Voice Actor(s):
Yoji Ueda
Voice Actor(s):
Ayako Kawasumi
Voice Actor(s):
Masashi Sugawara
Voice Actor(s):
Hiroshi Naka
Voice Actor(s):
Taketora
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 オールスターバトル, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Ōru Sutā Batoru) is a fighting game based on the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise, developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game was released exclusively for the PlayStation 3 on August 29, 2013 in Japan, April 25, 2014[1] in Europe, and April 29, 2014 in North America.
All-Star Battle and its downloadable content were removed from the European PlayStation Store in early 2018, with the Japanese and North American editions following suit on August 2, 2022. As a result, the game's online functionality has been terminated.[2]
A remastered version titled All-Star Battle R was announced during the PlayStation State of Play event on March 9, 2022 and released worldwide in early September 2022. The remaster features 10 new playable characters, several new modes, updated voice acting, anime-accurate color schemes, and minor changes to the game's mechanics.
All-Star Battle was announced on July 5, 2012 alongside the anime in a press conference for Hirohiko Araki JoJo Exhibition 2012 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the series.[3] The game includes major characters from each of the series's eight arcs, with the protagonist of Baoh the Visitor eventually added as a guest character.
All-Star Battle was the winner of the 2012 Japan Game Awards and received a 40/40 score from Famitsu, making it both the only licensed video game and the only fighting game to receive a perfect score from the magazine.
The Japanese animation studio Graphinica was in charge of some of the character modeling and 3D motion.[4] In order to reproduce Araki's unique art style in the game, a proprietary shading engine called "JOJO Shading Requiem" was developed. The name 'Requiem' comes from the fact that the initial shading program was discarded and reborn.[5] In addition, to express the 'JoJo-esque' action in terms of motion, the game was deliberately created at 30 frames per second instead of 60 frames per second. However, it was changed to 60 frames per second in its remaster, All-Star Battle R.
All-Star Battle released with a standard version and limited edition "Gold Experience Box". The Gold Experience Box included the game, a golden plate engraved with an illustration by Hirohiko Araki of Giorno Giovanna and Gold Experience as well as an acrylic case, a DXF Jotaro Kujo and Star Platinum figure, and the official soundtrack on a CD resembling the DISC of Star Platinum extracted by Whitesnake.
Both the limited edition and pre-orders of the standard edition included a download code for Yoshikage Kira on a booklet designed to look like Hayato Kawajiri affected by Heaven's Door. Italian pre-order versions of the game shipped with an alternative "From Italy with Style" version of the box art featuring Giorno Giovanna and Gold Experience.
All-Star Battle is a one-on-one 2.5D fighting game with 3D cel-shaded characters. Gameplay in All-Star Battle shares similarities with Heritage for the Future, and boasts a wide variety of different styles, rules, and abilities among each individual fighter.
Like a typical fighting game, the player wins a round by either draining the opponent's health or by having more health than the opponent when time runs out. Battles can either be one round, the best out of three rounds, or the best out of five rounds.
The game uses six main buttons: light attack, medium attack, heavy attack, rotate/dodge, "Style", and taunt. Buttons can be reconfigured in the game's Option Mode. Combos can be chained with light, medium, and heavy attacks.
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More taunts and taunt voice lines can be unlocked in Campaign Mode and set to a character in Customize Mode.
For every character, the Easy Beat almost always follows a combo structure of:
The only cases where Easy Beat does not end in an HHA is when the character's HHA is not a standard striking attack, but rather a special power-up, counter, or delayed command throw.
The HUD has three main gauges, although some characters have their own unique gauge as well.
Health: The Health/Stamina gauge displays how much damage a character can receive before being K.O. or Retired.
Guard: The Guard gauge displays how long a character can continuously block incoming attacks. If too much Guard damage is sustained and the gauge is depleted, a "Guardbreak" will occur, shattering a character's defense which leaves them staggered and vulnerable to attack. Successfully executing Stylish Evades also depletes the Guard Gauge in large portions. If no Guard damage is taken for a period of time, the Guard Gauge will slowly regenerate.
Heart Heat Gauge: The Heart Heat Gauge (shortened to "HHG") is a special meter that allows characters to perform strong techniques and other special abilities. It is filled by dealing and receiving damage as well as through other actions, and stocks up to a maximum of three levels. One stock of Heart Heat can be used to perform a Heart Heat Attack (ハートヒートアタック, Hāto Hīto Atakku, shortened to "HHA"), while two stocks can be used to perform a Great Heat Attack (グレートヒートアタック, Gurēto Hīto Atakku, shortened to "GHA").
