February 4th - Tekken 1, 2, and 3

So today we were supposed to play Tekken 3, but sharky said he had 1 and 2 on his Tekken 5 copy and apparently, APPARENTLY, 29 fighting games was just not enough fighting games.



So it was a bit of a rough night at the start, honestly. Original Tekken was original Tekken. Jack was super oddly proportioned and and Nina looked like an ad for plastic surgery gone wrong. I did not win one fight. Not one. Paul is a horrible bastard. There, I said it.



Tekken 2 was more fun because of nostalgia. It was actually the FIRST GAME I EVER PLAYED EVER, so it was neato to go back and see like, wow, I remember this. There was a really good selection of characters, so that was fun. It was also interesting to go back to how some characters used to play and used to be similar to each other. JUN, my first favourite video game character ever!!



Sadly, because this was a nostalgia trip, it reinforced the point that I haven't played this game in over 10 years and I was crap at it. And I lost again. A lot. Like a lot.



Next was Tekken 3 and, I'm going to be honest, I was pretty fed up by this point. I don't think many people have fun when they can't win and basically just sit there getting beat up. This is another game I used to love but haven't played in a long long time. Sharky, apparently, spent a lot of time and effort and even won a minor tournament. This led to some very frustrating fights where I would lose to some mega-King combo and there was just nothing I could do. I may as well have not even been in the fights.



So we took a break from it because I was feeling pretty crap at this point about myself. But it was okay when we came back. We started with Tekken ball which is super fun and not possible to be mad at. I won most of those rounds because I am good at hitting a ball. This also allowed me to re-familiarize myself with the controls a bit. When we started the actual fights, sharky agreed to bench King and used other characters that he was still very competent with, just not AS competent. I won with Xiaoyu, who is still one of my favourite characters, and it was slightly more evenly matched. I still lost a bunch but I had a lot more fun the second time around~



It was also fun to see the series progress as well