
Games like Guilty Gear Strive and The King of Fighters XV finally saw modern Japanese fighters moving away from the inconsistent days of delay-based netcode and upgrading to allow for nearly lagless online matches. Fighting games have been making great strides to finally feel like they belong on modern consoles as of late. And while the battles can be full of typical jank, they’re incredibly fun, and every character feels distinct, with fighting styles representing the different parts of the manga series.īut issues arise when you take all that online. Taunts, attacks, and poses pull moments straight from the series and animate them in beautifully stylish cel-shaded graphics. The characters look and feel as if they jumped right off the original manga. While some of these fighter changes are for the worse, removing some of the more interesting and creative aspects of different characters, the overall package here is great.ĪSB R feels like the perfect ode to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, just as it did in 2013. Not only are there more characters, but old fighters are updated, and new attack systems like partner assist attacks are added. But it drops the ball in one core area.Īll-Star Battle R takes the systems put in place in the original ASB and adds to them. It’s fantastic for JoJo’s fans and fighting game fans alike. On all ends, it’s a great, albeit very janky fighting game, which is the norm for anime fighters. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is a new version of the original 2013 fighting game based in the JoJo’s universe.
