Line #38 YMMV/JumpForce


1	* AmericansHateTingle: The inclusion of [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Kaguya]] in the base game is a small but significant one. In Japan, the character's reception wavers between being somewhat liked and ambivalence, while in the West, she is most definitely hated.
2	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure DIO's]] appearance in Story Mode. He kind of just appears, announces his presence, and leaves. Hilariously, however, many have agreed that this kind of stunt is actually fairly in-character for DIO.
3	* CaptainObviousReveal: [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] being a traitor to the Jump Force is so obvious that [[TheUntwist it's not even worth a spoiler tag]]. Considering that he's one of the most iconic villains in the entire ''medium'', it would be genuinely more shocking if he stayed a good guy for the entire game. [[spoiler:In fact, [[RedHerring that's more or less what really happens]] when the alleged BigGood Glover is an ''even bigger'' traitor as Prometheus, while Light [[PragmaticVillainy is smart enough to just keep helping the good guys in defeating him]].]]
4	* ClicheStorm: The game's Story Mode has been called derivative and uninspired by reviewers, with the plot being constantly compared with ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite''.
5	* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Prometheus]] is the master of both Galena and Kane. Once a member of the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Umbran]] order known as the Keymen, Prometheus became tired of humanity wasting the knowledge they gave them and betrays his fellow Umbrans by using the Onyx Book to merge the real world with the Jump worlds. Prometheus has Galena give humans with evil intent Umbras Cubes, turning them into Venoms, causing chaos and destruction across the world, while he takes the guise of [[spoiler:Director Glover]] to gather the heroes in order to [[PlayingBothSides play both sides]] into gathering enough power for the Onyx Book. When Galena and Kane are defeated, Prometheus coldly kills them then uses the Onyx Book to try and [[AGodAmI permanently merge all the realities together and rule over them as a god]]. While he claims he wants to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist guide humanity on a better path]], Prometheus is nothing but an arrogant psychopath bent on imposing his own will on the multiverse.
6	* FandomRivalry: A vicious one emerged between the game and ''VideoGame/JStarsVictoryVs'' over which is the "better" ''Jump'' crossover. Those on the ''J-Stars'' side accuse ''Jump Force'' of pandering to the fandoms of a few specific series while snubbing others, and consequently "failing" as a celebration of ''Jump''[='=]s history. Those on the ''Jump Force'' side accuse ''J-Stars'' roster of being overstuffed with so many representatives that the casts of individual series were wasted, and that much of the cast was little more than unfitting {{Joke Character}}s anyway. There is very little middle ground.
7	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Seiya and Shiryu were both revealed at the Brazil Game Show in Sao Paulo due to ''Manga/SaintSeiya''[='=]s popularity in Brazil and Latin America. Similarly, Kenshiro and Ryo Saeba were revealed at Paris Games Week due to ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' and ''Manga/CityHunter''[='=]s popularity in France.
8	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
9	** When starting his Ultimate Attack, All Might yells that he can't die until he has raised Deku correctly. It can be subverted if he uses it AGAINST Deku, mind you.
10	** The intro between Gon and Dai. Gon asks Dai to [[DefeatMeansFriendship become his friend after the battle]]. Dai seems a little surprised, but accepts!
11	* InferredHolocaust: Some of the SceneryGorn in the stage designs and transitions involves vehicles being toppled over or a building being destroyed. Are there people in there and are they OK?
12	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Combined with TheyCopiedItSoItSucks with ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' comparisons, many members of the community have been critical of ''Jump Force''[='=]s story mode ever since the [[TaintedByThePreview original characters were revealed]], with Kane and Galena being called copies of [[VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse Towa and Mira]]. This increased when the Story Mode trailer revealed Future Trunks, once again, was going to be the playable character's partner just like in ''Xenoverse''. When the game was released, the FinalBoss was called a Demigra carbon-copy due to having a similar concept of being [[spoiler:a villain with a god-complex trapped in an alternate dimension]].
13	* JustHereForGodzilla: Fans of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' have taken a shine to the game primarily because it has both Jotaro and DIO (and, with the DLC, Giorno) as playable characters.
