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I can’t overstate how excited I am that the elaborate stun game is gone. There’s so much to love about DOA5, but I won’t miss the weird lengthy stuns and stagger escapes. It’s just not fun and doesn’t have the energy of a fast-paced fighter.

"Normal" characters? With the super ninjas and Alphas and Tengus and crap? There's always been weirdos in DOA, one the bosses literally fights with a Darth Maul lightsaber. You can like or dislike whatever you want, but you can't act like these kinds of things are new to the series.

That’s not much of a counter. Like, she has lightning moves, but they’re very subdued, especially compared to literally any other fighting game. Her abilities are no less fancy than Honoka’s red energy, Phase’s vapor stuff, or Kasumi’s little flower effects. DOA’s always been pretty consistent...

I know you don't like particle effects, but you have to admit that there's a massive difference between Hayabusa having some fire in his hands for certain moves and the blinding lightshow of Soul Calibur or the endless sparks that fly everywhere when you do literally anything in Tekken.

Yeah this is almost definitely what’s going on again with DOA6. Shimbori’s not the one signing off on those booby mouse pads with NiCO on them, y’know?

They liked the look of the game and the characters’ personalities the most. I had one friend say how she liked that “nothing was confusing,” in that there wasn’t a bunch of flashes or magic sparks on the screen like Soul Calibur and games like that. Nobody was good at it, but they really liked...

What stinks too is that what’s purchasable or otherwise monetized is generally not up to the developer, but the owner. For example, it’s not Blizzard that decides they need to add loot boxes, but Activision. That said, it’s Koei/Tecmo that’s deciding how much DLC revenue that DOA6 should be...

Leifang's DOA1 hairstyle was always my favorite.

Boy do I wish arcades would make a comeback in the US.

Oh that's right, because prior to 5 all the DOA games were Xbox exclusive, and that never really tracked in Japan.