Completed Games #15-16:
Tekken Tag Tournament HD and
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue [PlayStation 4]
Tekken as a franchise I haven't really bothered with much over the years. I knew it has a following with a bunch of titles since the PlayStation 1 era, and eventually, I decided to try and have a go with the franchise. In CeX I picked up the release of Tekken Hybrid which was very cheap to acquire. Tekken Hybrid is a collection featuring a CG anime film, a HD remaster of a PlayStation 2 launch title, and a prologue/demo of sorts for the second installment in the Tag Tournament spin-off.
For this completion post I have 100% progressed through both Tekken Tag Tournament HD and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue. Like Kingdom Hearts 2.8, TTT2 Prologue contains trophies and as it took a couple of hours I've decided to allow it under the completion ranks.
Tekken Tag Tournament HD is a pretty neat fighting game with a whole bunch of modes available; Arcade, Versus Mode, Team Battle, Survival, Time Attack, and even Tekken Bowling. The combat is self-explanatory but the key aspect of this game is that you have two characters to control during the fight. You focus solely on one fighter, but you have the option to 'tag' which will allow you to switch between the two fighters during battle. This element is crucial if you want to win a fight because the AI will always switch around when their fighter's health is depleted at around 50-60%. The benefit of the tag system is that the fighter that is not in use can regenerate some health while you are busy fighting the main opponent in the battle.
Arcade contains 8 stages with the final stage containing only 1 fighter against your tag team. While you may think it sounds unfair, the final opponent is pretty tough to beat so I would say that it is pretty balanced overall. Survival is a great idea but my main issue with this one is that your health does not regenerate during each round and battle so if you only have around 1 HP in the first fight, you will still have that 1 HP in the next. Team Battle will let you select 2-8 fighters on your team to go against the same number of fighters from the opponent's end, and this one is pretty neat since it's basically a race to see who can defeat the opponent's team before they use up their fighters. Versus mode is locked to local multiplayer and it does its job with a wide selection of fighters you can use. And Time Attack is simply Arcade with a timer.
As for the trophies, Tekken Tag Tournament HD is one of the easiest to complete but it's not that easy as PlayStation Trophies would say (they ranked it as 2/10, I would give it more-so a 4/10). Like Soul Calibur HD, you can tweak the settings to get through each battle without too much issue for no continues and ultra hard difficulty, but the real killer has been Time Attack, Tekken Bowling and specific moves that are quite challenging to do. Time Attack is challenging due to how it can take a while to take down an opponent which is why you need to use specific characters that can K.O. an enemy sooner than later.
Tekken Bowling is done purely by luck as while it can be fun to play at times, it had also been the most frustrating of the lot. You need to reach 200 points (of 300) and that can mostly be achieved by getting at least 5-7 strikes, a couple spares if needed be and no mistakes. As for the specific moves, you ideally need a second controller and I don't have a second controller on PlayStation 3 - thankfully the PlayStation 4 controllers are compatible as long as you connect the USB from the console to the controller. The move that is rather tedious to accomplish is the Chicken and Attack Reversal, it requires quick timing and some controller button adjustments in the setting to get it right unless of course, you have a second person around which that would make it easier.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue is pretty much a demo but it has enough to keep you occupied. The only main mode available is Arcade which you have 4 characters to play as and it can be done with local multiplayer if you want to do that. Arcade features four stages and they basically switch between the characters that you can play as. Interestingly despite changing the difficulty down to Easy, the final stage always seems to be a challenge and it is like the devs forgot to tweak the AI difficulty on that one. There is also a Model Viewer but it's not much.
Overall in terms of going for the 100%, Tekken Tag Tournament HD took just over 7 hours, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue took roughly around 3 hours in total. As you may have guessed it, there was indeed a Platinum trophy for Tekken Tag Tournament HD so I was able to get that as well.