Okay after taking a MUCH needed break from the MMO grinding, look at what I see, another Itagaki review...
Except this time he's not acting like a jackass and he's actually telling what he sees as core issues. Now I can respect that, in fact, I respect that alot.
But sadly, while he and COW does bring up some good points...others still baffle me:
- Of course I understand the sexual issues the game has and still do for DOA5, even though I feel completely indifferent to them past the few that catches my eye. So I'm not gonna go with that one, but what I am is these "pillars" he speaks of. In the past DOA games, there STILL has been sex marketed towards those games, hell, The "I'm a Fighter" campaign is the cleanest the series been advertisement wise. And gameplay wise past the bikinis, The DLC is similar to what the past ladies wore before. Yeah the old costumes showing off Side and Underboob is bleh but I don't really give a shit about those but I do know some do, atleast we got the costume back.
- This game being hard for newbies to get into? Uh Itagaki, what game you played, because it must have been VF..
Otherwise, it was a pretty decent interview despite the fact none of that STILL lets me clamor back to wanting Itagaki back for DOA...but NG is still a mixed bag for me(The combat is TERRIBLE in NG3, even RE barely made it adequate enough to NG2...but at the same time, having more people to choose from outside of Story Mode and a possible showing up of Hayate in NG4 makes me not want Itagaki to come back since he'll make it the Ryu show completely again...)