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Story Mode is one of the main modes in the Tekken games and relates the narrative of the games. It usually consists of 7-9 battles (depending on the game) and has at least 2 story driven levels (Tekken 4 and Tekken 5). The mode was first seen in Tekken 4, where the arcade mode was relegated to gameplay and the story mode introduced prologues and epilogues for each character. It also contains one sub-boss (unique to each character, aside from Tekken 5, where Devil Jin is the sub-boss for most characters) and the final boss (each game has its own final boss). Each time Story Mode is completed with a different character, it unlocks a new character to be used.

It is not to be confused with Arcade Mode.

Tekken 6[]

In the console versions of Tekken 6, Scenario Campaign and its sub-mode, Arena Mode, is the Story Mode. Scenario Campaign differs from previous Story Modes, resembling instead older Tekken Force sub-games and Devil Within mode. It has a beat-em up style gameplay, with stages that are run through and a unique boss at the end of each level. The story is told through lines of text at the start of each stage, a dialogue before each boss fight, and cutscenes.

The PlayStation Portable version of Tekken 6 instead has the usual story mode found in older games, though roughly still follows the story told in console Scenario Campaign. Tekken 6 Arena Mode consists of 4 stages akin to PSP's Story Mode.

Main Story[]

Also See: Full Scenario Campaign Transcript

Scenario Campaign in Tekken 6 follows Lars Alexandersson and Alisa Bosconovitch. Lars is initially searching to regain his memories after suffering from amnesia in the wake of an explosion. During the course of the story, he discovers he is the captain of a rebel army, having defected from the Mishima Zaibatsu. His new task becomes to gather intelligence on the war, and to hunt down and stop the heads of the two factions perpetuating the war, Kazuya Mishima and his G Corporation, and the game's main antagonist, Jin Kazama, and his Mishima Zaibatsu. The story culminates in a desert in the Middle East, where Lars confronts an ancient sealed demon that Jin has helped awaken, believing that by destroying it he will eliminate the curse of the devil from the world.

Tekken 7[]

In Tekken 7, Story Mode is altered from prior Story Modes, being broken into two parts. The first is the main story, called the Mishima Saga, and the second is a series of character episodes.

Unlike the prior games, the Mishima Saga is played like a storybook, featuring chapters, cutscenes, and single fights for each chapter. The mode has 14 chapters, including a prologue and epilogue.

Main Story[]

Tekken 7's Story Mode is told by an unnamed journalist who lost his wife and child because of the war raging between the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation. The deaths of his family prompt him to investigate the past of the Mishimas. The Journalist's investigation leads him to join Lee Chaolan and Lars Alexandersson's rebel faction, and he uses their resources to uncover more about the Mishima Family's past. The Journalist ends up managing to secure an interview with Heihachi Mishima, who tells his version of past events, revealing for the first time to the public that his wife possessed the Devil Gene, and that he killed her after she attacked him. The story concludes with a fight to the death between Heihachi and his son, Kazuya Mishima, who still seeks vengeance for his mother's death and all he has suffered under Heihachi. Heihachi is killed, leaving Kazuya free to pursue his ambitions for power. The war appears to still be continuing, and in a final scene of the story, Jin Kazama awakens from a coma and agrees with Lars that it's his task to stop Kazuya and put an end to the war Jin himself started.

Character Episodes[]

The character episodes have little relevance to the main story but provide a single battle and cutscene for characters not directly involved in the Mishima Saga. They explain what the characters have been up to and how their grievances relate to the Mishimas or the wider Tekken universe. Some character episodes are likely to be canonical, though will remain unconfirmed until a future game is released. For example, however, Hwoarang's character episode appears to slot into the events of Tekken 7 Story Mode, and explains how he lost his eye and why he wears an eyepatch in his main Tekken 7 outfit.

Tekken 8[]

Like the previous game, the Story Mode is broken into two parts: the main story and a series of character episodes.

