J-Stars Victory VS

J-Stars Victory VS+

EU: June 26, 2015

NA: June 30, 2015

J-Stars Victory VS is a crossover anime fighting game that crosses over characters from weekly shonen jump it was made to celebrate the 45th anniversary of shonen jump it was release in japan for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2014 and release the following year for America and was titled J-Stars Victory VS+

While Jump Force isn’t an exact sequel to J-Stars Victory VS it is somewhat of a follow up to that game.

## Gameplay

J-Stars Victory VS lets up to four players battle it out against one another in a gameplay and graphical style similar to those of Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle. Fighters can move and fight in all directions of a 3D battle field. Players should learn the lay of the land and formulate a battle plan with a character suited to it. A defeated character comes back after a set amount of time passes. To win the battle, all three sections of the WIN gauge at the top of the screen have to be filled; the gauge fills one section each time an opponent is defeated. Fighters can use regular attacks, power attacks, area-based attacks, and finishing moves. Regular attacks are the main part of the battle, and all combos begin with them. Power attacks leave the user open, but they have a big impact if they connect and their power can be increased by charging them up. Area-based attacks allow to hit opponents over a wide area. By using different techniques, the player can lead his team to victory; learning each character's different power, range, and effects is the first step towards being unbeatable.

## Series Representation

J-Stars Victory VS has 32 from series having a lot more Shonen Jump series then Jump Force

in Jump Force only 10 series made the return from there to Jump Force while also being back some characters who were playable in the previous game such as Goku, Luffy and Naruto and Ichigo. Both Rukia and Hisoka who were made as support only characters are now made as playable characters while both Madara and Hiei who were playable were made as DLC.

it could be possible that certain characters were replace by other characters from the same series as them for example while Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure makes a return in Jump Force none of the two characters Jonathan Joestar and Joseph Joestar who were the series representation in J-Stars make a return but rather are replace by Jotaro Kujo and Dio Brando others include for the One Piece series Sabo replacing Portgas D. Ace and Blackbeard replaces Akainu as the villain representation for the series.

## Similarities With Jump Force

J-Stars Victory VS and Jump Force both share some similarities with each other these similarities include.

* Both are Shonen Jump anniversary crossover games.
* Both are developed by Spike Chunsoft.
* Both are published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.
* Both are anime arena fighters but in different types of formats.
* Both games feature a story mode were characters come together.
* Both include other Shonen Jump characters that are non-playable.
* Both games have many easter eggs to franchises in Shonen Jump.
* Both games everytime you play a match you earn points that you can use to buy things.
* Both include Shonen Jump series that were new and popular around their respective game’s release.
	+ J-Stars had Toriko, Assassination Classroom and The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. While Jump Force had My Hero Academia, Black Clover and Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.
* Both games each had 4 cut characters found in the data files of each game.
	+ J-Stars had Jotaro, Dio, Dai and Yoh Asakura while Jump Force had Byakuya Kuchiki, Kenpachi Zaraki, Andromeda Shun and Cygnus Hyoga.

* Both games were removed from digital stores due to licensing.

## Characters who appeared in both games

some characters who appeared in j-stars made a return for jump force these characters included.

* Son Goku
* Vegeta
* Frieza
* Monkey D. Luffy
* Boa Hancock
* Naruto Uzumaki
* Sasuke Uchiha
* Madara Uchiha (was brought back as a DLC character)
* Pegasus Seiya
* Kenshiro
* Ichigo Kurosaki
* Sosuke Aizen
* Rukia Kuchiki (was made a playable character)
* Gon Freecss
* Killua Zoldyck
* Hisoka Morow (was made a playable character)
* Yusuke Urameshi
* Toguro (younger brother)
* Hiei (was brought back as a DLC character)
* Kenshin Himura
* Makoto Shishio

Jotaro, Dio and Dai apparently were going to be added in J-Stars at some point as they were found within the game’s files along with Yoh Asakura from Shaman King who was gonna be a support only character but they were cut possibly due to time constraints or they were possibly planned as DLC interesting enough an incomplete moveset for Jotaro was actually found within the game’s codes as well as a victory animation.

## Trivia

* Jump Force has a couple recycled voice clips for characters returning from J-Stars.
* It is possibly believed that Jump Force reuses character models for characters who made the cut from J-Stars.
* Despite having less series then J-Stars Jump Force was actually a lot more successful then it’s predecessor.
	+ It had more characters (some think J-Stars had more characters but that was because of the repetition of series in that game that had a couple people fooled).
	+ It lasted a lot more longer J-Stars this is most likely because of DLC and among other things like the online events.
	+ It actually sold very well compared to J-Stars.