This went from a video about strange protagonists into a 20 minute tangent on Paul

Came for a mishima video got 22 minutes of paul i absolutely cannot believe what youve done

The reason behind the Mishima's lasting appeal is because you get a family of characters. You get a grandfather, a father, and a son. Along with that they range from morally ambiguous to downright evil, so you get to play as the villains and said villains are responsible for the plot.

My man flexing his editing skills for 30 mins

Electric is like the most satisfying fighting game move ever

Fun fact, given you mentioned Sol. Sol's voice actor, Jōji Nakata also portrayed Kazuya in Tekken 1, 2 & Tag.

I love how this video completely explains why I picked up Kazuya as my main for Tekken

This is a paul vid in disguise

Amazing Paul breakdown, just weird why you always started talking about Mishimas all of a sudden. Great work!

Who knew Paul was secretly the MC of Tekken? Blew my mind for sure.

Total anecdote here so I might be wrong; I think the same idea is found in VF with Akira - on the surface; a stoic man in Karate attire (despite using Bajiquan), but is brash and headstrong, while also sporting the highest mechanical difficulty in the cast (just frame knee, no strings outside of extremely complex psuedo hit-grab strings) And, like Kaz, his gameplan is simple, but requires a decent understanding of the mechanics to properly utilise. He's picked very often, despite lit every other char being more geared towards beginners and people looking for intuitive chars.

Ryu: Main character with balanced moveset with rather mundane inputs to execute core moves.Rather easy to learn. Kazuya: One of the main characters with a very aggressive fighting style, higher than normal skill requirement and requires precise inputs to unleash his core techniques. Quite hard to use.

Phoenix: 28 years later

I think it's more a matter of legacy rather than "completeness" since they've always been pretty much the same the precedent exists for them to consistently be good picks

Always thought Akira Yuki was one of the weirder design for a fighting game protagonist. He's definitely the poster boy for Virtua Fighter and a monster when used properly but good luck actually getting good with him, been trying for at least a decade now and mastered Kazuya's Perfect electric before I got Akira's Teishitsu Dantai to come out even once lol

Fantastic video. Beautiful editing. And a really nice and sad walk down memory lane.. Been playing since T1 and Kaz has always been my favorite.... Damn I'm getting old

My favorite Mishima is Pikachu from pokken

You the funniest part is kazuya has gotten a nerf purely from time. earlier games he has so many main moves compared to the rest of the cast it makes him less predictable. But because they’ve barely updated him he now has the exact opposite going on; he’s got so few moves overall that he’s got a much more predictable movelist.

This might be a big assumption on my part, but I imagine the fact that the Zato player controls 2 characters at once is impressive to most spectators. It is possible a spectator saw Persona 4 Arena and they don't think 2 characters at once is that impressive.

Mishimas are very great to know solely because 1) It's guaranteed at least 1 Mishima will be in each game, 2) They have moves that are very strong and downright broken with the caveat of high execution, and 3) In every game you will consistently be able to get results, as they all play very similar in every game. Mishimas are also super interesting as the three mains (Devil Jin, Kazuya, Heihachi) all fit different aggression levels. Kazuya is a turtle that waits for opportunity to demolish, Heihachi is a pressuring bully, and Devil Jin is somewhere in the middle.

Great video

I agree with most people here, the title is quite misleading. I appreciate the actual content/information and editing of the video, but the title definitely doesn't reflect the topic at hand.

Yoooooo what is that editing! Mad skills dude!

you definitely earned yourself a follow. this was fantastic.

Just one correction Ragna is not an Edgelord, he just looks like one. He’s probably the most socially well adjusted and normal fighting game protagonist I’ve ever seen. He also calls out the insane stuff that happens to him every day and the sociopaths that make up his day to day acquaintances.

Whenever I go back to older Tekken games I feel some moves had questionable design choices and that kinda annoy me. Jin's CH WGF in T3... why didn't it act as a launcher? I want to give a worse example; can't quickly recall one atm. However once I get reminded of the funny, silly, broken stuff in the past Tekken games I feel good.

Really really well done, great video!

A mishima went to smash and said “nah, imma keep playin tekken here”

I love your channel Friend! Editing is soooooooooooooooooooo good! Btw. I kind of feel like out of all Mishimas, Hiechachi has a bit different identity now. Still in Tekken 3 his moveset was clearly mix between Kazuya and Paul. Something I feel got lost over years. But otherwise, yes Kazuya is the same :)

I love how people are commenting talking about mishimas which makes me think that they did not watch the video

I'm playing since t2, this vid was such a joy to watch, cheers!

Paul's movelist was deliberately truncated in 2 because reversals did batshit damage and so did tech throws, and Paul had both.

