Rantings on Tekken

Check out this baby. Recently I've been getting all excited about matters concerning Tekken as I've finally started playing the scenario mode with Lars and Alisa on Tekken 6. It all looks so amazing. Not only is Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (or TTT2 as I will probably refer to it in the future) coming out, but the brand new movie, Blood Vengeance, is going to be screened all over the UK on the 26th November. Unfortunately for me, that is the date of my birthday party, and plus it is unlikely for me to get my parents to take me to London for one film. Oh, the sorrows.
So yes, I think the main reason to why I'm so excited about Blood Vengeance is because my two favourite female characters are going to be starring in it, those two being Ling Xiaoyu and Alisa Bosconovitch. And thankfully, they have lead roles. Check out the second clip from Tekken Blood Vengeance! And LOL at Ganryu... Really...
I really want to see that movie...
Onto more serious matters, it appears that Leo's gender has finally been decided. Before it was unknown because apparently the creators wanted Leo to be a character loved by both male and female players. I have to say, I am disappointed with their choice to have Leo as Eleonore Kliesen, because I thought she was a wonderful boy. Oh, I feel so sad and depressed! I only started playing as her yesterday when I thought I had never played as Leo before, and yet - despite the female voice - I just presumed she was a boy who was yet to reach adolescence. I do agree with some people's opinions on the subject though: it's good to have a tomboy character in Tekken.
Anyway, I still have Lars to admire, so onwards with this blog, and back to Blood Vengeance. I have seen many bad reviews for the movie, such as this one. I can understand what many people are saying about the dubbing; I do agree that they should have kept with the original Japanese speech and applied English subs rather than sacrifice the authenticity and had bad lip-syncing. If this is only aimed at Tekken fans as most of what I have seen hints at, then surely the fans would come regardless of what language it is in.
I can't wait until I can buy it on DVD.
And onto TTT2 again, I am so happy that Jun has returned to the Tekken series. Although I never really got on with the character very well, I didn't like how they neglected to add her to most of the Tekken games. I had always believed that she was Jin's sister, and was really surprised to discover at some point that she is Jin's mother. Wow. Relationships in Tekken are so dysfunctional.

Ling Xiaoyu & Alisa Bosconovitch
Original pictures courtesy of Tekkenpedia

Like there's this debate on whether Lars loves Alisa because of what Jin said after Alisa tried to protect Jin. I would like to think that Lars really did love Alisa, because I'm romantic like that, and don't like the idea of him  almost holding her hand because she was just his fighting partner. I find that just a tad annoying. And then of course there's my opinion of Xiaoyu and Jin, who I think should get together. At the end of Tekken 6 she announces she'll always stand by his side, but really is having a dream and is asleep with Panda! And that makes me angry, because when I first saw Xiaoyu and Jin in the same school uniform in TTT, it made me wish that they ended up together in the franchise...
Aww...
Yes, so very dysfunctional.

Leilah