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Critics have praised the gameplay while condemning the pandering and grotesque sexuality. The Dead or Alive franchise is known both as a stellar fighting game and a series with overtly sexualized female characters. “As the player pokes and prods Kasumi's body with the PlayStation 4's motion controller, she tells him ‘I don't like it,’ and uses a word that directly translates to ‘bad’ that is often used to flatly deny permission,” Engadget said of the game’s PlayStation VR release (under the title Dead or Alive Xtreme 3) in 2016. It’s an interaction akin to sexual assault. In previous versions of DOAXVV, womens’ breasts jiggle gratuitously and players can “touch” the girls. To access the English language version, fans have used VPNs-virtual private networks that can make a computer seem as if its located anywhere in the world-to trick Steam into thinking they’re in Southeast Asia.įans are happy with the English menu system, but upset about other changes. This week’s Steam release is the first version of the made-in-Japan title to have English translations for its menu system. The game was initially released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2016, and hit PC as a browser game the following year.

Koei Tecmo has released several version of DOAXVV under various names across several platforms, but this is the first time it’s been on Steam with English localization. The characters mostly play volleyball, but can also gamble, or engage in “butt battles.” Players talk to the women, dress them in revealing bathing suits, and pit them against each other in various minigames.

Dead or Alive is infamous for the highly sexualized depiction of its female characters, and DOAXVV seems to exist explicitly for that purpose.

It’s part dating sim, part management sim, and part sports game. In DOAXVV (a spinoff for the long running Dead or Alive fighting game franchise), players run Venus Island-a magical resort destination for the women of the series.

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