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Jump Super Stars

Game

Jump Super Stars is a 2005 Nintendo DS fighting game that gathers dozens of characters from Weekly Shonen Jump manga into one crossover roster, including Jotaro Kujo and Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Ganbarion developed it and Nintendo published it in Japan only.

Genre: Crossover fighting game
Platform: Nintendo DS
Developer: Ganbarion
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Year: 2005
Japan Release Date: 2005-08-08
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Gameplay

Players build decks out of character cards called koma, which come in three types: battle koma that serve as the actual fighters, support koma that grant a one time assist, and help koma that boost stats. Each koma occupies a set number of squares on a 20 square deck grid, so a roster full of powerful battle koma leaves less room for support options. Matches support two to four players at once, and the game ships with more than 75 single player missions on top of its multiplayer modes.
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Premise

There is no original story tying the cast together beyond the conceit of a crossover tournament; the appeal is seeing heroes and villains from separate Jump series share the same battlefield. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure contributes Jotaro Kujo, who fights alongside his Stand Star Platinum, and his vampiric rival Dio Brando, who wields The World, translating the pair's signature time stopping attacks into the koma battle system.
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Reception

Jump Super Stars released only in Japan, timed to the launch of a red Nintendo DS bundle, and became one of the country's best selling games of 2005, moving over 200,000 copies in its first week and roughly half a million over its lifetime. Critics were generally positive, with Famitsu awarding it 32 out of 40 and outlets like Nintendo Life and Nintendo World Report scoring it 9 out of 10; Metacritic lists an aggregate of 80 out of 100. A sequel, Jump Ultimate Stars, followed the next year.
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