Skilled Tekken 8 participant SuperBrine goes viral after reaching God of Destruction utilizing Alisa whereas fully blindfolded with a sleep masks.
SuperBrine has been streaming his run on Twitch in the type of seven separate broadcasts, beginning in (*8*). The ultimate stream from this collection, broadcast in early October, has change into a sizzling subject inside the preventing recreation group, as he was capable of attain one of the recreation’s prime ranks from Beginner whereas obscuring his imaginative and prescient with a sleep masks.
It’s a formidable feat irrespective of the way you swing it, standing as a testomony to SuperBrine’s ability as a participant and Tekken 8’s laudable sound design — however, maybe unsurprisingly, his blindfolded run from Beginner to God of Destruction has sparked no finish of debate about the recreation’s problem and Alisa’s ease of use as a personality.
HERE WE ARE…
First individual ever to get From BEGINNER to GoD rank 100% Blindfolded on LIVE stream
This took me alot of time and effort, however hell yea value it.
my entire run from the starting to the finish is SAVED in my twitch highlights.
a brand new youtube video incoming
#TEKKEN8 https://t.co/JhEpwWijjw
— SuperBrine (@SuperBrineTK) October 4, 2026
I received the likelihood to take a seat down with SuperBrine to debate his self-imposed problem and discover out if it was legit or not. He confirmed that there was no means he was capable of see by way of the sleep masks (that are sometimes made out of thick materials with dense cushions on the eyes), and reiterated that he’d streamed his complete run dwell on Twitch for all to see, so there was no means for him to cheat.
As for the ‘why’ of all of it, SuperBrine stated he wished to show that he might do one thing unattainable, and is hopeful the problem will assist increase his visibility as a professional participant. He additionally admitted that this enterprise was not, in any means, meant as a criticism of Tekken 8 as a recreation, regardless of the discourse surrounding his efforts on social media.
“My major aim was merely to tackle a problem that most individuals will think about unattainable and show that I can do it,” he stated. “I need to make clear that I did not do that to criticize the recreation or recommend that it is poorly designed in any means. It is really the precise reverse. I genuinely love this recreation, and I thrive on pushing my very own private limits by way of these varieties of excessive challenges. I’m deeply captivated with it, and since my long-term plan is to pursue competing as my skilled profession, these varieties of challenges will immediately assist my profession.”
Outdoors of being unable to see, SuperBrine revealed that the hardest half of this problem was that his eyes started to burn from being closed so lengthy beneath the sleep masks. This, on prime of being mentally drained from placing a lot effort into the activity, compelled him to take frequent breaks.
“The bodily toll was really shocking. …Mentally, it required excessive persistence, with out it, finishing this run merely would not be attainable,” he stated.
Even a prime participant would have problem on ranked if blindfolded, so how did SuperBrine handle to drag it off? He advised me that he relied on his foundational expertise as a preventing recreation participant and a eager sense of how individuals play on totally different ranks, in addition to Tekken 8’s useful sound cues.
“It comes down to an enormous quantity of foundational expertise. Enjoying on a number of smurf accounts over time gave me an actual learn on the recreation data gamers have at totally different ranks. As a result of of that, I knew exactly which strings and flowcharts would work and which would not. Past that, exact listening to is essential. You’d be capable to immediately differentiate particular sounds understanding whether or not a transfer resulted in a wall splat or not, if it was a success or a block, and in the event you landed a counter hit versus a standard hit. Finally, it’s all about taking note of the audio and understanding precisely the kind of participant you’re dealing with,” he defined.
For many who imagine that Tekken 8 is very easy that anybody can choose up a blindfold and a controller and get to God of Destruction, SuperBrine invitations you to attempt it; but it surely’s not that easy, as a result of if it was, anybody would be capable to do it.
“Individuals are free to have their very own opinions on it. There’ll at all times be constructive and detrimental ones, and I respect that. However turning this right into a criticism of Tekken 8 is not going to assist the future of the recreation. You’ll be able to’t attain God of Destruction blindfolded simply by choosing a particular character and hoping for the finest. It takes hundreds of hours of recreation data, understanding what variety of gamers you’ll face and what stage of recreation data they’ve, and relying completely on audio cues. If it was only a flaw in the recreation or a simple character, another person would have carried out it already,” he stated.
SuperBrine selected to present himself this problem; there are lots of different preventing recreation gamers who’ve reached prime ranks and even change into execs in spite of having precise disabilities. For example, the late great BrolyLegs was a prime Avenue Fighter participant who might duke it out with the finest of them utilizing solely his mouth to maneuver his controller. And BlindWarriorSven, a blind Avenue Fighter 6 participant who misplaced his eyesight at six years outdated on account of most cancers, won a livestreamed set at Evo 2-1 with E. Honda thanks the recreation’s spectacular accessibility options that allowed him to ‘hear’ the place his opponent was at on-screen.
Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s Information Editor. With ten years of expertise reporting on video games and leisure, she’s received a storied background in the preventing recreation group, influencer information, and viral on-line traits. Discover her on Twitter at @TheeMissGlaze.