Tekken 7 Producer Removing Lucky Chloe From US Release Following Complaints

One Angry Gamer "If you live in North America you won’t have to worry about having the option of even playing as (or fighting against) the new character in Tekken 7, Lucky Chloe. Why? Because a group of American gamers complained incessantly about her overt Japanese tendencies and felt she didn’t belong in the game; so the producer is taking her out."

[Snookies12]

Wow, I thought she was kind of generic and uninteresting, but to take her out completely? That's really lame if true...

[Abash]

So now we get one less fighter? Sounds like us US Tekken fans are getting screwed

[BG11579]

Because of a few, many get punished.
Even so, it's the faulf of those few, not the Nanco-Bandai. Stop complaining about everything. People should complain about important things, like day one paying dlc and such. Nanco-Bandai is/has been very good to the gamers in that department.

[Why o why]

I remember some ridiculing 'another generic cat girl character' ...........abracadabra......sh es disappeared. It may not be related but some people should be careful with their wishes.

Seems she may be replaced. ........she reminded me of a female edy gordo with shorter quicker steps

[Mr Pumblechook]

Blame the SJWs.

[Kidmyst]

@ ageeed, what will kill gaming is the whiny gamers like this. The whiny self entitled gamers who complain about the dumb stuff like this is getting old fast.

[abstractel]

I actually thought she was cute. Yeah, the cleavage is unnecessarily big but she's like a caricature. Like Paul with his weird ass hair. Or that Robot girl. I'm really boo'ing the decision the remove her for the US release.

After having just finished GTA V, it's even more absurd. All the sick shit that went on in that game, but we can't have a cute/sexy girl because somehow that's demeaning? I don't buy that part of feminism. I agree that all should be equal, but damn if every guy in the game doesn't have the perfectly, exposed pectorals and muscle tone (except Bob) but somehow that doesn't put pressure on young boys while characters that are idealized put pressure on young girls. How does that make sense? Do they believe young boys are less impressionable than young girls?

I liked her, and I liked her moveset even more from what I saw in the gameplay footage.

[q8kik]

Maybe they're replacing her ?

[PS4isKing_82]

Yes I heard Namco is replacing her with a generic bald dude to suit "American" tastes. :(

Really lame Namco.

[kayoss]

its not Namco's fault. If anyone to be blame for this. Its the whiner and complainers. Namco just got sick and tired of these immature gamers who have a sense of entitlement. Next you're going hear "The new bald guy is stereo typing westerners, its disrespectful." Namco going to get tired and just cancel the game for U.S release.

[xer0]

At least Rockstar had balls to ignore protests to GTA V.

Some people are ruining gaming as we have always known it and hindering peoples creativity.

[Rooted_Dust]

They're not caving to pressure, they're withholding content and replacing it with an 'american skinhead' to "appeal" to our tastes.

It would be funnier if they included a cookie cutter blue haired hipster whiner character.

[Zero-One]

"generic and uninteresting"? Says the guy who has Naruto as his avatar.

[Snookies12]

How is Naruto generic? That would mean there are a lot of other series like it. You see cat-girls in Japan all the time. That's why I used the word generic.

Uninteresting is my opinion, just as Naruto being uninteresting to you is yours.

[phoenixwing]

Not to get at you snookies but saying cat girls are worse than NINJAS in terms of generic is very much throwing stones in glass houses. I mean cat girls is something that's probably happened in anime in the past fifty years Ninjas are plastered in japanese media far more and used far more in american media as well.

[Gamer1982]

LOL taking her out to add later as DLC more like.

[kowan]

free DLC. Harada has never asked for money on his DLCs. Ever.

[Kamikaze135]

She looked pretty...dumb. Can't say I'll miss her. Though after that Twitter comment he made about Americans, I don't think I'll be buying that game anyway.

[-Foxtrot]

Well they could of just tweaked the character so she dosen't look like a silly Japanese cat girl with a silly annoying move set

I mean the character model is fine, you don't need to replace her for a white, male muscle skinhead.

Just take the paws and cat ears off her.

[krontaar]

Then she's just a generic girl. At least she is unique, doesnt matter if you like her or not. The people who complained are really need to grow up.

[-Foxtrot]

I'm not saying make hrr a generic girl, just not another Japanese Cat girl.

