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You can see the struggle of the characters as they go through the King of Iron Fist Tournament, its intensity bearing down on us just as much as them. The grueling battles and training that Jin goes through takes the place of a regular cutscene in a video game. While there is a fair amount of plotting that uses non-fighting scenes to move the show along, especially as it pertains to the relationship between Jin and his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima, the program is able to morph the fighting gameplay from the original media with the storytelling of modern television. Viewers are able to live vicariously through the protagonist of the anime, Jin Kazama, as he treks through a journey of self-discovery after his mother is murdered in the first episode by the antagonist, Ogre. You would think this would be a difficult task to accomplish, but the makers of this Netflix animated series do a fantastic job of animating powerful, distinct brawling sequences that are reminiscent of the source material. It’s not as fun to watch fists fly as it is to make them soar yourself. When putting a famous fighting franchise onto a streaming platform, you have to figure out how you are going to engage the audience that misses button-mashing and figuring out how to defeat the opponent. The creative minds behind Tekken: Bloodline on Netflix understand how much the interactive nature of gaming factors into the love for the medium. The more these shaky adaptations occur, the less confidence studios have to produce them. This is why gaming continues to be a hit-or-miss translation. When you disengage the player from the story, the writers have to ensure their filmmaking is top-notch to reimburse the fans for what they’ve lost in the process. Video games are hard to adapt to movie or television screens because the gameplay is the meat of the experience.

This Tekken: Bloodline review contains no spoilers.