![]() Tekken: Bloodline’s story takes us back to just before the third King of Iron Fist Tournament we see a young Jin Kazama being taught by his mother, Jun, to channel his rage and power – and only use his martial arts prowess for good. It’s fitting, then, that Netflix’s latest video game adaptation revolves mostly around Tekken 3. It’s become more than a game it’s become a vessel for nostalgia. And rightly so it was argueably better than Tekken 2 in every way – and there’s something about the style, the music, the story, and the whole aesthetic that just belongs so wholly in the 90s. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.įor lots of people, their first exposure to Bandai Namco’s 3D fighter was in Tekken 2 – but thanks to Demo One discs and the proliferation of Platinum games on the original PlayStation, I’d wager more people eventually got their hands on (and spent more time with) Tekken 3. But as popular as the series is today, there’s something about the early games in the fighting game franchise – Tekken 2 and Tekken 3, specifically – that left their mark in the cultural consciousness in an altogether different way. Tekken is a massively popular series: the latest game in the series bypassing 9 million sales in its lifetime is proof enough of that.
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