JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle

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Overall, despite its shortcomings, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle is a colorful spectacle that both fans of the anime and future fans of the anime will want to pick up and experience, even if just to watch a man use only his upper body strength after hopping off his horse to hold his own in combat. It’s funky, gorgeous, and oozing with style. And where it comes up short, it simultaneously delivers in terms of fanservice and content. You won’t be putting it down for quite some time, unless, you know, you need some time to eat a few more breads in your life.

JoJo’s exhibits a flagrant disregard for rules - both visual and mechanical - and for that, I truly love it. It can, at times, seem completely alien and imbalanced, but even then, it manages such consummate showmanship, it’s difficult to fault it too harshly. It is by no means a comprehensive, or polished fighting game, but it is a uniquely enjoyable one; exhibiting rare style and creativity in battle, even as it struggles to meet the standards set by other modern fighters.

A long running manga series that spans generations of different bloodlines, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is just as, er, bizarre as its name suggests. The crazy creation has enjoyed something of a Western popularity surge in recent years, which has resulted in the localisation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle – a one-on-one fighter produced by the ever competent CyberConnect2. The Japanese developer is well known for its impressive record with other licensed properties, but how well has it managed to adapt this particularly proud brand?

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle is a worthwhile experience for fighting game fans, JoJo fans, and fighting game JoJo fans. It’s not the deepest or most cohesive package around, but it doesn't need to be -- it was crafted with the fans in mind.

There are multiplayer modes too, such as your typical local versus mode. Online mode is a bit of a weird affair though. You don’t actually fight against other players online, but rather you fight against AI-controlled opponents to unlock more items. You can then customise your own AI character, who other players then proceed to fight against. It’s very strange – it feels like a badly designed free-to-play game that you have to keep checking on to see how your AI character is doing. For those who are put off by this weird, AI ghost kind of system, there is typical Ranked and Player matches too....