{"id":62078,"date":"2023-12-27T18:44:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T18:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/tekken-8-proves-kuma-is-the-true-successor-to-the-mishima-legacy\/"},"modified":"2023-12-27T18:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T18:54:49","slug":"tekken-8-proves-kuma-is-the-true-successor-to-the-mishima-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/tekken-8-proves-kuma-is-the-true-successor-to-the-mishima-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken 8 proves Kuma is the true successor to the Mishima legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"R8oVgI\"><em>Tekken 8<\/em>\u2019s newest character reveal focuses on Kuma, a bear as soon as raised and educated by collection antagonist Heihachi Mishima. However there\u2019s extra to this furry former bodyguard than meets the attention.<\/p>\n<p id=\"C8BWga\">In a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it second close to the top of the gameplay demo, Kuma is seen unleashing assaults that maintain particular significance to Tekken followers. Whereas the uppercuts proven on the 1:29 mark within the video under might appear like regular preventing recreation strikes, what Kuma is performing is definitely the Wind God Fist, a martial artwork ubiquitous to the <em>Tekken<\/em> collection recognized solely to a choose few fighters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"b3yYSS\">\n<p><div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEKKEN 8 \u2013 Kuma Reveal &amp; Gameplay Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6m7jNzjuoHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"GVEu0q\">The Wind God Fist (initially \u201crising uppercut\u201d) debuted within the first <em>Tekken<\/em> as a transfer unique to Heihachi and his son Kazuya (each regular and Satan Kazuya), practitioners of the in-universe Mishima-style Preventing Karate. (Armor King\u2019s transfer listing additionally included an similar rising uppercut earlier than being retconned later within the collection.) Consider it just like the Shoryuken in <em>Avenue Fighter<\/em>, a transfer that additionally defines the franchise to which it belongs however can solely be carried out by a handful of characters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"t4Dqng\">Because the collection continued, extra members of the Mishima clan would acquire entry to the Wind God Fist in addition to a extra highly effective model of the assault dubbed the Electrical Wind God Fist (colloquially \u201cEWGF\u201d or \u201celectrics\u201d), which finally supplanted the bottom transfer because the defining trait of the franchise\u2019s Mishima-style fighters. It\u2019s so iconic, in actual fact, that real-life Tekken rivals who can string collectively a number of electrics in a single combo are sometimes celebrated for his or her high-level execution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"vU855K\">\n<p><div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEKKEN 7 | Kazuya 10x EWGF Combo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XvhRn6uokEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"Wh1anY\">So, going again to the <em>Avenue Fighter<\/em> comparability, Kuma studying the Wind God Fist is like Blanka immediately with the ability to do Shoryukens, although with a singular historical past to make the event extra significant lore-wise.<\/p>\n<p id=\"kSWADE\">Kuma isn&#8217;t any stranger to Mishima martial arts due to his coaching as Heihachi\u2019s beloved pet and bodyguard. In earlier video games, the bear integrated each Heihachi\u2019s Demon Uppercut and Stonehead headbutt in his personal Kuma Shinken preventing model. Kuma\u2019s legacy, mixed with Heihachi\u2019s strained father-son relationship with Kazuya and the potential of <em>Tekken 8<\/em> newcomer Reina being one other illegitimate Mishima offspring attributable to her use of a EWGF-like assault in her personal trailer, has led many excited <em>Tekken<\/em> followers to proclaim he&#8217;s Heihachi\u2019s true inheritor following this reveal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gn8mx0\">Spectacular implications for a pair seconds of gameplay, huh?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24016605\/tekken-8-kuma-kazuya-new-trailer-characters\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Tekken 8\u2019s newest character reveal focuses on Kuma, a bear as soon as raised and educated by collection antagonist Heihachi Mishima. However there\u2019s extra to this furry former bodyguard than meets the attention. In a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it second close to the top of the gameplay demo, Kuma is seen unleashing assaults that maintain particular significance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[16557,982,8030,7443,5159,3956,1938],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62079,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62078\/revisions\/62079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}