Xhominid The Demon Within
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I would rather see Rachel come back being more bad ass than before. Itagaki never thought Kasumi had a place in the franchise and I agree; especially after seeing her in Razor Edge. Something about it wasn't right and her "innocence" gets in the way of my head-chopping experience.
Hayashi typically doesn't see like Itagaki does because he views the girls as sex toys as made evident by his disgusting mouse pad pictures. Say what you want about Itagaki viewing the girls as his daughters, but it's far more believable than the idea of Ninja Gaiden 4 being a good game under Hayashi's lead. Because of some of his cons as a designer I don't think he could ever knock a Ninja Gaiden out of the park. At least not without using Itagaki's blue-prints to success.
The angle for Hayate is slightly different, but at the end of day I think he would get in Hayabusa's way more than not. Like Kasumi to me he is weak and doesn't have a place in a Ninja Gaiden game, but more than likely it will happen.
If another DOA crossover were to happen I would prefer Bankotsubo as a fun boss that I think could spice up the game a little. It would be humorous if he were to talk shit in combat, or change the seasons during the fight. Tengu show up in NG as bosses so I like to think the possibility is there.
I'm not here to shit in your cornflakes, but I honestly got to agree with Brute in I have no clue on what you are talking about at all. Yes, Kasumi has plenty of innocence in DOA and Itagaki didn't want her NG because of that innocence...but I got to be frank, I don't buy it worth a damn when she went straight out and murdered Raidou. Kasumi can go dark when she chooses to, she wouldn't have become a ninja if she had no killing intent to begin with. Kasumi is still one of my favorite characters in DOA but it says something that I think Itagaki was somehow saving face and really didn't even know her more than others.
And Hayashi sees the girls as sex objects compared to fucking Itagaki?! The guy who made the Xtreme Beach Volleyball series as an outlet to all the fanservice in DOA as he admits? The guy who still did it despite calling the females "his daughters"? Compared to Hayashi in which his main female star in Ninja Gaiden isn't as buxom as Rachel or Sonia and doesn't wear latex outfits and even Sonia had a change in costume for Dimensions and NG3:RE when she re-appeared? Oh yeah, because it must be over some fucking mousepads... over a fucking series which plenty of people here even stated tarnished DOA's name even harder than some damn mousepads considering other fighting game companies do the exact same shit.
I don't know what's more fucked up: The fact that you are saying that Hayashi cannot do NG4 well at all despite NG3 while being a failed attempt at trying to make a story driven game from an action series more catered to difficult but fair gameplay and RE was an attempt to salvage the game on some level(succeeded in some ways, failed in others), it's still better than how NG2 ultimately ended up on some levels a clusterfuck after how NG:B was released. And you even blame him for Yaiba despite that not being the case.
I'm not saying you don't have your reasons...but dude, I believe your reasons are quite frankly pretty shit all things considered. I may like Rachel but compared to Mizuki, Rachel has nothing to her except for Alma and a crush for Ryu...that's it. Atleast Mizuki matters on the same level as Sonia did which is funny considering how you've been trying to drag up Rachel otherwise...and isn't NG3 and NGS2 the ones where Momiji finally becomes a badass all on her own? Huh, imagine that.