Pitter-Patter Pop was revealed in the August 2018 issue of Ultra Jump, and features "super-deformed" (SD) artwork of characters from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.
Before the game released, Bandai Namco previewed the characters in a teaser app called "JoJo's Pitter-Patter Pop! Chiramise" (ジョジョのピタパタポップ ちらみせ) on August 27, 2018. It was a sneak peek that allowed users to take photos with the SD characters appearing in different poses, though the full game is much different.[2]
Gameplay
JoJo's Pitter-Patter Pop! is a tile-matching video game featuring characters from the first five parts of the series: Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency, Stardust Crusaders, Diamond is Unbreakable and Vento Aureo.
Tile-Matching
The top of the screen shows two characters the player controls (such as Giorno and Bucciarati) who face off against a boss character (e.g. Luca) with a health bar. The rest of the screen displays a 6x6 grid consisting of icons of many different characters. Players will have to match the pieces to make the icons flip over and disappear, which increases their score and decreases the health of the boss. Matching over 6 tiles will create a box of that tile, which can be moved just like other tiles and clicked on to open, creating 5 tiles in a cross shape. There are different effects and animations that appear depending on the character that was matched. The battle ends when the boss is defeated or time runs out.
Stand-up Time
Matching tiles and accumulating points over time will build up the "Stand-up Time" meter and skill meter. The Stand-up Time meter is a blue meter around a grid. Once full, the player temporarily enters Stand-up Time, during which the timer is stopped and matched tiles remain on the board and flip over, allowing the player to build up their combo. Making squares of tiles (up to a 6x6) multiplies the damage. Once Stand-up Time is over, all matched tiles will disappear doing an equivalent amount of damage to the boss, normal gameplay resumes and the meter resets.
Rush Time
If time runs out or the boss is defeated and a character has full meter, all tiles of that character will disappear, adding points and damaging the boss if they have any health left. Any boxes left untapped will open, also adding points and dealing damage if a match is created. If the boss is defeated within a given amount of time, "Rush Time" activates, and the player can repeatedly strike the boss by quickly matching icons to rack up their score and earn additional coins.
Skills
Below each character is a skill meter in the form of three stars. Once a character's skill meter is full, their skill can be activated by tapping the character. All characters possess unique skills with different effects falling into one of four categories. "Replace" (変化, Henka) skills replace tiles with others, usually of those of the character activating it. "Enhance" (強化, Kyōka) skills charge tiles so that getting rid of them will do more damage, recharge skills faster, and earn more points. "Erase" (消去, Shōkyo) skills remove tiles without needing to match them. "?" skills are skills that do not fall into any of the previous categories, such as rearranging tiles, stopping the timer, or a combination of multiple categories.
Later, "Boost" (ブースト, Būsuto) skills were introduced which a unit may have in addition to one of the previous skills. These units have different boost levels that increase each time the skill is used per battle.
Skills can be activated in battle and during Stand-up Time, but not in Rush Time or during stopped time (such as when DIO or Part 4 Jotaro use their skills). Each unit has five skill levels (excluding the limited Giorno Real Frog ver. which only has one) which determine the range of the skill, their effect, and their cooldown. Cooldown means how many tiles are matched after the skill is used, which varies per character.
Panel Types
There are many different panel types that different characters and bosses can create.