The editing in this video is immense 🔥🔥🔥

The greatest thing about Tekkens lore is the main characters are evil or generally messed up. It's a deceptively powerful story that's often just not presented as well as it could be. Paul was most interesting when he was washed up broken Paul in t4

Wow your editing skills are insane

as a long time teken player that just start hftf i watched ur tuto video on hftf then saw this video next, being a mishima only player for about 15 years now i was in the obligation to click on it, and boy oh boy the editing was super great and the subject was realy interesting, only 2k views ?? man thats a shame i hope u will get more credit in the tekken scene, main man should do a reaction video on it (maybe try to send him the link) only black point u guessed it the paul part was very very long for a mishima video , but i understand that it was essential to explain ur point. anyway a good chanel discover here u got my follow keep doing good stuff man now i gotta go back to practice my dio , as a mishima player of course i gotta struglle with the hard character and got my ass beat XD see ya man

Kazuya is the reason why I watch tekken in the first place. If haven't seen wave dashing into electric, I would've probably never had checked out tekken. And even when I didn't know that electrics are a just frame input, it already gave a high impact signal just by looking at someone getting hit by it, Mishima's are sick af

Amazing video again! Loved every second beginning to end.

One thing I like about Tekken is that the main characters are actually good Like in SF Ryu is always mid yet he's supposed to be this top tier fighter that everyone respects

came to learn more about kazuya left a paul main great video

So... Is this video about how kazuya is an unorthodox protag, or his it a history break down of Paul's play styles... I'm so confused, is Paul the true main character of Tekken?

I'd love to hear your take on the Virtua Fighter Series, especially since it ran concurrently with Tekken for many years as a 3D fighting game. I'm a long-time Guilty Gear player.... and believe it or not, Sol isn't the first character I pick in the roster (maybe he would be in games like Accent Core or Strive), but in the oldest games (GG1 and GGX), it was actually a lot more fun to play characters like Chipp Zanuff, Jam Kuradoberi, Testament, and Justice because of the combo versatility and freedom they held over characters like Sol and Ky. That, of course, doesn't mean they were easier to play as, or to win with... but with Guilty Gear, people didn't actually take the games seriously until GGX onwards, so there was a different environment (not as competitive, but more experimental). I lament the idea that people only care about winning... the people who do are very shallow and would sooner rage quit whenever the game wasn't in their favor. I prefer players who examine a game's characters in-depth and enjoy the whole roster, not just one or two characters.

The reason I play Mishimas is that there is no better feeling in the world for side stepping a df1 and punishing with electric

Should Be Renamed: Tekken's Most Popular Deuteragonist.

This lad will go places I forsee it

Great video!

*ever since i fought my uncle as an alisa main and him being a paul main, i can say i have developed whats known as: paul stress traumatic disorder.*

Wonderful video

This channel is underrated

This was great. Now tackle the history of Yoshimitsu and his various cameos in other games!

This is my favourite video of yours. And oh dear Swede! I bow before your articulation in English which even native speakers fail at. Thanks for your eloquence on Kazuya & Paul! Someone show MainMan this video! You reminded me of your fellow Swede, FrameWhisperer. Both of you put into words very clearly which is rare to find from native English speaking Tekken content creators. Finally, this video was one big love letter to Tekken & Kazuya, as I personally in my limited understanding think Kazuya epitomizes Tekken, from a visual as well as gameplay standpoint. Great work! 👏👏👏!!!

I couldn't stop watching this video because of the music.

I came for mishima and I'm 19 minutes in the vid now and just realized it became a paul video

22:91 and thus they are lost in the room of time and spirit for 15 years hitting those electrics.

Yes, when the protagonist is a villain. And the Mishima type is a 3D shoto requiring skill.

MY GOD WHAT AN AMAZING VIDEO! SUBSCRIBED! 👊⚡

this video is so well made! new sub :)

Wait a second I thought this was a video about protagonists

I'm not gonna sugar coat it...

Ok Heihachi has some BANGER tertiary moves tho

Shoulder smash, demolition man, deathfist and sway. Classic Judo moves

Sometimes an intro video can be enough, like the intro to tekken 5 would be enough for a lot of fresh players to pick Kazuya or Heihachi as their first mains.

Banger

I played the original Tekken on my sisters Playstation when i was 13 years old. I always picked LAW (i was a Bruce Lee fan as a kid). A few years later i bought a Playstation 2. The first game i bought with it was Tekken Tag tournament. I was unaware of the story since ive only played Tekken 1, and i picked my man Law and Beak as my favorite couple. Then came Tekken 4 and i finaly got into the Mishima story. Since then Kazuya is my favorite character. I like his style, the way he looks and his story. Its realy my favorite fighting game character, my second is Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, third is Heihachi.

so basically they're the spacies from smash melee but with more consistency across titles and if they were on the box. makes sense

"Do you remenber this move?" >Kazuya fF2 I DO, AND IT SUCKED

the reason Kazuya can break the mold is because they introduced Jin, who is more conventional. while they intended for Mishimas to be always easy to pick up, hard to master, I think they choose to not to "dumb down" the control with fillers moves(since they already have a large moveset, and later introduced moved are usually easier to execute) in later games when moving to faster paced online environment is what make them seem "challenging".

