No offense to people that like Zack, but he's always been a clown.
He still is an assassin, Helena's paying him... he's a hired gun, still is. Though now I think he's got more of a vendetta against Donovan, and maybe clonesumi. He now has Helena's help though, or you could look at it the other way around I guess. She now has his help.
Again I state, she's always been. She's just not chasing down Ein anymore... Which was pretty much the core of her presence in 3 & 4.
I'm about 90% sure she's always been that stalker with a crush. It's just, she was never a focal point for DOA and DOA5 is literally the first time she's been on screen for more than 10 seconds.
I can't really say anything about the other 2, cause you have a valid point there.
1). No he was just kinda goofy in a standard "eccentric celebrity way". He didn't go full retard until 5
2). I still think its kind of a huge step down going from high paid assassin go standard battlefield soldier to Helena's grunt. bayman must have fallen on hard times
3). Where in 3 was hitomi an airhead? Back them she was a strong independent young woman. Far cry from 5 hitomi.
4). There was literally nothing to say she had a crush on jann Lee before. It was always "I'm offended you thought I had to be saved so I will defeat you to prove I didn't". They just went "one is boy one is girl therefore attraction" in 5 for literally no reason.
I said they haven't changed from 4 (or Dimensions) to 5. I said it's dumb to complain
now when most changes, if they even exist, happened before this point.
- Zack has always been a clown and comic relief. You claiming that he wasn't before will not change that. 4 had him getting blown off the side of buildings. This game just has him actually doing things besides wanting money to go to Vegas. None of his personality traits have changed...like, at all. Don't be mad just because he doesn't win matches that often in this game.
- Bayman's personality hasn't changed even if his profession has. What makes him not a badass anymore? Do you think he still can't snipe people if he wanted to? We don't exactly know what his "mission" is. It probably was still hunting for traces of Donovan.
- As I said, Hitomi became like that in DOA4.
- Leifang already canonically proved herself. She now needed something else. Unless we're just going to repeat the past 4 games. Might as well be romantic feelings.
- Jann Lee's probably just upset at how badly he got trounced in this particular instance (or something). His personality can hardly be said to have changed, though.
- Lisa is as usual? I thought you were arguing that people have changed...?
- What are you talking about? Brad is clearly stumbling drunk in all of his encounters in 4. He even hits on Kokoro. And he gropes Ayane right in front of Hayate in Dimensions. This is pretty much who they wanted him to be for a while.
1). Zack wasn't a clown before. He was eccentric at worst. For example, compare his intro and win poses. Per 5, badass glares at the camera, warmups, and standing tall and proud. In 5, goofy sentai poses, falling over, crazy waving, "your hearts gonna be all mine baby" and Zack beam.
The issue is that before, he was just put in funny situations, but he himself was still badass. Now, he himself is a total clown.
2). I still want to know how a known hitman got into the military on such short notice. And why his competence suddenly plummeted. And why he went from menacing to cocky.
3). No, hitomi had some vaguely funny scenes in 4 which could simply be chalked up to 4 being generally more light hearted than 3. I do however base her ending. But it was 5 which flanderized her into the airhead she is now.
4). "Might as well be romantic feelings". What? No! Not when it goes against literally Everything! They shoulda just reversed it. Where now Jann Lee had his pride wounded by lej fang, or god forbid some character development and have jann realize that him wanting to be strong doesn't mean others have to be weak.
5). Skipping jann, Lisa s usual IS that she always changes. From accountant or something like that to luchadore to scientist to double agent to good to evil to good, etc.
5) no, you can do drunken fist without being drunk, and still have drunken habits when sober. But he obviously wasn't actually a drunk anymore in 4. And sorry but I just ignore dimensions for the most part due to all the horseshit it brings to the table.
