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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future

Game

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future is Capcom's 1999 update to its Stardust Crusaders fighting game, growing the roster from thirteen to twenty two fighters. Ported from CPS-3 arcade hardware to PlayStation and Dreamcast, it stands as the definitive version of the game.

Genre: 2D fighting game
Platform: Arcade, PlayStation, Dreamcast
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Year: 1999
Japan Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Gameplay

Heritage for the Future keeps the power gauge fighting system and the Stand Mode mechanic from the original release, letting fighters summon or dismiss their Stand for different move lists at the cost of shared damage. On top of that foundation it adds nine new playable characters and rebalances the existing cast, and its home console ports let players switch between the original arcade ruleset and the revised one.
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Premise

The story still follows Part 3, Stardust Crusaders, with Jotaro Kujo, Joseph Joestar, and their Stand using allies pursuing Dio across the world. The expanded roster fills out the cast with more faces from that arc, giving fans of the manga a deeper set of playable heroes and villains than the original 1998 release offered.
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Release

Capcom releases the updated arcade board in Japan on September 13, 1999, making it the sixth and final game built for the CPS-3 board. PlayStation and Dreamcast ports follow that same year, and Famitsu names it the most successful arcade game of November 1999. Capcom later revisits the game with a high definition digital rerelease for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.
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