Marie and Honoka certainly do that, and can be accepted more positively if it means appealing to particular demographics, increasing the interest of the series to others that may have shied away before.
Whether the portion of fans that were happy with young Marie's inclusion into the mature DOA universe were heard loudest, putting Honoka's creation into motion, is unknown, but the case can be made that Team Ninja is trying to bring more variety into the selection of fighters. The second major revision of the original Dead or Alive 5 after DOA5 Ultimate, DOA5 Last Round doesn't bring too much in the way of new content outside of two extra characters and stages, plus hundreds of DLC costumes built in and customisable hairstyles, but it does mean the series' accessible and refined fighting system now reaches entire new sections of the market on the latest wave of consoles.įollowing the very divisive loli character Marie Rose joining the roster in DOA5 Ultimate (who is now in the game by default, alongside fellow previously-DLC characters Phase 4 and Nyotengu), it does initially look like Team Ninja took a more straightforward route with Last Round's addition of Honoka, a Japanese schoolgirl with practically the same face as Marie, and a fighting style that mimics the rest of the cast's moves. After a shaky launch that saw Dead or Alive 5 Last Round being prone to a number of bugs in its first week or so, the latest patch now sees Team Ninja's vibrant and bouncy fighter settle into the acceptable state that it should have been released in.
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