It's up to them to give her a fitting Tekken style

[Zero-One]

What, you hate her because she's too light-hearted or something? Also, how in the hell is she not of the "Tekken" style. But a fucking panda bear, kangaroo, some practice dummy and the fit the bill? As far as i'm concerned, the Russian android girl with chainsaws for arms and rocket-booster is more zany than this.

[Baka-akaB]

I'll play devil's advocate ... most people arent claiming that tekken is solely realistic and dont feature goofballs or even sexy tease characters ...

But it is sometimes annoying and disheartening to see some of the recent roster addition choices , when many fans keeps hoping for the inclusions of still missing martial arts .

Some get there once everywhile , but look at the most recent tekken 6 to tag 2 then revolution new characters ... supernatural stuff , idol stuff and goofy stuff have taken over a lot lately .

Out of the last 10 added tekken characters , there was but a few , something like 4 that are "serious" or with at least an existing martial art within their fighting styles .

bear , dinos , robots and demons and copie characters , were still more of a minority and fun additions .

And out of the currently 3 new characters , we solely got so far one Savate fighter surrounded by some idol and an exorcist .

Now of course some are going rabbid , and overboard sadly , but i can understand some eyes rolling from a few fans from all culture

[Baka-akaB]

Or she could just stay as intended . Quite frankly i'm betting i'll dislike the character just like , i can't stand Alisa ...

however why should me preferences decide to the point of censorship what's in the game or not when it comes to characters , especially with so many to choose ?

[Tito08]

The way I see that character, she looks along the lines of Alisa, who doesn't have an outfit that could fit the game, but there's a good reason why they made her that way, and it's sad the gaming community is complaining about little things when there are bigger issues in the gaming business that they seem to ignore that potentially affect our wallets, this is why I hate when devs ask for gamer feedback when we don't know if said gamer is a casual, noob, a fake fan or simply a troll, they should focus on making the best game they could, I can't simply complain to the gaming industry without their nitpicky communities, smh.

[jrshankill]

I seriously wonder how you have so many bubbles. This isn't the first ridiculous post you have made.

It is a fighting game with a huge roster. Pick someone else.

[Knightofelemia]

Well now that's a shame there are dumber chracters in other fighting games. Im still getting his new Tekken game.

[ziggurcat]

complaints of.... ??

[HammadTheBeast]

People said it was too Japanese and "generic" and said her fighting style was annoying.

[Kalebninja]

that's incredibly disrespectful to say it was too Japanese. I mean people need to think before they say things.

[AHall88]

@kalebninja

It seems that SJW only care about women, minorities, homos, and lady boys. They don't care about anyone else.

Just kidding, ...maybe.

But it does seem like people have no worries about offending Japanese or other Asians more so than any other group of people.

[ironfist92]

Didnt notice anything wrong with her. But hey, whatever makes Americans happy I guess.

[Lord_Sloth]

I'm an American and this doesn't make me happy. I wanted to play her, thought she was cute.

[Spotie]

Ditto on all counts.

I'm hoping this turns out to be untrue.

[WeAreLegion]

There's a bear in the game and people are going to complain because a character is too weird?

[Inception]

I know right and not just a bear, there's a f*kin kangaroo, panda, robot, little dinosaurs, and even tree like Mokujin as playable character in Tekken series.

[PizzaSteve]

I know right. Bears, kangaroos, and dinosaurs. If you don't like her don't play her. Harada is a legend and he should put whatever he want in his game. Don't listen to the twitter haters.

[telekineticmantis]

WHAT WHHhhhhhhY? ... (Looks at footage...) Oh she was too Black lol. That's too bad, she was the main reason I was interested in the game. Oh well tally another loss on the wall, this and StarWars.

[OUROSMAG]

A tree stump, A kangaroo , and bears yes... a girl wearing cat ears... HEEEEEEEEEELZ TO THE NAPES!

[Inception]

The funny thing is we didn't see people complaining Felicia from Darkstalkers. She's not so different compare to Lucky Chloe with cat ears and tail. Hell, even Felicia design is borderline naked compare to Lucky Chloe who's still wearing clothes.

[voodoochild346]

Maybe that's the problem. Lucky Chloe isn't naked enough...

[Pintheshadows]

Why? This is just getting stupid.

[ironfist92]

Society is getting stupid

[Pintheshadows]

Nah, society has been stupid for a while.

[NovusTerminus]

Congrats, this is what your mindless complaining has gotten you.

[Darkfist]

wonder what happened to that arab character?, and is he going to be Asia and Europe "Exclusive"?