Main Story[]

Continuing where Tekken 7 left off, Yggdrasil have located Kazuya Mishima in Manhattan, with Jin Kazama on his way to fight his father. However, Jin is easily overwhelmed by Kazuya, who then announces the King of Iron Fist Tournament, where the losing opponent will perish along with a country they hail from. Though unable to unleash his Devil form again throughout training, Jin participates in the preliminaries of the tournament, where he defeats Hwoarang and a new fighter named Reina, who somehow learned the Mishima Style Fighting Karate. Later, the tournament is held at a coliseum in Italy. Yggdrasil close in on the coliseum, anticipating a trap. Kazuya was expecting this, however, and turns into his Devil form to attack Zafina and remove the seal containing Azazel in her arm. Azazel manifests, and Kazuya defeats it soon after, absorbing that power to evolve into his "True Devil" form. As Jin is escorted to Yakushima via Lili's airplane, the rest of the fighters manage to hold Kazuya off, with Claudio Serafino sacrificing himself to attack Kazuya with his full power. After arriving at Yakushima, Jin hears a familiar lullaby and falls unconscious in front of a shrine. An army of Jack-7s invade, and Ling Xiaoyu fights them off to protect Jin. G Corporation move in on Jin's location, but Yggdrasil hold them off. Suddenly, Kazuya arrives at Yakushima, devastating the battlefield and fatally wounding Reina. She survives and now has a red eye. Kazuya arrives before the shrine and Lars Alexandersson tries to hold him off. Meanwhile, Jin finds himself inside his subconscious and encounters his own Devil self. After some reflection, Devil Jin breaks Jin free from the chains that prevented him from unleashing his Devil Gene power. Jin saves Lars and Xiaoyu, and then flies off to fight Kazuya with his new power. Kazuya unleashes a devastating attack on Yakushima, but after a spiritual encounter with his mother, Jin transforms into Angel Jin and is able to withold against the attack. In the fallout from the attack, Jin and Kazuya are thrown into space, where their evenly matched power results in the purification of the Devil Gene from both. Even with the Devil Gene gone, Jin and Kazuya continue to fight on another. During the final battle, by switching from his Mishima Style Fighting Karate to his Kazama Style Traditional Martial Arts and with the thought of his friends, Jin finally defeats Kazuya, leaving Kazuya's unconscious body behind. After thanking his mother for support, Jin is shown to be in America with Xiaoyu. Suddenly, Kazuya's unconscious body was approached by what seems to be Jun Kazama. In the epilogue, it turns out that Reina now has a Devil form of her own and intends to continue on the legacy of her father, Heihachi Mishima.

Character Episodes[]

Like the previous game, the character episodes have little relevance to the main story, with most of the character episodes taking place in the Arena stage where the champion of the King of Iron Fist Tournament will become the new CEO of the Mishima Zaibatsu while that position was vacant after Heihachi's death. All character episodes are non-canonical, though some shed light on canonical events.

Unforgotten Echoes[]

Two months before Operation Lightning, Eddy Gordo sparred with Lars in order to prove that he can become an ally to the Yggdrasil. Soon after, Eddy met Jin once again, who felt guilty when Eddy's master died, which forced Eddy to resign from the Tekken Force. After the fight, Eddy and Jin came in good terms once more and that they should work together as friends. Later that night, Eddy arrives at the Mishima Zaibatsu base in South America, where the remnants are being ambushed by G Corporation. Then, he is encountered by his former partner, Nina Williams, who works for G Corporation for the money. And then, Nina retreats with the G Corporation, but not before sending the Jack-7s with explosives to kill the remaining Tekken Force. However, Eddy managed to save his former soldiers in time, and swore to protect them at all cost. Three days before the Asian B Block Preliminaries, Lidia Sobieska arrived at the beach to spar with Reina, after learning that Reina is the daughter of Heihachi. Lidia was then interrupted by the Tekken Monks, who tested her skills in a fight. The following night, Lidia, Eddy, and Yoshimitsu have arrived at Genmaji Temple, where Lidia is being tested to fight a shadow version of Devil Kazuya. After passing the test, Lidia met Heihachi, a man whom everyone thought he was dead. It was revealed that Heihachi was saved by the Tekken High Priest Seiryu before splashing on a lava six months ago, and since then, Heihachi has amnesia and does not remember a thing. One day before the Star Crusher Trial, Heihachi is tasked by the monks, where he must conquer the darkness inside him: A shadow version of his former self. After succeeding in doing so, Heihachi must do one final training, in a sparring match with Lidia. Soon after that, Heihachi is ready for the Star Crusher Trial, and, during the final battle between Jin and Kazuya in space, a giant meteor is falling to where he is at, and after destroying the meteor, not only did Heihachi regained his memories, but he attacked the temple and utterly destroyed all the monks. Heihachi then fought Yoshimitsu, Eddy, and Lidia, and then he effortlessly defeated them all. With no one else standing in his way, Heihachi is more than ready to find Kazuya and put him in his place.

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