J-Stars Victory Vs. Good for Huge Anime Fans, Meh for Everyone Else (TGS Hands-on Preview)

Janelle and I played a couple rounds of J-Stars Victory Vs. for PS3. As its title indicates, the game is loaded with heroes from a wide assortment of Japanese anime and manga. Represented franchises include One Piece, Bleach, Ruroni Kenshin, Naruto, and more.

J-Stars Victory Vs. sets heroes in an arena and has them slug it out in a team-based fight. Victory is gained by filling up a win-o-meter rather than the usual method of depleting everyone’s life bar. Each character does have a life bar, but being knocked out is only a temporary setback rather than a permanent stoppage.

Fill up a special meter, and your team gets a shot to perform a cinematic special move.  Individuals can perform big attacks with cutaway movie hype as well.  This is the kind of stuff that fans will love, and it’s done with nice visuals and all the style one could ask for.