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...
Fanservice was, is, and always will be part of DOA's DNA and what it is known for.
Over the last few years, it seems like TN tried to experiment with it but they had no clue about keeping enough from being too much.
They overdid it with both DOAX3 and Venus Vacation, but decided to pull off a...
I mean it's Team NINJA we're talking about. When it comes to character artstyle and overall graphics, they have always been ahead of their time.
If you take a look at the insane level of details put into DOA4's stages from 2005, which btw can still hold a candle to some of Tekken 8 from 2024...
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There you go, five more "Marie-face" "sweet and naive" characters with totally never-seen-before aesthetics and whose sole defining trait is their hair color and personalitits.
At that time, they had pressure on their back and managed to update them while preserving their former...
Without a doubt, NiCO is first on the list of Marie Rose/Honoka duplicates modelwise and it was clearly the beginning of them showing laziness back then, as they stopped caring to create distinguishable characters. She has a nice design overall though...
3 loli twins was too much already.
What's even more saddening is to watch this mess of a game running for a 7th year while the main series is dumped on the road to die.
The whole pandemic barely affected that trash but it put the latter at a standstill, that's beyond me.
Should've been the other...