Alright, a quick rant on Microsoft's X-Box. As some may know, a while back, a few months ago, David left the X-Box on. Alright, David saved his game and left to do something with his girlfriend, presuming that someone else would see that it had saved and turn it off. Well, no one did, and the X-Box overheated. The typically green glow of the machine turned red, it informed us to contact technical support, and it wouldn't give back the disc it held. Anyways, eventually we persuaded Tech Support to listen to us and finally I got around to actually calling them, whereupon I was told that it should sit on carpet, but rather "atop a shelf". Alright, interestingly enough, this seems to have worked. Somewhere better 3 months of idleness and placing it on top of a former debate tub seems to have given the green machine the will to live again, at least, it hasn't been freezing for the two games I've tested so far.

Alright, so moving on, I'm going to rant about Omega, cause he pisses me off. I was testing to see if Dead or Alive 3 was going to freeze the machine, as it had been doing when the X-Box was on the carpet, so I just went into Story Mode on Hard and quickly blazed through as a random character, German High School Dropout Karate Uniform Wearing Karate fighting girl. Anyways, for those who don't know, DoA3 is a pure combat fighting game. There are no weapons, no projectiles, nothing but a life bar and 4 buttons. Punch, Kick, Grab, and Free. Free technically is a "do-nothing" button, but you can hold it down to guard. Anyways, Omega is not the proper End Boss for a game where you can't even choose to jump rather than Clockwise Z-Dodge every time (ie, sometimes double UP merits a Z-Dodge clockwise, othertimes it gets you to jump, at least versus Omega, otherwise you don't even have the option of a jump). Anyways, as I was saying. Omega is a bad bad decsion of a boss. Firstly, he has a weapon, secondly it's a damn big weapon, thirdly, he has unblockables, magic; basically a full assortment of things that while you expect a last boss to have, he shouldn' have all of them at once. So, the rundown of the Omega issue.

Firstly, his stage: It's a small ruined battlefield, engulfed in flames, which means that the stage blurs slightly just about every three second, which is less a cool effect, and more a eye damaging annoyance. There are a few random wooden ruins (destroyed karts or Japanese wooden gateways it looks like) on the field as well.

Secondly, his repotoire: Alright, his attacks are, if you consider the stage to be of distance 1.5X, you starting a distance of X away from him:
Physical
1)A Linebacker shoulder charge, knockback of distance X
2)Spinning his blades before him in a whirlwind, knockback of .5X and slight damage even if you don't touch him.
3)Overhead swing, knockback of .5X.
4)Grab your head, swing you around a few times, slam you on the ground .5X away, massive damage, close to 1/4 life.
5)Spins blade behind himself and either a) does 2) or a 5 hit blade combo for X knockback.
Additionally 5) is unbreakable. Although he spins his blade behind him, any attacks made against him neither prevent his attack nor deal any damage.
Magical (all three of these attacks have the same leadup, meaning you don't know which he'll cast):
1) Fires a volley of 1-6 magical bolts. Yes, you read that right, not only does he have a weapon when no one else does but he has ranged attacks on top of that. The bolts can be avoided only if you are lying on the ground, which occurs within 3 hits of the bolts, so fortunately, no matter how many he fires you can only be hit by 3 or the number he fired, whichever is less, but it always leaves you on the ground. I haven't tried holding free to guard against them, but somehow I doubt it'll work. You can Z-Dodge around them, however if he's casting great than 2 odds are strongly against the X-Box controller responding fast enough to let you avoid them all.
2) Launches a line of fire which he them sweeps across the screen, starting from one side and moving across to the other. I've yet to find a way to dodge this attack save for attacking Omega before he can get it off which is hard as well. Knocks you down.
3) A shockwave of wind, X knockback. Can be dodged if you miraculously manage to jump at the right time.
Note: All his magical attacks are effective up to a range of the size of the screen, so no good backing away.
To make things even better. Everytime he gets knocked down, there is an automatic shockwave as per Magic 3) and when the it reaches the end of the screen he is standing again. Also, Omega is immune to grapples, he takes damage from a grab as if it were a punch, but nothing more.

David and I have beaten the game with every character on Easy, but nothing on higher difficulties. I lost 50 straight battles to Omega before giving up.