Played the beta yesterday.... The game is so fun!! I liked how the combat system plays, although ngl I was a bit disappointed that since Terra and Onion Knight were specialists and vanguards i couldn't do much and I didn't feel as involved as I wanted to since their attacks aren't exactly fast. The game looks amazing, the visuals and dirt effect are very well done and the main menu and character select BGM are epic and euphoric. The stage ost wasn't exactly memorable but I did like the one track on the industrial factory stage
In terms of voices I love the English dub, Terra and Onion have awesome voices although tbh I did cringe when I heard Onion speak for the first time...im so used to Eliots voice in DOA as a foundation for how young guys sound and I also sometimes forget that Onion is pretty young XD .....I take back everything I said about Terra being a mess, I LOVE everything about her now! Her face model also vaguely reminds me of Momiji. Onion I obviously already like for both his looks and style and gameplay and voice and I like shantotto but I'm not really happy with her new voice....i prefer her older voice, this one sounds way too young imo while her older one was more fitting but I'll get used to it. VaanI liked too and I tried Tidus but besides their looks their styles didn't impress me. Everyone else I won't use probably until sunday since they didn't interest me
The game is good but still needs improvement, maybe they could add more elements for more involvement, and the character select needs work, in the final game they should have the characters stand in normal non fighting stances instead of their default stances when their models load in the select screen. Also if they're gonna go the doa5 route and have the characters do a character select action when picked using their winpose or intro they should at least disable their mouth lip sync since that makes it look glaringly like a half baked demo like how DOA5 was when it was just hitomi, ayane, ryu and hayate, even back then I hated when the player selected ayane and hitomi and their mouths moved but no words came out.
Practice mode also needs an overhaul, training shouldn't function like a versus match and be timed, it should be an option to do either solo training or have two other team members and the stage should be able to be changed, and there should be no time limit. There should also be a music menu so you can select what plays where and finally there should be a model or winpose viewer of some sort.
Besides those the game is really coming together, it looks really good and the artsyle is way better than DOA, I hope they take notes and use the graphic style as a foundation for DOA6 since it's way better than both DOA5LR and Nioh style imo
I also took a few random pics for thumbnails so I'll share those here whenever I remember to. I hope they eventually make a one on one mode since the two other characters ruin the balance of the pics I've took