Just be realistic when TN had us lower our expectations on a regular basis with every DOA game released over the past few years.
The downfall started with DOAX3 as we got a half-done game with missing features plus an incomplete roster.
Reusing current assets and barely touching them up? ✓
Removing features from previous games? ✓
6 available characters at launch? ✓
Region lock by default? ✓
That's enough to know where all this is going.
Just woke up from a fever dream where everything was reversed after a pandemic that shut down the whole world.
Xtreme was DOA mainline and the fighting game served as a mere spin-off.
Gosh, it felt so real.
Still looks bad.
Never would have thought this very word would be used to describe a female character from a DOA game.
Objectively, she looks robotic and her facial expressions are disturbing - they just reused the head model from current DOAXVV, made a few tweaks here and there without updating...
At first glance, those Misaki pictures were unsettling and I thought they used AI.
It appears that the engine got upgraded for this new game.
Misaki model now looks way too realistic but the previous anime style is still there. This association gave me uncanny valley vibes straight away.
Xtreme shall remain the fanservice spin-off, but this whole boss “owna-san” dating, gacha thing is not what it was meant to be from the start nor what Itagaki had in mind.
Now Venus Vacation is in a league of its own with its belonging characters, so them keeping both Dead or Alive plus Xtreme...