Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada has been dropping mad amounts of Tekken lore on Twitter, including more details about Tekken 8's mysterious newcomer Reina.
Tekken's lore is a magical thing, the 30-plus year saga of guys throwing their sons off cliffs, the sons then throwing their dads into volcanoes, the dads retaliating by sending his son, grandson, and father into space strapped to a rocket – you get the gist. But the fighting game genre has never been the most effective at telling stories, so a lot of the Tekken lore is found outside of the core gameplay, such as on series producer Katsuhiro Harada's Twitter account.
Harada then explains that Lars' mother was a researcher who was working alongside the Tekken Force, which is why Lars has no demonic abilities. But then there's Reina – the latest of Heihachi's kids to appear – whose mother is someone Heihachi had identified as having the Devil Gene, which comes to light at the end of Tekken 8's story mode. However, despite not being raised by Heihachi or her mother, Harada notes "in the Mishima bloodline’s long history of intergenerational conflict, Reina and Heihachi are – at least for now – the only parent-child pair to have a genuinely positive relationship."
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