The game was the winner of the 2012 "Japan Game Awards" and was scored 40/40 by Famitsu W. The game includes major characters from each part, from Phantom Blood to JoJolion, eventually including the protagonist from Baoh: The Visitor as a guest character, for a total of 32 in-game characters and 9 DLC W characters a combined 41 characters in all.Īlong with the anime, it was announced on Jto coincide with the 25th anniversary of the series. The game was released exclusively for the PlayStation 3 on August 29, 2013. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle ( ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 オールスターバトル, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Ōru Sutā Batoru) is a fighting game based on the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise, developed by CyberConnect2 W and published by Namco Bandai Games W. For the remastered game, see JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R. I’m pickier in 2022, and I know that I don’t want to spend time mastering a fighting game if I can’t show off online.This article is for the original fighting game. What’s frame rate? It all looks fine to me!” “Wow, I can play online at the expense of a bit of lag. I sank tons of hours in the original despite its shoddy online integration because back then I didn’t know any better back then. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is an excellent fan service fighter with plenty of room for competitive fun - it’s just one that is best enjoyed offline. Image used with permission by copyright holder Unfortunately, it seems that no lessons were learned from the short lifespan of that title. This same story happened in the previous JoJo’s fighting game JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven. This isn’t acceptable in an age where online play is king, and not everyone has people to play with locally. Characters move seconds after inputs are tapped in other times, it can feel like you’re watching a slideshow. The delay I experienced while playing was so bad that I felt like I was playing underwater. All-Star Battle R completely ignores that progress and gives us a great product that hardly functions online. Street Fighter 6 looks to be taking things even further, giving amazing presentation and most likely a great online experience to match. Games like Guilty Gear Strive and The King of Fighters XV finally saw modern Japanese fighters moving away from the inconsistent days of delay-based netcode and upgrading to allow for nearly lagless online matches. Fighting games have been making great strides to finally feel like they belong on modern consoles as of late. Image used with permission by copyright holderīut issues arise when you take all that online. And while the battles can be full of typical jank, they’re incredibly fun, and every character feels distinct, with fighting styles representing the different parts of the manga series.
Taunts, attacks, and poses pull moments straight from the series and animate them in beautifully stylish cel-shaded graphics. The characters look and feel as if they jumped right off the original manga.
While some of these fighter changes are for the worse, removing some of the more interesting and creative aspects of different characters, the overall package here is great.ĪSB R feels like the perfect ode to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, just as it did in 2013. Not only are there more characters, but old fighters are updated, and new attack systems like partner assist attacks are added. Image used with permission by copyright holderĪll-Star Battle R takes the systems put in place in the original ASB and adds to them.
It’s fantastic for JoJo’s fans and fighting game fans alike. On all ends, it’s a great, albeit very janky fighting game, which is the norm for anime fighters. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is a new version of the original 2013 fighting game based in the JoJo’s universe.