I’m Using the Laser Because You Get a Stand! The Old Joseph and Lisa Lisa Comprehensive Demo!

Very fast, this channel. These are some gameplay demos for our new ASB characters, Old Joseph and Lisa Lisa. The first one has both, but as he’s playing Joseph, it’s more a Joseph demo. Lisa Lisa is better demoed in the second video against Caeser. They play kind of like how I thought, though Lisa Lisa looks like she’s more target combo than I imagined. Sort of like Part 1 Dio, it looks like she based around linking together longer strings of smaller moves as opposed to the way I originally guessed where she’s be like Johnathan with very simple, strong combos. Joseph gets grapples with Hermit Purple and ripple breathing. His style is “Stand,” so I don’t know how he switches between them. It’s probably something like ↓↓ + Style.

On top of that, we also have both their HHA and GHA. Lisa Lisa gets a counter, which I didn’t expect. Also the “Your next words are…” taunts, the Gold Experience Punches where I think he punches the cigarette out of Lisa Lisa’s mouth that isn’t there, and Josuke’s hair mocking. They haven’t been translated yet, as far as I know right now, but I’ll append a translation to this later on or just link a video that has them. Whatever comes up.

[Edit: Just in case you haven’t seen it, NamcoBandai has uploaded an HQ version of PV 8 shown at TGS.]

Your Next Words are “Don’t Insult My Hair, You Deadbeat Father!”

Ok, let’s start these off with the video I can embed. This is a special circumstance of Josuke’s Insulted Hair Mode where he doesn’t run out of his invincible rage. This is apparently a story battle against Rohan for Josuke, and this is a really good representation of what it is that happened during that fight. That combo meter just keeps on going forever. I was almost disappointed that it didn’t reach 500, but watching Josuke in his unstoppable rage is always fun.

Now to the other two. These are Nico, so through Polsy we go [Edit: Nevermind. YouTubes are go. I will leave the Polsy links for completion sake. The Josuke one even has subtitles. And now the Joseph one does too.]. This first one is the full collection of every character’s insult for Josuke’s hair. This includes Fatty, but this was apparently too soon to get Iggy and Fugo in on the fun. There’s also a demo of Insulted Hair Mode being used at the end, so check that out as well.

Second video, the whole collection of every Joseph “Your next words are” quote. There’s apparently one for everyone. Like the above, I’m not solid enough with listening to translate for you, but having Joseph call Zeppeli on “HEY, BABY,” Valentine on his “Dojyaaan,” and Abdul on his “YES, I AM,” down to imitating his voice were pretty cool. Oh, and there was that we get to hear Sugita pull a “WRRRYYY” on Dio. That was pretty fantastic. Once again, this is soon enough to contain Fatty but not Iggy or Fugo. That’s too bad in this case. Since he was able to WRY on Dio, I would have loved to hear him say, “Your next words are… Woof.” If he used actual words, that means Joseph can hear Iggy’s inner monologue, and that would mean Joseph can read the minds of dogs. Ok, that would be fine too.

“That Taunt’s Good… Really Good… It’s Super Harsh…”

Hurricane Crew released another set of ASB info translated from 2ch posts. It’s all battle quotes. There are a lot of standard ones that people just say in general, but the meat of it is in special interactions.

Special intros

Polnareff vs DIO
Polnareff: “Now, I can feel it… this “white” in myself. This injured body that gives rise to courage. I am on the side of the light!”
DIO: “Your only choice is to die, Polnareff”

Polnareff vs Giorno
Giorno: “Hey, Polnareff is here. Polnareff?”
Polnareff: “Who is this? I don’t know ya…”

Jolyne and Jotaro
Jolyne: “You’re so… young!! What’s this about?”
Jotaro: “I don’t even know you…”

Giorno and DIO
Giorno: “I’ve been waiting for this moment”
DIO: “You feel close to me somehow”

Josuke to Jotaro: “You seem somewhat similar to me”

Special Victory Quotes

Jolyne beats Jotaro
“I wonder if I’m being paranoid…”

Giorno beats Polnareff
“It really was Polnareff”

Okuyasu beats Josuke
“Great, practice is over! Now let’s head over to the cafe and visit Tonio!”

Giorno beats DIO
“This power I received from you, I’ll use it to dream”

DIO beats Jonathan
Jonathan: “No way! DIO’s… alive…”
DIO: “Your body is my future”

Oh, did I say the meat was in the special interactions? I meant it’s in the special taunt everyone has for Josuke’s hair. The way it works is apparently like a counter. Josuke sets you up to insult him by saying, “What did you say about my hair,” and then the taunt takes place setting him into a super mode. They haven’t all been released, and you’ve already seen Dio call it “cowshit,” but there are some new ones including the ultimate line from Johnny.

Polnareff: 
“You should really cut that hair” (in JP Polnareff style Engrish)

Josuke: 
“Your hair style doesn’t even compare to mine”

Johnny: (in total deadpan)
“That hairstyle’s good… really good… it’s super cool…”

As you can see at the top, some Tumblrs have already taken to the inevitable fanart answer. Johnny’s line is the best. I have no idea what anyone else is going to say, but short of Johnathan being really enthused by how great the hair is and Josuke taking it to be sarcasm, I don’t think anyone’s topping that one.

