Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio: Vento Aureo (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 黄金の旋風, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Ōgon no Kaze, lit. "GioGio's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind") is an action-adventure video game released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2, based on Vento Aureo. It is also the first JoJo game to be rendered in 3D graphics.
Vento Aureo's graphics may be compared to other cel-shaded games of the PS2 era like Jet Set Radio. The developer, Capcom, utilized a game engine called "Artistoon" in order to create a graphical style similar to Araki's art style in the manga.
Most of Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio: Vento Aureo's gameplay takes place in the form of hand-to-hand combat. All battles are fought 1v1, with every battle being an equivalent to a boss fight. The Stands aid the characters in battle by giving them combat abilities, as well as special attacks. Puzzles are also a part of the game, requiring the use of Stands in order to solve them.
The player must learn an opponent's moves and attack patterns in order to properly find an opening and attack. They can deliver melee attacks, use a character-exclusive special ability, or summon their Stand to attack. Stand barrages and the like are referred to in-game as "Stand Shoot". All Stand Shoot attacks can be charged to increase their duration and eventually allow the player to attack separate from their Stand, opening up opportunities to create combos. Health cannot be restored in any matter other than Secret Factors, requiring a finer degree of skill from the player than other games of similar genre in order to succeed.
As long as a character's Stand is on, a Stand Gauge above the player's health will drain. Actions such as taking damage or blocking attacks while a Stand is on will also decrease the meter. A Stand Break occurs if the gauge empties, leaving the player without their Stand or its abilities until the gauge refills, along with other situational disadvantages.
Chapters have a letter grading based on the performance of the player, with up to 200 "GioGio Points" to be earned per chapter and 10,200 GioGio Points to be earned in the entire game. A rank is lost with every 25 points missing, from S at 200 - 190 points, A at 189 - 176, all the way to E at 100 and below. All Secret Factors on a level collectively add up to 100 GioGio Points, and are added with the percentage of the player's remaining health to make up to 200.
A main notable feature is the activation of Secret Factors, various interaction activated elements scattered throughout each scenario that the player progresses to as the game goes on. Considered as side-objectives, chapters can have anywhere between none up to four Secret Factors to be done. As the game itself is adapted nearly entirely from the manga, playing out the scenario akin to the official canon will activate these factors: Giving power-ups to health, Stand endurance, and strength to the character, as well as heavily influencing chapter grading. A counter over the heart next the player's health displays the Secret Factor level, with 10 being the maximum; At max, the health and Stand gauges will have doubled in length. There are multiple occasions where Secret Factors must be done in a specific order to achieve them all. Many Secret Factors give the player advantages ranging from invulnerability to/disabling certain enemy attacks to outright winning the battle instantly. They are a unique feature that also celebrate the game's source material and rewards fans and readers of the series.
Following the events of Part 5, the game's main mode has 22 chapters (21 playable and only 1 featuring a full cutscene). Each chapter the player faces a different villain using a certain character (according to the original manga story).
Giorno Giovanna (Gold Experience)
Bruno Bucciarati (Sticky Fingers)
Narancia Ghirga (Aerosmith)
Guido Mista (Sex Pistols)
Pannacotta Fugo (Purple Haze)
Leone Abbacchio (Moody Blues)
Trish Una (Spice Girl)
Jean Pierre Polnareff (Silver Chariot)
(unused) Koichi Hirose [Echoes ACT 4]
Gold Experience Requiem
Diavolo (King Crimson)
Cioccolata (Green Day)
Secco (Oasis)
Black Sabbath (Polpo)
Ghiaccio (White Album)
Pesci (Beach Boy)
Prosciutto (The Grateful Dead)
Illuso (Man In The Mirror)
Formaggio (Little Feet)
Notorious B.I.G
"The Boss"
Ghiaccio (unused)
Leaky-eye Luca (unused)
Mario Zucchero (unused)
Risotto Nero (unused)
Squalo (unused)
Tiziano (unused)
Aniki (unused)
Requiem
La Passione
Heritage
Giorno Giovanna
Gold Experience
Bruno Buccellati
Narancia Ghirga
Guido Mista
Sex Pistols
Purple Haze
Leone Abbacchio
Trish Una
Spice Girls
King Crimson
Requiem
Early build Giorno
Giorno in game.
Diavolo and Requiem.
Japanese official cover
Original Soundtrack Cover
Official Game Cover (drawn by Hirohiko Araki to promote the game, 1/2)
Poster drawn by Hirohiko Araki to promote the game (2/2)
Localized Cover, had the international release pushed through.
Promotional image (1/2)
Promotional image (2/2)
Gold Experience
Sticky Fingers
Sex Pistols
Aerosmith
Moody Blues
Spice Girls
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Le Bizzarre Avventure di GioGio: Vento Aureo OST (2002)
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A handful of characters do not appear in the Super Story Mode; They appear as part of the Story Drama, during cutscenes or simply as character models within Gallery Mode.
The game was set to be released worldwide on October 2002 and was presented at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2002, titled simply as GioGio's Bizarre Adventure. The release was eventually cancelled due to unknown reasons, the surmised culprit being copyright issues.
It would not be until JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle from CyberConnect2 and Bandai Namco that another JoJo game would see an international release, the first being Heritage for the Future, also a Capcom product.
On release Famitsu magazine scored the game a 31 out of 40.
Official Site: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 黄金の旋風
Instruction manual: Instruction manual at Giant Bomb
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