Tekken-serien fyller 30 år och i samband med detta besökte veteranen Katsuhiro Harada - som varit inblandad i serien ända sedan det första spelet - Sverige och vi fick nyligen chansen att prata med honom.
En av de frågor vi ställde var gällande spinoff-serien Tekken Tag Tournament, vars senaste den var del två för tretton år sedan. Är serien nedlagd? Svaret visade sig inte nödvändigtvis vara nej, men att det ska komma ett Tekken Tag Tournament 3 på samma premisser som föregångarna kan vi tydligen glömma. Harada sade:
"So it's not like it was planned to have the tag series appear at a certain 12 year cycle or anything like that. It was just that originally when the first tag came out, you know, Tekken was a much more simpler franchise back then. Much less characters than we have now on the roster. All the different gameplay systems and all these things that have been added since then have made Tekken, the base game, much more complex. It would be quite difficult to make a new installment in the Tag series that many people would be able to enjoy, because you know the top tier players who are competing worldwide and who really spend so much time on Tekken are at like the highest level of the player base really love that series, but for people who are more casual it's a much more difficult game to pick up and play."
Det betyder dock inte att Harada gett upp idén om lagbaserade Tekken-titlar. Det finns visserligen inget planerat just nu, men kunde han komma på en bra twist på formatet är han villig att ge det en ny chans:
"It's not something we're currently really thinking of, because the direction we're going into is to try to have as many people enjoy the game as possible. Bbut at the same time, maybe if we were to add a new idea, rather than tag, it would be something like a team battle, or some other twist on the current format of the game."
Hur känner du själv, är någon form av lagbaserat Tekken något du själv hoppas på? Vår intervju med Harada läser du här på Gamereactor till veckan.
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