There is a choice of selecting different difficulty setting but considering how I was having trouble at some story battles even in Normal difficulty, I wouldn’t recommended starting with the higher difficulty unless you are an expert at Tekken. The story mode is not that long and shouldn’t take more than 2 hours. It should be a treat for fans as the story mode attempts to tackle some of the story events featured in past Tekken games giving the player a chance to experience them again. The narrative goes through the start of Tekken story with Heihachi throwing the young Kazuya from cliff, to the end of the battle between Kazuya and Heihachi. The story told in this mode is narrated by a journalist who has suffered by the war between the Mishima family members.
The game also features a short story mode called ‘The Mishima Saga’ that is full of cutscenes explaining the backstory and rivalry of Kazuya and Heihachi.
Bandai Namco has also added Akuma to the character roster and this addition is simply not limited to Akuma being playable in the game, they have even integrated him into the story and lore, which ended up being a nice surprise. There are a grand total of 38 charactes along with potentially more to be added in DLC after launch, and these are honestly more than enough for casual and hardcore fans. The character roster at launch is fairly diverse with characters that fit any play style. The reason for the delay was most likely the lack of content since the Arcade version launched with fewer characters than the current release. Tekken 7 was originally released in 2015 on Arcades in Japan and took its sweet time in getting released for consoles. While the latest outing of Street Fighter turned out to be a major disappointment, Bandai Namco appears to have taken note of the issues with Street Fighter V and focused on improving these aspects for Tekken 7 resulting in a game that is content rich at launch. It is one of the most popular fighting game franchise sharing this honor with Street Fighter. Tekken is finally back on consoles after a long hiatus.