Tekken 8 Heihachi Mishima and Unforgotten Echoes Story DLC Hands-On Preview

Somehow, Heihachi Mishima has returned. No veteran to throwing members of the Mishima family into volcanoes, Bandai Namco and Katsuhiro Harada have made a big show about Heihachi having finally died after being thrown into one himself following a staggering loss to his son Kazuya. Much like the stock price of NVIDIA this week, he just can’t stay down for long. We recently got a sneak peek at the fighter’s new story chapters and got to take the Mishima family head for our spin ourselves with a recent hands-on with Tekken 8.

In a candid chat with Michael Murray between rounds, he confirmed that Heihachi will not receive a Character Episode, as the Unforgotten Echoes story content serves the purpose of giving Heihachi a narrative all his own. Those who may have wanted a more light-hearted take on the Tekken Zaibatsu’s former head will sadly have to make do with a bit of creative dress-up and some fun in the sun with Tekken Ball.

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Bandai Namco permitted us to see through the entire narrative of Unforgotten Echoes but limited what we could showcase and talk about to the first five chapters of the narrative. The narrative largely jumps around between a few key players of the Tekken Force, namely Jin Kazama and the current Prime Minister of Poland in the Tekken universe, Lidia Sobieska. Suppose you didn’t have the opportunity to purchase the additional character DLC that added Eddy Gordo and Lidia to the roster already, this will allow players to try these characters out for free as part of the story DLC. At only a couple of hours' run time, it's more of a brief appetizer to bringing Tekken's big bad into the center stage again while leaving Yoshimitsu on the sidelines once more.

After a series of mandatory battles and reuniting some of the cast together, Tekken 8 Unforgotten Echoes rapidly brings players back face to face with Heihachi Mishima, a man