Believe it or not, but the interactive stages in Dead or Alive 5 were actually inspired by Naughty Dog's Uncharted series.
Team Ninja's Yosuke Hayashi explained to CVG (via VG247) how the studio was "really inspired" by Naughty Dog's way of handling the interactive stages.
"Specifically it was the whole stage crumbling, and things falling off, and the characters rolling down, grabbing on to the ledges in Uncharted," he said.
"We also wanted to hint at that flow you get into in Uncharted, where you know what something massive is about to happen. In Uncharted you fall off a cliff, or off a boat and things like that, and we thought moments like that would be great in DOA5's fighting system. We got really inspired by that, and we've tried to do something very similar."
Yosuke added that this was a way for Team Ninja to pay their respects to Naughty Dog.
"As creators we were inspired, and it's a good opportunity right now to tell our players about this. It's something they might not notice, but we really respect Naughty Dog, their work is fantastic.
