Reserved for future analysis.

only thing i really noticed this time around was that when busa gets hit by hayate's "super" he flies back and "hits" an invisible wall, actually doing a cling to it as if it was a full wall.

Could just be unfinished work, but there's a couple things that could mean as ive been theorizing.

-- That particular chargeup may only "connect" with the second part (him actually being knocked off the ledge) in this trailer. It's entirely possible you can activate the second part without the first.

-- The first part of these moves could very well work WITHOUT environmental assistance, but the second part will only happen when the person hits an environmental trigger. This would mean its not an automatic comeback ultra, and you still have to use positioning to make it work.


Edit: another small find, the trash can rattles a bit when hayate smacks into it. So that little mini-wall-bounce is working at intended then, i suppose.

The red beam is where he stopped, but that was like only knee-high at best. They picked a strange spot for a wall splat, hence im thinking it just wasn't finished.

The yellow beam appears behind him, but if you roll back the camera a few seconds its actually going in the opposite direction of Busa from the all the momentum. That particular angle just gives you the illusion his back is hitting it.


Still, the fact that he wall splats at all. . . kind of a strange transition, no?

Just think... this fight could have been Hitomi and Leifang over some lettuce. Think of all those poor people down there that would have just gotten killed for that. lol...

Well the Ninja certainly aren't trying to stay in the shadows right now.

On a side note,

All the Kanji is throwing me off but from what I can gather it's basically saying that the fighting system isn't ironed out yet, that it too is in pre-alpha and the system can change. They'll show us changes to the system once they take form.

Perhaps they got our questions/feedback? :D

Already we noticed a defensive hold doing two different animations.

I mean now that i think about it, damn.

That's dark as hell. Hayate and Hayabusa were just probably havin one of those friendly sparring sessions, and they gone and killed a bunch of civies. That's pretty messed up.


I like it.

Team NINJA is having a field day on their twitter today:

I'm not sure if they're talking about the "special attacks" or the hit level bubbles, but apparently saying there is 3 levels to the attacks depending on severity. I think it's the "Special attacks" are like the Special Arts from Ninja Gaiden where depending on how much you've charged depends on the attack.

I actually can't tell what the hell they're saying as I need one of my Japanese friends (who aren't online) to translate it. From what I can tell, it's talking about dangerzones and the car at the end that hit Hayate. I *think* they're saying that it's part of the movie/script and not a random dangerzone.

Again, my Japanese isn't perfect but I *think* it's saying that Hayabusa could reverse the "danger cliff" at the end of the first round. If you watch carefully it shows Busa climbing back up but Hayate does a running .

It would.

We brought that up in the previous thread but thanks for carrying it over.

As for the stage fall, from the looks of it to me, Hayate's charge "Super Art" is his from DOA4. I presume that as Hayabusa was climbing up, he dashed in, did with no charge, thus repeating the animation at the end of the cut trailer lending the idea from Twitter to these moves having charge times differ the attack a bit.

It could be that at HCH it does the Izuna, and at CH and NH it does the judo flip.
It could also mean that they did in fact make the Izuna an advanced hold. I remember pointing out to Peter Garza and Shimbori casually that I joked in DOA2U how Itagaki would make Ryu do an Izuna from an attack so he had an Izuna from Throw, Multiple Holds, and an Attack. All of which did Ceiling damage and set-ups too. Maybe they realized it was too much?

I've asked Team NINJA via twitter for clarification on it but it's like 6 AM there so we'll just have to see if they respond on Monday.

And like that, the English translations to the above were posted on the twitter:

Guess I wasn't too far off, heh.