(Imfo from Hurricane Crew. Drawing up top by this Tumblr.)

“I Suggest Trying Joseph! He Has the Best Zoning IN THE WORLD!!!”

Hurricane Crew with more ASB news. This is a picture of a preview display case. Stroheim bids you good day and says:

“ YOU WILL BUY THIS GAAAAAAAME! SO SAYS GERMAN SCIEEEEEEENCE!!!!”

Absolutely beautiful. Along with this comes a bit more information. There’s a little bit about alternate colors at the beginning as well as a few of the special interactions. That should include the special ones we’ve seen in PV 4, but there’s also Dio with Johnathan, Jotaro, and Giorno, like you’d expect, Giorno and Polernaff, and Jolyne with Jotaro and Josuke with Okuyasu, both of which I believe we’ve seen.

The most important news, however, is this:

“Every character will have their own line when they make fun of Josuke’s hair. DIO’s from the PV was one of those. I’m assuming they say that when he activates his super-armor super cause well that’s the context of him getting pissed off. A source has given some of those lines for a couple characters but I’ll detail those in the character mentions for those mentioned.”

This will be the best game. This will be the best game forever.

The All Star Guide to All Star Battle and New ASB Move Lists

Guys on the JoJo Forum go all out. User mikestrider is leading their ASB thread and has started the translation and preview efforts on a lot of fronts. It’s got all the preview videos plus the subbed PV 3, all the current Famitsu articles, demo videos, move lists as they become translated, all that good stuff. Recently, he added the initial parts of his translation of PV 4. Directly quoted:

Dedicated to all those who love JoJo.

It’s the birth of the ultimate JoJo Game.

The Dream Match that everyone has dreamed of.

Father & Daughter

Jotaro: Hey girl, are you a new Stand user?

Jolyne: Looks like you’ve lost some of your ability.

Jotaro: I don’t know you are but you’ve got quite the attitude.

Jolyne: It still feels like my father.

Gang & Delinquent

Giorno: I’m prepared to pave the way.

Okuyasu: Shut up, Topknot! *gestures* Look!

Avenger & Avenger

Hermes: What’re you doing, bastard!

Polnareff: The tip is quite sharp, huh?

Wind & Flame

Abdul: Flames are flawless.

Wham: Read the wind. Hear the whispers in the air.

RERO & RERA

Gun & Gun

Hol Horse: Let’s see which one of us is faster!

Mista: I’ll destroy that mouth of yours!

Mudamuda & Dorarara

DIO: That head of yours looks like cow shit.

Josuke: What was that about my head??!

DIO: WRRRYYYYYYY!!!

Oh, Dio. If only you knew he danger pulling that against Josuke. I don’t really understand how Giorno’s hair equates out to a topknot, but it’s Okuyasu, so maybe I’m not supposed to.

Along with this is that there is a new Famitsu article. Now that we’ve gone through what are probably all the character reveals (if there are anymore, they’ll probably be DLC like Kira), we’re starting to get move lists.

This is Jotaro and Star Platinum’s move list. The other lists in the articles are for the first characters revealed for the game: Joseph, Wham, and Gyro.  I’m very encouraged by these lists because I didn’t know how the combos and controls would work. Seeing that they’re based on circle motions with the stick, Capcom-like, relieves me because that’s a command system I can do or at least understand.

I don’t know if these are full move lists. I feel like they might be a little scant, but these are only for special moves. There’s probably a lot more if you look into things like target combos and that sort of thing. Each character’s Heart Heat, Grand Heat, and Style Moves have been revealed. Wham gets two styles: One for Sandstorm protector, which probably gives him higher defense; one for Holy Sandstorm mode, which probably gives him higher attack.

Everyone’s Heat moves are about what you’d expect. Jotaro’s is especially hilarious because he has three different ORA listed and his Heart Heat is just ORAORAORAORA! But what’s nice is that the moves aren’t just generically named or that CC2 tried to come up with a cool name. Jotaro’s Grand Heat is “It’s Because You Really Pissed Me Off,” the move he killed Dio with. Joseph’s is “It’s a Deceptive Trick,” which is really just Joseph being Joseph. The lists are cool, and we’re only getting more.

Along with all the other information, he’s also posted all of the stages. I’m bringing up the Cairo Bridge, ripped straight from Heritage for the Future, because I don’t think I have before and the stage hazard is awesome.

The only thing that can improve this is if there’s an accompanying one where Dio throws the Senator at you.

There’s also a quick shot of the Prize Star Book, a book with gameplay basic, alternate colors, taunts, that sort of thing, which is a translation in progress, and a quick shot of the PS3 custom theme that comes with ASB. Get Dio all over your TV. He wouldn’t want it any other way.

So it’s a pretty good comprehensive info dump on ASB. Check it out for even more information. I know I will be.

(Thanks to Goon Kurtofan for cross posting this)