The DOA Story has been added to the features section of Team NINJA's Dead or Alive 6 official website. They also add summaries of all the other DOA narratives from beginning to present... let's take a look then. Commentary will be included with the current overviews and will hopefully help clarify things.
Why the need for clarification? Because Dead or Alive: Dimensions came in and confused us with a compilation of all games that added scenes to the original tale of DOA. Hayashi made it seem like these scenes were official, but many players want to see DOAD as non-canon. Though it would be more constructive to highlight all of the differences in another post, and only focus on a few key ones here in this break-down that pertain to the information we're given now.
Site Overview
After a sinister incident in a village...
Kasumi, a successor of the legendary Mugen Tenshin ninja clan, abandoned her clan and became a "runaway ninja," secretly living in a hermitage in a mountain village.
Meanwhile, Helena Douglas, president of the new DOATEC, is involved in an incident...
The sudden ----- of an individual with special powers sent shivers down her spine...
And yet another....
A so-called genius chuckles at a mysterious light emitting an aura...
Behind a quiet time, a sinister plan is set in motion.
The passing days are about to be unduly overturned due to an open desire.
As Kasumi writes to her mother, her pen overflows with hesitation.
...It's not over yet.
The way this information is detailed is obviously confusing, but the "so-called genius" could be referring to Lisa or Donovan. Seems likely that we will learn more about his character than we ever have before in Dead or Alive 6. Maybe he will even be the final boss that will hopefully be playable like: Raidou, Alpha and Tengu have been.
The iconic opening to DOA
Dead or Alive 1After her brother Hayate was almost killed by Raidou, a crazed ninja who had been expelled from the village, Kasumi took over as the eighteenth head of the Mugen Tenshin Clan. But in her breast burned only the flames of vengeance - she longed for revenge on the man who had taken her kind and strong brother from her, and who had stolen the village's greatest treasure.
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Knowing that any ninja leaving the village was considered a traitor and would be punished with death, Kasumi nevertheless snuck out in pursuit of her adversary, eventually finding herself at the Dead or Alive fighting tournament.
Under the watchful gaze of her half-sister Ayane, sent to secretly follow her, Kasumi defeated Raidou. But no sooner did she claim victory than a mighty explosion ripped Raidou's body to shreds, leaving Kasumi herself nowhere to be seen...
Following the tournament's conclusion, it was revealed that its main sponsor Fame Douglas had been assassinated. The various participants went their separate ways, as the whole event became shrouded in a veil of mystery and uncertainty.
Seems pretty vague considering we know this story. Raidou is Shiden's evil brother, Raidou steals moves including the Torn Sky Blast from his nephew Hayate, and then destroys him with it breaking his back, putting him in a coma giving him amnesia plus spinal nerve damage. Of course Kasumi runs away from her leadership responsibilities to seek answers, enters the tournament and kills Raidou successfully.
Though DOAD adds one of those additional scenes that was extremely controversial to players. After years of thinking this was Kasumi's story and road, we find out that it was actually Hayabusa assisting Kasumi to help defeat Raidou.
A reason a fan of the original game would hate this added moment is that Hayabusa figuratively and literally steals Kasumi's thunder. Her fiery passion that ended Dead or Alive 1 locked her into being the main character of the franchise... and proved that she was more than just some runaway ninja.
Dead or Alive 2
It was revealed that having disappeared at the end of the first Dead or Alive tournament, Kasumi was in fact abducted by DOATEC as the test subject for something known as Project Alpha. She managed to escape, but on her way out she encountered her clone, Alpha. Smiling cruelly, Alpha told her, "Hayate is mine."
As all this was happening, the second Dead or Alive tournament was announced.
Dragon Ninja Ryu Hayabusa, a friend of Hayate's, immediately sensed that a great evil beyond human comprehension was involved. "This is no ordinary fighting tournament," he declared, and set off in an attempt to save the world from destruction.
At the same time, Hayate disappeared from his deathbed, kidnapped by agents from DOATEC to be a test subject for Project Alpha's successor, Project Epsilon. However, an accident during transportation luckily freed Hayate from DOATEC's clutches.
Suffering from amnesia, Hayate was taken in by Hitomi, a karate expert who happened to be training nearby. Once his wounds healed, he found himself drawn inexorably to the Dead or Alive tournament, entering under the name of Ein...
