It seems that in the last few years there’s a lot more animal activists – even though they probably wouldn’t play our game they would still hear about that, about a kangaroo in our game being punched, and would complain about it.” He adds that the other animal characters such as Kuma the bear and Panda are still in it because they are “obviously stronger than a human being”. People were complaining about him punching a kangaroo. In an interview with VG247, Executive Producer Katsushiro Harada explains why this is so: “There was a video of a man’s dog being headlocked by a kangaroo, and he punched it in the face”, Harada says. It will be a faithful arcade-perfect port, utilizing the Unreal Engine 4 graphics but with one missing component: Roger Junior, the boxing Kangaroo character. Tekken 7, the latest installment in the series launched in Asian and Australian arcades back in 2015 but will finally be available for the PC as well as PlayStation and XBox consoles on June 2nd, 2017.
Although they have actually outsold the CAPCOM flagship fighting game worldwide with 44 million in total compared to 35 million as of March 2015. It seems that in the last few years there’s a lot more animal activists – even though they probably wouldn’t play our game they would still hear about that, about a kangaroo in our game being punched, and would complain about it.”Īs to why Kuma the bear is still in the game versus Roger Jr., Harada reasoned that this is because a bear is “obviously stronger than a human being.Tekken by Bandai Namco Games is one of the most popular fighting games in the world, eclipsed only by Street Fighter in terms of popularity.
In an interview with VG247, the game’s producer Katsuhiro Harada, it seems that there are concerns that animal activists would complain about the character, which is why they made the decision to take it out of the game.Īccording to Harada, “There was a video of a man’s dog being headlocked by a kangaroo, and he punched it in the face. Unfortunately it seems that the character will no longer make the final game in Tekken 7. They also introduced a character named Roger Jr., which is a kangaroo that boxes. While other arcade games might have more traditional characters, Tekken actually introduced some interesting and quirky characters such as bears, pandas, a man made from wood, and so on. Bandai Namco’s Tekken franchise is an interesting one.
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