Second edit: Now that it is nearing a whole year since I picked this game up, WHAT THE FU^K!!!
Why is it so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard to make the game correctly. I WANT THE FEATURES THAT MAKE THE COMPLETE GAME. ITS WHAT I PAID FOR!!! ♥♥♥ YOU TECMO for bastardizing the greatest franchise you own just to make a few console nerds ♥♥♥♥♥♥ happy that they have the best version. ♥♥♥ YOU ♥♥♥ YOU ♥♥♥ YOU ♥♥♥ YOU! I can't say it enough. You raped your best customers so you could keep a couple fan boy loli gaggers happy. UNACCEPTABLE.

Edit: So in just a little over a week from now it will have been two months since my original post here and the game is in still much the same shape it was then. Still no soft engine or destructible clothing and I understand online will be coming but hurry it up, you should never ship an incomplete product. Oh and the prices for the costume packages now total out over 250 or so dollars. It's getting a tad bit to be a joke. I like that there isn't a market place in the same sense that csgo or tf2 have going for them but what they do offer is seriously a joke at those prices. I wonder if they are meeting their ideas of success with sales on those DLCs. I would love to hear thousands have already bought them. I just wouldn't believe it.

So there is many strong points with this game, but since I must be critical and I am more than a little furious with the company's decision, I can not recommend this title for purchase. First I will discuss the good and then I will get in to the nitty gritty as to why I can't currently recommend this title.

As a long time fan of the series, sex appeal has always been top two of reasons as why to play this game. Well DOA5LR is no disappointment. It lives up to all its fame and offers a roster that many titles can't compete with. I did preorder and with that came a wealth of outfits. I mean outfits for days. Many of them are fun and for all to see but there lay a few awesome barely covering outfits in there as well. The other of the top two reasons is fighting. DOA5LR offers many different styles of fighting and it is all so fluid. Reminds me of old school tekken 2 or tag. It really brings back some good memories of fighting games from the past but with a super sexy twist.

I don't want to sit here and praise a game that actually could have been beyond amazing. Instead it has turned in to a watered down half assed port, with missing features entirely to boot. One of the glorious reasons to own a pc is for control. Well... You are stuck with the preset resolutions they offer, admittedly they do offer a 4k res but where is my 1440p res. They also completely left out the Soft engine, which gives the skin a much more pleasant and realistic look to it. NO DESTRUCTABLE CLOTHING!!! Are you kidding me! Forget the fact that you left out a super important engine that would perform better on a pc than a console but you also took out the destructable clothing!!! This is absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. At the time of my purchase it was pretty much a given that this would be the difinitive version. Then after the purchase came this sneaky update message. I am beyond disappointed and will not be able to recommend this to anyone until the Destructible Clothing and the Soft Engine are implemented. Those are HUGE features to not implement in the PC release and will be a reason I won't support any more of your games.

Further add insult to injury. Have you seen the prices for the Steam DLC costume packages. For the current two sets it is $119.99. Out of your damn minds. I mean out of your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ minds. I want to buy them but for closer to 90% off their asking price. More like $10 bucks per collection. Yeah that really is a middle finger to PC gamers. The $35 dollar price for the game itself is beyond fair but this other dlc stuff is wonky tonky.

TECMO, Team Ninja or whoever makes the decisions. Please please please get your ♥♥♥♥ together. Add Destructible Clothing, Soft Engine and more customizable options in settings like resolution and Anti Aliasing options. Let us enjoy the game we want to. Until then I will remain strong and not recommend this title. Hope you change your mind and fix this game.

Edit: So I can't get back at you in the way you got all of us, but here are the videos they want you to pay 64.99 for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAniM8XACVQ Jerks.

Changing my review because... CDPR has been cleaning this hot mess of a title up. I thought I may have lost my original game save because of a soft lock bug where Goro would call and then just awkwardly stare at me and not let me progress further in game. Well, either CDPR removed that quest altogether or they fixed it. Because upon loading my save state before it got auto written over with the new playthrough, I popped it up and no Goro call.

I think it goes without saying, this is a demanding title for most hardware out there. I am blessed to be playing this at 4k with an HDR1000 ips panel (PG27UQ) with a i9-9900k all cores clocked at 5.2Ghz with a ASUS Strix 3090 OC. Basically a unicorn of a system in today's pc market. Most people will need to lower their graphic settings or do some tweaking magic, but if you are able to experience this game in all of its glory with all the bells and whistles, well a lesser man than me once said, "Hold on to your butts." - samuel jackson from JurASSic Park.