How can one character out of 30-something ruin the entire franchise? I will never understand people that think that every character in a fighting game's roster has to cater to their specific tastes and needs. The entire point of creating new characters is to get a broader appeal and to pique new players' interests. I'm not saying I'm a fan of her design and clone characters per se, but this is something the game didn't have in this form yet.
I mean, before DOA5:LR, we had zero clone characters, if anything okay maybe Phase 4 and Alpha, but I'd say they had 'enough' unique points/reasons to be standalone characters. Phase 4 pushing it a little, and people weren't that happy with her either. But now,
both new characters for this edition ended up being clone characters. You don't see a problem with that? How do clone characters broaden the appeal? Unique and different character broaden the appeal, man.
Raidou already fit the all character styles bill. Okay maybe you can say Raidou is the ninja copy and Honoka is the everyone else copy. That still doesn't explain the the ridiculously generically plain Otaku sellout of a character design. Raidou at least fits in DOA. Why couldn't it have been Irene or someone else?
No one asked for this. It's not that people are upset because something didn't cater to their interest, it didn't really cater to anyones' interest besides anime otakus out there happy they are going to be having some new wanking material, but this didn't really help anyone who serious cares for the game.
Cosmetics, okay cool. Give them that. Don't give them an entire character design.