Creatable Panel Types
Panel | Image | Description | Units
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Enhanced Boxes (強化ボックス, Kyoka Bokkusu) |
When tapping one of these enhanced box panels, five enhanced character panels will be created. |
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Enhanced Block Panels (強化おジャマパネル, Kyoka Ojama Paneru) |
Some characters like Fugo and Secco can create enhanced block panels which deal extra damage and increase the skill gauge charge only when they are erased by a skill. |
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Bubble Panels (シャボンパネル, Shabon Paneru) |
Bubble panels are created by Caesar and some enemies. The character panel is placed inside a bubble which can be moved around the board. If they're tapped, the bubble will pop and the character panel can be matched. If various Bubble panels are connected, one tap will pop all the bubbles at once. |
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Cutter Panels (カッターパネル, Kattā Paneru) |
Cutter panels are only created by Will Anthonio Zeppeli. They can't be manually moved, but they'll fall down if the panels below them are matched or erased. When tapped, they erase all panels in a horizontal line. |
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Zipper Panels (ジッパーパネル, Jippā Paneru) |
Zipper panels are only created by Bruno Bucciarati. Zipper panels remain as zippers for five seconds until they become a Box panel of the character panel that was on the position where the Zipper panel was created. Zipper Panels created by the copy ability of Abbacchio work as well as normal ones. |
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Book Panels (ブックパネル, Bukku Paneru) |
Book panels are only created by Boingo. Tapping a Book panel erases five panels in a cross shape. They can also be moved around but will turn into Block panels after some seconds. |
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YESNO Panels (YESNOパネル, Iesunō Paneru) |
YESNO panels are only created by Telence T. D'Arby. After tapping a YESNO Panel, they'll randomly become an Enhanced D'Arby panel or an Enhanced Partner panel. They can also be moved around the board. |
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Shot Panels (ショットパネル, Shotto Paneru) |
Shot panels are created by Sale's skill. Shot Panels will erase the panels above them when tapped 10 times. |
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Enemy-Only Panel Types
Panel | Image | Description | Units
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Hole Panels (穴パネル, Ana Paneru) |
Hole panels function similarly to block panels but cannot be destroyed. They are only created by enemies, either automatically or as a reaction to certain actions, depending on the battle. There is no ordinary way to get rid of a hole panel, although Abbacchio and Illuso are able to replace one if the panel is within their skill's range. | Only enemies
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Dirty Panels (ダーティーパネル, Dātī Paneru) |
Dirty panels have a green fog placed on them and are only created by enemies such as Cioccolata. If a panel is moved below them and they fall down, they will become Block panels wherever they land. They can be removed by matching them before they move, using a Box panel next to them, or by using an erasing or replacing skill. | Only enemies
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Slash Panels (スラッシュパネル, Surasshu Paneru) |
Certain enemies such as Kars will place these on the board. When four or more Slash panels are connected, they'll turn into a Hole panel. A skill or Box panel can be used to get rid of them, although they can also be moved around to prevent them from matching. | Only enemies
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Block Shot Panels (おジャマショットパネル, Ojamashotto Paneru) |
Block Shot panels are only created by enemy Sale. Block Shot Panels will turn into Hole panels after a few seconds. You must tap them 10 times to erase them and prevent them from turning into Hole panels. | Only enemy Sale
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JoJo Mansion
Players have their own JoJo mansion with several rooms that they can decorate with collectable items and props. The characters residing in each room can also be chosen, and they will interact with each other. The player is able to set a roommate if the owner of the room has reached Skill Level 5.
The mansion resets 3 times a day granting the player additional experience points and coins. Following the reset 3 room interactions refresh for the player to collect.
Room interactions grant point and experience whilst a visit to an another player grants a heart or one diamond depending if the players follow each other.
The player has access to a 16 room 3 floored villa in which they can display their characters. Every floor shares a lounge in which all the characters on that floor can be seen.
Progression
Four types of in game currency exist: Coins, Diamonds, Furniture Points, and Furniture Tickets. These currencies can earned by completing missions for levels and daily quests. Coins and furniture points can also be earned by playing through levels themselves. Diamonds can be used to obtain characters from ongoing gacha banners. Characters are categorized into three types of rarity, Gold, Silver and Bronze, with Gold being the rarest and Bronze being the least. Obtaining duplicate characters will help progress that character's skill level. Leveling up a character's skill will upgrade that characters skill, with a maximum level of 5. Characters themselves have a maximum level of 50 and can be leveled up by gaining exp by playing through levels. Every 5 levels, coins will be required to unlock that character's level limit so they can continue to earn exp. Skill Tickets and Level Tickets can also be obtained to earn points towards their skill or level. The player's level determines the amount of rooms available within the mansion. The player can earn points to level up by purchasing furniture or clicking on apartment events. Furniture can be purchased with furniture points and furniture tickets.
Adventure and Friendship
On patch 2.5.3, "Adventure" and "Friendship" were added to the game. By gifting your characters you can raise their Friend Level. When the friendship gauge fills up you'll obtain a character's badge. Each character has at least 2 badges, with certain characters having 3 badges and unlockable voiced responses when they receive a gift. These obtainable badges can be used as your player icon. You can give up to 3 gifts a day per Character. The gifts present themselves as bags of 3 sizes or unique items.
You can obtain Gifts in the Adventure. Adventure is a function in which you can send between 2 and 5 characters to a certain adventure for a determined amount of time where they'll collect items. You don't need to do anything after sending them out, you'll be able to receive the items after the indicated hours have passed. Depending on the chosen course the length of the adventure varies, by going on longer adventures you'll be able to get more items at once. The characters are able to find coins, level tickets, gifts and even diamonds on special, event adventures.
