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J-Stars Victory VS+ is a game that'due south mechanically lite, heavy on fanservice volume but that only ever skims the surface of the characters it includes. If you want an anime brawler that focuses on the sheer volume of anime characters represented then this is probably the game for you. If you desire a game that really takes advantage of the fantastically varied cast at its disposal, look elsewhere.
Earlier we really dive into my feelings on J-Stars Victory VS+, I feel similar it's important to requite you a scrap of context for my personal interest in anime. I grew up in the mid xc's watching shows like Cardcaptor Sakura, Dragon Brawl Z and Sailor Moon in their express runs on UK Telly. In the mid 2000's I got very into a lot of the more pop Shonen anime of the time, shows like Naruto, Bleach and Death Note. More recently, my anime love resurfaced in the course of an obsession with sports anime similar Gratis! and Haikyuu.
J-Stars Victory Vs+ (PS3, PS4 [reviewed], Vita)
Developer: Spike Chunsoft
Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release: June 26, 2015 (EU), June xxx, 2015 (United states)
I may not be the most knowledgeable anime fan out there, but I'm e'er willing to endeavour out a new series if it looks interesting. As such, I was pretty excited coming intoJ-Stars Victory VS+. I was hoping to experience well known characters I already knew, as well as finding new characters to get invested in and try watching going frontward. Unfortunately,J-Stars Victory VS+ was a bit of a disappointment in that regard. The representations of characters I already knew didn't feel accurate and the hooks to become invested in new series just weren't there for me.
So, as this is a fighting game outset and foremost, let'southward talk near the fighting mechanics at play. Every graphic symbol has i light attack button, a heavy assault push, a special attack push, a cake and a dash. While these are tailored to each character, the movesets all feel very similar to play using. While it'southward cool to see Ichigo pull off a Getsuga Tensho and Goku a Kamehameha, both on a mechanical level human activity near identically. Every move is an approximation designed to fit a specific combat arrangement's mold, which ultimately takes away some of what makes these characters unique.
Defensive techniques like cancels are minimal, so if you wait for an attack animation to starting time and then starting time mashing buttons you'll ordinarily win. J-Stars Victory VS+ is not a game of skill, it's a game of waiting for whatsoever enemy to try anything slower than a light attack, interrupting with a light assail then button mashing while they remain locked in your combo.
So, ignoring the fact the combat system itself lacks depth, lets look at how this functions as a pure fanservice game. Merely looking at the numbers there is a lot here for fans of Shonen anime to love. There's representation from newer series similar D.Gray-man as well equally older series like Rurouni Kenshin and a whole host of series in between. At that place's even inclusions from my super niche sports anime, merely only as support characters rather than full playable roster members. Damn, I was only virtually gear up to praise this game for supporting my niche interests.
So, let's talk almost the modes on offer in J-Stars Victory VS+. In that location's J-Adventure, where you sail around the world on a tiny boat given to you past god to earn your way into a tournament of champions, where everyone involved seems perfectly fine with the fact god gave them a gunkhole that couldn't get nigh of the places it needed to go and needlessly pads out the feel with narrative fluff betwixt fights. This way has four arcs, each of them near narratively identical. I couldn't see whatever reason players would desire to go through all four of these, they're all equally padded and wearisome.
Your other options are Victory Road which sets up special fights loosely themed effectually anime dream team fights, a standard Arcade mode which offers minimal challenge, local complimentary battles and online free battles. None of these modes felt terribly coherent or fleshed out.
On paper, the roster of about 40 playable characters is certainly impressive, but what makes these characters unique is rarely utilized fully. Each character'southward ultimate attack feels decidedly less visually impressive than comparable titles like Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4. The story mode offered on disk features static 2D images of characters that may say the odd single word to each other, but otherwise remain silent. Their dialogue feels terribly homogeneous, stripped down then that every character speaks with the same uniform vocalism. This doesn't experience like a serial of characters clashing for the first time, rather it feels like one person in many different outfits badly acting out their culling universe fanfiction.
Where the games opening cinematic gave me hope for a visually impressive, fanservice heavy experience, the single histrion largely boiled down to watching static images talk to each other in a weirdly unemotional tone then fight for no fairly explained reason. It just wasn't compelling.
Ultimately, J-Stars Victory VS+ only succeeds equally numbers on paper, the game itself existence largely disappointing. The roster have had much of what made them unique stripped down, stopping me getting truly excited about the characters I knew and preventing me getting a sense of which characters were worth me investing future time watching. The mechanics are shallow, the fanservice is surface level and it only succeeds in terms of its pure number of supported characters. Overall, I walked away rather disappointed.
[This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the developer.]
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