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Tekken Pachinko

The pachinko machine footage — seventy-two seconds of the Tekken franchise in its most unexpected format, the fighting game translated into the Japanese pachinko aesthetic. Bloodlines meaning nothing is the ironic Tekken statement given the franchise's central obsession with the Mishima bloodline, the Devil Gene, the generational curse. The pachinko ball cares nothing for any of it.