Akuma for Guilty Gear!

​@@bruhm0ment6000arksys would def do him justice

Akuma would probably end up in some cooking game if there was a challenging Iron Chef like figure for him to challenge

@@BigB70 Just make his Messatsu invincible and give him his own personal EX meter and like 6 supers just like in SF6. Double fire balls mid air, able to cancel from Messatsu. He needs to be roid up to be in that game lol

Can't wait for his Baki debute! XD

Agreed. Usually guest are not canon unless the crossover is the point of the story.

I would LOVE to see this kind of thing happening more often in fighting games, it gives so much more depth as to WHY the character is in the game and not just a case of "Ehhh we got the rights to put them in" I think the only other time this has happened in a way is Geralt in Soul Calibur 6

And then he is never mentioned/ retconned in T8's story. Not even the new T7 recap movie doesn't mention him. If it's a licensing issue, they could've referred to him as a "mysterious assassin" or something in the form of a shadowy silhouette instead of just not acknowledging him.

And he wasn’t just a cameo. He was part of the Mishima backstory

From what I remember, Soul Calibur did this too around the same time with Geralt as well. He was the one who awoke soul edge in the new timeline,so he has some big story significance as well

Characters with that kind of aura, sephiroth being one of them are so fucking cool

"The answer lies in the heart of the multiverse" -Ryu, probably

@@ArchflipSo, Ryu confirmed for Multiversus sometime in the future probably.

And they kinda did With Asura Wrath

While Akuma was throwing hands with Tekken characters, Ryu was throwing hands with Nintendo characters

Not to be a 🤓,but "like" not life

​@@21Handguns🤓

He literally is a SF character in 3D. It's amazing.

Makes the fact that Tekken x SF gets put on and "indefinite hold" hurt even more. Akuma was like tasting the forbidden fruit.

I feel the same about Ryu and Ken in Smash too.

I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.

There's always one who manages to piece things together before the moment that's supposed to get everyone hyped, and they usually have great reactions.

Not competitive Tekken lol people hated him

As awesome as it was to see him, Akuma's inclusion in T7 was the single most polarizing thing in Tekken history.

Nice.

oh shit

But what happened after t7, wasn't akuma battling kazuya, if he did, did he lose because kazuya is alive in t8

@@AviAwait was probably a tie (the place blew up and they didnt see each other) Though Im just saying IM JUST SAYING Akuma would beat him if he transformed too

@@Benjamiedover yup even I believe that akuma would have beaten kazuya

spoiler it wont it aready got leaked

All T8 needs is ...Gon!

Harada acknowledged the request for Tifa to be in the game

And now Tekken 8 sucks ​@@GamePlaysLocos

Young Sheldon

Honestly, it'd be the other way around

​@Jacob1451_Kapnobatai true because akuma waited for them to get strong lol 😆

And now Reina, Lars, Jin and kazuya surpassed akuma according to DJ ending in TK8

​@@shenelljohnson74Well, Tekken characters are stronger than Street Fighter characters.

Will be cool for him to mentioned a reference about that like " you remind me of the man with the red eye'

Tekken characters with fadc cancels and focus attack.

We will always wonder

i mean that one tekken x street fighter game was gonna come out, but it never did

Tekken X SF

@@volcanickjoe08 We wont always wonder, I am a firm believer we will get Tekken X SF one day and it'll be amazing. Yes it's copium but let me live dammit.

Neco Arc vs. Akuma. XD

Amusingly, just last night I found my way to a video of one of the many MK MUGENs that had Akuma and Raging Demon was one of his fatalities. Granted it was using the SF The Movie sprites for that but still.

That as fatality would be crazy

Open your eyes, devs. Embrace the demon. Casually messatsu a child.

Next KOF dlc

Just gonna copy/paste gilbertberger7234's comment: "Nope. He didn't play SF5 Akuma on stream and as he stated at the start of the video, this is the end of the legacy. Street Fighter 5 I think isn't the only game he skipped because wasn't Akuma in one of the Neo Geo pocket games?"

As much there will be people that would feel bummed out that SFV is Not Included to this Countdown Legacy I’m okay with this. Maximilian Dood had a Love and Hate Relationship on Street Fighter 5 and if you want more of his Opinions on the game you can watch his Street Fighter Legacy on SFV. I feel the same way as Max with SFV being an Incomplete Game at Launch and some of the Characters Designs are really Questionable such as “Banana Hair Ken” or “Sunflower Akuma”. At the end of the Game’s Lifespan we appreciate now and finally Forgave then Move On. If Max was going to talk about SFV Akuma he would probably mentioned how: - SFV V-Trigger incorporates w/ SFVI Mechanics and Improves it - Giving Akuma a Character Arc that Connects between SFV to Third Strike - …And finally the Sunflower Hair [Thankfully SFVI Fixed the Designed]

​@@UMvsC3DPFWPWSFV isn't his favorite by any means but he's grown to respect the game throughout the end of its lifespan + he does like SFV Akuma, just that he was extremely pressed for time He didn't even play Tekken 7 on stream and the only reason why he talked about it is due to how monumental T7 was to Akuma's legacy (SFV was basically just Akuma in another SF game while T7 was basically Akuma outright taking over a completely different fighting game IP and being the sole remnant of the now-probably cancelled Tekken x Street Fighter)

Considering Akuma was in Tekken and Necalli was originally made his successor that was substantially a huge flop. Akuma arrived bit late there.