An opponent's HHG can be depleted by executing a taunt while they are knocked down.
Some characters also have extra icons/gauges near the Heart Heat Gauge with different, unique functions.
Every character is assigned a Battle Style (バトルスタイル, Batoru Sutairu), which determines the effects and abilities attached to their Style button (). There are 6 Battle Style types:
For example, Jotaro's Style summons his Stand Star Platinum, a signature trait among most with the "Stand" Style. Young Joseph's allows him to utilize the Ripple to charge his Heart Heat Gauge using the ability "Ripple Breath", shared among all "Ripple" Style characters.
The majority of characters have only one Style, excluding DIO (Stand, Vampirism), Old Joseph (Ripple/Hamon, Stand), and Vanilla Ice (Stand, Vampirism). Although Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli also use Stands, their Style is only Mounted.
Some characters have special attributes and abilities of their own.
Much like Heritage for the Future's "Blazing Fists Match", if two attacks- typically barrages, clash, the two fighters will enter a cinematic minigame called Rush Mode (ラッシュモード, Rasshu Mōdo) featuring them or their Stands dramatically exchanging blows as they shout their Stand Cry.
The players must rapidly push the light button to fill a shared bar with their color, and the one who fills the bar more wins the exchange and knocks their opponent back, dealing a small amount of damage. Characters that can enter Rush Mode are Jonathan, Jotaro, Polnareff, DIO, Josuke, Giorno, Bucciarati, Mista, Narancia, Jolyne, Johnny, and Josuke (JoJolion).
Characters receive an automatic boost to their stats when their health is critically low, with the character's health flashing red while in Rumble Mode or flashing gold in Resolve Mode.
Yoshikage Kira was initially released as a bonus character for pre-order versions of the game before eventually being released as proper downloadable content on December 3, 2013. Shigekiyo Yangu was the first character made available for download, being included in the The Darkness That Haunts Morioh (杜王町に巣食う闇, Moriō-chō ni Sukuu Yami) campaign on August 29, 2013. Iggy and Pannacotta Fugo were included in the The Ferocious Beasts (どう猛な野獣, Dōmō na Yajū) campaign on September 12 of the same year, with Lisa Lisa and Old Joseph following them on September 26 as part of the The Ripple Masters (波紋の達人, Hamon no Tatsujin) campaign. Vanilla Ice and Narciso Anasui were released on October 2 as part of the The Executioners of Terror (恐怖の処刑人, Kyōfu no Shokeinin) campaign. The game's fifth and final campaign, the This! Is! Baoh!! (これが!バオーだッ!!, Kore ga! Baō da!!) campaign, launched on November 14 and added guest character Ikuro Hashizawa to the game's roster.[7]
The game's downloadable characters were released out-of-order in the European and North American versions. Lisa Lisa and Old Joseph were released internationally on April 29, 2014, followed by Ikuro Hashizawa on May 13. Vanilla Ice, Pannacotta Fugo, and Narciso Anasui followed suit on May 20, with Iggy releasing one week later. Yoshikage Kira and Shigekiyo Yangu, the first downloadable characters in Japan, became the last to be released internationally on June 3, 2014.
Johnny's fourth special costume, referencing his appearance on the cover of SBR Chapter 95, was made available as a download code during Banpresto's Steel Ball Run Ichiban Kuji campaign in Japan on October 12, 2013.[8] In the international editions, the costume instead served as a pre-order bonus, in lieu of an exclusive character. To promote the upcoming release of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD Ver., additional alternate costumes for Jotaro Kujo and Jean Pierre Polnareff based on promotional artwork for the arcade game were made available for purchase in Japan on December 19, 2013.
All-Star Battle contains the following game modes:
Prior to the game's delisting, this mode allowed the player to search for and battle computer-controlled avatars of other players by using a limited energy supply that refills over time. The player may also encounter boss characters that offer rarer rewards, but take several battles to vanquish. Winning battles in this mode, or having one's avatar win battles, rewards the player with gold and Campaign Score; depending on the opponent fought or the player's Campaign Score, the player may also obtain support items or unlock items in Gallery Mode. The guide character for this mode is Steven Steel. The mode is divided into four sub-modes:
Prior to the game's delisting, this mode would have allowed the player to take on online opponents in ranked and unranked matches. The guide character for this mode is Ringo Roadagain. This mode is divided into three sub-modes:
The player can purchase and view voice lines, music tracks, concept art, and unlocked poses and costumes using gold earned in the other modes. The guide character for this mode is Emporio Alnino. This mode contains five sub-modes:
There are 12 stages, with each Part having one or two to represent it. There is also one special stage only accessible as a result of a character's moveset.
