{"id":7343,"date":"2012-03-19T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2012-03-19T02:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T08:00:05","slug":"street-fighter-x-tekken-team-namco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/street-fighter-x-tekken-team-namco\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter X Tekken: Team Namco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last time on my blog I talked about the Capcom characters on the Street Fighter side of Street Fighter X Tekken<\/a><\/strong>. So now I\u2019ll go over the Namco characters on the Tekken side!<\/p>\n

I have to say that I\u2019m not as familiar with Tekken characters as I am the Street Fighter cast. You\u2019d think I\u2019d know more about Tekken fighters, since I am a big Namco fan and all. But I can\u2019t play ALL the Namco games out there and know everything about them! Plus, my history with Tekken fighters is full of holes. When Tekken first came out in arcades, the big 3-D brawler at the time was Virtua Fighter. I never really played it because the 2-D fighters at the time were intimidating enough. I couldn\u2019t imagine trying to figure out how to play a 3-D one! To me, Tekken just looked like a fancy Virtua Fighter with better graphics. That\u2019s how it usually goes in arcades, Namco copies Sega, Sega copies them back and so on. The only thing I liked about the original Tekken is some versions of the first arcade game used Pac-Man fruit as stage markers.<\/p>\n

I never got into the console Tekken games either, but I did pick up a couple when they went down in price for various reasons. I can\u2019t remember if it was Tekken 4 or Tekken 5, but one of those games had StarBlade as an unlockable game. StarBlade was an old Namco 3-D arcade shooter. So when that Tekken game went way down in price, I got it just for StarBlade. I also got Tekken 6 when it went down in price because it touted having a character creation mode. And since I love the character creation mode in Soul Calibur 4 and 5, I wanted to try it in Tekken 6 as well. Unfortunately, the character creation mode ended up being just a dress-up mode. I still had fun with it, though, making my fighters look like tacky tourists. I also got a Tekken game on PSP real cheap because it had Tekken Bowling, but it was too hard to unlock.<\/p>\n

The only other Tekken related thing I know about is that one time on TV over the holidays I watched a live action Tekken movie that was recently made. And it was horrible. Now, keep in mind that I\u2019m pretty tolerable to bad movies. The live action King of Fighters movie was awful but I was entertained by it in a MST3K sort of way. But the Tekken movie was so horrible I couldn\u2019t even get into it at all. And that\u2019s all I know about Tekken!<\/p>\n

Team Namco<\/strong><\/p>\n

All right, now we\u2019ll go over the characters on the Tekken side of Street Fighter X Tekken. And a few others, too. Since I don\u2019t know much about Tekken fighters, if you want to fill me in on any info I may have missed about the fighters, please feel free to do so in the comments section. Your input is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n

Pac-Man<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technically Pac-Man isn\u2019t a Tekken character, but he is from Namco. This will be the longest character description on this blog, as I am a HUGE Pac-Man fan. I even have a Pac-Man arcade machine in my garage, and I just ordered and received the Pac-Man cartoon DVD you can now get off the Internet.<\/a><\/strong> I\u2019m such a big Pac-Man fan that he\u2019s the only reason why I got Street Fighter X Tekken. Yeah, I\u2019m THAT bad.<\/p>\n

One thing I don\u2019t understand is why that had Pac-Man and Bad Box Art Mega Man be DLC characters a week after the game was released (PS3 version only). When I got the game, I was a little annoyed because I wanted to play as Pac-Man NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!!! Of course, I can understand why they put other characters you can download for a price: to make money. Now, I don\u2019t AGREE with that, but I do understand it. But why make us wait a week to download two free extra characters?<\/p>\n

Anyway, so Pac-Man in this game rides a top of a controllable, mechanical version of Mokujin. Now, Mokujin (I think I spelled that right), is also a Tekken character. He\u2019s a man made out of wood and is mostly used in the training modes. But you can also play as him, too. So really, Pac-Man plays mostly like Mokujin, i.e. pretty slow. But sometimes Pac-Man will hop out of his seat to heatbutt the other fighter. Did you know that Mokujin also made a cameo appearance in one of the Point Blank shooting games?<\/p>\n

