Why Jump Force FAILED

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This is just my opinion on what happened with Jump Force, there are a lot of thoughts with a situation like this and I hope everyone understands I LOVED this game. It was my main fighting game for a good time, most of my frustration with this game comes from the fumbling that happened on the developer and publisher side. I don't mention Spike Chunsoft as I saw conflicting posts and articles that they developed some and so did Bandai so unsure and just focused on Bandai.
Hope you enjoy!
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[@thekingforehead8614]

Here from TikTok because this is way easier then waiting for parts 💀

[@AlyxAugust]

lmao all good! i was never gonna post them on tiktok’s but needed content. If tiktok would push 10 minute videos i would upload it all together but whenever i’ve done that the videos die off super fast. Either way appreciate you watching!

[@dariusmcdaniel9528]

Facts 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@krakenking2130]

Same

[@Rinsankajugin]

Pretty good video, though it was glaring how you didn't mention any of Jump's past crossover games when talking about Jump Force. Jump Ultimate Stars on the DS had over 50 playable characters and over 100 assist characters from 42 different franchises, and J-Stars Victory VS (made by the Jump Force devs, Spike Chunsoft) had 39 playable characters and 13 assist characters from 32 different franchises. You had mentioned before how Bamco tried advertising the game has a big serious crossover, and that was intentional because they were literally just trying to turn the Jump characters into their own Avengers, down to having a Nick Fury-like leader and a Thanos-like villain. It also didn't help that Spike Chunsoft (the dev team) were working on other games at the time, like the One Punch Man game, or the recently revealed Sparking Zero/Tenkaichi 4 (which started development one year before Jump Force came out). On the topic of dubs though, there's definitely a LOT of legal mumbo-jumbo with MULTIPLE dubbing studios that Bamco does NOT want to deal with. Especially since Funimation and Viz Media kinda hate each other, so there's no way they'd want to work together on the same project together. No matter how many people want it to happen, Goku and Naruto will never talk to each other in their English voices in any sort of crossover.

[@michxx3997]

This has to be one of the best breakdowns of Jump Force on KZbin, deserves way more views

[@wolf5732]

This could have been such a great experience. They had everything we wanted in a nice looking package. The grind was ass, the story was mostly ass, but I mean I still like it for something dumb to do when I'm bored

[@AlyxAugust]

same here i still found a lot of fun in it

[@alyasVictorio]

Well, if I'm the future game dev, either 2d-indie or 3d-AAA, I'll make 2 future crossover games which is both for Shonen Jump (with 4-7 franchises' reps each) and for another Shonen Jump but with more franchises/IPs such as Ben 10, Justice League, Marvel, Capcom, etc.

[@thegodofcreepy]

Honestly, I agree with literally every single point you made, except for the story mode part. It's possible to have a good story mode in a game like this, but it'd be difficult. If they did it kinda like how Smash Bros. did Subspace Emissary, then it could work. In fact, it could possibly be better. They didn't execute it well at all, but I believe we could have a great story mode if they retooled it heavily.

[@LunaticKD1991]

It's really not that hard to write a good story for fighting games. Hire competent storytellers and you'll have a good story. Shocking. 😱

[@danieldandahmanzink3347]

Good video. Saw your post on reddit. I was gonna leave a longer comment, but I think you pretty much covered it. Real shame since I really didn't get into it until after the last dlc pack. Hopefully they learn from their mistakes and release a much better Jump-Force 2. Probably a pipe-dream though.

[@AlyxAugust]

Yo! Thanks I was really apprehensive on posting on reddit at first. Yeah my first long video like this I wanted to really discuss everything being that this was a game I was VERY passionate about. I know a lot of people that got into it towards the end of the game because it being on sale or characters coming out so you're not alone! A Jump Force 2 is something that I would honestly love but I think Shonen Jump and/or Bandai really have to figure themselves out and their end goal first before just throwing everything at a game and it being a jack of all trades master of none. Appreciate the comment!

[@danteakechi7330]

This game is the epitome of a cash grab. It’s literally shonen jump and Bandai knowing that the game on paper sounds so good that everyone who is a fan of these properties will at least check it out because who wouldn’t want a smash like game with all your favorite anime characters instead of video game characters. But as soon as people realized how bad the game actually was the entire thing fell apart. One thing that actually turned me off to the whole thing was the lack of a guard break. I knew absolutely nothing about shonen jump characters because I had just started getting into anime seriously and what made me upset was how you could just press the block button and be impervious to all forms of damage. Gon is able to just simply guard a gear 4 luffy punch or a spirit bomb or a chidori. That immediately made me not like the game because it was clear that nobody involved actually cared about making a good game

[@noamhadas8345]

Well said brother, a video covering jump force’s topic was needed. Although you did not cover the poor character costuming nor the 4 different styles. But I could easily notice your passion about the game. Came here from TikTok, keep putting out good videos champ.

