J-Stars Victory Versus Plus (Review)

      This game originally caught my eye due to the box I'm sad to admit , it's one of the few times brand marketing worked on me. This game has a bunch of anime characters shoved into one game they play slightly different, but overall the simplicity of the combat system makes everything feel samey which is this games biggest flaw.
        The controls are simple there is jump, attack, strong attack, and projectile, dodge, and support, there are combos but overall they are very simple mostly being attack and strong attack combinations. Victory is handled in a unique way each team can be downed a certain amount of times between 1-3 is all I've seen the winner is the one who fills the victory gauge first, you'll find you need to keep an eye on your teammate during harder battles as they alone can be taken out and cause you to lose.
     There also is a burst meter in the center on the victory gauges for each team. This gauge goes back and forward and is influenced by the momentum that your team, is getting once you get it to either end that team can activate burst which increases speed and attack, along with allowing for ultimate moves to be used. When an opponent uses their burst it's best just to dodge and run allowing the meter to run out.
       Adventure mode is spilt into 4 arcs which essentially are, One piece Arc, DBZ Arc,Naurto Arch and Bleach Arch, with random characters thrown in. The overall story is a being throws a tournament for all these fighters winner gets whatever they want as a wish, teams of three are made, and they hunt down these medals, they need to bring to the god like entity. Now this here was ok it dragged on a bit but by the end it was alright didn't overstay it's welcome, cool I'm done now I thought. No. After you do this you have half a game left while you run around trying to get keys now, godamn it J-Stars why? The worst thing is after I beat this arc, I started another, besides some small dialogue changes its word for word the same as the first arc. I really don't understand why they couldn't have just let you pick your three guys from the beginning and had just the one story, 4 times of the same boring long story? Fuck that.
         The game over all is mindlessly entertaining and I may have forgave more of its faults had I not bought this game for $60, for that price you can flesh out the game a bit more guys.But it is very cool to see Bo BoBo fight Goku, and it did give me a bunch of different animes to check out which is never a bad thing, a friend of mine really enjoyed the Troriko one. If you can find it for $20 or less grab it if you like anime, if not pass on this mediocre sort of fighting game.