Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Interview with Katsuhiro Harada

[MKRayden]

RocketChainsaw.com took interview with Katsuhiro Harada.



Rocket Chainsaw: A lot of people were surprised to find out that the Tekken series has decided to move to Nintendo consoles. What do you feel has been unique about seeing Tekken on the Wii U?
Katsuhiro Harada: The Wii U controller is quite unique for the platform. The contorller allows things to be more convenient and allow us to have shortcuts. Also, since it’s on Nintendo, there are a lot of cool things we can only do because it’s Nintendo. One of these things we showed at E3, where a mushroom dropped down and Heihachi ate it and got bigger. So that’s just one example of something that we can do because we’re collaborating with Nintendo, and we might get to see more of that.
RC: The original Tekken Tag was really well-loved by the fans and critics. Why do you think it’s taken nearly ten years to have a sequel for it?
KH: The original Tekken Tag Tournament wasn’t really in the original plans for us. We were working on Tekken 4 at the time when the sales team came to us and said they wanted a new Tekken right away, and Tekken Tag was thought up in about five minutes. It wasn’t in the original plan obviously, and I was quite surprised that it was so popular with the fans. Right away we were thinking of a sequel to that, but the tag system is quite difficult to develop, because it requires twice as much memory to do a proper tag-team and have four characters onscreen at once. You’d have to get twice the performance out of the graphic engine as well. Just doing all that you can with two characters and the staff you have doesn’t always leave room for a lot of new gameplay. We really wanted to evolve the game system, which was why it was necessary to do (Tekken) 4 and 5 and 6 before coming back to to tag, and it just turned out that ten year had passed, and now we’re ready to do it.

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[kombatant_mark_anthony]

very interesting

[Jonnyrp]

Sounds pretty cool. Wish the Wii U controller makes the experience better than the previous one though.

Also, you can call me crazy, i've nothing against a franchise like Tekken doing stuff for Nintendo but i sense complaints from hardcore fans on the horizon like it's always been.