A pair of trailers show off the features of the upcoming 3D brawler.
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A pair of trailers for Dead or Alive Dimensions were released today as part of the 3DS media events in New York and Amsterdam. The videos highlighted many features of the game.
The most interesting inclusion was highlighted in a trailer released to the European media. It showed a Metroid Other: M themed stage, with Ridley acting as an environmental hazard. He flew about the stage, shooting fireballs at combatants and slamming them against the wall. The trailer ends with Samus, in her morph ball, landing at the center of the stage as the video fades out. At no point was she shown fighting, or even out of her morph ball.
The second trailer demonstrated other features of the latest DoA game including: a touch screen move list, where the player can simply tap the combo they wish to execute, "Throwdown Challenges," in which you battle the Avatars of players you encoutner via the 3DS' StreetPass system, and online play.
Samus' inclusion is no doubt due to Team Ninja being the primary developers on last year's Metroid: Other M. No details are available yet as the nature of Samus' involvement with the fighting game, however Tecmo Koei representatives confirmed to our Neal Ronaghan that an Other M stage is in the game, and that more details will be revealed soon.
Samus isn't authorized for attack combos, so if you select her you automatically die.Thanks for the lulz. I had to think about this for a second. One point for you.
Considering the history and reputation of the Dead or Alive franchise, I'm pretty disgusted with Nintendo for doing this. What, was Other M not enough of a character assassination for Samus without putting her in the same game as a series that has long established itself as only existing to service fanservice fetishes?Counterpoint: I'm glad Nintendo is doing this because this kind of cross-promotion is only helping a recently restructured Tecmo sell the game, scoring some 3rd party relations points. Sure, they're pulling on the heartstrings of Metroid fans, but it may bring more people into the series who otherwise would not have given it a chance, like Link's addition to Soul Calibur II.
Oh no. I just hope she's in her Power Suit at all times.
Oh no. I just hope she's in her Power Suit at all times.
This is DOA mop....
i just expect it to be a zero suit fest, i really don't like the exploitive route they have been taking with Samus. I prefer her gruff scifi roots.
Considering the history and reputation of the Dead or Alive franchise, I'm pretty disgusted with Nintendo for doing this. What, was Other M not enough of a character assassination for Samus without putting her in the same game as a series that has long established itself as only existing to service fanservice fetishes?
Not to mention the way Samus was portrayed in Other M always is CANON. Not to mention it was quite realistic, and she's still a strong woman in her own right desptie any drawbacks, and those are what make her all the more human.
The one Nintendo female that isn't a princess is the one everyone bitches about not being sophisticated, refined, and modest enough. Where does everyone get the impression that Samus needs to wear at lease a burka at all times or be stoned to death come from?
i just don't like the idea of the character slowly turning into your typical one dimentional female character, if anything she needs to become extra complicated.
is that zap?
Samus being a women has always been for fanservice. She was never meant to be a symbol of feminism that some of you think.Eh, no one thinks that, but I wouldn't say the games have been exploitative, and certainly nothing like DoA. Plus, I wouldn't expect Samus to wear clothes in that suit of armour, it gets hot in there!
Samus being a women has always been for fanservice. She was never meant to be a symbol of feminism that some of you think.Eh, no one thinks that, but I wouldn't say the games have been exploitative, and certainly nothing like DoA. Plus, I wouldn't expect Samus to wear clothes in that suit of armour, it gets hot in there!
And Peach is beyond the point of saving, as she has shown that she is just too stupid to live.
This sort of thing is nothing new. Nintendo whored out Link to have him in Soul Calibur 2 on the GC. They also had Mario have cameos in all sorts of unrelated games, such as Punch Out where he was the referee. So its not like this is without precedent. Now, did having Link appear in SC 2 "cheapen" him or the Zelda franchise?
Not to mention the way Samus was portrayed in Other M always is CANON. Not to mention it was quite realistic, and she's still a strong woman in her own right desptie any drawbacks, and those are what make her all the more human.
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On the other hand, the Metroid games are (until recently) based on isolation and solemn exploration of various ruins, exterminating those that stand in Samus' way with ranged combat as she fulfills her mission as a Bounty Hunter. The Dead or Alive franchise (the actual fighting games, anyway) are about a bunch of girls coming together to beat the crap out of each other in martial arts. The inclusion of Samus in this game just doesn't make sense outside of the Team Ninja connection.
Is there even a reason we want such good relations with Tecmo that it's worth sacrificing the dignity of one of Nintendo's cornerstone IPs? Aside from the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden franchises, I'm struggling to think of anything notable that they make. I suppose there's Fatal Frame, but that doesn't sell outside of Japan and doesn't strike me as a franchise Nintendo cares about.
Samus in DOA = salesYou definitely do not speak for me, sir. I thoroughly enjoyed Metroid: Other M, and actually... I place it as my second favorite Metroid game of all time. Right behind Super Metroid, of course. I thought the game felt like a true evolution of what the original SuperNES game felt like, and I loved every minute of it. Every. Stinkin'. Minute.
So let's do it!
It's not going to crush anyone's dream image of Samus. Other M took care of that already.
Sakamoto's Other M was a throwback title for HIM.
Everyone else wanted a game with the style of Super Metroid/Fusion.
Sakamoto's selfishness hurt the game.
-Where the heck was classic controller support?
-D-pad for 3D control?? Are you nuts?
-First-person mode could have easlily been made to a button. Then joystick would controls the on-screen reticle. We have this is games called "First-Person Shooters", Sakamoto.
-Samus's voice acting and story didn't kill anything for me, but they really could have done a better job. This isn't 1997. The PSOne was full of that crap. Still, the actress only did what she was hired to do. It wasn't her fault.