It was literally sixty degrees out yesterday and there are already bathing suits hitting store shelves so I decided to use one of many swimsuit figures for yesterday’s picture of the day.  I actually really love the Dead or Alive franchise, I have been playing since DOA was in my local arcade when it was a new game.  I really  feel old now, I remembering buying Dead or Alive for the Playstation while waiting for Tekken 3 to come out ^^; Ayane has always been my favorite character, her move set really seems to suit my play style her mix of power and speed really works well for me and I love her storyline/personality plus her character design is too cute. I rather like Kokoro in theory but I rarely play as her as I never quite mastered her move set, I am still fairly competent with her but somehow I don’t think I will ever her mastered to the point I have Ayane, Kasumi, Hitomi, Helena or Christie.

I like the DOA franchise so much I even like the beach volleyball games. I really loved the first one as it was great mindless fun, it was nice stress release. The game was pure fluff, it knew it was pure fluff though so it was great fun. I never cared for the 2nd game as much, I liked playing beach volleyball was not so keen on jet-ski racing etc. there is one good thing about the second DOA beach game and that is Kokoro, I play as her a fair bit or team up with her volleyball. Kotobukiya made a line of figures based on several of the different characters from the DOA beach volleyball games, I didn’t buy all of them but I did get Kokoro, Ayane and Lei Fang I had Hitomi preordered but she sold out before my order could be fulfilled :/. The Kokoro figure is really nice for a Kotobukiya figure probably the best one from the set.

I always kind of joke that they Tecmo cheated us out of a really cool opportunity for another girl in the beach volleyball franchise, there was a Spartan from Halo in DOA4 that is supposedly a girl (you can’t really tell from the armor). Either with or without armor having a Spartan on the beach in a bikini would have been epically hilarious.