JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven's New PS4 Trailer Has a Battle Tendency

Is their a consumer base for something like this?

Not trying to offend, I just always wonder how games like this, and Catastic Damage and so forth actually sell any copies.

3D fighters, not really my thing. I really liked the PS3 game which was all in all a solid 2D fighter even if it was a license game.

@QuigleyKetch None taken. haha Even for someone who likes JoJo, they were certainly a lot of "WTH" moments when I watched the anime. It's definitely an acquired taste. lol That being said, I thought the first game back on the PS3 was a lot of fun.

@QuigleyKetch : i understand your perplexity.
To answer your question, yes.
JoJo is a much beloved series in Japan, and Europeas well.
It does make a lot more sense if you know it (like eveything, i guess) but even among the weirdo stuff Japan culture produces ( i don't mean anything bad, just that many given facts in Japan's culture are difficult to really catch even for former Otaku like me), it still shines as a truly unique and bizarre series.
Just as an example of how strong JoJo's influence can be, many of the Street Fighter and Tekken characters are heavily inspired by characters of JoJo, developers words.
And the idea of the stand, a sort of avatar fighter projected by the owner psyche, has been used a gazillion of times, most notably in the Persona series.
I could go on all day, tbh.
It is, though, an aquired taste, as someone already said.

@QuigleyKetch I know other users have already explained the appeal of JoJo, but here's a more general answer to your question:

We're getting a lot of niche Japanese games on PS4 these days because publishers like Bandai Namco and NIS America are keen to get their games out of Japan, where the console business has shrunk considerably. Couple this with how popular the PS4 is here in the West, and localising more games seems like a logical choice.

Also worth noting that anime-based games will likely always find some Western sales purely because these properties already have dedicated fan bases. As long as the manga/anime that the game is based upon has a decent following, the game usually does just enough to make localisation worth it. This is especially true thanks to digital marketplaces such as the PlayStation Store.

As for indie games that are usually a bit weird and made by just a few people, they don't need to make as much money as bigger developers do with their retail games. Most indie titles will never sell as much as the latest AAA blockbuster, but again, they don't need to make a massive amount of money because they probably didn't have a huge budget to begin with.

In short, there's a market for just about any game these days as long as it's not absolutely rubbish - it just depends on the expectations of the publisher.

@ShogunRok Thats completely true and indie games can think out of the box being more original.

@Bliquid Didn't know that. Now that you've mentioned it, Guile's hairstyle does resemble Rudol von Stroheim's hairstyle. lol

I'm currently reading Part 2 actually. The game on PS3 was good, so I might get this one. But that Capcom fighter on Part 3 is more of my taste.

@WanderingBullet : actually, the story goes that Guile's haircut was initially inspired by Polnareff's, then it was stretched out as a joke and sticked due to its resemblance with Stroheim's. Also, it seems that the name Guile derived from Polnareff's mortal enemy, J. Gail. Just the tip of the iceberg of how much influence can Araki's work can have.

@Bliquid

That's pretty interesting considering that a lot of JoJo's characters names are taken or inspired from Western culture which is pretty funny.

Oh, I would say that Paul's hairstyle from Tekken resembles Polnareff's more but that J. Geil tidbit is pretty neat. Thanks.

@Bliquid There are even some JoJo references inside King of the Fighters, as well. It's amazing how influential this anime is, and I never realized it until I started watching/reading it myself. In fact, Rose from Street Fighter was entirely based off of Mary. As well as Benimaru's appearance being inspired by Polnareff.