Don't insult my intelligence. I've played Tekken. She uses Eddie's move set. I watched the videos. I have a feeling you didn't read the link, or even know what the complaints are about. You don't have to play the game to see it is a cloned move set. I never said I wanted them to change it because of my values, which frankly you don't know dick about. I think the character is a joke. There is literally an almost exact duplicate of that same character, minus the cat theme, in the new DOA5. It's unimaginative, boring, and I think it goes to show why Tekken has decreased in quality over the years.
Actually, I'd argue the downward decline of
Tekken has NOTHING to do with any of that. It's just the way the story started out as a pretty generic "lot's of strong people FIGHTING!" and by the sequel they made it very supernatural and epic. From 2-5 (and even Tag) the series had some relative consistency in its supernatural elements, and it was always showcasing that there were the characters; and then there were THESE characters, the characters no one else could possibly measure up to. Lee would never be able to go toe-to-toe with his step brother Kazuya, but Kazuya's half-brother could, because it was the blood of this particular family. The only characters capable of rivaling them were the likes of the walking dead, like Bryan, or the designed-to-be-ridiculously-badass-on-purpose Paul Phoenix, and of course the supernatural cast, like Devil, Angel, Ogre, and Unknown. By 4 they watered down the supernatural by making it all about genetics (midichlorians, anyone?) and they rebounded in 5 by making it once again something about the Mishima Clan being "cursed". It had its ups and downs, but those 4 titles really were the best of the serries. By 6, the story had grown more and more ridiculous, there was no stopping how absurd things could get anymore. They were just adding more characters (I hated the Dark Resurrection cast they threw in for 5, it was a travesty) because they could, and as Steve Fox proves, they weren't taking much time to BALANCE any of them, really. The series just absorbed more shit by 6, and it wasn't because of scantily clad girls that it found itself in this decline. Frankly I really liked what they did with Asuka and Ling, and both were decidedly covered up in all of their outfits.
But Christie is and isn't an Eddie clone. She USED to be, back in
Tekken 4, her introduction, and in the home console version of the game you could play as Eddie again (in the arcade version, Eddie was absent) by selecting an alternate costume for Christie. But this changed by 5 and 6. In those games, like Siegfried and Nightmare from the
Soul Calibur series, the two became distinct characters. Only in Christie's and Eddie's cases, the differences were FAR less pronounced. Christie's reach was shorter, but she was slightly faster. Eddie was slower but his reach was longer. They DID have some unique moves between the two but, unlike when Team Soul created an ENTIRELY NEW moveset for Nightmare post-SC2, they still played almost identically. So, nitpicking aside, they're effectively alternate skins right now. To be exact, they're not, but the differences are so small, that for all intents and purposes... they are.
