Also @Chapstick I don't really know what it is, but Phase's eyes look different than Kasumi's. I don't know, didn't do a lot of research on eyelashes haha.
Kasumi could run away or kill more of her own clan members (likely people she used to know) like the DOA3 ending
Phase has the personality of the clone in story mode who was annoying af, literally that exact personality with even her quiet intro pose being pulled from story mode lol
Actually Phase 4 has stolen that line from Kasumi in previous DOA's. But that line is incorrectly translated from Japanese to English in DOA5. It's supposed to be something like 'I don't want to fight, but...''
I can't avoid blah blah is her story mode clone tho. "I am ready" "I know what I must do" "this is mugen tenshin" and "you will NEVER defeat me" are the true Kasumi. They left in the crappy stuff her clone says so she'd have 2 intros and 2 outros in vanilla. I looked at their eyes and Phase's are one or two shades darker unless it was the lighting.
I think that's interesting they screwed with her eyelashes and made her eyes darker then deepened her voice. They were trying to make her look younger and more immature then they deepened Kasumi's audio files to the point she sound like she's chewing food idgi
That's the part I don't get, they changed her eyes and facial expressions so she looks younger (following the way Kasumi Alpha seemed younger) but deepened her voice which makes her sound older.
There are really few and subtle physical differences between Kasumi and Phase 4: they regards the color of the eyes has already pointed out, the eyelashes more large and raised. However the difference that make more effect is the different kind of face, definitely more rounder on Phase while more "sharpened" on Kasumi: http://i.imgur.com/DRJzTVz.jpg
This last detail is not to understimate because a rounded face is instictively associated from us to baby or pets (that indeed present similar appearences in nature), something that often change the way to see them from people (not everyone, of course), thinking to them as sweet, funny (this more associated to the disproportion between the head and the body) and so on...
I still prefer Phase 4's personality over Kasumi's. I'm really curious to see what TN's gonna do with Phase in future games (if TN doesn't fuck up DOA as a whole with its plethora of swimsuit dlcs).
The consequence in this case is that Kasumi get an adult appearence, compared to Phase that even unconsciously can appear more younger to the audience. This, together with the parallel or contrast with Phase's role (a newborn that is also a killing) can inspire a different vision of her compared to Kasumi.