14	* MagnificentBastard: [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] joined the Jump Force both to protect the world and to find a way to restore power to his Death Note. Quickly deducing the presence of a mole within Jump Force, Light is also the only one to suspect Angela, [[SpotTheImposter who turns out to be Galena]], exposing her and partially preventing her from destroying the Umbras base with a trap. Locating Galena while she reports her failures to Kane, Light arrives and convinces Kane that the villains hold the advantage, while claiming his interests align with the villains, allying himself with the villains while [[PlayingBothSides the heroes are left in the dark]]. After [[spoiler:Prometheus/Director Glover's]] betrayal, Light assumes leadership of Jump Force and assists the Player by bringing a reformed Kane who gives the Player their own cube. After Prometheus' defeat, Light manages to acquire one of the Umbras cubes [[TheBadGuyWins which was his plan all along]]. This Light proves himself to be [[AdaptationalNiceGuy far more collected and sympathetic]] than his smug canon self, while no less brilliant.
15	* MemeticLoser: Due to his conspicuous absence from the first trailer, many people started saying that Ichigo Kurosaki (and, by extension, [[Manga/{{Bleach}} his series]]) was now this.
16	* MemeticMutation:
17	** Noted in the page for UnexpectedCharacter, many people have taken [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami's]] inclusion in the game and ran with the amount of jokes about him being a BadassNormal, such as using the Death Note to slap people around in physical combat. It died down since he was announced to not be playable.
18	** Similarly quite a few jokes popped up about Goku [[NoSell No-Selling]] the Death Note because Light wouldn't know his actual name.
19	** There seemed to be a RunningGag in the American fandom where every character announcement is followed up by someone asking where [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Midoriya]] and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro]] were, seemingly hinging whether or not they buy the game on whether or not those two franchises are confirmed or denied for inclusion. This lasted until both franchises were confirmed for inclusion.
20	** Where's ''Manga/FairyTail''??? [[labelnote:Explanation]]Similar to ''VideoGame/JStarsVictoryVs'', whenever a post about ''Jump Force'' was made pre-release, you could expect a horde of fans asking for ''Fairy Tail'' characters due to its popularity or rather confusion about what magazine ''Fairy Tail'' belongs to. It got to the point where the requests somewhat became a meme, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URg6vL2udtY one video]] actually making fun of said requests.[[/labelnote]]
21	** 12 new characters! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Trusted leaker Yonkou Productions [[https://twitter.com/YonkouProd/status/1076559409050923008 tweeted out that there would be 12 characters]] revealed. Come the second day of ''Jump Force''[='s=] Jump Festa panel, the entire panel was just showing what was already revealed in previous announcements, and his fans, for lack of a better term, weren't having any of it.[[/labelnote]]
22	** Nope, the roster is complete! [[labelnote:Explanation]]What a Creator/{{Bandai Namco\|Entertainment}} representative said regarding the base game roster after Jotaro and DIO were revealed. The fan response was... unpleasant to say the least.[[/labelnote]]
23	** "[=UE4=] fan project" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A ''very'' common criticism often made regarding the game's graphics and artstyle is to compare it to a variety of fan projects that try to recreate games in Unreal Engine 4, particularly those based on ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. This is made even funnier by the fact that the game actually ''was'' made in Unreal Engine 4.[[/labelnote]]
24	** Racist Deku [[labelnote:Explanation]]A joke that started after an interaction surfaced where Deku assumes Piccolo (who, on top of being not human, is often characterized by fans as a black man) is a villain, which he began as in the original manga before making a HeelFaceTurn. The tweet first noting the interaction spread like wildfire, especially after an official comic news site picked it up and [[PoesLaw took joke tweets out of context]] to make it look like people were serious about Deku being racist.[[/labelnote]]
25	** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "I have to go now. My planet needs me."]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]One particularly [[{{Narm}} goofy-looking]] moment has Frieza [[PowerFloats float up offscreen]] in an oddly rigid manner that reminded many fans of [[ShooOutTheNewGuy Poochie's infamous exit]].[[/labelnote]]