Pac-Man himself in the game uses the new design Namco has been using since Pac-Man\u2019s 30th Anniversary. Meaning he has pupils in his eyes and his boots are more detailed. It\u2019s also the design of Pac-Man they\u2019ve been using for new games like Pac-Man Party and Pac-Man Tilt, and also what may be what he looks like in the upcoming CG animated cartoon (if they make it). Personally I really don\u2019t like the new design. I prefer the old one they\u2019ve been using since Pac-Man\u2019s 20th Anniversary. I do like how they redesigned the four main ghost monsters though. I kind of wish you could play as the ghost monsters in Street Fighter X Tekken, too.<\/p>\n

Pac-Man\u2019s intro when you fight him plays a little bit of the Pac-Man beginning song from the arcade. Like I said, most of Pac-Man\u2019s fighting moves involved Mokujin, but one of the projectile attacks has Pac-Man tossing a slow-moving Pac-Dot at enemies. Pac-Man doesn\u2019t really have a voice, so his win quotes at the end of each fight just have Pac-Man symbols like ghosts, dots, eyes, fruit, etc. In the game, however, he does utter a few things, like \u201cYa!\u201d and \u201cWhoa!\u201d as he punches and kicks, and when you win he gives a thumbs up and says \u201cAlrighty!\u201d in a cartoony voice. Other players\u2019 win quotes usually refer to seeing Pac-Man before somewhere, but they can\u2019t remember where. When Pac-Man taunts, he\u2019ll make Mokujin\u2019s arm extend as Pac gets out of his seat and walks down the arm. As he walks, they play the dot eating sound effect from the arcade game.<\/p>\n

One neat thing about Pac-Man is they gave him his own storyline in arcade mode! When you start, it shows Pac-Man walking in the desert and the narrator says that nobody knows where Pac-Man came from, but he was headed towards Pandora\u2019s Box. After you beat the last boss, it shows Pac-Man approaching the box as it opens, and then Pac-Man eats what was inside! Then Pac-Man grows really big. Next scene shows a giant Pac-Man walking through a city, Godzilla style, and eating rows of trees on a city road. Then the camera pans out overhead and shows the city roads and buildings as a huge Pac-Man maze! After the credits, the prologue text says that as Pac-Man left the first city, the citizens breathed a sigh of relief and nobody saw Pac-Man again. Until he reached the next city! One last thing: Bad Box Art Mega Man is considered to be Pac-Man\u2019s rival, and Mega Man is totally afraid of him!<\/p>\n

Toru<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technically, the next three characters aren\u2019t from Tekken either, but I had to put them somewhere. I bet Toru and the next fighter would be considered joke characters. Toru is a little cartoony cat-like character who is all white and reminds me of the white cat you can draw a face on in Animal Crossing games. I\u2019ve seen Toru in lots of other places, too. Most of them are related to Sony somehow and I\u2019ve seen lots of plush toys of him you can import. But that\u2019s really all I know about this guy. In the game, Toru wears little red boxing gloves and a little red headband with the Sony gamepad button symbols on it.<\/p>\n

Kuro<\/strong><\/p>\n

He looks a lot like Toru but is all black and his eyes are more catlike. I imagine he comes from the same license or property as Toru.<\/p>\n

Cole MacGrath<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the main character from Infamous, which is a popular PS3 game series about a guy who has electrical powers. Kind of reminds me of a gritty superhero game. I saw brother Jeff play these games once, but they didn\u2019t catch my interest too much. If I\u2019m not mistaken, Infamous was made by the same folks who did the Sly Cooper series. One bad thing about this guy as well as Toru and Kuro is that they don\u2019t have a storyline in arcade mode! You can\u2019t even pick them there!<\/p>\n

