Tekken to the catwalk: judging the brand new birthday outfits

Brendan: Fisticuffs recreation Tekken 7 celebrates its first birthday as we speak and is gifting players some free costumes, hairstyles, results and props to make use of within the preventing recreation’s silly-yet-joyful character customiser. As a strong adherent of fashion on the earth of the Iron Fist, I’m duty-bound to examine these new bits and items with the important eye of a trendsetting face-puncher. I’m joined now by vogue guru and kung-fu stylist Jean Claude Tekken, who will accompany me on this round-up of the very best outfits. Hello Jean Claude.

Jean Claude: Good afternoon, Brendan. Let’s Tekken the sights, we could?

Brendan: Ha ha ha. Very good, Jean Claude. Very good.

Brendan: First up we’ve got Kazuya Mishima, crime lord and distinguished anti-christ, displaying a splendid purple jacket, crimson gloves, gorgeous belt, and a 3rd eye in his brow via which the grim lord Satan is eternally watchful.

Jean Claude: So scorching this season.

Brendan: Next up is Mexican orphanage magnate and fan of meat, King, and – oh my! – he’s rocking his birthday go well with. That’s acceptable.

Jean Claude: Yes. It’s a bit recognized incontrovertible fact that King isn’t a person wearing a jaguar masks, however a jaguar dressed as a person wearing a jaguar masks. And a famous philanthropist.

Brendan: Yes, very beneficiant.

Brendan: Now we’ve got unhappy man-bot and infamous arm-haver Jack, cosplaying right here as Reinhardt from Overwatch. What a humourous gentleman.

Jean Claude: Observe the eye to element. That’s a hammer on his again.

Brendan: Ah, right here comes Noctis. Able fisherman and inheritor to the throne of a nation stuffed with demons.

Jean Claude: The silver hooded coat appears to be chanelling Steve, Tekken’s resident boxer. It doesn’t actually do something for me, I’m afraid.

Brendan: No, a bit underwhelming. But right here is Lucky Chloe, dancer and pop idol who usually has her outfit fine-tuned by a committee of Japanese music producers. And right here it’s…

Jean Claude: It’s totally different, Brendan. I’ll say that. Very totally different to her normal fashion.

Brendan: She appears like she belongs in Noctis’ kingdom of RPG characters, ha ha ha.

Jean Claude: That’s very narrow-minded of you, Brendan.

Brendan: It was only a joke, I apologise.

Jean Claude: I settle for your apology however please be extra aware. This is vogue, not a faculty bus.

Brendan: I’m ashamed.

Jean Claude: Let’s transfer on. Here we’ve got stoic Russian militarist Sergei Dragunov, carrying a festive fundoshi and a balaclava, maybe not wishing to be recognized in such a compromising loin material.

Jean Claude: Of course, we all know it’s him from the Sambo stance of a wonderfully educated Spetznaz officer, however for the Russian state, it’s adequate to retain believable deniability.

Brendan: Uh…

Jean Claude: Look, a cat!

Brendan: Ah sure, that is actually a Panda known as Panda disguised as a cat. She is pet, bodyguard and [checks notes] gardener to fellow brawler Ling Xiaoyu. Did you realize the tortoiseshell cat is also called “Calico”, or in some nations as “Tricolor”?

Jean Claude: That’s mildly attention-grabbing, thanks.

Brendan: And thanks, Jean Claude. Because that’s all we’ve got time for from the style stands of the Iron Fist Tournament. There are extra costumes included on this free replace, however I feel we’ve lined a number of the extra elegant items as we speak. I hope you may be a part of me once more a while, maybe subsequent yr?

Jean Claude: Thank you for the chance. Good bye and bear in mind: gown properly, battle properly!