Final Prism cast

[Yelleda]

It seems like we won't be getting Marie, but Nanami! (That should please many, myself included, even though I would have preferred Kokoro...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4egrj7fcSD0

https://www.gamecity.com.tw/venusvacation/prism/en/

If I understand correctly, the game will be limited to a few choice-driven cutscenes and photo taking, not sure if that's very interesting, but we'll see I guess...

[76561198944104247]

Odd choice for the roster.
If you think this is based on popularity in japan, I don't think it's the case(hint : no Nagisa)
In fact, this lineup seems like trying to please some of the long time ♥♥♥♥-talker in this forum.
Also, the choice for Honoka is weird considering their statement about prioritising new girl.

[SigmaOZ]

How do they plan to keep player's interest in this game?.

Content-wise it seems to be a visual novel plus picture taking but that type of game lacks replay value.

The business model will most likely be like the previous DOAX3 with a ton of costume sets and additional characters.

It would be great if PRISM replaced the current DOAXVV, even if little by little.

[Leon S. Kennedy]

Originally posted by Eiseiryuoujin:

Odd choice for the roster.
If you think this is based on popularity in japan, I don't think it's the case(hint : no Nagisa)
In fact, this lineup seems like trying to please some of the long time ♥♥♥♥-talker in this forum.
Also, the choice for Honoka is weird considering their statement about prioritising new girl.

I mean, with the exception of Misaki being added probably due to her status as the Venus Vacation mascot, the only other older (and the only original) girl being added, is Honoka. So I'd say they're still very much prioritizing new girls. Honestly could have done with at least 2 more girls IMO, but it's their choise I guess

[Pietato23]

Owna-san treats Marie like a child (which she is), so having her in a dating sim would be messed up.

[SigmaOZ]

Originally posted by Pietato23:

Owna-san treats Marie like a child (which she is), so having her in a dating sim would be messed up.

She is no child, she is 18 years old, she is an adult in most countries around the world.

[NSLucs]

Originally posted by Pietato23:

Owna-san treats Marie like a child (which she is), so having her in a dating sim would be messed up.

well, being very cute dont make her a child

[master_c86]

I defnitely can't understand why haters always bring up Marie when it comes to the age topic. As someone said, cute does not mean underage. She was designed to be an 18 year old girl. Everything is legal.

I'm more surprised that no one talks about the far more worse case: Kanna. Her age is a f****** joke. That Tengu/ogre "oh, i'm 1000 years older in human age" is the biggest joke this game has. They designed Kanna as a 14 years old girl and making her 1000 years older because of being an ogre is a lame excuse. The same with Nyotengu. Oh , what a coincidence. She also is exactly 1000 years older....with the exception, she is 18.

Sorry, but if you want to hate Marie, Kanna deserves a lot more of it.

[Yelleda]

Originally posted by master_c86:

Sorry, but if you want to hate Marie, Kanna deserves a lot more of it.

Don't worry, I do hate Kanna quite a lot...

[jmalrey]

Originally posted by master_c86:

Marie was designed to be an 18 year old girl.

Please don't even. Marie was painstakingly sculpted in a 3D modelling program and then hand-picked a voice actress with a specific vocal quality to produce exactly the reaction she gets from most people. Her appearance isn't an accident of rare genetics, it's completely intentional that she's associated with the age she is.

I'm more surprised that no one talks about the far more worse case: Kanna. Her age is a f****** joke. That Tengu/ogre "oh, i'm 1000 years older in human age" is the biggest joke this game has. They designed Kanna as a 14 years old girl and making her 1000 years older because of being an ogre is a lame excuse. The same with Nyotengu. Oh , what a coincidence. She also is exactly 1000 years older....with the exception, she is 18.

Sorry, but if you want to hate Marie, Kanna deserves a lot more of it.

Kanna is a thousand year old fantasy creature that can't exist in real life who immediately reverses the power dynamic by incapacitating the Owner with a snap of her fingers in the first few seconds of her introduction. That's the amount of extra precautions the character designers took to try to avoid another Marie situation. And they did that in an already region-locked game. Even Japan knows Marie was a step too far.

Hence why there have been no more Maries, despite her popularity and this being a huge copycat industry. Compare that to Kasumi, whose popularity got us 2 clones, a sister, a derivative character in Ninja Gaiden and a guest character that Kasumi's own design was based off of. Where are the other Maries, in any other franchise with a photorealistic art style? Nobody is making them. Japan went through a 14yo girl phase awhile back but they appear to have grown out of it. There's only a few leftovers from that era sticking around, and it doesn't look like there will be any new ones unless they're in an extremely anime art style that makes it difficult to judge ages. If it was going to happen anywhere, it'd be here, and Kanna was the closest they were willing to risk even in an Asia-only game. It's now been 5 and a half years since Kanna's debut. It's been 11 years since Marie's. They're probably the last of their kind.

