#1014 Dead or Alive Dimensions (3DS) Unplayable Characters (1/6): Ayame playthrough.

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Published on December 17, 2018 7:37:55 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc8yoxnzNM0

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Dead or Alive: Dimensions (2011)

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A playthrough of the unplayable character Ayame in Tecmo/Team Ninja’s Dead or Alive Dimensions.

LOOK WHAT I FOUND.

Holy fuck, I make a discovery and for once it’s something actually cool and not an abomination blob monster. Miracles do happen, I guess.

I decided to hack DOAD to play as the characters, because I was too lazy to unlock the characters manually. Once more, my laziness has been a virtue, as when hacking the game I noticed the character values were a bit fucky. They weren’t listed in the way I expected, basically, and that made me suspicious that there might be something unfound in this game. As I worked my way through the character values one by one, I chanced upon a character who didn’t look familiar to me in the slightest. It was only when I loaded her into arcade mode that I noticed she had a blank character icon, and looking on the DOA wiki entry for dimensions learnt that she was actually Ayame, the mother of Hayate, Ayane and Kasumi and wife to Shiden. I went further with the character values and discovered five other characters.

So, I’ve mentioned this before, but sometimes fighting games with cutscenes will store cutscene characters in the same list of character values as the playable characters. We’ve seen this with Sonic the Fighters, Soul Blade, and it was also technically the case with Dead or Alive 2, which had a bunch of cutscene characters in its character addresses but said characters would freeze upon starting a match with them. Here however, all six NPC characters are fully playable, and apart from a couple of graphical glitches otherwise run into no issues whatsoever, with all of them having movesets taken from pre-existing characters. It’s an awesome discovery to make, particularly as most of the NPCs are important characters to the DOA story who have never had playable appearances otherwise, and suddenly the definitive dream match title just got even more definitive and dream match-y. Now, you can use Ayame, have her beat the shit out of everyone (including her own children) and even finally get revenge on Raidou. It’s surreal, but amazing at the same time.

I didn’t mention this before but this game actually has an unlockable Metroid stage, which even features cameos from Ridley and Samus Aran. Why? Well, because the previous year Team Ninja had developed the much-maligned Metroid Other M, which singlehandedly destroyed most of Samus’ character and reduced her from a hardy badass to a submissive, pathetic wimp. This was of course one of the worst decisions anyone could ever make, and is basically the equivalent of wanting to hire a clown for an event so you pick John Wayne Gacy. The mind boggles. Anyhow, I bring this up just to say that unfortunately Samus’ model is not accessible by hacking character values, which really does suck because goddamn it would have been awesome to make a guest character video which could only be done via hacking. C’est la vie though, and having six previously undocumented characters to access is still a pretty badass discovery; maybe not quite on the level of the prototype characters in Virtua Fighter 1, but it was nice to finally get to have a discovery on this level.

Up next, another important character from the DOA series.

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