JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle
Characters from the manga's story arcs meet in stylized one-on-one battles built around their signature abilities and poses.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.3 / 10
About this game
Characters from the manga's story arcs meet in stylized one-on-one battles built around their signature abilities and poses.
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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure games bring Hirohiko Araki’s characters and unusual powers into RPGs, fighting games and arena action. Depending on the entry, you guide a party, learn a fighter’s distinctive moves or pair characters for spectacular team attacks, with the manga’s poses and personality shaping the battles.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle excels through animation, color, and supers faithfully capture the manga, although movement, hit behavior, and balance lack competitive consistency limits this specific release.
Its greatest success is translation: characters, poses, color shifts, sound effects, and supernatural abilities from across the manga become immediately recognizable interactive spectacle. Individual mechanics give the roster personality, but movement, hit behavior, and defensive rhythm are not consistently refined. Thin story delivery, repeated unlock work, long PS3 loading, and the original campaign energy structure weaken sustained play. Overall, its strongest qualities are animation, color, and supers faithfully capture the manga and character-specific powers create distinctive matchups. Its material limitations are movement, hit behavior, and balance lack competitive consistency and loading and the original campaign structure interrupt play. This score covers only the ps3 release represented by this catalog record; it excludes later ports, emulator enhancements, and mechanical conversion of any external outlet score. The cited release evidence supports the assessed mechanics, content, presentation, and platform-specific usability.
Strengths
- Animation, color, and supers faithfully capture the manga
- Character-specific powers create distinctive matchups
Weaknesses
- Movement, hit behavior, and balance lack competitive consistency
- Loading and the original campaign structure interrupt play
Who it is for: JoJo fans who prioritize character fidelity and spectacle over tournament-level polish.
Play notes: Its balance, loading, and solo structure are weak by serious fighting-game standards.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Character-specific powers create distinctive matchups; Loading and the original campaign structure interrupt play. | Reviewed | 6.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Animation, color, and supers faithfully capture the manga; Movement, hit behavior, and balance lack competitive consistency. | Reviewed | 7.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Character-specific powers create distinctive matchups; Movement, hit behavior, and balance lack competitive consistency. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Movement, hit behavior, and balance lack competitive consistency; Loading and the original campaign structure interrupt play. | Reviewed | 6.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- CyberConnect2
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco
- Release date
- 2013
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Fighting · Primary genre
- Tags
- Comic and Manga AdaptationAnime StylePlayer versus PlayerCombosMelee CombatMartial ArtsArcade Style
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 3Worldwide2013
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