26	** THE ''Jump Force'' song/Loading Screen Music [[labelnote:Explanation]]In WebVideo/{{Alpharad}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZYZBCiDIxU "I played Jump Force so you don't have to"]] video, he notes, among other criticisms of ''Jump Force'', [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading how frequent loading screens are and how bad the game's loading times are]] (cut down from ''3 minutes'' to "only" 20 seconds post-patch) and elected to use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0rX0xi4n0 the game's lobby theme]] (linked to in the video description as "THE Jump Force song") constantly throughout the video, [[RunningGag including every single time a loading screen popped up]]. This led to said theme [[ColbertBump gaining increased attention]] and jokes along the lines of the above. Adding to the hilarity is that listeners agree that the track, unlike the game it originated from, is ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic genuinely]]'' [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic good]].[[/labelnote]]
27	* {{Narm}}:
28	** Most of the cutscenes are... not very good, to put it lightly. Even putting aside the rather questionable storyline, most of the characters are very rigid and immobile, with stiff, puppet-like movements and semi-frozen expressions that change very little, if at all, during the cutscenes. A common complaint from many fans is that the "real world" setting was a poor choice of backdrop for a crossover, and that the clashing art styles means that characters from manga with more stylized artwork (especially ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', ''Manga/OnePiece'', and ''Franchise/DragonBall'') do not mesh well with the realistic graphics ''at all''.
29	** Early on, the player is shown a scene of Vegeta becoming a victim of DemonicPossession, which is depicted as him just ''standing there'' as the Umbran Cube goes into his body. What's worse, the way the scene is framed gives the impression that the cube [[AssShove went straight into his butt]].
30	*** Immediately afterwards, the possessed Vegeta and the Venoms then stiffly march in formation, which looks like they are about to perform "Music/{{Thriller}}."
31	** There's a particularly notorious moment where Frieza floats up out off-camera ''completely rigid'' (with his character model [[SpecialEffectFailure visibly still in the standing position]]) without moving any part of his body except for his tail. Many fans compared it to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Poochie returning to his home planet]] or [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Vitruvius hanging on a string]].
32	** Another infamous scene is one where Sanji runs across the screen... only the game forgot to include his running cycle. The result is his model just sliding across the screen. More than a few people compared it to something out of ''WebAnimation/InfernoCop''.
33	** The entire "traitor" plotline, because a) it is ''incredibly'' obvious that [[VillainProtagonist Light]] is the traitor and b) [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt there's no way Jump would turn one of its established and beloved heroes into a villain]], making the attempts to give other candidates come off as unbelievable, nearly bordering on laughable. Especially when the primary candidate is ''[[UndyingLoyalty Sanji]]''. [[spoiler:Light, however, ends up being a RedHerring for this, when ''he's'' the one who figures out and discovers Sanji is just BrainwashedAndCrazy by the woman they rescued, and ''again'' when it turns out there really ''was'' a traitor in the form of none other than Glover/Prometheus]].
34	** The design of the FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Prometheus]], has been called laughably lazy by many in the community. The character looks like an adult [[Anime/DragonBallZ Kid Buu]] but in blue and wings, and adding the ugly in-game model and monotone voice acting it makes the character not interesting to look at. By comparison, while [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Jiren]] (another character designed by Creator/AkiraToriyama) was thought to be lazily designed too by many members of the community, he at least appeared in [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt well regarded episodes of the series drawn by the top talents of the show]] like [[CreatorWorship Yuya Takahashi or Naoki Tate]], which ''Jump Force''[='=]s FinalBoss doesn't have.
35	* NarmCharm: The reaction several fans have to the game's premise of a massive crossover fighting fest taking place in the real world, the idea being something so bizarre yet awesome they can't help but love the idea of it despite the potentially out there premise resembling something out of your average fanfic:
36	-->'''[[Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom Spacebattles user]] [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/leingod.297312/ Leingod:]]''' ''Oh my God, this is the dumbest thing ever in the best possible way.''
37	* OlderThanTheyThink:
38	** For many American fans, their earliest frame of reference for a ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' crossover fighting game is ''Battle Stadium D.O.N.'' for the Platform/PlayStation2, which is a crossover between ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''Manga/OnePiece'', and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' specifically, hence the ''D.O.N.'' in the title, but ''Shonen Jump'' crossover games have existed since ''Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden'' on [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem the original Famicom]].