[@AlyxAugust]

appreciate the love! I ignored the custom character part just because the video was already long on the things i cared about. And I also lowkey just never fully used the custom character and didn’t feel super knowledgeable on the subject to give my thoughts or cover it. But you’re right I think the styles and custom characters are something I wish I could’ve spoken more on. That’s really dope! I love seeing my audience from tiktok over here! Thank you!

[@alyasVictorio]

@@AlyxAugust Imagine if the Jump Force roster has no CaC in the 1st place, then their efforts would be used for adding our needed characters to be fair with those franchises with more representatives.

[@baxxed134]

Something I hoped u talked about in this was the character customization. It kinda sucked how there were only 4 character types u could pick. It sucked bc a lot of the things about the characters looked weird to me. Something I wish they actually had in it was a way larger customization like making a stand user or making a character fight with a different sword style. I would have loved maybe the ability to customize or buy swords for your character to use. It could also have been cool if u could make your character a specific race like a saiyan

[@AlyxAugust]

yea i skipped over that, i didn’t even honestly experience much of it just because i was so annoyed of the open world and the character creator was just so useless i didn’t wanna make a character i wanted to play as my favorite characters

[@krillin2591]

Yeah, and also on top of that grinding those characters to max level was so fucking goddamn tedious. There where I wanna say 3 or 4 level 100 mission, but only one of them is for “Leveling” (as each one is it’s own category there was also stuff to upgrade abilities and passives you could put on) so you’d fight the SAME three people that being DIO, Freiza, and Blackbeard. “Just fight online to level up” was and is a complete joke when you’d MAYBE get 10-12 xp for winning an online match when the back end of leveling is in the tens of thousands… I don’t know, I fucking loved the game… I just wish they did more, and tried harder which I get seemed to be the consensus… it’s just so unfortunate.

[@Kompman]

I uninstalled jump force when i realized they let you pick 3 characters that all shared 1 health bar, i hated that it's so stupid. Why even let me pick 3 characters if i only get 1 health bar

[@AlyxAugust]

I wasn't into that at first either, but other fighting games I heard do it. I got used to it and just kinda meh lmao I didn't love it though

[@ghoustyboi6124]

I loved playing it with my cousin we liked it but we did notice the issues hopefully if they make another jump force they can put more time into the game and hopefully it will be better

[@AlyxAugust]

i hope so but idk

[@ignitables2890]

Now with the announcement of DB tenkaichi 4 (sparking zero) the director said BT4 was in development since right after the release of fighterz, meaning bt4 was also using up resources that jump force couldve used.

[@09howard40]

This has to be my favorite video on KZbin

[@GoCrazy69]

The only answer is to let Arcsys take over and make a new game like this since there the only company that listens to fans gives rollback net code day one and will make the gameplay look and feel unique

[@pyschokilla666]

I just bought this game and doesn't even pop up on the screen n I have a the disc won't work wat so ever so pissed

[@AlyxAugust]

truly is wild how far it went

[@itsDjjayy]

Anime expo is July 1st so we may see the next anniversary game there 😅😅

[@AlyxAugust]

maybe fingers crossed

[@yandar3278]

Amazing video, really captured the feel of the life of this game

[@TheREALHugo4]

And now it's done, servers are off.

[@Jj_2723]

Jump force put me on to One Piece and I’m grateful for that. It was mainly fun to play online bc of how toxic and tryhard the players were 😂 but rip JF

[@kennel878Xx]

I know this is almost irrelevant what I'm about to comment, but I'm gonna say what a lot of people haven't said or I've yet to See, hold on to your seat... This is gonna make you sh*t your pants and call your parents crying after what I'm gonna say. Black. Clover is actually really good and a very great anime that I've seen so far. in my a board certified professional anime watcher , I'm serious about this damnit, Great openings that I've listened too a many of times, great plot for a story, amazing world building and a Finely crafted power system if I do say so myself... Nothing will ever be as good as Hunter X Hunter though. But damn I wish so hard so much they would start cranking out the new season of the anime :( especially seeing those last 2 episodes. Made me hyped up and ready for even more.

