing but really the entire cast has barely aged changed. Unless ironically you're a literal robot (jack and yoshi).
Kazuya is the king of drip loooll. He is looking cleeeaannn. Can't wait for T8
I see for the first time in a Tekken game kazuya got that dog in him lol he's definitely going to be my main as well as Nina 🔥
Kazuya is gonna be free to my 2D character I bought for 8 bucks.
With the 8 and the chain motif, Leroy better step up his chain game
buying Tekken 8 to learn for the first time since playstation 2. I like the characters in tk8. But I am still big fan of street fighter 6 ;)
Lots of love to spread around for all fighters! I look forward to SF6 very much but I will still give Tekken 8 its due
Awesome vid Roof 👍🏾 I believe the spin state was shown briefly at 11:21 in your video. Tekken is "Steppen" up the game lol
Thats part of the heat move itself, not separate. Although yeah visually its similar
@@Rooflemonger oh ok... As long as them juggles are available I'm good lol. We shall set how it goes tho. Thanks my friend
I wonder will jin get some of Kazuya moves with what likely is to happen in tekken 8 for tekken 9
This game looks so good
looks like he's been hanging out with Lars.
Amazing how good Tekken 8 looks. I hope it's not only for the trailer. I'm pretty disapointed with Street Fighter 6 but more for the style.
Man T8 makes T7 look like a 3rd grade art class drawing
yeah going between the two games is jarring, t8 is a very noticeable upgrade
@@Rooflemonger now if we can get T5 level customization....
The Laser string is B2 2 not B2 1 😅
Nice contrast between Ryu and Kaz. Ryu is full on hobo now while Kaz is now the CEO of the world wearing the most expensive shit.
You think akuma will be in the next game?
honestly I hope so, if only for how absolutely insane it will drive the core tekken playerbase
I like what I’m seeing.
It’s not back 2,1 it seems like back 2, 2 because he hits him with the same hand
Huh well dang you are right, not quite b21. I just saw it and was like "yep, thats b21", very visually similar.
waiting for the heihachi trailer
wow
6:02 That statue is a paid actor. Jin didn't even touch it and it got destroyed
How long did you have this title waiting bro
literally made it up on the fly. Thats the life on the youtube front, gotta think quick
I'm gonna stick with his Tekken 2 suit
Dunno if the capture is just subpar, but this is far less visually impressive than the first trailer . Aside from the post-processing downgrade, the reflections on the ground are clearly not raytraced.
I'll have to say, SF6 is looking much better. Still hoping both games hit the ground running, but my opinion of both games has flipped since they were both revealed.
Tekken 8 looks way better than 7, it’s evident when there’s a side by side
yeah when I was editing and put the footage against each other I was like, damn. T8 is leagues ahead of 7
@@Rooflemonger yea, thanks for the edit
A lot of my friends don't want to get this Tekken 8 unfortunately cuz they think they added way too many comeback mechanics in it I'm still going to get it because I've gotten every single Tekken was sort of disappointing a lot of games these days have a bunch of comeback mechanics in it in a bunch of super armor and other stuff which isn't my favorite thing but it doesn't bother me as much as it does other people
Well its got no comeback mechanic besides rage, and rage is strictly worse cause it lost rage drives as a thing. With heat system the game is favouring defense less and less honestly.
@@Rooflemonger heat system rage art and the screw knockdown if it's still there and the new spin bounce or whatever it is the gist of it is my friends don't like that you don't just juggle people in the air like it was before Tekken 7 I'm okay with it
also hopefully they nerf the wall-carry in this one cause everyone had wall-carry in t7 (except jin, pls don't nerf jin).
His trailer put everyone else's the shame it's so good everyone's just going to want to play him I wonder how they can top it
How? They only have 1 character trailer out and it's Nina's. Plus her's was pretty badass
He’s simply the new og.
My Tekken dad