Kazuya<\/strong><\/p>\n

All right, now we\u2019re finally getting to the REAL Tekken cast, and you\u2019ll all see how clueless I am about these guys. Kazuya is a guy with red gloves that have spikes on them. And I think he was on one of the Tekken game boxes. And that\u2019s all I know about him!<\/p>\n

Nina<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s one of the main characters, too, and has been in all the Tekken games. She\u2019s kind of cool, even if she is a little mean sometimes. Some of her outfits look really uncomfortable, though. Nina actually starred in her own game on the PS2 called Death by Degrees. Two neat things about that game were you used both dual analog sticks to fight, and there were some detective elements to the game, too. Unfortunately, the rest of the game wasn\u2019t good at all.<\/p>\n

Asuka<\/strong><\/p>\n

I guess if I had to pick a favorite HUMAN Tekken character, Asuka would be it because she reminds me of the Ridge Racer lady after eating a can of spinach. Unfortunately, she also falls into the annoying teenage schoolgirl stereotype which I\u2019m a bit tired of. But they do hide it better with Asuka.<\/p>\n

Lili<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ugh! Now SHE\u2019S annoying! Lili is a spoiled rich girl and Asuka\u2019s rival. So basically she\u2019s like Sakura\u2019s Karin.<\/p>\n

Heiachi<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s one of the main Tekken characters, too. He\u2019s an old guy with weird spiky gray hair. Reminds me of Dr. Wily after eating a can of spinach. He looked totally ridiculous in the live action Tekken movie, too.<\/p>\n

Kuma<\/strong><\/p>\n

One thing I like about Tekken games is they put a few silly animal characters in there, like Kuma the bear (and a panda bear that\u2019s just a palette swap), a kangaroo, and Mokujin can fall in this category, too. So I\u2019m glad they put Kuma in Street Fighter X Tekken. I think Kuma actually means \u201cbear\u201d in Japanese, but I\u2019m not totally sure about that. Kuma fights how you would expect a bear to fight, but he does do a silly dance when you win, and he does a funny flex pose when you switch out characters. His win quotes are pretty funny, too. Since he can\u2019t talk, the quotes are in parentheses like he is thinking. My favorite is his win quote against Cammy, as he says, \u201c(Sure you can pet me, but just remember, I\u2019m a bear. Not a giant cat.)\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has a huge yellow flattop hairdo. I think he and Guile go to the same hair salon.<\/p>\n

Law<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has a moustache and talks about money a lot.<\/p>\n

King<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s a wrestler guy with a leopard mask on. In Namco X Capcom, he was teamed up with Felicia and she thought he was a real leopard man. She would always say stuff like, \u201cHey King, use your big nose to sniff out some clues.\u201d And King\u2019s response would always be, \u201cIt\u2019s just a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marduk<\/strong><\/p>\n

This guy looks like Zangief with a shaved head.<\/p>\n

Hwoarang<\/strong><\/p>\n

I could never pronounce this guy\u2019s name, but I do like his goggle glasses things he wears on his head.<\/p>\n

Steve<\/strong><\/p>\n

The guy from Blue\u2019s Clues is in the game? Awesome! Nah, it\u2019s just a boxer dude.<\/p>\n

Bob<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like Bob. Most other Tekken guys are super buff and muscular, and the Tekken ladies are all sexy. But Bob is big and fat and cracks me up.<\/p>\n

Julia<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s kind of neat, too. Julia is pretty and I like her cowboy boots. I think she\u2019s supposed to be Native American and she\u2019s always trying to save the environment. Since she likes saving the environment so much, I asked her if she\u2019d like to see the new Lorax movie with me. She said no, but then I saw her the next day at the Lorax movie with Rufus! OK now I\u2019m just being SILLY! Did you know that IHOP is serving a Lorax breakfast now called Green Eggs and Ham? Except the ham\u2019s not green and the scrambled eggs just have canned spinach mixed in them. That part of this paragraph is NOT made up! Boy, my character description of Julia went all over the place, didn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Yoshimitsu<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m more familiar with Yoshimitsu from the Soul Calibur games. In the Tekken series, Yoshimitsu is more robotic and has a light saber. And he\u2019s not as funny as he is in the Soul Calibur games.<\/p>\n

