What did they do to Yoshimitsu?

[Rabcor]

I thought Tekken 4 was bad... But fml they turned him into a squid? https://eng.tekkenpedia.com/images/f/f9/TK7-Yoshimitsu-CG-Art.jpg

WHY?! ♥♥♥♥ you Kenichirou Yoshimura you're a fantastic original character designer but apparently you're incapable of making a design true to an existing character's background. How could you do this man!? And how could everyone else go through with it?

It just blows my mind that such a good character designer could come up with such a ♥♥♥♥ design, it's a cyborg ninja, not a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ alien fish! Even his sword looks terrible, how do you design a terrible looking sword? how could this happen? In and of itself it might not be a bad character design it's just a terrible horrible yoshimitsu design!

Besides tekken 4 (which was absolutely horrible btw, he had a bugsuit, wat) he's always been a relatively simple, fully armored ninja with cybernetic arms. Forget cybernetic now, he looks like a stupid failed science experiment to create a real life twi'lek! Why does he have bones for armor now? Shingeki no kyojin influence or what? (I'll admit the bone armor is the only part of the design that actually looks cool and could work out)

Oh well, guess I'll play him anyways. /mad

[koopeh]

to be honest i think he looks pretty freakin cool

[Cybertox]

The Tekken 4 Yoshimitsu design is actually my favourite one, cant stand the designs he had in Tekken 5 & Dark Ressurection. Tekken 6 design is cool but the alternative one sucks. Its a matter of preference, you will be able to customize it and go for the hammerhead shark look ;)

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by koopeh:

to be honest i think he looks pretty freakin cool

Like I said in and of itself it's not a bad design, but even if it's cool it's just not yoshimitsu.

My favorite yoshimitsu design is the one from Tekken 3, also loved the one in soul calibur 4. (The soul calibur V one also looks quite decent, but I take issue with how he looks like he's an undead skeleton but undead cyborg look seems to have been the trend in soul calibur for yoshimitsu whereas in tekken it's just been cyborg ninja)

Reason I hated the tekken 4 design was mostly those retarded fly wings. Why put wings on someone who can already fly? It's a dumb design move.

[FIXATOR]

The best one is default Tekken 3 Yoshi.

[Hanzema]

TEKKEN 2 one with the rice hat was the best imo.

[Rabcor]

Hehe 3 of us in a row: favorite is tekken 3 yoshimitsu.

Still I noticed something about the new yoshimitsu design, it looks significantly better in-game than on the illustration I linked to. https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/hFfco9j3uI8h_glV4oe_xrfs5S4=/0x600/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3681894/004.0.jpg

I think the illustration just had some major flaws mostly due to the pose choice, it obscures the coolest parts particularly his left arm, while the pose is cool, you really need to see his torso design in it's full glory to be able to appreciate how cool this design is.

http://s3wc4.goplay.com/wysiwyg/2016/08/12/CJp2HdSUYAAYgCs.png

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/721581/26207805/1431078547147/t709.jpg?token=A9XsAhhbiCzWxFO8vx7NiTv8m9g%3D

It's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good design after all, the tentacles were always minimal and small in the original design and they are so too in the in-game model but on the artwork they look exaggerated. Artist should have chosen a better pose I think. He went for a s trong pose, it's not a bad pose at all but for this design it hides the most important parts behind his left arm (also the glass helm istoo blurry, he should have rendered the face with finer details as it is in the actual game) but these are by no means rookie mistakes, it's ♥♥♥♥ that requires a critical second opinion to be noticed.

I think I can get behind this design after all because after seeing him standing up it's a freaking amazing design even if the tentacles are kinda iffy, besides the tentacles it's definitely an awesome yoshimitsu design... But if I just think of the tentacles as a decoration (like a hero cape...) then it's ok, I can live with this after all.

[Isshak Gravi]

Did you watch the UK finals last week? Best Yoshimitsu promo vid EVER.

[Rabcor]

No let me see

[Rabcor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLb4wJEdi5Q found it.

I'm pretty happy to see how many of his old tekken 3 moves he has. I'm gonna have fun with this game. Assuming the controls are still like tekken and not like street fighter. Best served with a D-Pad rather than analogue stick right?

[MessiahofMelons]

I think yoshimitsu looks badass in this game.

As for why. I choose to think it's because of his tekken 6 ending. The sword absorbed the devil jin and has corrupted him

[Fear dot Com]

Yeah, it's not the OG, but damn it looks freaking awesome...in a terrifying sort of way :P. Well, with the customizations, I'm kind of hoping they'd allow us to make him look like his former self.

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by Rasen:

Yeah, it's not the OG, but damn it looks freaking awesome...in a terrifying sort of way :P. Well, with the customizations, I'm kind of hoping they'd allow us to make him look like his former self.

As are most of us. Remove tentacles, put on a hat, be cool.

[MessiahofMelons]

So we know what his alternate is? His alts are usually a totally different model

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by Messiah of Melons:

So we know what his alternate is? His alts are usually a totally different model

Based on what I've seen it's the same model, just red. Could just be a placeholder but I doubt it.

[𝒦.ℒ.ℬ.]

Are you serious?