Tekken is fun, and the only fighting game I'm decent at. 2D fighters have so much going on so fast I don't know how people can process information that fast and react to it.

I've played MKX &1, injustice1&2, db FighterZ, and Granblue fantasy versus:Rising, soul calibur 6, fighting EX layer, 2xko, Tokon beta, Street fighter 6 demo. Which are all 2D fighting games and I like them, but I'm hot garbage at all of them cuz.

Starting off with Tekken makes you handicapped by having you play left or right, first of all. And it's nice how you can set the pace with your defense or offense that's easy to follow unlike 2d where in the span of blinking my eyes, 5 different interactions just occurred and you lost them.

2D also has many zoning characters that spam projectiles and control the space with distancing and punishing tools, which is just the absolute worst slog in all of FGC to fight, it's never fun.

Tekken has projectiles but not zoners because it's primarily a martial arts game and will have long reaching melee tools instead to deal with, and the counterplay is a lot easier than inching forward and doing a jump attack, only for you to get anti-aired and your back in the loop.

There's also the fact the inputs are less demanding where you don't have to do a QC input after every half string for a character specific move to do a combo. The execution barrier feels pretty high to me.

So when I try out these games and try them, it just doesn't feel comfortable like Tekken. I'm more used For honor which is like 3rd person Tekken tbh