>>723373664
Ultimately, the reason things in Y1 went so south was because no one really understood Nishiki. They had too much faith in him, but he was ultimately unable to live up to their expectations. Even if you ignore Y0 and K1, this is the ultimate reason why he fell. Neither Kazama nor Kiryu truly understood Nishiki. No one really knew him, his insecurities or his pain. None of them recognized his deep-seated inferiority complex. Kiryu genuinely believed that if he took the fall for Nishiki, Nishiki could deal with things on his own. He was wrong.

Everyone failed him, and he failed them. You can remove his sister from the equation, you can remove all of Y0, but this is the ultimate truth of Y1. No one really knew what Nishiki was truly like. Everyone believed he was stronger than he actually was.