[ironfist92]

Wouldnt be surprised if he's banned in America too due to some racial and xenophobic BS

[TheTwelve]

When two silly sides clash...the rest of us lose out. I can't believe the ignorance on both sides of this thing.

Still, she looks just like a Lili re-skin.

[Inception]

Seriously, some people need to get punch in the nuts because they complaint about little things!

For people who complaint Lucky Chloe, FYI Tekken have bear, panda, robot, tree (mokujin), little dinosaurs (gon), kangaroo, and even a f*kin devil / ogre as playable character. So why people complaint a cat girl like lucky chloe in Tekken 7? Just don't use her and pick another character if you don't like her.

I myself didn't really excited with her design. It's like watching Felicia from Darkstalkers wih 3D graphic. But her move set looks pretty good so i will try her when Tekken 7 release.

[ThisJarContainsTHC]

I didn't even know people were complaining about this shit. I didn't even know it was a thing. Censorship? stupidity? It's not like she's even scantily clad. I don't even...

[tiffac008]

Are those complaints about Lucky Chloe serious? Tekken has àlways had wacky characters. If you don't like her don't play her. The removal was not the best response either. Should have just added the new muscle character instead.

[Inception]

I can bet the people who complaint just feminazis / SJW who never play Tekken :(

Harada himself is a cool & funny guy like Yoshinori Ono. So i hope he's just joking about the removal. But if he really removed Chloe for US audience than he really pissed about that.

[JackVagina]

We should ban revealing cosplay girls too while were at it

/s

[dark-kyon]

tekken 7 neogaf edition,exclusive for NA.

[DevilOgreFish]

The character that they just added is being removed? Why some people want to pay more for less fighters is just beyond me.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

You can thank SJWs for this. Because cultural differences are on there no-no list along with people who actually play games.

[viperman240]

Thanks Neogaf...

[WheatBread]

good riddance

[GokuSolosAll]

This is ridiculous. Keep her.

[ICANPLAYGAMES2]

Thanks, you whiny cry-b!tc#e$ strike again. Why not just jump in front of a bus? You are never satisfied with anything. Why does anyone even feel the need to answer to you, you're clearly not fans. If anything needed to be cut it was these whiny "fans".

[WilliamUsher]

"[They] ain't gonna take your games away" Jim Sterling said...

Apparently they just want to take away the characters in the games.

[ICANPLAYGAMES2]

All we got is, to take the money away. Good thing it's all they care about.

[viperman240]

But they did, as they made Target and K Mart take down GTAV from store shelves in Australia.

[jambola]

Hopefully it stays n the eu version
unlikely though
but i suppose south park did it, so it's always possible

[ion666]

Fake.

[GameBoyColor]

This better be fake, I liked her and her breakdancing ;T

[MisfitsInc]

better be fake!

[TekKing]

Harada has officially topped Kojima when it comes to trolling. Look how many people think he's serious about removing her. Do people not know Harada? He's like Ono's best friend and they're always goofing around and trolling. This is even better trolling than what Ed Boon does.

I mean I thought it was pretty obvious with the whole "muscular skinhead" character he pitched which is basically him saying "Oh, you don't like our stereotypical character? What if we make a stereotypical character exclusive for you in her place?". If he actually listened to people that wanted characters removed then Alisa would've been removed (and probably Lars & Bob for that matter).

Besides, if they really did remove her for some muscular skinhead character then more people would boycott the game with the reason being censorship (because NA can't play as Lucky Chloe and the rest of the world wouldn't be able to play as the muscular skinhead) and with Tekken trying to get a bigger userbase that's not what they want to happen. Not to mention tournaments would be lame as they would have to ban 2 characters (Lucky Chloe and the muscular skinhead). The whole thing would divide the userbase based off of a stupid decision and the game would be dropped within a few months which would effectively kill Tekken entirely.

[ion666]

Dude there already a muscular skinhead. It was Bryan's 2p costume in tekken tag one. And tekken tag 2 he has an option to go bald.

[Why o why]

Interesting. ....see I dont know the creators or backend so any theory is more than what I've got. Seems plausible

[Rachel_Alucard]

It's likely hes trolling. He's been working on tekken for 20 years and I'm 99.9% sure hes gotten tons of hate-mail over many of the revealed characters over the years. I think what Harada-San is saying is that her nationality, is European/Japanese story wise. Looking at her overall appearence she may be a giant parody of Weeaboo. She looks incredibly caucasian and her engrish go hand in hand with that.