[FireFoxPhantom13]

I...honestly have NO clue how they decided on 4 out of the 6. The two I knew were gonna be mandatory were Misaki and Tamaki. The other 4 though...like yall said, it can't have been based on popularity. In my original post from a while back on a different thread, I called how there would only be VV originals so as not to conflict with the fighting games' plotline, so Honoka is the one I didn't expect at all, but her inclusion also isn't that shocking; she's debatably replaced Kasumi as the face of this entire franchise at this point, plus, since she was a DLC fighter for DOA5 and her role in 6 was..basically a joke, her being "dateable" doesn't conflict with anything in a major way compared to if we dated Kasumi for example.

[FireFoxPhantom13]

That said, the one thing I didn't know at the time I made my original post that I do now...is that this game is gonna be released on the Playstation consoles. That basically confirms this game is gonna be SUPER tame and boring due to the censorship BS. One of my original questions was just how far the game would let us go with the girls, and now I know it'll be super PG. That fact alone killed a huge amount of my excitement for this game, and it also means it likely won't outright replace VV in any significant way. At least VV knows what it is and embraces the series sex appeal front and center. Tamaki, who I love, for example, talks to you in VV like she'd be down to try any number of sexual things with you if you invited her over; in PRISM, she's likely gonna be MASSIVELY toned down, and it just wouldn't be the same anymore. idk. I guess we'll see, but my hopes definitely aren't high anymore.

[Panda-Bishop]

Originally posted by FireFoxPhantom13:

One of my original questions was just how far the game would let us go with the girls, and now I know it'll be super PG.

KT is a mainstream publisher, they don't do hentai games, it was never really a question how tame Prism is going to be.

At most they'll bring back poledancing, but you can get that experience for free with mods in DOA5.

[FireFoxPhantom13]

lmao, nah I never once thought they'd go full hentai game with Prism. Rather, VV has some scenes in it that I would classify as somewhat "risque", especially in the later character episodes. Tsukushi lets you basically undress her from the front, then she panics, Tamaki basically pounces you onto her bed in one of them, Misaki falls on top of you in the shower, etc. They definitely wouldn't go full sex scenes in any of these games, but I still would've liked for them to have explored more ways to raise the feeling of intimacy without going into full on sex scenes. But like I said, all the examples I just listed from the episodes are basically not gonna be possible in Prism due to how tame they're going to make it. Or at least, that's my prediction.

[FireFoxPhantom13]

And yes, I've heard people have modded DOA5 into what's essentially a brand new game, but I know literally nothing about that. Care to give me the scoop?

[Panda-Bishop]

Originally posted by FireFoxPhantom13:

And yes, I've heard people have modded DOA5 into what's essentially a brand new game, but I know literally nothing about that. Care to give me the scoop?

It's a mod called Beach Paradise (well, the mod's called Gravure Studio, but the project is called Beach Paradise? It's a bit confusing) that adds extra poses/scenes to the Private Paradise section of Extras > Movies in DOA5. The mod also adds extra swimwear that have various states of undress that you have to select through the Hair/Bra option while selecting a character.

https://x.com/holden_mcclure

It's a little jank because the modder couldn't make major changes to the game's UI, so originally you had to refer to a chart and press Ctrl + some key to change poses/scenes, but someone else came up with an overlay that gives you a much nicer UI to work with.

https://github.com/grusigast/doa-gravure-studio-overlay/releases

Also something to note is when you take screenshots, Steam ignores the reshader and will give you the default colors. If you want the brighter colors from the reshade, you need to use something like Windows Game Bar to take screenshots.

Edit: alright, revisited it and there's an extra layer of jank. DOA5 only has Fullscreen and Windowed mode, if you try to open the Gravure Studio Overlay in Fullscreen, it'll minimize the game and also minimize the overlay, but maximizing the game closes the overlay, making it impossible to use; running the game in Windowed mode will avoid that problem, but whenever you take screenshots it'll include the ugly bar on top.

The solution to this is, oddly, to enable GeForce Experience Overlay, which doesn't prevent the game from minimizing when you first open Gravure Studio, but somehow prevents the Gravure Studio Overlay from minimizing and closing when maximizing the game.