I cant name a feel like it, I want to know games that seem to have outmatched and embraced their legacy of being the 'black sheep' of the series, ones that are cooler, darker and different.
Nothing has matched that with Tekken 4 for me, despite being unanimously hated by the competitive community for legit reasons, because its really not a balanced game, everything about it was brave and ambitious and so so fresh, the ominous soundtrack (focusing on ambient as opposed to the hardcore EDM of later titles), the radically different look of the characters, the serious tone, the asymmetrical stages (for better or for worse!)
Look at this stage, doesnt look very conventional for a fighting stage does it? Its vertical with all kinds of hazards in the way, but the real kicker is the music
This is when you know this is nothing like any other Tekken game you've played before, and every other stage is just like it, the Jungle, the Airport, the Arena etc.
You'll never get characters looking like this again either:
What other games are that one 'weird' game that still did so much right, the other closest one I can think of is Apollo Justice but that felt mostly mechanically the same to the original Ace Attorney games.
Nothing has matched that with Tekken 4 for me, despite being unanimously hated by the competitive community for legit reasons, because its really not a balanced game, everything about it was brave and ambitious and so so fresh, the ominous soundtrack (focusing on ambient as opposed to the hardcore EDM of later titles), the radically different look of the characters, the serious tone, the asymmetrical stages (for better or for worse!)
Look at this stage, doesnt look very conventional for a fighting stage does it? Its vertical with all kinds of hazards in the way, but the real kicker is the music
This is when you know this is nothing like any other Tekken game you've played before, and every other stage is just like it, the Jungle, the Airport, the Arena etc.
You'll never get characters looking like this again either:
What other games are that one 'weird' game that still did so much right, the other closest one I can think of is Apollo Justice but that felt mostly mechanically the same to the original Ace Attorney games.