[@AlyxAugust]

Lmao i think this comment was pretty relevant and was some pretty cold takes at least for me. I think black clover is awesome, super underrated, Hunter is dope I haven’t fully seen it just a little bit and I did like what I saw 🙇🏽

[@danlee3250]

I stayed as far away from this game as possible I read reviews still cost 60 dollars to buy on Xbox platform was constantly being removed from gamepass because of lack of people playing it this game was destined to be a dumpster fire I agree a hundred percent I played it a couple times with my friend at his house on his PlayStation and I kept getting mad that I wanted to play someone else and I couldn’t because I was to lazy to go wait on his other plays ruin for him to invite me to change a character it’s almost like this game was killing itself almost intently the game just didn’t listen to its fanbase only reason I looked at this garbage game was because of some of the animations overall most disappointing game made for anime fans I wish they would make a new one which listened to the fanbase

[@AlyxAugust]

you and me both! the way this game was handled was very frustrating

[@shizuwolf]

Dragonball Fighterz and other games from that dev team had hub worlds like you suggested

[@shizuwolf]

Plus have you tried J Stars?

[@AlyxAugust]

I haven’t tried j stars!

[@shizuwolf]

@@AlyxAugust I’ve played a good amount of it and it’s pretty fun. I haven’t played Jump Force, so I can’t really compare them myself. But I’ve heard J Stars plays slightly better

[@undrmeyou667]

Epic video!

[@ddthetsuchikage5338]

I still play it and find the game fun. But it probably failed because of the dog shi story mode and the developers found out players weren’t playing it that much ( especially new players) and the low chances of people getting into it in the first place were pretty low in terms of stances! But I just still play it to today and quite the characters were getting added/shipped into the game, I’ll think about what my choice would be to accidentally buying a ass character that barely had swiftness. But I’m with ya on this one 👌

[@AlyxAugust]

appreciate the comment 🙌🏽

[@codmdragon205]

Good to hear truth about this game

[@xavierfrancis9364]

Does anyone remember j-star all they had to do is do a updated j-star and it would have been loved. Also skins would have been cool too.

[@AlyxAugust]

skins would’ve been so sick. I think they tried to do that with how your characters look would change throughout the match like trunks would go SS and look like that for the rest of the match. But i think full on skins would’ve been dope, sage mode naruto, skinny almight, goku black.

[@dead_weight]

I knew jump force wasn’t going to be succesful from the get go. I am normally very optimistic about games, especially fighting games. But the gameplay just wasn’t hitting. j stars was a lot of fun because you had this huge map you could cause havoc on, but jump force just feels like a compact package that wasnt packed down properly. Poor fighting mechanics, the tag mechanic felt unsatisfying, issues with certain characters being overwhelming while others felt completely unusable. My friends certainly were hopeful, but its too steep of a learning curve for a game thats casual at best.

[@AlyxAugust]

i can totally understand you on those points. It had so much potential but fell flat in so many core ways it just made truly enjoying it hard.

[@gabrielcancelado2490]

I think Jump Force could´ve had a good story mode. It coudl probably worked. Yeah, there is a shit ton of characters, but Hey! just cut some ones, and focus on the important guys

[@AlyxAugust]

i think even then it would be EXTREMELY difficult to combine so many universes and art styles in a way that most would approve of. Let alone make sense and have good writing and no major plot issues.

[@gabrielcancelado2490]

@@AlyxAugust It could have been dificult but not impossible to make it good. You could have vut some characters for sake of preventing saturation, and change the aesthetic to fit something more fantastical, rather than pushing into realism.

[@comedianlmao3031]

loved this!

[@AlyxAugust]

thank you! 🙌🏽

[@gyrozeppeli3493]

I wouldn't add Johnny or josuke 8 because jjba moved to seinen. If I was them I would focus on part 1-6

[@AlyxAugust]

I feel that still lots of options.

[@itsDjjayy]

You forgot to mention cac i thought it was a useless add on and the time developing it could of been used on more jump characters.😅

[@AlyxAugust]

not familiar with what you're talking about?

[@itsDjjayy]

@@AlyxAugust the creat a character in jump force ?

[@AlyxAugust]

ohhh yea i mean i personally wasn’t into the create a character that much and never used it so i didn’t have much to say on it personally

[@NixLaser]

I don't think they were considering the western market that much, that's why there is no dub and I don't know if the new school/old school divide of anime fans is that prominent in Japan

[@AlyxAugust]

i can totally see where you’re coming from. I agree!

[@Bittynyc90]

That’s fucked that they didn’t just leave the game alone even if it under performed just stop dumping money into it the fact I paid for it and can’t re download pisses me off

[@AlyxAugust]

Facts! I’m sure it’s all legal issues cause that’s the only main issue i’ve been able to see that would force them to take it off.

[@kamenrider64]

It's unfortunate that the game is ending yeah it could've last a bit longer but they had to pull the plug on it because of a licensing issue that's also why the game is delisted from digital stores

[@AlyxAugust]

I mean it’s more than a licensing issue. The game player base wise wasn’t doing good. The game likely wasn’t making much of any money because the player base was so small. And obviously all the stuff I mentioned in the video too. But yea very unfortunate to see anything with a huge fan base potentially, get shut down

[@ThatJuniorPuppet]

This is awesome!

