Tekken’s Sport Director Katsuhiro Harada has answered a fan request for Tifa Lockhart to be a Tekken 8 visitor character. The subject started after Harada shared photos from his go to to the Taipei Gameshow 2024.
On the Taipei Gameshow 2024, Tekken 8 and Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth had been apparently being promoted on the identical sales space.
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Tekken 8’s Sport Director Katsuhiro Harada shared pictures illustrating this on Twitter on January 25, which led to a number of replies asking for Closing Fantasy Tifa Lockhart to be a visitor character. Harada determined to indulge the plenty and really ship a response.
Everyone knows she is enticing and I perceive that.
However as but we’ve got not determined something about visitor characters and so on. https://t.co/dkuMm1pnGG— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) January 26, 2024
Tekken 8 Sport Director: “Now we have not determined something about visitor characters”
Tifa is without doubt one of the most iconic feminine characters in gaming, and her combating fashion and look would match completely with Tekken 8. She can also be one of many playable characters within the upcoming Closing Fantasy VII Rebirth. Nonetheless, in accordance with Tekken 8’s Sport Director, no choices have been concerning visitor characters.
“Everyone knows she is enticing and I perceive,” stated Tekken 8’s Sport Director Katsuhiro Harada in response to social media curiosity in having Tifa Lockhart as a Tekken 8 visitor character. “However as but we’ve got not determined something about visitor characters and so on..”
Whereas some may suppose a Closing Fantasy crossover would make no sense given it’s not even the identical style, they’d be shocked. There may be actually priority for a Closing Fantasy x Tekken crossover, provided that Closing Fantasy XV’s lead protagonist Noctis was a visitor character in Tekken 7.
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One other maybe fascinating reality is that Tifa Lockhart already appeared in a combating sport revealed by Bandai Namco – then Namco – in 1998 for the Ps 1. Within the sport, she even was given her personal projectile assault. The sport was known as Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring, and it featured six characters from the Closing Fantasy franchise:
- Cloud Strife
- Tifa Lockhart
- Sephiroth
- Vincent Valentine
- Yuffie Kisaragi
- Zach Truthful
Licensed characters in Tekken franchise to this point
Tekken 7 was the primary time Bandai Namco experimented significantly with visitor characters, also called licensed characters. Previous to Tekken 7, the one licensed visitor character was Gon who appeared in Tekken 3, a slightly lovable tiny comedian reduction dinosaur from a Japanese platformer for the Tremendous Nintendo.
For Tekken 7, there have been 4 visitor characters all from well-known franchises:
- Akuma from Road Fighter
- Negan Smith from the Strolling Useless
- Geese Howard from Deadly Fury
- Noctis Lucis Caelum from Closing Fantasy XV
Given the trendy combating sport communities affinity for crossovers and the hype it could actually drive, it’s virtually inevitable we are going to see visitor characters in Tekken 8. Nonetheless, primarily based on Harada’s feedback, it may not be for a short while. That stated, we do have affirmation of 4 Tekken 8 DLC characters coming in 2024.