39	** This game is not the first time ''Jump'' characters had a crossover fight in the real world. ''One Piece'' and ''Dragon Ball'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNVhFSYy4Xg did this for an 2007 exhibit]] in which they fight Eneru above the city of Tokyo.
40	** Yugi may come across as an UnexpectedCharacter, but he was actually playable in ''Jump Super Stars'' and ''Jump Ultimate Stars''. Other ''Manga/YuGiOh'' characters, such as Kaiba, Jonouchi and Anzu, also appeared in ''Super Stars'' and ''Ultimate Stars'' as {{assist\|Character}}s.
41	* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Gameplay-wise, the game is regarded as a fun arena fighter. The story, on the other hand, is regarded very negatively due to being a derivative ClicheStorm with broken cutscenes.
42	* SoBadItsGood: Some players have this opinion regarding the game's Story Mode, comparing the plot to a bad yet hilarious fanfic.
43	* SoOkayItsAverage: General consensus from most reviews is that it's not the deepest of fighting games out there, nor the most polished, and would've benefited from a more robust gameplay style, bigger character selection from other manga series, and better story and animation. But is a nice love letter to fans of ''Jump'' manga and a fun time with multiplayer if nothing else.
44	* SpecialEffectFailure: A lot of the cutscenes suffer from poor texture-mapping or lighting effects, in addition to animations have [[https://twitter.com/Somecallmejon/status/1095396430758457344 widely been criticized]] as stiff and unnatural.
45	* TearJerker: Despite Angela [[spoiler:being a modified Venom controlled by Galena]], it seems she [[spoiler:still had feelings for Sanji as she gazes longingly at him while dying]].
46	* ThatOneBoss: The FinalBoss is a nightmare, especially when [[spoiler:he takes away your ability to perform special moves in the first of two fights]]. Lots of health, cheap attacks that take points off your life bar even when blocked and some that outright ignore your block entirely, and a DesperationAttack that will likely one shot you even if your health bar is full all combine into a full test of your abilities.
47	* ThatOneLevel: The key mission where you, Naruto, and Sasuke fight a group of Venoms... Then, you and Naruto join up with Gaara to fight Toguro replicas... '''Three''' of them. '''''In a row.''''' ''Then'' you fight [[spoiler:a Venom-corrupted Gaara]] shortly afterwards. It's every bit as painful and unpleasant as it sounds.
48	* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some reviewers have compared this game to ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' with the story concept of a rebellion fighting against evil forces, the title of the game, the use of a custom made player character and the FinalBoss powers using the MacGuffin being too similar to Infinite.
49	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
50	** Loads of them. Despite having a cast of 40 playable characters, only a handful contribute in any way to the story, the rest are otherwise relegated to side missions. Even Luffy, Goku, and Naruto are mostly stuck as just the team leaders.
51	** Special mention goes to Light. Despite becoming well aware that he's in a multiverse with a chance of godhood right at his fingertips, he doesn't take it and instead goes after his Death Note still, a weapon that would only affect less than half of the Jump Force. Instead, his only role in the game is to be suspicious, the scene where [[spoiler:he goes to Kane]] [[RedHerring ends up going nowhere]], and his story ends with him picking up a cube, setting up an obvious SequelHook, which so far only has one follow-up cutscene between him and Aizen; the latter easily deduces what he's up to. In short, he does surprisingly so little in the story he could have been cut from the game entirely.
52	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: There's pretty much no reason for there to not be a stage revolving around Cairo, given it's both a real-world location ''and'' the location of a major story arc in ''Jump'' (specifically the final battle of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders''), whereas the other stages seem to only incorporate one or the other. It would probably be one of the most fitting stages to include in the game, and could even feature DIO's Mansion in the background (like Los Angeles does for U.A. High School or New Zealand does for the Black Whale)... and it's just not there. Ditto for Rome (featuring the final battle of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind''), though this is slightly mitigated by Giorno being DLC-only.

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