While playing this mode, I actually recalled how I first got into Tekken with a fellow journalist, sharing how I used to sit myself in front of Tekken 3 cabinets at a local amusement park when my class would go on our end of the year field trip.
It encapsulates the feeling of being at an arcade, casually challenging other players at arcade machines to rounds of Tekken, just without losing dollars worth of quarters. This is done through challenging NPCs at in-game arcades.
Overall, the tone of Tekken 8‘s Arcade Mode is one versed in positivity and uplifting each other as you challenge other players in fights to raise your rank. As a newcomer, you meet characters that are unversed in the fighting game community, those who want to play for fun, and veterans looking to knock inexperienced players down for the sake of their own egos.
