A remaster complete with additional features, characters, and combat adjustments, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R remains an excellent adaptation of the popular anime and manga property at its core. The attention to detail is often outstanding, with the game referencing all kinds of interactions and events from Hirohiko Araki's original work. It's a cliche when discussing anime-based titles, but this really is a love letter to everything JoJo.
The playable roster consists of a whopping 51 characters, and the variety is very, very impressive. For every combatant to feel fairly unique across such a huge cast is a dream for JoJo fans, and casually exploring each character's options is a joy.
Get stuck in, though, and All Star Battle R is probably one of the most technical anime-based fighting games of modern times. It's got combos, cancels, assists, sidesteps, specials, supers — everything that you'd expect from a fighter teetering on the edge of appeasing the competitive scene. There's a depth here that most anime adaptations simply swerve away from, and learning the ins and outs of the system can be really rewarding.
On a mechanical level this is a rock solid fighting game, and a decent amount of single-player content means that you can ease yourself into the experience before you hop online. But unfortunately, the online offering is where All Star Battle R falls flat. The game's delay-based netcode is incredibly inconsistent, various network errors are far too common, and — perhaps most unforgivable of all — there's no rematch option once a fight has finished. It feels like an online mode straight out of 2014, back when the original All Star Battle launched on the PS3 — and that's just not good enough here in 2022.
It's such a shame that the game's online suite is so behind the times, because All Star Battle R is an otherwise brilliant ode to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. A technical fighter that's always deserved a second chance.
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If anyone's got any questions I can try to answer them. Just @ me.
Jojo wasn’t that well known when this game was first released on the PS3 those years ago. But that has definitely changed now.
Yeah the Online is terrible. I waited 10 min for my one and only online match!
Mechanically I don't like how you can't move forward and do attacks at the same time, so I punch air a ton of times!
But there's a ton of fan service with the different lines and attacks and the game looks great with the art style! There are a ton of characters and the attacks vary wildly!
I just wish Arcade mode had more and better rewards and the "Story" mode had a bit more story to it to be honest...it's just random battles!
No rollback netcode now buy. This is a bad move to tell people that it will not have a rollback netcode and have no plans to add it in. Delay-based netcode is outdated and unreliable. If they don't have plans make them!
@shonenjump86 Yeah the original release was well ahead of its time. JoJo exploded here in the West just a couple of years later!
wow online seems to be the only thing wrong with the game. Was that a 3 point deduction or less? Just watching stone ocean part 2. Marvel and DC could really learn a lot about how to create realistic/ practical powers from the Jojo franchise. Not everyone needs a Hadomehameha.
I’m enjoying the game but I dislike they took the story mode out. It wasn’t nothing special and was very low key with just text but it gives you reminder’s on what happens in each part especially if it’s been some time since you watch the anime. The online I wish we had rollback.
is Error x5 supposed to be the Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora?!?
wow : )
@ShogunRok would you happen to know if online play is region locked?
@Constable_What It isn't, but the delay-based netcode means that trying to play people outside of your country can be really rough.
@ShogunRok
Is the story mode still just a few lines of text before/after the fights?
@ShogunRok Appreciate it!
Is this game some kind of Jojo reference?
@Lup They actually removed the old story mode, which is a slightly strange decision. Instead, you get a very loose 'story' mode where you just take part in various fights from the different JoJo arcs. There are more fights now (and more characters because of the roster increase), but the story text isn't there any more.
@ShogunRok
That's weird, but I guess it's not much that's lost. Thanks for the answer!
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