Pillar Men enable a Mode that increases their strength for a short period of time but makes them vulnerable when their time runs out. Some Stands stay out permanently while other Stands are summoned and recalled during the battle. Some characters employ Stands, which are like an astral projection connected to them that gives them unique attacks. Hamon characters charge their energy to power up their special attacks, while Vampiric characters drain the energy from other characters to increase their stamina. It can’t be said that the players aren’t varied though, since each character fights with one of five specific styles.
Not only that, but the framerate never slows down, making the experience so fluid that I suspect that some players could get motion sickness. Since several special moves give you close-ups of the characters, the detail makes the game look spectacular. While the game characters are all 3D, the textures are so detailed that it has a hand-drawn look. Their work transforming Naruto looks great, and All Star Battle does as well. My guess is that it was deemed it would be too difficult to summarize the series with such a long history and bring over here.ĬyberConnect2 was tasked with creating All Star Battle, and their work on the Naruto Ultimate Ninja games made them a natural fit to successfully translate another manga series to a video game. You might have thought with all the popularity of the supernatural and vampires lately that some translation would have been released here, especially with the anime explosion in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. It follows the British Joestars family for several generations as they encounter characters with supernatural abilities like Vampirism, projections, and focused energy. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is a manga that started in 1986 and has continued since then in a popular weekly Japanese magazine. When I heard that Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle was coming to the US, I was excited, but I still wondered if I would have the same reservations as what I had before.
When it became available on XBLA and PSN, I checked it out again and enjoyed it more. Since I was unfamiliar with the source material and the control scheme was much different from the fighters available then, I don’t feel like I was able to appreciate it. While I love the Dreamcast and have a decent collection of its games, I have always regretted trading my copy of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.