Christie may not have the Bullet costume but she got another one for ass lovers:
Lei-Fang’s is super obvious, but I do actually like the fact that they changed their hair to match the characters they are impersonating more than most.
No. If it was in Itagaki’s terms, yes it would be. But since Hayashi basically decided that the characters are allowed into DOA and not just Ryu, then it’s not really a crossover but a true merging. It’s like saying the characters of Fatal Fury are in a crossover with King of Fighters because despite the fact that the stories themselves are different(alternate timeline/universe whatever regarding Geese’s fate), the characters always existed within both games and timelines.
The merging of Ninja Gaiden and DoA always been a tough pill to swallow for me. In Gaiden, Ryu and company regularly battle demons, yokai and other non-human threats and process every powerful nippo. The threats in DoA don’t compare. They need to scale down the characters to make them work.