Tekken 7 To Remove Tutorials

Fighting games have always had the highest climb I've found for knowing how to play, to becoming good at the game. While fighting games typically include in-game tutorials or instructional videos in hopes of educating the player, one game did something new: removed the tutorial it already had.

Tekken Producer Katsuhiro Harada has remarked that while tutorials are highly requested, they are seldom used. Which is why Tekken 7 will be opting out of a tutorial in favor of having the player learn the gameplay via story mode.

“story mode was envisioned on teaching the player with baby steps whilst playing the game.”
Katsuhiro Harada

While fairly common in other games, this idea is rather fresh in the fighting genre. While this will undoubtedly cause improvement through gameplay for a greater number of players, will the desire to teach conflict with the intention to storytelling? What about the players who care not for the story, but simply want to enhance their technical skill?

While I would like to say that this will be an interesting development to observe, in truth, this change will be very quickly accepted and forgotten. Harada is right after all - most people don't play the tutorial.