Each stage has its own Stage Hazard (ステージギミック, Sutēji Gimikku). Stage Hazards are activated by someone being knocked down over a glowing point on the ground of the stage. Whenever it is activated, a series of colored manga panels will appear. Some hazards occur continuously in set intervals after they have been triggered, while others only occur once during the entire battle and have more severe effects. Stage Hazards can be turned off on the Stage Select screen. Finishing a character with a HHA or GHA knocking them back in a specific direction will trigger a Situation Finish (シチュエーションフィニッシュ, Shichuēshon Finisshu), a special cutscene that depicts the losing character's defeat as a reference to the original story.
DIO's Mansion (DIOの館, Dio no Yakata): Cairo
Cairo Streets (カイロ市街, Kairo Shigai): Cairo
Morioh Town (杜王町, Moriō-cho)
Kira Estate (吉良邸, Kira-Tei): Morioh
Naples Station (ネアポリス駅, Neaporisu Eki): Naples
Rome Streets (ローマ市街, Rōma Shigai): Rome
Green Dolphin Street Prison (グリーン・ドルフィン・ストリート刑務所, Gurīn Dorufin Sutorīto Keimusho)
Kennedy Space Center (ケネディ宇宙センター, Kenedi Uchū Sentā): Cape Canaveral
This stage is only available as part of Enrico Pucci's GHA, "Made in Heaven". After Pucci evolves C-MOON into Made in Heaven, the fight moves to outer space, with the players standing on a road of light representing the rapidly-progressing flow of time. Within this special stage, Pucci moves faster while the opponent moves far slower. However, Giorno Giovanna can use his GHA, "Your end has no ending!", to activate Gold Experience Requiem and nullify the slowdown effect; Kosaku Kawajiri's GHA, "Bites the Dust", will also cancel the effect by reverting Pucci and the stage to their prior states. In addition, this stage only lasts for the duration of the round, and reverts to the previous stage at its conclusion, along with the Stand itself. This stage is also the only stage that lacks a Stage Gimmick or Situation Finish of any kind.
Normal Search:
Boss Search:
Victory:
Defeat:
Some of the names of characters and Stands are altered in non-Japanese territories to avoid copyright lawsuits. Bandai Namco aimed to change the legally-risky names while keeping the patterns Hirohiko Araki aimed for. According to Bandai Namco Europe, these name changes were approved by Araki.[9]
Muhammad Avdol | Mohammed Avdol
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Jean Pierre Polnareff | Jean Pierre Eiffel
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Emperor | The Emperor
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J. Geil | Centerfold
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Vanilla Ice | Cool Ice
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Holy Kujo | Holly Kujo
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Imposter Captain Tennille | Captain Dragon
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Devo the Cursed | Soul Sacrifice
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Enya the Hag | Enyaba
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ZZ | Zii Zii
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Oingo & Boingo | Zenyatta & Mondatta
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Daniel J. D'Arby & Telence T. D'Arby | D'Arby Elder & D'Arby Younger
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Crazy Diamond | Shining Diamond
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Echoes | Reverb
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Red Hot Chili Pepper | Chili Pepper
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Killer Queen | Deadly Queen
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Sheer Heart Attack | Heart Attack
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Bites the Dust | Bite the Dust
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Pearl Jam | Opal Jam
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Atom Heart Father | Heart Father
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Boy II Man | BoyManMan
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Earth, Wind and Fire | Terra Ventus
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Highway Star | Highway Go Go
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Enigma | Misterioso
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Gold Experience | Golden Wind
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Sticky Fingers | Zipper Man
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Sex Pistols | Six Bullets
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Aerosmith | Li'l Bomber
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King Crimson | Emperor Crimson
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Epitaph | Eulogy
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Purple Haze | Purple Smoke
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Purple Haze Distortion | Purple Smoke Distortion
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Moody Blues | Moody Jazz
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Kraft Work | Arts & Crafts
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Little Feet | Tiny Feet
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Grateful Dead | Thankful Death
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Beach Boy | Fisher Man
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Baby Face | Babyhead
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White Album | White Ice
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Spice Girl | Spicy Lady
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Green Day | Green Tea
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Oasis | Sanctuary
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Stone Free | Stone Ocean
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Kiss | Smack
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Enrico Pucci | Father Pucchi
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Whitesnake | Pale Snake
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C-MOON | Full Moon
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Made in Heaven | Maiden Heaven
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Narciso Anasui | Narc Anastasia
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Diver Down | Diver Drive
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Burning Down the House | Burning Down
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Foo Fighters | F.F.
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Weather Report | Weather Forecast
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Highway to Hell | Highway to Death
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