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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R You don't really beat fighting games but I've gone through all the single-player content so I'm calling it done. This is a super fun game if you love JoJo. It's a pretty solid fighting game and it goes really hard with the fan service. I haven't tried all the characters but most of those I did try were pretty fun to play. Usually I'll try characters until I find one that works for me and stick with them but I can't really see myself maining anyone in this game. The roster is just too much fun to stick to any one character. I only have one minor nitpick and one major complaint. So, I guess the original release of this game was from before the anime really took off. So it's pretty cool that they went to the trouble of hiring the voice actors from the anime to (re-?)record the voiceovers. What sucks is that they didn't go the extra mile and license the music as well. That anime's music is so good and iconic at this point that hearing the actual character's voices without it made it feel like something was missing. It's a small thing and doesn't really impact the game's overall quality but I thought it really stood out. That was the minor nitpick. As for the major complaint, it's something that does impact the quality in a big way: the netcode. The game is basically unplayable online. If you set it to be the host and limit it to same region only you'll get plenty of matches that are perfectly fine but do quick match and holy fucking hell. At some point I had gotten so used to various degrees of slowdown that once I finally got a normal match it felt like the game was running in fast-forward. It's that bad. Concurrent player count on Steam alone has already dropped by like 50% in the two weeks since launch. Lack of crossplay means it's only going to get harder and harder to find nearby players to play online and lack of rollback netcode means whatever matches you can find will play like absolute shit. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this game dies completely before it even has a chance to be considered for EVO next year. Which really sucks because it's so much fucking fun! So yeah, this game is definitely worth a look if you're a JoJo fan but it's hard to recommend unless you're mostly interested in it for offline play. I'm treating this one as a single-player game, personally. I might hop back online for the occasional match but now that I'm done with the achievements I'm moving on. I was always going into it as more of a "fuck around" game, I never intended to try and get good at it like I did with SFV and am currently doing with GG Strive, but even if I wanted to it just wouldn't be feasible with that garbage netcode.