{"id":14166,"date":"2021-03-25T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/lidia-sobieska-tekken-7-best-new-character-forever"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T07:26:38","slug":"lidia-sobieska-tekken-7-best-new-character-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/tekken\/lidia-sobieska-tekken-7-best-new-character-forever","title":{"rendered":"Lidia Sobieska is Tekken 7\u2019s best new character in forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years later, Tekken 7’s character select screen resembles a DLC brainstorm from a hungover pitch meeting. Unlike Mortal Kombat<\/a> which (mostly) sticks to a theme for their bizarre crossovers, Tekken 7 has pulled from every direction — ranging from logical candidates like SNK’s Geese Howard or Street Fighter’s Akuma, to perplexing additions from Final Fantasy XV and er, The Walking Dead?<\/p>\n

Admittedly, Tekken’s roster has always rolled in the absurd. It’s a fighting game where men are inflated like ripped balloons, given sky-high hair, and placed on equal footing to bodyguard Pandas in winter caps. There’s no logic to this universe, no matter how hard Bandai Namco tries to stitch it together in their cinematic story modes.<\/p>\n

The arrival of new fighter Lidia Sobieska, then, is weirdly basic for Tekken. She might be the Prime Minister for Poland and simultaneously a karate master in lore, but she’s a rare Tekken character who actually looks modelled after a human being. Even her default style is casual and not overtly sexualised, dressed in a sports top and baggy gi karate uniform wrapped around her waist. In contrast to prior DLC characters like Fahkumram<\/a>, a muscled adonis structured like an upside down wedding cake, it’s a welcome dose of reality.<\/p>\n