JOJOS BIZZARE ADVENTURE – PS1 [PlayStation]

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Based on the popular comic-book series,
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure blasts its way onto home game consoles with fast fighting action. This high-speed arcade fantasy fighter pits characters against one another and introduces the new stand attack, which unleashes each character’s materialized mental energy upon the opponent to deliver devastating results. Animation in classic Japanese comic-book style and Capcom’s signature gameplay combine in a game worthy of a place in any fighting-game fan’s library.

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Based on a wildly popular Japanese
anime series,
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a fighting game that features 18 weird characters, most of which have a ghostlike spirit friend called a Stand that can be used to perform special moves.
As in other Capcom games, the characters in JoJo’s can pull off super combos that are easy to execute, devastating, and often hilarious. In one case, a belly dancer can summon a tidal wave of ’57 Chevy cars to knock her foe on his back. Together with their Stands, characters can even double-team opponents, racking up lots of hits with relatively little effort.
Each fighter has his or her own back-story culled from the anime series, and a super story mode forces players to switch characters as the plot unfolds. While JoJo’s might not have the depth of other Capcom games, it certainly makes up for its simplicity with an unmistakably odd and fast-paced style. –Robb Guido
Pros:

Colorful anime graphics
Addictive gameplay

Cons:

Simplistic controls might deter veterans

Review

Based on a famous manga (Japanese for “comic book”), Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure follows the story of Jotaro and his friends as they travel throughout the Far East in search of his mother’s captor, Dio. Filling more than 40 volumes, the story of Jotaro Josuke’s family (hence the name “Jojo”) spans multiple generations and is one of Japan’s longest-running series ever. The linchpin of the storyline is the relationship between the main characters and their “stands.” Stands are psychic partners that enhance the characters’ own physical powers and are something akin to guardian angels. Fittingly, it was Capcom and its CPS-III technology that came along and made a 2D fighting game that was not only able to capture the detailed artwork and character designs, but was able to handle the extra animation involved with each character’s stand. Unlike a game such as Street Fighter III, which used all of the CPS-III board’s extra horsepower to render the massive amounts of animation in that game, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure used it to animate four characters onscreen at once (two characters with one stand each). When it was announced that this game would be coming home to the PlayStation, which boasts all of 2 megs of onboard RAM, many were expecting a very poor port, with large sacrifices in character animation and speed. It happened with X-Men vs. Street Fighter, and despite the decent port of Street Fighter Alpha 3, things looked grim for the PlayStation version of Jojo. Amazingly Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure comes home in extremely playable form. Better even than the PlayStation port of SF Alpha 3, Bizarre Adventure retains the arcade version’s speed and playability, if not all the animation. Though some frames of animation appear to have been left on the cutting-room floor, if you haven’t played the arcade version, you will never notice. Bizarre Adventure plays fast and controls great, even with the PlayStation’s controller. One reason for this is the simplified button layout, which maps the weak, medium, and strong attacks to the square, triangle, and circle button, while X activates your stand. Your stand is used to block attacks, offer additional attacks, and absorb damage. However, due to the symbiotic nature of your character and his or her stand, should your stand take damage, you too will share in the punishment. While your stand automatically appears for certain attacks, you can summon it “permanent

UPC: 013388210466