[aerisbueller]

Stupid reaction to being called out on your lazy crappy character design. She looks like she should have been an alternate costume for Ling Xiayou. Super generic moveset, super generic japanese girl mannerisms.

Him acting butthurt and threatening to remove the character shouldn't distract from the fact she seems like a lame character. I don't have a problem with japanese schoolgirl mannerisms (Ling is cool), and I certainly don't have a problem with paws or catgirls(Taokaka, Felicia, Cham-Cham, all very cool designs), it's just that this particular character is completely generic.

[Baka-akaB]

She does look lame , but people hella abuse terms like generic , especially when is she is nothing already done in the context of tekken .

Hell people didnt complain about Leo , when it's a copy and paste of Dead or Alive's Elliot for both the look and moveset , with Leo being a woman the main difference .

And the people complaining the most dont even care about that , they would complain all the same about those characters you mentioned and liked , if it happened today in a popular game that isnt in an "anime niche" or from mostly (sadly) gone from mainstream spoltlight franchises .

[Nicominoru]

Sigh...god it sucks to be a gamer in this day and age. A few close minded ignorant fuck-heads can ruin it for everybody. Character being removed because of whiny Western gamers who don't know balls about cultural outside their own and people like Anita Sarkeesian actually being allowed to have anything to do with a product like Mirror's Edge 2.

[Inception]

"people like Anita Sarkeesian actually being allowed to have anything to do with a product like Mirror's Edge 2"

Wait, this is the 1st time i hear about this news. If it's true than i fear Mirror Edge 2 will not as good as i hope :(

Can't believe EA put someone like Anita to do something with Mirror Edge :(

[Nicominoru]

Yeah there's a petition going around to remove her from any involvement with the game, but to be honest it's unlikely it will matter even though it's gotten a good amount of signatures.

[JMyers]

Wow... a minority complains, screwing the majority. Typical.

[M4DE_IN_W4LE5]

You don't want her in the game ? Don't buy the game. Since when have developers overtly caused controversy. Get a life . Btw dont tar us Westerners with the same brush cos Europe and Asia are still getting her apparently. By 'Western' u mean North America

[urwifeminder]

Impressive people still like these games.

[SoCalledMe]

So people here are bashing those who said they dont like this new character , wheres the freedom of speech here , are we not supposed to express our opinion , think if EA , Ubosoft or Activison read Neogaf article bashing them for milking products every year and said , ok we wont release the game in US so dont worry , HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT , instead of sayin "dont like it dont buy it" to gamers say , "if u dont like being criticised dont read NeoGaf" to the developers , some of those people like Tekken but not that character and they are just expressing their opinion , and blame the producer for not getting this char hes the one taking it away form you , are we all supposed to like all of their ideas , how incredibly childish from them to react to criticism like this , shame one them !

[Harold_Finch]

Why don't they just dress her appropriately instead. They should stop dressing all of the characters that was because age isn't fully detailed in games like Tekken.

[Burning_Typhoon]

Characters do have specific ages in Tekken, though.

[Harold_Finch]

Then it depends how old this new character is, if she is under 18 then no wonder.

[young7yang]

Looks like I am importing this one!

[ginganinja]

I get the impression he's probably trolling, but if developers feel obliged to tailor content of a game based on a selection of youtube and neogaf comments then maybe they need to go back to the drawing board and work a more defined vision of what they actually want to produce.
I love that the article tries to pull this back to GG (because comments on a forum equate to 'ethics in journalism').

[asadachi]

What group of "gamers"?

[ThisJarContainsTHC]

okay, so they're replacing her with what?

[Burning_Typhoon]

Personally, I don't see what the problem is. Yeah, a character that almost all of us hates is out of the game... GOOD!

Some are complaining that we get less content. That's fine, considering what the content is. We aren't talking about a character that is likable, like Kotal Kahn. We're talking about someone people don't like. Like Rufus. Or Ganryu.

We don't have Ganryu in the game. Because of the voting for TxSF. He came dead last. Tekken 7 already has less content than Tekken Tag 2. I don't think a character like Lucky Chole is even worth being worried about.

What if, instead, Namco gives us a different character? Sure, now we're one character short, but maybe there will be another to fill the gap.

[Thomaticus]

Make a replacement character for the US only.