For the last week or so, I’ve been doing phone interviews with some of America’s top Tekken players for PrimaGames.com. Today, the first one has posted! The questions were all set, so it was pretty much the same chat with each guy, but the answers were pretty interesting. The Tekken community is one of the most vibrant of all fighting-game communities in America. The guys I spoke with are the leaders, the best of the best. Check out my chat with Reepal “Rip” Parbhoo from LevelUpYourGame. Here’s an excerpt:
I’m a turtle. That means I play more defensively. I like to let my opponents make mistakes and capitalize on them. Lately I’ve been trying to add more offense to my game, because it’s hard to be correct on your defense 100 percent of the time. Generally, I play the game defense first.
I started playing this way because of the players brought up around me. I got to play with a lot of legends in the Southern California Tekken scene. The character that I was using, Marshall Law, had a lot of good tools to utilize as a turtle. That’s what my gameplay style developed around.
