so consider this more of a mini review since the review itself is already done. I’m just here to tackle the Yumi DLC content itself cause I got curious as to what made people say that the Yumi DLC story was something of a let down compared to Miyabi’s DLC story. while we won’t see that for a few weeks or maybe next week the fact remains after playing through all 10 missions and seeing the story… oh jesus, what the hell did you do Takaki? let’s knock out this mini review.

okay as with the main review the gaming aspects are fine and the art and character portraits are fine so we’re just gonna focus on the story here. so as i said in the review itself this DLC story really has a lot of continuity problems and the way this story was handled was pretty bad and as seen with the season 2 anime doesn’t seem to know or understand it’s continued story in shinovi versus. issue 1 is the change of Kurokage’s time of death where from what i can recall in shinovi versus and the season 2 anime seemingly backing this up was that he was still alive during those points in the story. still dying but he was alive for a bit to realize what was most important in his life. Yumi in Shinovi versus started off interestingly enough where her views were very narrow minded and had little to no tolerance of what’s considered “evil” and had to learn from Asuka on how to grow and expand her horizons more as did the other gessen girls for the most part… well depending on which one since with shiki, minori, and murakumo it’s hard to tell what was their development and which was them just messing around. so anyway yeah there’s issue number 1. next we have the whole what most people call the retcon effect. pretty much a lot of what made Yumi stand out originally in shinovi versus is drastically altered or removed to make her be more what she is right now currently in the present day and by doing that Takaki effectively made her character into the “Mary Sue” type of character where apparently she can never make the wrong choice. She never would do anything bad. She would never make the kind of choices that can morally wrong. I could go on but you get the idea. instead that whole struggle is passed off to Yozakura. I don’t have a problem with that but the issue still remains rather than have the entire group of Gessen suffer through the loss of Kurokage and tie it in to how they start off in shinovi versus Takaki pretty much made Yumi the only who while confused and suffering at the death of her grandfather practically doesn’t make any choices that reflect how she was in shinovi versus.

From what I can remember Ryoubi and Ryouna pretty much dropped out of Gessen by their own choice to go to Hebijo to kill Miyabi but that also takes retcon change where because they took away a lot of Yumi’s original character mindset in how she gets introduced her whole “Evil must not be tolerated” mindset is not a factor as she pretty much lets Ryoubi and Ryouna drop out and go to Hebijo. a lot of what happens goes against the stuff that happens in shinovi versus’ storyline and even if we’re to take this as a “perhaps this is to include them in a retelling of deep crimson” which you to ask why? what exactly would change from the original by doing that? it’s called Deep Crimson cause it had to do with original 10 girls and mainly Asuka and Homura’s views in following what they believe in and introducing Kagura and Naraku. speaking of whom yeah we got Naraku randomly appearing even though there shouldn’t be a reason for them to appear and same with Hikage where now we’re supposed to believe she knew about Yumi the whole time and the Hebijo girls at this point were built up to have had stronger motivations than most good ninjas. so yeah Yumi winning all these fights story wise and having no actual struggle and somehow being the only one to make the morally right choices is something of a stab to what takaki had put in originally in shinovi versus. so now we have Yumi with pretty much 3 conflicting backgrounds from an anime, and 1 from the games before Burst ReNewal, and now we have this DLC story in Renwal.

I knew this was gonna happen at some point with Takaki but man does it really show how badly he panders to this one character to where he’s trying to make she has no faults or flaws whatsoever and can never make a bad choice. it also shows He really should just stick to game designing and stay out of story boarding and character writing cause if there was ever a point to tell the man he’s either lost his touch in writing or just never had it to begin with and had a lucky break up till a certain point then this is definitely the time to be telling him that. if he can’t keep his story straight then I’m definitely worried about what’s gonna happen in SK 7’s story in the future since this is kind of a bad sign for him. I guess we’ll see how the miyabi story holds up when it comes out unless someone wants to spoil that here right now but for now I think we can say Takaki has hit a wall with Yumi given what he’s been doing with her lately and it’s becoming more noticeable.