Raven<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s just a black guy with sunglasses and reminds me of a secret service agent.<\/p>\n

Jin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another main character from Tekken. Looks like a normal fighter guy to me, but in Soul Calibur V\u2019s character creation mode, you can use \u201cDevil Jin\u2019s\u201d fighting style for your creations. But in Street Fighter X Tekken I think he\u2019s just regular Jin.<\/p>\n

Xiaoyu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh please don\u2019t ask me to pronounce her name. She looks like a regular Chinese girl fighter to me. One weird thing is that before you fight the last boss in arcade mode, you have to battle a couple of people consumed by Pandora\u2019a power. If you fight Jin this way, she\u2019ll come out behind him and say, \u201cYeah, Pandora\u2019s Box is Jin\u2019s. And Jin is mine!\u201d And then she\u2019ll get all evil and weird, too! So I guess she likes Jin.<\/p>\n

Ogre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, the last boss in the game is Shrek. Actually he looks more like The Jolly Green Giant. I\u2019m not sure if \u201cOgre\u201d is from Tekken or not, but you fight him last in arcade mode if you don\u2019t battle Akuma instead.<\/p>\n

DLC Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n

The controversy with the DLC characters is that they are already on the disc, and you just unlock them by buying them when they are available. While I don\u2019t think this is right, I\u2019m not going to get all in a tizzy about it. I guess the only way I can really voice my opinion is just to not buy them. Which is a shame because some of them look really cool. But oh well. I guess it\u2019s still bad that I bought the game in the first place. But you know what? I don\u2019t buy games to support a company or principle. I buy games to have fun with them. And I thought playing as some of the characters in Street Fighter X Tekken would be fun. And I also thought it would be fun to write about the game, too! I guess that makes me a horrible video game martyr. So if you have a problem with me because of that, sorry! Anyway, here are the six characters on the Tekken side that will be DLC later.<\/p>\n

Lars<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s a new guy from Tekken 6. I liked one of the cutscenes in that game that showed Lars punching MISSILES out of his way. Wow! Lars must\u2019ve eaten his Wheaties that morning.<\/p>\n

Alisa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aw man! I\u2019m kind of sad that she\u2019s a DLC character. I liked her in Tekken 6. She was a robot lady with pink hair. Only bad thing about her is she was a final boss in the \u2018adventure\u2019 mode and was WAY too hard. She would take off her head and hand it to you and it would explode like a bomb. And there was no way to block it. I couldn\u2019t beat the game because of her. I pulled a \u201crage quit\u201d as the Internet folks say.<\/p>\n

Bryan<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had to do a search for some of the DLC characters because I didn\u2019t remember them. Bryan just looks like a fighter guy with short gray hair.<\/p>\n

Jack-X<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey, isn\u2019t that a PS2 game? Ha ha! No, this guy\u2019s just a buff fighter with a Mohawk. I think I kind of remember him being robotic, too.<\/p>\n

Christie<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sad that she\u2019s also a DLC character because she is pretty and funny. Except she\u2019s always moving around, even in her normal fighting stance, and I just want to say, \u201cSTAY STILL!\u201d<\/p>\n

Lei<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s those flower necklaces you get in Hawaii. Lei is just another fighter guy. You know, some of the Tekken cast just isn\u2019t very interesting to me.<\/p>\n

Namco Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all I feel like talking about the Tekken side of Street Fighter X Tekken. Hope you enjoyed my blogs! In the comments section, let me know YOUR favorite Tekken characters! I don\u2019t really have a favorite Tekken character, so you can pick out one for me in the comments section, too, if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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