By mixing our world with the anime world, the result is a beautiful, yet odd mix of style. However, Jump Force is easily one of the best looking games in its genre and in the category of anime licensed video games. Nobody is here because they are playing the part of the game that’s actually good. A small hub world that doesn’t require you to stay connected online would’ve sufficed instead of giving the option to go offline, which makes the area feel completely barren. The problem is that you’re never tasked with teaming up alongside your friends as you would in these aforementioned online multiplayer games, and it feels as though it exists only to show off your character. In this lobby, you will fight locally or online, accept missions, buy clothing and abilities, and purchase upgrades. I was dropped into an online lobby similar to Dragon Ball Xenoverse or Destiny, for those less familiar. How this was carried out is somewhat detrimental to what kind of video game Jump Force could have been.Īfter the introduction and making my character, I had a gut feeling that this wasn’t going to be the fighting game I was looking for. This feature of character creation was unknown to me up until a few months before release and had me wondering how it was going to be implemented. You create a character that has an important role in tilting the balance in favor of the good guys. The basic plot of Jump Force is that the “Jump” world has collided with ours due to the works of an evil being that is trying to take over the universe. Strange, right, considering that there are Pirate characters in the game? The most you will find here is labeled as “Suggestive Themes” under the ESRB rating.ĭrugs/Alcohol Use: None. There are also some instances where characters make advances at one another or flirt with others. Sexual Content: A few of the female characters in Jump Force wear outfits that expose cleavage. Visual battle damage can be seen on characters during a battle in the form of torn clothes with cuts and bruises. Cries of pain can be heard when a character gets knocked down or takes damage and some blood is present in cutscenes. ![]() Some characters use hand-to-hand combat whereas others use a variety of swords, guns, and energy blasts to defeat their opponents. ![]() ![]() Violence: Jump Force is a fighting game in which three characters face off against one another in combat. Evil auras are also a huge part of the story in Jump Force and possess the minds of the heroes in the game. This character accompanied by the Shinigami also references a book he is in possession of called the Death Note that brings death to anyone whose name is written in it. They are the closest resemblance to demons and appear in Japanese religion and culture. One character is accompanied by a Shinigami which translates to “god of death” or “death spirit”. Spiritual Content: Some of the characters in this game are well acquainted with versions of the afterlife, some of them being labeled “Soul Reapers” and “Spirit Detectives”. However, there is still much here that gets in the way of Jump Force being one of the greatest anime fighters of all time. ![]() Now that I have had the opportunity to dive into the game to my heart’s content, my attitude remains the same, for the most part. I was happy to discover that this was actually going to be a competent fighting game and began to anticipate release day. I held onto those reservations for the most part until I got my hands on Jump Force at PAX South 2019. My hope was that things would be different this time around while reserving my expectations that it would be great. It was a good looking video game but wasn’t very fun to play. However, I was very skeptical due to my experience with J-Stars Victory VS in 2015. When Jump Force was revealed during the Microsoft conference at E3 2018, I was very excited to see another entry into the Jump Super Stars series that started all the way back on the DS.
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