The Gaming Mole: Brad_Ry He was absent in VF4 because he was one of hardest characters to create in VF3 and reworking him for VF4's engine would've been very hard too not to mention expensive and Vanilla VF4 is probably the VF game with the lowest development budget in the series. Finally with VF5R AM2 had the technology to make Taka work without wasting too much money they even had to make him a little smaller to make development easier.
