My DOA5U arrived this week, complete with retailer bonus DLC code for a bunch of costumes. It’s really just a standalone upgrade pack for the original, and presumably so they can drive more costume sales which have been a lucrative business since DOA5 came out. I’m as guilty as anyone for this, I bought several of them.<\/p>\n
There’s a couple of extra characters and some new arenas, and it\u00a0 lets you carry forward your game save and DLC from the previous title, so given the price it’s a reasonable upgrade for existing players as well as new ones.\u00a0 However, for people who didn’t have everything, the marketplace list is a minefield of various packs and individual outfits.\u00a0 Since you don’t know which actual costume each is in the marketplace it’s impossible to know what you’re missing.\u00a0 I suspect this is not entirely unintentional, because there’s a great big \u00a326.99 rollup DLC pack with all the DOA5 costumes.\u00a0 I worked out that if I went for the pick and choose method, I could easily rack up over that by buying things I already had before by accident.\u00a0 In the end, I just bought the big pack – suddenly the game isn’t quite as well priced.\u00a0 There are already two new packs just for DOA5U too, so you can expect to spend upwards of \u00a370 if you want all the content.<\/p>\n
Aside from that it’s business as usual – I’m of the opinion that the game has been derided with breast jokes for far too long, DOA5U is another iteration of what has become a really excellent fighting game, so much so that this one will actually be getting an arcade port, and it’s been a while since the series has been played outside of the home.\u00a0 Everything just flows, it looks fantastic, it feels good to play.\u00a0 I understand hardcore fighting fans are still generally not into it, all I can say is – your loss.<\/p>\n
Made a quick video tonight, I’m a really terrible player, and rusty at that.\u00a0 I’ve been playing through arcade mode to try to refresh myself on the general controls with my favourite character, Helena.\u00a0 While I was getting my ass handed to me by champ difficulty, someone issued an online challenge – these just pop up in the bottom right and you can accept by hitting the back button.\u00a0 It started as badly as I’d expected, with them nearly getting a perfect against me, but then – I got lucky.\u00a0 I’m not going to pretend it was skill, I remembered a few moves and they really lost their groove, and I picked up my first online win.<\/p>\n