[@AlyxAugust]

thank you!! you’re awesome!!

[@Satoru_Go-Jo286]

When talking about the dub you forgot to mention ninja storm had dub.

[@AlyxAugust]

very true!

[@triggerhappyboy1003]

Super dope video

[@AlyxAugust]

Glad you enjoyed

[@petratyraanderson]

I haven't watched the video yet but I'm just going to say this they should have gone all in on the real word aspect the fact they didn't really damaged the whole thing in my opinion

[@AlyxAugust]

Interesting take! I appreciate you watching the video for sure!

[@kelkel2812]

the blocking was also broken as hell how am i hetting u wit a rasengan poibt plank and jus bcus u crossed ur arms u took absolutely 0 damage

[@AlyxAugust]

blocking being broken can destroy a whole game

[@azndude90]

What's worst? The avengers game or jump force?

[@AlyxAugust]

avengers off rip looked like trash, it had a fake team of non mcu people which was corny. Jump Force from the trailers looked at the very least cool, it looked like you’d at least have a lot of fun with it. Jump force as a game wasn’t bad but a lot of what built up the experience like the voicing, general game design with loading screens hub world and what not suffered a bit.

[@n05ta1gia5]

They put fucking imperfect tsusano sasuke and sage mode naruto when they couldve even gone with idk the adult versions since they added boruto

[@AlyxAugust]

facts

[@ajthelion0485]

@@AlyxAugust nahhh their Shippuden was way iconic.

[@TheREALHugo4]

Too bad it failed so hard. I was ready to buy it because of the free combat and all but when i saw the story mode, i immediately asked for a refund and hopefully i never played this game instead of metro exodus, 3 years ago. And since then, it only became worse and worse, the rematch button, the spammers, etc... and now this, complete shutdown of the game. If there is one thing that i've learned since now 3 years, when you like anime, choose the right anime games to play instead of potential bad ones, especially from Spike Chunsoft.

[@AlyxAugust]

You are right, anime genre-focused games are stuck in the movie tie-in games where 80% are trash or irrelevant and a small portion are worth playing let alone actually good.

[@TheREALHugo4]

@@AlyxAugust It all depends on the efforts and love the devs put in the game and giving what the devs really felt about this game, i guess the result wasn't that good for them.

[@AlyxAugust]

@@TheREALHugo4 I know personally a lot of the devs from my research were big fans of these series and wanted to do good. I think it was also a huge leadership thing and more of these Japanese companies not know what western audiences truly wanted. Lots of wheels got jammed while making this game and it's easy to see that it's not just one thing instead a multitude.

[@Papa_Flick240]

I pre ordered this shit and bought a few dlc characters just for it to disappear along with my money.

[@AlyxAugust]

wild man that’s horrible

[@Papa_Flick240]

@@AlyxAugust I actually found it and was still able to play it in my library but sadly no online

[@kazuhirokawamoto7213]

I think Konami owns Yugioh game rights correct me if I'm wrong

[@AlyxAugust]

not too sure on that specific franchise

[@Gamersal77]

E

[@ILoveStormReid]

This is why my dragon ball fighter z and in general for other consoles is better

[@AlyxAugust]

i mean i guess? you can’t really make a comparison. They’re very different games, only similarities is the dragon ball ip.

[@king_gaming6813]

How would one punch man work? ☠️

[@AlyxAugust]

just an example but that universe alone has so many characters they could use.

[@ghost2inkling229]

@@AlyxAugust nah literally a lot of characters up in opm are unique as hell

[@AlyxAugust]

Yea it’s more just the idea of bringing that universe in rather then then the mc itself but i mean there’s a one punch man game too im sure they could get it to work if they really wanted to 😂

[@efrenmejia1832]

It was a fail bcuz of the spammers who don't know combos

[@AlyxAugust]

i don’t think the spammers was the issue but the easy to exploit combat system, a good system will make it so good players can punish spammers.

[@efrenmejia1832]

@@AlyxAugust yeah but the spammers literally get you bcuz of something dumb like the assist ran into you and stopped your combo or they would just run and use meruem

[@Chillchildren999]

I agree with your complaints on the game but Jump force is one of the best anime fighter games I’ve ever played I would say it’s better than J stars

[@AlyxAugust]

I loved the game, extremely fun for me. But i just can’t call it the best lmao especially when ninja storm exists. It had insane potential though, I think that’s why I and others like yourself can say it’s the best because it very well could’ve been. Just my thoughts tho! Appreciate the comment!

[@pyschokilla666]

Well guess what jump force 2 will be coming out in 2023

[@AlyxAugust]

I have seen no news of jump force 2 coming out in 2023