Part of this summary is going with the DOAD story-structure with Kasumi Alpha being a possessive clone who wasn't described as having a weird desire for Hayate in the original storyline. Also worth mentioning is that Project Epsilon actually preceded Project Alpha and failed with Kasumi having superior genes.
The evil that Hayabusa speaks of is Bankotsubo, a wicked Tengu that came out from the misty mountaintops after the evil Victor Donovan took over the second tournament. Hayabusa kills the majestic demon and Genfu salvages his nose to save his granddaughter.
Ayane considered Genra as her father until he became Omega
Dead or Alive 3
Having regained his memory, Hayate returned to his rightful post as the eighteenth head of the Mugen Tenshin Clan. At the same time, however, the Hajin Mon sect of the clan was in turmoil. The sect's leader, Genra, had been abducted by DOATEC and turned into an inhuman monster as part of their latest plan, Project Omega.
Eventually, it was announced that the third Dead or Alive tournament was to be held. The true purpose of the tournament, however, was to give Victor Donovan, the true power behind DOATEC, an opportunity to test the monster he had created as part of Project Omega.
To Ayane, Genra was both her adopted father and her teacher, and now he had been transformed into an inhuman killing machine. It was her duty as a good daughter to right the wrongs of her father, and to grant him peace.
Unlike the summary for Dead or Alive 2, this one follows the original story of Dead or Alive 3 -- Genra being experimented on. DOAD makes it seem like Genra was evil from the start. At this point you are probably wondering, well which story-line is official then?
It took 8 real years to find out what happens after this crazy cinematic...
DOATEC's repeated experiments using human bodies had brought about one tragedy after another. The anger felt by the ninja toward this soulless corporation had reached breaking point.
Taking over from her father as head of DOATEC and striving to follow the principles and ideals he held dear, Helena Douglas announced that she would hold the fourth Dead or Alive tournament.
However, the rage felt by Hayate, head of the Mugen Tenshin Clan of ninja, soon turned into flames that would consume the 999 meter-high DOATEC TriTower, a symbol of the power and greed of the mighty corporation.
But just as the flames licked at the foot of the towers, the final result of DOATEC's ungodly experiments was being born: the ultimate fighting machine, Alpha-152.
The ideals and principles of Helena's father Fame Douglas had been utterly destroyed by the treachery of Donovan and the enmity his acts had brought to bear.
Realizing that her own idealism and naiveté had given rise to the terrible Alpha-152, Helena took the only course of action she knew was right. She would remain in the towers, and destroy them from within.
"Goodbye."
Surrounded by flames, and with the towers on the verge of collapse, Helena was suddenly and unexpectedly rescued by Zack, swooping in with his helicopter. Stunned, she looked back just in time to see the ultimate symbol of DOATEC crumble to dust.
How we saw character associations post-DOA4 including Fame's mistresses
Dead or Alive 5
2 years after the destruction of the Tri-Towers, the symbol of DOATEC.
DOATEC's leader, Helena Douglas, carries on the wishes of her late father and founder of DOATEC, Fame Douglas, endeavoring to restore the organization.
The Super Human Development Project, led by the mad scientist Victor Donovan, freezes and then dismantled.
The organization has reached its goal of cleaning up its activities... or so it looked.
But Donovan's ambitions did not cease and he continued to work behind the scenes.
M.I.S.T.: a new organization that carries on the advanced biotechnology of DOATEC
Under this new organization, Project Alpha, which used the DNA of Kasumi, kunoichi and a successor of the legendary Mugen Tenshin ninja clan, was moving forward into its next sinister phase.
The 5th DEAD OR ALIVE Tournament announcement from Helena, which was meant to show the bright rebirth of DOATEC to the world, was instead becoming a warning to the rise of the worst nightmare to humankind....
The 5th Dead or Alive story also follows some paths from DOAD including Raidou's death. If you read his biography on the site it mentions how he is resurrected from a fatal explosion. An explosion that never happened before DOAD. Team NINJA should really observe and study all of the story-line content ever released so that DOA6 can make perfect sense to all players.
It's hard to say if the team wanted to write away the lost pages or maybe they thought or have seen little in the guides or manuals. Either way, there are some jumbled ideas provided in these summaries, but we deserve to know if the story is going to follow the original source material or if DOAD is the foundation of DOA's narrative as a whole.
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