Official Dead or Alive Xtreme Thread

Hey, I was hoping for a cut girl, at least Mila if not Rachel. But I'll settle with her since I'm still going to need to translate her dialogue regardless (besides, as much as I prefer getting the cut girls in, after nearly a year-long drought on girls, I'll take anyone at this point. TN REALLY needs to get its act together lest the game prematurely enters EOS).

Well, either way, I too will remind them that a large portion of their funding comes from us Gaijin in addition to Japanese people, and we're paying them with the hopes that they add more of the cut girls in. May also bluntly point out that Team Ninja's Year of the Ninja marketing campaign's on-going, so I'd strongly advise bare minimum that they add Rachel sooner as opposed to later (oh, and also tell them not to dilly-dally, try to get back to actually getting a girl out within three months and NOT make us wait nearly a whole year).

But I will say this much: I'm NOT getting her until Thursday, MAYBE Wednesday at the absolute earliest (let's just say finances are requiring me to wait a bit). And I'm going to be getting her packages each pay day (with two on the final day, though I still will aim for Misaki's birthday regardless).

Jotamide said:

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Technically, it's not really a roster's worth since it's five girls at most (Mila, Rachel, Christie, Lisa, and NiCO), maybe more if they give Niki a proper DOAX playable debut. But yes, it's definitely annoying that they're not releasing any cut girls right now, even moreso considering they've got a silver platter of opportunity to release at least one this year with that Year of the Ninja marketing campaign.

That said, I don't mind Azusa too much, but I am still bummed out at how they're doing it at the expense of the OGs. At least release Rachel to check off the Year of the Ninja.

KasumiLover said:

I knew her hairstyle looked familiar xD It definitely looks like they're in their reusing face to repackage characters into different girls

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It's more the hairstyle they reused (if anything, Azusa reused Nagisa's face).

Jackie Chan Fan said:

I remember the quote from the game's producer about the reason they didn't add the cut girls. Something about story.

That's what I find frustrating about modern gaming. The story limits what we can do in the game. And for this type of game, we don't need an award-winning kind of story, right? As long as our favorite characters are in the game, that's all that matters. haha

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Besides, I really don't see how story is even THAT much of a problem with adding in the girls, anyways: Literally the only one with a canon love interest is Leifang and technically Hitomi (who is a starter and thus doesn't count), and they even indirectly alluded to Jann Lee in Leifang's ring episode and had a clever way to get around the whole situation. The others don't really have any issues regarding story that can prevent them from appearing, either (at least, none that pertain to canon love interests).

For Mila, aside from obviously following Tina to the island, you could easily have her decide, as a bit of a contrast to say Hitomi specifically focus on the STRENGTH portion of the Venus Festival, while just focusing enough on beauty to get through the whole thing. Heck, since Sakuta cited her fighting Zack as an excuse to bar her, just have Zack specifically suggest she go to the island to get even stronger (sort of like how he was essentially responsible for Nanami going to the island).

And for Rachel, maybe have it be a mix between Momiji, Hitomi, and even my proposed take on Mila's reasons for participating in the festival, and ALSO allude to her fiend heritage and indirectly allude to her twin sister's downfall regarding specific motivations on why she'd participate (namely, keep her fiend blood further at bay to keep her human).

For Christie, make her more of a "in love with her target" thing, and go to the island with the implied intention of investigating and if needs be assassinating the owner (you know, sort of like what Ayane and Helena's stated motives were for going to the island since they alluded to a conspiracy that required them to investigate), only to fall for him and, in a somewhat twisted form of tsundere, also toyingly consider assassinating him yet not actually going through with it. Besides, if they can add in an Oni who explicitly wanted to ENSLAVE the island's inhabitants right down to their souls when she wins the festival, I think we can handle Christie ultimately.

For Lisa, maybe have her do some research on the island regarding certain properties the island has owing to her scientific nature, maybe have her befriend Misaki due to having a similar background at Zack Island, the first one. Maybe have NiCO join up for essentially the same reason as Lisa. Who knows, maybe have her investigate the whereabouts of her mom (she DID allude to being abandoned by her, after all), and maybe even research the island regarding it having something that essentially halts aging (thus giving an in-universe reason why, despite time explicitly passing, no one seems to actually age).

If I, a mere player, could think of those aspects up as well as the actual mechanics of applying them, with little apparent issues to the story, then the guys actually RESPONSIBLE for the story most certainly could think those up.

And most of the so-called "award-winning stories" tended to be garbage, such as the later entries for Metal Gear Solid (4-V, including Peace Walker) where Kojima flat out admitted he retcons lore just to write a good story (which... betrays the entire POINT behind a good story. You can't hope to write a good story if you're going to destroy continuity and established lore in the process). Come to think of it, I'm beginning to wonder if Kojima's tendency to retcon on a whim is the reason DOAXVV is hesitant to add any characters.