Looking for the perfect Tekken 7 controller.

This article is a quest for the most effective D-pad, focusing on the electrics Mishima move set (EWGF, EWHF).

After a lot — after about twenty years in a volcano — I returned to the fighting games and in particular to Tekken 7.
Like many in its thirties, I discovered the series with Tekken 3 for Playstation (PSX), although I have vague memories of a coin-up from a game where there was a Chinese who did pirouettes, a white Angel and a purple Devil…

In practice you get used to playing with the Playstation joypad (D-pad) and — although today it seems not enough cool, with the rise of sticks— in 2019 you still want to use a joypad, without having to give up the Mishima’s electric moves (EWGF, EWHF…).

This article is the search for a joypad with normal layout (SNES, PS): with tests on the field. I decided to write instead to do the typical youtube video.

The electric Mishima moves

A necessary premise: what are these electric moves most people are talking about in numerous videos and post online?
They are the “perfect” or “deluxe” version of Kazuya Mishima’s uppercuts, Jin Kazama and even Heihachi Mishima. Typically this is an input forward, down /…