Why are mishimas so popular?

[Jowan]

what is it that everyone like the mishima archtype? I'm asking this after watching Harada's interview where they said they had no idea Reina would become so popular, where the comentaries were like: "how would you not expect a hot mishima to not become so popular?"

Also, why is Jin's electric punch different then the others mishimas if he is one himself

[KrossKounter]

Reina is special. She's popular with the waifu players as well as with the mishima players.
So she kinda got extreme attention compared to even the other mishimas.
But truth be told, most waifu players that play Reina now will eventually drop her because she's too hard.

[progste]

Jin abandoned the mishima style after Heihachi betrayed him and tried to kill him in Tekken 3, if you look up Tekken 3 Jin he was using the normal electric and hellsweep.

As for what's fun about Mishimas I'd say high execution with big bursts of damage off while also being "honest" in their gameplay.
There is also the lore/design side which sees them as uncompromising villanous badasses that only care about strength and the electricity thing is cool in general.

They're also arguably the protagonists of Tekken since the whole story is built around their tournament.

[SEATEK The_LEFTY]

ELECTRIC AND HELLSWEEP GO BRrRrRrRrR

[Badman*Kazuya]

Kazuya is a Chad. End of.

[Make otgf -9 pls]

Been there since beginning and are parts of main story presenting popular archetypes quite simple tbh

[WingedKagouti]

Mishimas are popular because a) they've been there from the beginning and b) they've always been the main focus of any story. Essentially a question of exposure and most other characters being relevant to the story due to their connection to the Mishima family.

[kiteless 凧無し]

it's like asking why Ryu and Ken are popular in street fighter, because they're the main characters

[MOSLEY]

Main characters.
Cool character designs.
Flashy move animations.
High skill ceiling and potential for skill expression.

[Peck]

Originally posted by MOSLEY:

Main characters.
Cool character designs.
Flashy move animations.
High skill ceiling and potential for skill expression.

Yup, this. They are really-well designed and by now fleshed-out characters.
I always avoided them because they have pretty high execution demands, but I will go for Kazuya and Reina this time around and put some real effort in.

Kazuya is actually a really cool antagonist with a crazy good expressive voice actor and Reina's design is so well done, an arrogant, borderline psychopathic baby-Heihaci

[s0_RoNerY]

Originally posted by Moist Von Lipwig:

what is it that everyone like the mishima archtype? I'm asking this after watching Harada's interview where they said they had no idea Reina would become so popular, where the comentaries were like: "how would you not expect a hot mishima to not become so popular?"

Also, why is Jin's electric punch different then the others mishimas if he is one himself

I’ve been asking that same question outside of Tekken. Walking about or walking in Fred Meyer or, Walmart or Winco, asking this very same question. I, too, just don’t understand. Maybe it makes kids and adults alike, feel cool? After all many kids and adults, young adults - go after characters that are cool, and/or characters with hard combo input.

[s0_RoNerY]

Originally posted by WingedKagouti:

Mishimas are popular because a) they've been there from the beginning and b) they've always been the main focus of any story. Essentially a question of exposure and most other characters being relevant to the story due to their connection to the Mishima family.

Pretty lame to like them or love them that I have to play as them because you were there from the “beginning” and in a story. I, too, was there “since the beginning”, but I don’t pick them as my main.

It’s like playing Super Mario Bros. since the beginning, or Donkey Kong. It’s not like I play as him in every game he is in.

“OmG theRe is a new Mario game coMing Out. I so need to buy it and waste $59.99. Idc it’s overpriced. It’s Mario”. I’m not like that.

Many of these kids weren’t there since the “beginning”, but pick him because it’s Mario. The colours and being iconic. It’s why many are Nintendo fanboys and chose ONLY Nintendo and nothing else.

You mentioned Ryu and Ken. Yeah same sh**. Still, I’ve played SF since the beginning, but they are not my mains. I don’t buy SF because of Ryu and Ken.

Every character here listed are overrated in popularity, and I don’t know why. They are, whatever to me.

If they were not the ‘it’ characters since the beginning in these games, but showed up later as a DLC, I doubt they would be popular like they are today. So why are they infamous/famous?

Character design. They look cool. And again in my previous post here: kids and young adults go after COOL looking characters. Boring. Lame excuse. They also think pulling off hard combos makes them better and stronger.

It’s the same with Batman vs Spider-Man. Cool design. Shoots webs. Swings. Everyone loves Spider-Man (not me). Or Soldier vs eight other classes in TF2. Soldier will be picked more over the classes. And yet, Soldier would be wrecked by four or five of these classes.

Pyro would win
Sniper would likely win
Scout would win
Heavy would win
Demo would win

[Tortletalk]

Reina is the only Mishima I truly love. I've dabbled in the others and I think Kazuya was my old favourite but I'd rarely choose him over one of the many other characters.
Reina however is fantastic.

[BIG E.]

Jin is cool. Only mishima i play.

Altho i like his no devil powers version more. Wish they just gave him kazama style instead of devil jin style. Even tho i think his devil jin style moves are quite op right now.

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

dorya

[Super Cosmic Space Magnet]

They're skill expressive, they're always good in every game, and they have big protagonist energy. Jin is probably the character most people play first if it's their first Tekken game too, so I suspect lots of folks either fall in love with him, or find switching away after getting used to him quite difficult. The skills are also highly transferrable between Mishimas, and they have funni hair and DORYA.

I generally like playing the minor/loser characters in games though, like Dan in SF. T7 totally had me falling in love with Lars.