All-out War
A new mode named "All-out War" was added to the game on patch 2.5.14. The player is able to fight up to 15 times without consuming hearts for rewards like chests, skill tickets and gacha tickets. The player is not able to use the same characters twice and upon failure there is no penalty. You can reset your progress with a button and the number of clears and used characters will be reset. However, it does not reset the rewards. The event card rotates every month with a different enemy.
Trial Practice Ground
A new permanent stage was added to the game on patch 2.5.18. The player is allowed to test out unit combinations without spending hearts. The stage works like a Score Attack stage without any obstacles or effects and uses the 60 seconds Score Attack length format. The player cannot use the damage and coin boosts.
The stage repeats itself five times and after the last attempt's time depletes, the board freezes and the player is unable to match or use skills. Upon going into the pause menu, the player can see their data in all five attempts separately, such as damage, stand-ups entered and combo. The stage cannot be completed and forces the player to quit the stage manually.
Stickers and Pitter Sets
On patch 2.7.2, Stickers and Pitter Sets were added to the game.
- Pitter Sets: Pitter Sets are stored sets of a team of two characters and Stickers placed on a Sticker Book. Up to nine sets can be stored. Each Pitter Set has a maximum cost of Stickers that can be placed on it based on the rarity of the units in the team ( & : 35, : 45)
- Sticker Ink (シールインク, Sīru Inku): Sticker Ink can be obtained from events and daily challenges, which can be exchanged for Stickers in the shop.
- Stickers (シール, Sīru): Stickers allow teams to be enhanced with various bonuses during a battle. For example, "Matching Power + 80" is the effect of one sticker.
- They are divided into five variations: Normal, Shiny, EX (only one can be equipped), Decorations (up to 10 can be equipped), and Backing Paper.
- Some stickers have an activation condition.
Characters
Characters differ in rarity: , , and . There are currently 114 playable units in the game. The units displayed with a in the tables below are limited whereas means they are voiced.
Characters with the same name but are different units cannot be used in the same team or put in the same room together.
Playable
Non-Playable
Unreleased
The following have data within the game's files.
Only In Promotional Images/GIFS
Part 2
Part 4
Furniture
December 15, 2018 - December 26, 2018
December 16, 2019 - Present
December 27, 2018 - January 9, 2019
December 16, 2019 - Present
March 8, 2019 - March 14, 2019
February 28, 2020 - March 9, 2020
October 10, 2018 - Present
March 17, 2019 - Present
March 17, 2019 - March 28, 2019
February 26, 2020 - March 23, 2020
October 10, 2018 - Present
April 3, 2020 - April 16, 2020
January 11, 2019 - Present
December, 2018 - Present
October 10, 2018 - Present
January 18, 2019 - January 31, 2019
July 13, 2019 - July 19, 2019
July, 2019 - Present
April 17, 2020 - May 1, 2020
November 19, 2019 - November 28, 2019
March 3, 2020 - March 16, 2020
December 3, 2019 - December 16, 2019
July 3, 2019 - July 16, 2019
May 17, 2019 - May 29, 2019
October 10, 2018 - Present
November, 2018 - Present
May 12, 2019 - Present
October 26, 2018 - November 6, 2018
March 13, 2019 - March 19, 2019
March 4, 2019 - Present
December 14, 2018 - December 27, 2018
April 3, 2019 - April 9, 2019
September 29, 2019 - October 12, 2019
January 20, 2020 - January 29, 2020
October 10, 2018 - Present
October 12, 2018 - October 23, 2018
February 1, 2019 - February 7, 2019
November 8, 2019 - November 18, 2019
November 16, 2018 - November 29, 2018
June 13, 2019 - June 19, 2019
January 7, 2020 - January 19, 2020
December 28, 2018 - January 10, 2019
June 27, 2019 - July 3, 2019
August 30, 2019 - September 16, 2019
July 17, 2019 - August 4, 2019
February 17, 2020 - March 2, 2020
January 23, 2019 - Present
October 13, 2019 - October 24, 2019
March 17, 2020 - March 29, 2020
February 18, 2019 - March 3, 2019
July 4, 2019 - July 16, 2019
October 12, 2018 - October 23, 2018
February 1, 2019 - February 7, 2019
April 6, 2019 - April 18, 2019
December 9, 2019 - December 31, 2019
April 28, 2020 - Present
April 29, 2019 - May 12, 2019
June 17, 2019 - June 28, 2019
August 5, 2019 - August 18, 2019
April 29, 2019 - Present
August 3, 2019 - Present
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