I actually like Monica - but this is what we call being damned by faint praise, lmao.
Like, she's not 18, she's not Japanese, and she's not a moe blob. That's all she's got going for her, but at this point I'm pleasantly surprised.
@otnesse: Honestly, the papanasi thing
is a lot to go on, considering Marie's favorite food is Swedish prinsessbakelser (which, as a fellow Swede, I personally hate
) and NiCO's is the Finnish joulutorttu. Mila likes seafood paella, and she's from Spain, and Diego is implied to be Mexican-American, and he likes tacos. Luna might be Ukrainian, what with her thing for potatoes, but who knows...
My point is, papanasi is
way too specific a favorite food, to not be a reference to something. Searching up "papanasi" on Google yields twelve pages of results, most of which are in Romanian, and the English wikipedia article is four sentences long. If it matters, the JP article is even shorter.
I'm all for giving someone the benefit of doubt, but with the character designs we've seen for DOA lately - I'm just saying, it wouldn't exactly be fair to praise them for creativity...
Romania's kind of a unique nationality to give someone in a fighting game - which I know DOAX is not, but roll with it - anyway, so I'm happy with that.