
Mechanics like Elemental damage and skills that buff you and debuff your opponent. The game also features a lot of unnecessary mechanics. It’s fun to change out your moves, but once I got the moves that I personally enjoyed I never saw a reason to switch them up. Jump Force allows you to make a unique character with your favorite powers Switching out your own characters abilities with those of your favorite characters can lead to the ultimate warrior The big thing that was a missed opportunity here was being able to see what clothing items looked like on your character before you bought it which resulted in a lot of wasted money. It’s truly is fun to mix and match these abilities. Take Vegeta’s Final Flash as your ultimate move while also taking My Hero Academia’s Midoriya’s special abilities as well. As a custom character you can go and customize your character with various skills from any of the characters in the game. Other players can be seen running around, there’s clothing shops and event merchants can be found that you can interact with.Īcquiring new missions and upgrading your characters skills are all done through merchants found in the hub world. The hub world is smaller than the one found in Xenoverse but it functions the same way. Taking the success of the Xenoverse franchise and trying to model Jump Force around it works to some degree.

The best way to describe Jump Force is to compare it to Dragon Ball Xenoverse. You can combine their attacks with assists

Jump Force’s hub world leaves much to be desired It’s three on three mayhem in Jump Force. Vegeta constantly looks constipated, while the One Piece characters look absolutely terrifying with their enormous eyes and creepy smiles. Taking these various characters and changing their look to fit the game’s more real-world textures just doesn’t work. Your custom created character looks just fine but when mixed with characters from franchises with such distinct art styles it doesn’t mesh very well. The reason this is so terrifying is the art style. Characters are completely emotionless and mostly just stand around while things are going on during the cutscenes. If FighterZ is given a break lol.Characters appear in cutscenes but are so lifeless that it’s just terrifying to look at. Maybe one day we will get something like this made by Arc. But overall Spike Chunsoft has not put out a must have game in over 10 years so these scores are unsurprising as well as the quality of Jump Force. Whatever "talent" that was there is probably gone (I assume, again, it'd be cool to know for sure by looking at the credits of the various games they've made). You've got to assume due to the merger and the amount of time that has passed much of the staff that worked on those older games have left.

Most people would say Tenkaichi 2 is the last actual, great story mode Spike has made for an anime game.
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Much like Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 2 (though, the latter, is more forgivable due to just how huge that game's story is and it being a PS2 game). I'm not surprised with the cutscene direction and production, Spike has not had any good story modes since 2009 (Dragon Ball Raging Blast) and even then that game mostly consisted of characters standing still and talking.
