Suggestions for the Series

Well, if the floor's open, I've had a couple of ideas for spinoffs I'd like to see down the road. By spinoffs I mean like... reeeaaally spinoffy, completely unrelated/noncanon spinoffs, to clarify.

First, seeing as all the teams are so neatly divided into groups of five, I was thinking it might be fun to see them stick Hanzo in Super Sentai suits and then have all the other teams in kaijin and kaiju suits, with Dai naturally being the sixth ranger. You could even give them a robot out of their summon animals to fight "giant" versions of the enemy girls in arenas that look supersized. Bouncing forth... Dai-Hanzo-Oh!

Second, as cool as it is that we're doing ninjas in a modern day setting and all, I was wondering if Marvelous (and the fans for that matter) would be welcome to doing a "token high school AU" game, except since the characters are already school students, the equivalent here might be to have a game using the same character designs/personalities but set in historical Japan. Basically what I'm saying is I'd like to see a period piece using the Senran Kagura cast.

While I'm definitely not against more focus on the two of them, I think some would argue that the twins just being that way rather than needing some trigger to be preferable. People in the S&M community have been dealing with the stereotype that to be that way you have to be "broken" for a long time now, from my understanding, when that doesn't actually have to be the case at all. That said, them taking it to the extremes we see them taking it to as a coping mechanism might make sense, though that could be said to be potentially true for anyone with anything they enjoy in that situation.

That's just my two cents on it though. Personally, I wouldn't be against it just being left as a character trait that doesn't need explanation and other aspects of their personalities fleshed out instead, but that's just me.

I kind of thought I was the only one who noticed how similar their eyes looked. Initially, I was probably gonna comment how they look too different to be sisters, but remembered that Ryoubi and Ryouna look really different from each other too, and they're twins. lol

Well yeah, though like I said, they provided at least some details concerning them before meeting Kurokage, or where he found them, except Minori. For Murakumo, she lived in the slums with Yomi. For Yozakura, she lived in a household with 12 (or 13) siblings, who she helped care for until both their parents died, and she couldn't legally raise them herself due to being a minor. For Shiki, I think she mainly lived a rather wealthy lifestyle until her parents died in a car accident if I remember correctly. Yumi doesn't really have much, though it may be implied she lived a relatively normal life like Asuka until her parents were killed on a mission. There was a flashback that at least said that she first met Kurokage at her parents' funeral. With Minori, I don't think she got anything like that, or even where Kurokage found her.

That seems more or less to be the case, given how after her defeat by Hibari in the Hanzo story of SV, she said something along the line that if people would simply play, then people wouldn't need to fight, and she may have also mentioned how her parents wouldn't have had to die if that were so.

Minori's story in Bon Appetit had something along those lines, where Yozakura got mad at Minori for trying to make giant pancakes, and she ran off with Yozakura going after her. It was after their cook-off that they were able to make amends with each other. While it's true that it's simply a spinoff that I won't claim to be part of the canon, a scenario like that does sound like something that could actually happen in canon.

Marvelous isn't new to reussing assets (or any other company in the entertainment industrys), EV cribs a TON from both Versus and SK2 and another entry on the 3DS doesn't necessarily needs a huge budget either, they have the engine and the most important assets done.

We're beating a dead horse here but, why handwave it when you can easily sweep it under the rug with the same effort?

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Now for actual suggestions, I don't think a game with an entirely new cast is something viable at this point.

For one, people is just way too attached to the current cast. I mean, how many times the "SK2 DIDN'T SELL BECAUSE NO YUMI!!!!!" card has been played on this forum alone?

Add that including a new cast implies time spent developing them and building relationship (I don't want another Gessen or Hebijo) making the risk of franchise fatigue greater. But the most important factor is the format of the game.

THIS ISN'T A FIGHTING GAME so you can't mess significatively with the cast (and even the fighting games doesn't change their cast too much), you can add more characters but by doing that you will only fracture the fanbase and since this series is character driven you can only add so many characters before the writing quality comes crashing down.

An spinoff though, is a great option to play with the idea. It would also serve to gauge interest and reactions with the fandom so if the reactions is positive you can then try to fade out the original cast. AND EVEN THEN, I see impossible for Asuka and Homura to be removed from the cast.

They are our Nanoha and Fate or Sub Zero and Scorpion, they were the characters that shaped the franchise for better or worse and you can't have Senran Kagura without them.

SK2 did not reuse much of any assets, Nan did all the CG art, they made 3 separate DLC stories, much more thought in the gameplay and a lot more. It'd be on a much smaller scale if they ever decide to do something again to test a 3DS game to sell. They'd have to do a dekamori and just make a small spinoff to reap nearly all asset usage. I'd like the games to get better in multiple accounts. EV suffered from I think a lot of reused assets. The models and fanservice are much better though, but a ton of assets were reused.


Highly disagree about not having Asuka or Homura not be in a game. I like them but the every game doesn't need to be crimson/hanzo. I dont see why you can't add other characters. Just use the game to develop them. Dont just squish them all in like a versus game.  Asuka very little screentime in EV, it didnt really change anything. Less than the other Hanzos maybe. Submitting to Asuka and Homura have to be in every game severely limits the series and stories. Didnt Takaki say very recently that he'd like games with different characters? It's not like Asuka is Goku, where she needs to be in every inch of the series. They arent goku and vegeta, just a plain rivalry in a series with other characters that are also well liked.

Fighting games thrive by having HUGE casts and since the story is secondary at best for them you can put as many characters as you want without hurting other aspects from the game. According to the budget the cast can be periodically culled according to fan response or gradually fading out old characters.

I don't know why you think fighters need a static cast when every succesful franchise keeps changing/increasing casts with each new iteration. SF4 was mostly newcomers, the KOF series has one of the biggest cast on the industry and Mortal Kombat has been known by shaking its cast with every new game.



That ship already sailed. By putting all the characters on Versus the fanbase feels entitled to demand EVERY character possible on every new game (again see, the endless complaints against SK2). If Versus would've only had Gessen and Hebijo there wouldn't be any issue to change, split or outright discard the cast with each new game.



That's a great idea, but the japanese aren't big on Digital.

Even if the western fanbase were big enough to convince Takaki that digital is the way to go, there are too many issues (no western development team, coordination between branches, budget and so on) to make the effort worthwhile. Takaki did tried the idea with SK2 but well, just see the post following yours to see how well it went.



They have the characters fully designed, game system well defined, graphic engine able to take the most advantage from the system and experience with the hardware. That cuts preduction costs considerably, allowing to a better distribution of the budget.

And isn't like they have to improve massively the graphic aspect with every game. People praise EV non-stop but objetively is a pretty mediocre looking for a PS4 game, so as long the fans only care for pretty girls they would never have the need to deliver visual masterpieces like Mortal Kombat X or Arkham Knight.




C'mon man, you can't be THIS dense.

Who's saying they need to be the focus? Hell, when I said they needed all of their teams?

Fate and Nanaho haven't been the focus of its franchise for YEARS and despite that they keep being an important element of it. Same with Scorpion and Sub Zero, they have been on the series since the beginning and only with MK9 they got prominent roles on the story, before that they were just background characters.

The point is that they NEED to be on the games otherwise it won't be a true part of the series