Played an hour or two of Tekken 7 tonight and man it's so much fun. I think this is the first time Tekken is clicking with me. Guides and stuff never really helped me get the basic flow of Tekken, especially the ground game, but when you're knocked down trying to get up and how to pressure people down (I know the term is okazaki or something from VF but been a decade). I never really got how the knock backs or crumples worked since my only real frame of reference is VF. Never really got how 3d movement worked in Tekken since things track well, and the auto-blocking was always weird coming from VF. Like lots and lots of blocked hits in low-level matches because of auto-block. But the more I play, the more I figure things out and get the hang of what parts of Tekken match up with parts of playing VF.
Did pretty well online with Lucky Chloe whose the only character I'm maining since I really don't know any Tekken characters and it's like starting from scratch. Got about 5-7 wins in a row and then got wrecked by a good Katarina player. Did a bunch of treasure battle too. Hate fighting the special fights against Kazumi, I can get countered and combod to to death real quick with the ai.
I still have to try like 80% of the cast. I tried out Leo and went through his movelist and it's crazy because he's sorta Akira from VF (which is my main) except with simple baby commands for all the moves + VF Monk dude's stance switching mixed in. Like he's got Akira's B->F->F+PK shoulder charge but it's just F+LP/HP here. He's got Akira's F->F+P elbow with the same command, he's sorta got Akira's F->F+K in his knee up -> double kicks stance. And he's got the fucking SPoD in a simple 3 button combo, plus a bunch of other Akira moves and a lot of hard smash knockbacks/knockdowns. I think as an Akira VF player, Leo might be a good character for me to try to learn and use. The only problem is I don't use Lei-Fei Monk-man in VF because I'm not into stance-switching combos and Leo has a bunch of that which I will probably want to ignore if I use him :|
It's interesting how Tekken is like a fighting game where characters have radically different fighting styles almost like they're from different games, but somehow it works and is balanced. I mean that they threw in Akuma straight playing like SF and it just works is an example. It's kinda cool. Almost feels like a mugen fangame in 3d