Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle

[Jugun]

This game is so interesting when are the other live streams going to be up? can some one post the times in relation to different time zones? I'm in NYC

[Pete278]

The AI might just be able to Stylish Move random things for coolness, though. The MvC3 AI is well known for its 'suck at everything but sometimes snapback your buttons on reaction' playstyle.

[Final Ultima]

The AI might just be able to Stylish Move random things for coolness, though. The MvC3 AI is well known for its 'suck at everything but sometimes snapback your buttons on reaction' playstyle.

You might be right.

That being said, for the time being I'm still expecting it to be at least somewhat more generous than moves of that variety tend to be. Much better to be wrong about that than vice versa.

[Jocelot]

Sweet analysis' from both you guys, I'm super stoked for this. I wonder if UltiCars will get the benefits of Ripple? Like the EX moves. Also wonder how long his Ultimate transformation lasts, is it until the end of the match or is it time based, I wonder.

Hopefully we'll see when he appears in the ASB League!

[Final Ultima]

His reveal in PV5 doesn't show anything to indicate that it's timed. The name under the life gauge even changes from Kars to Kars (Ultimate Thing), which seems unnecessary if it only lasts for a few seconds.

Incidentally, "Ultimate Thing" is the strongest bit of furigana I have read in quite some time. I'll probably never be able to refer to it as Ultimate Being or Ultimate Lifeform ever again.

[Jocelot]

Cars the Ultimate Thing. Has a nice ring to it, lol.

[Kairos]

Short preview of Rohan vs Okuyasu, plus screaming. Edited June 20, 2013 by Kairos

[Le Shad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEybDXvzqdo

The NBGI channel on YouTube just posted the ASB League stream.

[SoWL]

And now it's private

[Le Shad]

Gee, thanks Namco.

[ChimeraCoinFlip]

The league stream sounds cool. Also promises at least 2 more characters which I guess they already promised with that 30+ thing.

[ChimeraCoinFlip]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEybDXvzqdo

The NBGI channel on YouTube just posted the ASB League stream.

Video's no longer private.

[Final Ultima]

Another month, another set of reveals.

Dio Brando and Enrico Pucci

[Starlight777]

Oh god Pucci has Made in Heaven. Hopefully he'll be able to

speed to the end of the universe lol

[SoWL]

And my main is finally revealed. Nice to see Made in Heaven as something more than a stage gimmick/situation finish - I just hope it's not used only to force time-outs.

[Jugun]

I don't know who I'm gonna main,I like all the characters thus far,just want Weather Report playable,-.- but I can only wait to see.But even if he's just a stage hazard I will still have fun with Freezy Hands Dio and most likely the lazer eye spam,but it shouldn't be too bad in this game,with dodging and all lol

[Vulcan422]

So this version of Dio is basically Shadow Dio from the Capcom game?

[SoWL]

Kinda, but not really. He doesn't have The World or Charisma, but does have eye lasers along with freezing abilities and a zombie army.

[Le Shad]

Glad to finally see Pucci! Him having C-Moon means fun times will be had.

NBGI posted the second part of that 10 minutes trailer today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD5q1XqEEI8

[Zeromus_X]

Wasn't expecting OG Dio, but nice to see more Part 1 characters.

[SoWL]

An HQ version of the scan:

http://www.imagebam.com/image/4379ec262359877

Seems like Pucci got a special gauge, which probably evolves his Stand.

[ChimeraCoinFlip]

Any match Pucci is in that results in a time out, results in Pucci's victory.

Also give Pucci a GHH that causes the timer to count down by 3 seconds at a time.

That'd be cool but horribly annoying.

Unlike Koichi though, Pucci can't (Shouldn't at least) be able to transform freely between stands, so I wonder what they'll do.

Edited June 26, 2013 by ChimeraCoinFlip

[Jugun]

Anybody hyped for the live stream today?

http://ls57tiger.freepgs.com/jojo/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=6316

Edited July 3, 2013 by Jugun

[SoWL]

It was shorter than everyone expected (and probably rigged in the popular characters' favor), but I still liked it. The greatest part for me was the music, though a good look at ACDC's gameplay was nice, too.

Anyways, I don't care that much about groups A and B, though I'm still looking forward to Pete's analysis.

[Final Ultima]

It was pretty disappointing, but there's still some stuff to take out of all of this.

First of all, character themes are more or less confirmed at this point, which is great. You can hear most of them pretty well whenever the sound effects aren't obfuscating the music, and in my opinion they sound really good.

Clarifying on one of my suspicions from the exhibition matches: Buccellati was shown clearly ignoring the hitstun of Avdol's jump-in attack while throwing an attack of his own during Kakugo Mode, then almost immediately retaliating with his Heart Heat Attack. Then, when Buccellati stood still and Avdol went for his Easy Beat combo string, Buccellati stunned as normal. Kakugo Mode seems to only grant armour during attack start-up and active frames. After all, the only time we've seen it in effect so far was when Buccellati was Counter Hit, and the only other time Buccellati has been Counter Hit in footage during Kakugo Mode was when he got K.O.'d by Josuke.

(Edit: I suspected for a while that the lack of super armour may have had something to do with the opponent being in Gogogo Mode, but recently reading some Japanese text on how the mode works made it pretty clear that it's actually just because it only works during attacks. My apologies for any confusion on the matter.)

Regarding Johnny, I'm still wondering what the corpse parts are supposed to do. I'm pretty sure they're not required to upgrade Tusk.

And now for something that threw me off a little: Pillar Men either do not have recoverable life as standard like vampires, or they take non-recoverable damage from Stands. It's a bit hard to tell with the highlighty nature of the videos, but Esidisi (ACDC) is only shown with noticable recoverable life once, against Caesar. This might be because it was the only point that he took damage from Caesar that wasn't just constant Shabon Cutters, or it could be that said damage was incurred as a side-effect of an attack that we didn't know deals recoverable damage. I'll need to look at some better quality footage so I can see if Caesar's normals dealt recoverable damage or not.

Edit: After watching a slightly higher quality video, it seems that the Pillar Men do have recoverable life, but Stands don't deal recoverable damage. I guess that makes sense, Stands were originally introduced as "ghostly ripple", after all. Pretty easy to get confused about something like that when the COM just spams Stand attacks on Esidisi all day. It's actually kinda cruel. He doesn't have to cry about it though.

Edited July 6, 2013 by Final Ultima