Time to Reap the Preorders! A Sneak Peek at The Gold Experience Box!

Two days. Is everyone ready? I confirmed my order earlier today, so now all I have is to sit and wait. I wasn’t able to get The Gold Experience Box, though. I ended up having to get the vanilla edition, though that still comes with the Kira voucher. Someone else, however, was able to get the special edition and was nice enough to post some pictures like the above. As you can see, it comes in a huge box because of the bonus Jotaro and Star Platinum figure pack in.

Though some assembly is required.

And since it doesn’t come with Dio and The World, you may have to improvise.

There’s also the OST that comes on the Star Platinum Stand Disc.

The special box comes with a track listing of 35 total tracks from the game. I can only make out the titles for a few, but it seems to be the personal theme of each character and the opening track “All Star Battle” and one other I don’t know. “DIO’s World” for Part 3 Dio, “HELL 2U” for Abdul, “GO! GO! ZEPPELI” for Gyro, “New York JoJo” for Joseph, “KILL A” for Kawajiri Kira, “Arrivederci” for Bruno, and several others I’m not able to read.

This image is the one I think is the biggest deal, though. That character select screen is different from the one we saw in the 11 minute demo video. In contrast to that version, we still have the first 7 main characters, but we have Part 1 Dio, Hermes, Kakyoin, Caeser, Gyro, and Bruno instead of Polnareff and Part 3 Dio. I wondered if the demo video was using a different version than the retail, but I figured it was too close to the launch date for them to mess around with it. Is this going to be this way between versions where the special edition starts with these and the vanilla starts with what we saw before? Who knows? I’ll take a picture if it’s weird once it shows up.

(Thanks to the JoJo F2C for collecting the pictures. There are a few more there for you to check out too.)

JoJo Royale Stage 6 End; Stage 7 GO!

Another Stage of JoJo’s Royale is closed and the winner of Araki’s drawing desk is being determined. I think it might be because BLOCK was such a simple, approachable concept, but this Stage got more entries than any previous Stage so far. The personality and creativity here is really high, and what people were able to do is really impressive. Here’s a few of what I think are outstanding entries.

Typing on this keyboard will drastically increase your typing speed.

And I couldn’t leave out the entry by our very own DoubleGomez.

It reads “Scary Monster”

You can see the full gallery of BLOCK entries here.

With the closing of one stage comes the opening of a new stage. JoJo Royale Stage 7: POP

The POP competition is for you to create a sign encouraging people who’ve never read JoJo’s before to go out to a bookstore and pick up a copy to read. Obviously, this only applies to Japanese bookstores, but don’t think you need to advertise in Japanese.

Funny Valentine speaks in such an elegant font

A little MS Paint and some elbow grease could put you well on your way to winning a few Stone Ocean Memorabilia: A diorama of Jolyne in her prison cell, the satchel of Stand Discs, the carrier pigeon that returned the Star Platinum Disc to the Speedwagon Foundation, and this adorable crocodile with a bow puppet.

You can post your entries here at the Google Plus page for Stage 7. The deadline is March 1st, 8PM Japanese Standard Time. Good luck!