Tekken 7’s tutorial is the story mode, because people don’t play tutorials

Tekken 7 developer Namco saw that nobody actually played tutorials in fighting games, so it decided to include the tutorial into the story mode.

The idea evolved from Tekken Tag Tournament 2’s fight lab mode, according to Harada.

This was a conscious move on the developer’s part during the development of Tekken 7, according to series producer Katsuhiro Harada.