Clicked because i saw kazuya on the thumbnails but got disappointed, imagine kazuya has a complete kit *cries in poke artacks*

El hermano for Tekken 8

Paul Phoenix: The True Protagonist in OP's World 😂

28:00 I thought this was about fighting games?? Why did you put some party game beat em up in here?

Nice Paul video

I used to be a Hwoarang main but after trying Heihachi I was hooked on him. Hwoarang is easy to use but it gets boring. Pkaying against high level characters feel sometimes too easy or too hard. I feel braindead or overwhelmed. Using Heihachi taught me to be more strategic and thougful of my attacks and approach. He has most of the tools needed but need extreme timing and execution to be successful. I'm far from successful being Vanquisher rank but goddamn it's so much more fun and rewarding playing Heihachi.

Great outro

came from twitter good shit

Kazuya and Paul still need that rematch.

My fav character Paul Pheonix

I like kazuya because he is one of the most irredeemably cruel evil characters I've ever seen before and been the protagonist of multiple games

Insane video

1:18 Hyde isn’t even anywhere edgy. He’s more of a normal guy in an world where you have to survive and fight. Pretty realistic if anything. If we’re going with edgy, it’s definitely Seth.

I feel like I should be mad, but this is just hilarious

Calling Ragna an edgelord is slander, he's actually a decent dude

this video is great!

Amazing video, kinda sad is not that popular

23:18 you didn't actually show the low version of the flying kick in Tekken 1

Idk if this was intended but Paul and Kazuya were rivals in the early age of Tekken.

Clicked for Kazuya, stayed for Paul. 😛😄

I was surprised how much Kazuya was is this Paul Phoenix video, very weird. PS, Kazuya in Tekken 1,2 and Tag was significantly different but similar from Tekken 4 going forward. Kazuya got good mobility and flow to his starting in Tekken 4 which was a necessary change because if you play him in Tekken Tag he feels a lot more stiff along with all of the other Tekken 2 characters ported over that didn't get into Tekken 3 Bruce, Jun, Kunimitsu, etc. You can really see the difference when you compare Hwaorang to Baek in Tekken Tag they share moves but Baek is more stiff and doesn't flow as well since nearly a direct port from Tekken 2. This was very detailed video about the evolution of Paul through the franchise and certainly deserves it's own video, labeled the history of Paul but as video about Kazuya as "protagonist" let alone his play style these where virtual non-existent and would've been nice instead of 20+ minutes of Paul tangent. Just saying when I order a steak and they get the best ribs in the world, I'm eant to know what happened to steak I ordered.

22:46 lmaoo

Wait, it’s all Paul!?

Earned a sub from me. This was well done.

I feel clickbaited. But the conclusion makes a lot of sense.

While I think you're slightly overstating how apparent skillful play of a Mishima is to a spectator, especially for someone unfamiliar with Tekken (like how is even a good 3D fighting game player that doesn't play Tekken supposed to know that Ryan Hart combo requires an even harder version of an already hard to pull off move) I absolutely agree on the point as a whole. I think that's a plus to Tekken's combo system as a whole. Hitting a 1 frame link, a pedestrian thing in games like SFIV, is much harder that Almost every character's staple juggles in Tekken, but it lack the bombast carrying your opponent across the stage or slamming them through a floor/wall has. The animation style also helps it a lot, the slower tempo of the moves and lack of animation cancelling makes it more immediately understandable to a general audience. Really the only game I could think of that can readily outdo Tekken in the impressive at first glance combos department is HnK, and Maybe Marvel. But those have other incomprehensible things for outsiders that hamper their watching experience.

Teachings my kids how to do electrics , they are 3 years old.

Very good project, i wish you success

U need to turn up the volume some more. Other wise, good video!

I wonder why you didn't include tekken 3 and tag 1 for devil jin as jin kazama is basically a proto devil jin in tekken 3 and tag 1 just missing devil lasers, and wings I call tekken 3 and tag 1 jin... Jin Mishima

Obvious it's Goku.

Got about halfway through before I realized this video wasn’t going to be about the Mishimas. The title was a bit misleading but I figured if you were talking about how unusual the main characters were then it was fine. At least it would be until you started talking about Paul. Can’t tell if this was an intended joke or if you just got carried away but either way, this was a pretty well made video. Just wish it didn’t waste my time.

Paul's d4 2 = Falling leaf /rakuyou is the name I preferred.