@@royshaheer the SFV Story Mode made Necalli looked even Worse! He’s Defeated by Balrog and F.A.N.G, although M.Bison was too strong against him. With Akuma case he pretty much tears him apart through the inside and pop like a balloon. So yeah not sure if he’s dead but Necalli seems like a Wasted Potential because we all thought he was a powerful Demigod similar to Gill.

and after that Geese Howard. best thing is that Geese looked even more amazing than Akuma in terms of 3D, even had some Tekken mechanics like the wall jump.

That's really the one thing they should have done. He breaks Tekken rules in so many other ways, that would have allowed him to stay cool and authentic while toning him down and making him a high-risk high-reward character like he should be

or at least give him the stun mechanic from SF to make the player worried of not attacking too much. but yeah the health tone down would have been better.

They didn't want to neuter him. A lower life bar in a game like Tekken would have made the character bad.

@FireTrainer92 Neuter? You mean give him a standard trait that's been a part of him ever since his first playable incarnations. He'd still easily be contender for best character in the game. Having lower health doesn't change any of the incredible tools he has. I dunno if you have some weird personal take on akuma actually being bad but I got news for you, ya wrong. There's more to a character than just health values. Once you actually play a fighting game for more than a couple of hours you'll start to see that.

@@FireTrainer92 It depends by how much they lowered it. Even then, if it made the character low-tier that would've been fine. It would still appeal to the people that want to play 2D while not overshadowing the actual Tekken characters in the Tekken game. Gimmick characters (imo 2D in Tekken is a gimmick) are cool when they're not OP, but when they dominate people come to hate them

i met him cause of T7. and tbh, after watching other games, i still love his representation in Tekken, Bamco respected a lot his essence, while also adding some new stuff that wasn't out of character.

I have a feeling they didn't really think that through since they seemed to be reusing previous dlc characters from Tekken 7 according to the leaks.

Harada said that he doesn't want to use guest characters too much.

Kiryu won't ever happen,but Majima and Ichiban are still on the table

​@@21Handguns well the creator who said that doesn't work at Sega anymore... so Kiryu is kinda free for guest appearences in Fighting Games now

@@LowkeyJouta kinda doesn't mean shit lmao

if he returns, he shouldn't have his super bar, or at least integrated to the heat mechanics. like making a messatsu gohadou as a smash, and the dash cancels sacrificing a huge bar.

Heat mechanic is basically Bamco answer to the 2D super meter. and if Tekken x Street Fighter happenned I think they gonna using heat system for SF characters too.

Eliza for Street Fighter 6

@@CIUMagichell no

@@GamersAreOppressed-gg6bz if I had a guess it's probably a Jin or Kazuya. if I'm going to be bias I would love to have King in sf.

​@CIUMagic huh?

@@77wolfbladeshould be the old man

specially his smile, lol

" effective end of the akuma legacy " - aka: idk

true. his SF6 lore gave him much more depth to his philosophy.

As much there will be people that would feel bummed out that SFV is Not Included to this Countdown Legacy I’m okay with this. Maximilian Dood had a Love and Hate Relationship on Street Fighter 5 and if you want more of his Opinions on the game you can watch his Street Fighter Legacy on SFV. I feel the same way as Max with SFV being an Incomplete Game at Launch and some of the Characters Designs are really Questionable such as “Banana Hair Ken” or “Sunflower Akuma”. At the end of the Game’s Lifespan we appreciate now and finally Forgave then Move On. If Max was going to talk about SFV Akuma he would probably mentioned how: - SFV V-Trigger incorporates w/ SFVI Mechanics and Improves it - Giving Akuma a Character Arc that Connects between SFV to Third Strike - …And finally the Sunflower Hair [Thankfully SFVI Fixed the Designed]

unless he comes back in 8.

@@gamefan6219 Given how much Akuma was hated by the competitive Tekken scene throughout T7's lifespan, he will never come back in T8. His inclusion was very likely done to give T7 some much needed outside interest from other FGC scenes, since Tekken's popularity was in extreme decline during the TTT2 era. And now that Tekken's popularity is only really outclassed by Street Fighter or Smash Bros these days, they don't need Akuma for Tekken 8.

the screams in that reveal were like someone being killed, absolutely hysterical and hilarious 🤣

To be fair... while a 2D -> 3D conversion is a lot more work, it's a lot easier to convert a _one_ 2D character into Tekken style than to convert 20+ Tekken characters into 2D. Namco was able to be that authentic with Akuma because it was just one character. I'm not convinced they would have been able to pull that off with a full roster in TvSF.

not only respecting his essence but also giving him some new stuff that was absolutely well integrated.

I'm sure some people will say just skip to 8, but if you just wanna jump in and play a full Tekken game with every kind of character you'd wanna try? T7 is excellent for that. I hadn't touched one since T3, but I loved my time with it.

there's a guy from Pakistan whose channel is Mwkan7 and in T7 and 8 is NEMESIS. the dude had both Akuma and Geese as some of his mains and made wonderful combos with them. with Geese he could even spam multiple shippukens in a row during a combo having Max Mode and not even breaking it.

HARDEST? Bruh no

Would still be fun for him to run back in t8 tho.

sadly his story in T7 wasn't that deep. almost no depth to the relationship with Kazumi, it could have been explored better.