I’d have picked someone from the Jojo novels, or some other random char from one of Araki’s other series, like Baoh, but I’ve got no beef with Shigekiyo at all.
I’m VERY surprised that Weather didn’t make it in though, I thought he was all but guaranteed.
The Europe article consistently gets linked and everyone always ignores the date on it.
I always felt like Fatty fit into part 4 better, since he actually felt like a proper friend of Josuke and Okuyasu, not just someone who Jotaro happened to like, like Koichi. He also makes sense as the first DLC character: he’s one of Araki’s favourites, and he’s not a huge character. Someone like Diego first gives them no indication of how DLC could go for the majority of DLC characters, since they’ll pretty much all end up minor characters who have a few fans. Lastly, he’s the only representative for the swarm-type stands, so he adds something new. Bring on Fatty!
I admit, I’m not the biggest fan of japanese voice acting, mostly because I don’t get it, but Dio’s voice in ASB was really bugging me. Not in a bad way, just like, wow this guy sounds familiar. So I google his japanese VA and it turns out he voiced Eddie in Guilty Gear. How awesome is that? EEEEN-VAITO-HELL/SHAAAAAAAA Eddie.
But yeah, on the subject of Fatty, I’m surprised by his inclusion but I’m in no way angry. He’s another unique character who is going to bring something cool into the game, so I’m excited. They should add Keicho Nijimura and his Bad Company next, lol.
Koyasu’s voiced a billion things. I’m a huge idolm@ster fan, and since he voices the main antagonist of im@s, with his exact Dio voice, every playthrough since the anime has become absolutely amazing for me.
I think if they added Keicho next the part 6 and 7 fans would riot.
I’ll have to take your word on that, lol. I just know him as ol’ Eddie.
But I just finished watching your analysis of some of the part G matches and I gotta say I’m even more excited for Puccci now. I didn’t know Whitesnake could seal your specials until you knocked him down and took the disc back from him, lol. That is so deadly against characters, so… goddamn cheap. I love it, lol.
Jeeebus, is knowing/understanding Japanese a JoJo fan requirement I wasn’t aware of? You and Pete are like “Oh this move tadomeda which means the final blow is-” like its no business lol. You guys are too good.
But seriously, great analysis Link. I love hearing compotent fighting game guys delve into the game, its stuff like this that gets me hyped up more then the matches themselves. Also, this isn’t criticism, just kinda funny that you seem to be really, really hung up on the Diavolo bursting Time Erasure thing. All in all I liked your thoughts on the matter.
But yeah, great stuff. Please between the both of ya’ll, keep this ish coming because the actual matches aren’t really doing it for me anymore lol.
An preview of an episode of Singer Song Gamer in Famitsu featuring JOJO ASB.
(SSG is a podcast where Imai Asami [A Voice Actress in Various Games and Animation] is the host, they release episode every Saturday and an video preview on Friday as I remember)
Since the host here is actually a cast in the game (she is the voice of Sex Pistol, the stand of Guido Mista), that’s why she used that character at first I guess?
The second match is quite good in terms of gameplay I think.
Why it is so hard to give this game to some sort of proficient player.
When Idols doing easy beat combos are the most entertaining gameplay out there, your should start rethinking your marketing decisions
Ugh. Unless there’s something I’m not seeing, I think DIO’s burst is actually the one I’m most afraid of. It appears he can easily punish stuff with it, it does cost him more meter (and, i’ve noticed, it costs him about 25% of his guard bar) but unlike Diavolo, it looks like he gets stuff depending upon what he’s bursting AND he has a seemingly okay movelist outside of burst (…once agian, unlike Diavolo, lol). At least Koichi hurts himself and has tiny limbs. I wish he hadn’t been voted into finals so that we could see more footage of him…
Of course, I guess on the flip side, DIO has ass health since he takes white damage from everything. I can imagine if ACDC’s heat mode stacks ontop of DIO’s normal white health, DIO could very well be this game’s Akuma in that matchup, haha.
I wonder if Pucci stealing disks removes those characters abilities to burst? I would assume so. I also wonder what the input for bursting is, if it’s (button1) + (button2), Rohan could seal bursting as well.
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Also, in relation to the likelyhood that there are links/combos/infinites vs. Johnny/Gyro when they are only on horses, can we go ahead and call those Horse Infinites? lol
*I like Shigechi, but I wish it was Yukako instead so we could get another female rep. Honestly I wish it was another character from SBR or Stone Ocean. Guard Westwood as the games resident grappler, Diego, Blackmore, Mike O, Weather Report or even Foo Fighters. *
What I felt was that The goal of this game is like other Cyber Connect 2 fighting game. Which is, make a fighting game appeal to those gamers who don’t usually play fighting game (Which is a good idea, because as I remember fighting game doesn’t have a big market except some games like Street Fighters or TEKKEN). That’s why what they use is not let the pro player play it, but some light users like idols and cpu fight each others.
Well, Imai is totally super kawaii and stuff, but when i don’t understand a word that she is saying all i’m left is a girl orgarsming over JoJo
Which mind you, is not a bad thing, but i need someone who can at least block
Thinking more about beating DIO’s burst, it occurs to me that the Muda Muda’s look fairly unsafe. The World takes a LONG time to come back. If you can sweep into hardknockdown to punish, that’s a free taunt (probably) for the whole cast. Outside of that, his way to end strings are… what? We’ve seen counter, him throwing a single knife, and that teleport punch that Cars interrupted in the last match. Out of those only knife looks safe, and it has some startup so I’m wondering if you can Stylish move it on reaction… also, watching the vid again, Dio only ever bursts when he has Stand Off.
for all the hate he gets, Kakyoin is going to be so interesting to play as! I’ve also got two more matches on my channel besides the first one from the finals (jonathan vs. koichi, josuke vs. gappy)
can’t wait to get to see more footage soon.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that in the idol kakyoin vs. akira footage, kakyoin cancelled a jumping attack (medium?) into emerald splash and it combos! not cleanly, but maybe there’s a height/spacing that it does… that would be such a great tool with kakyoin’s giant range!
