Jump Ultimate Stars

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Jump Ultimate Stars

Developer(s)	Ganbarion
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	November 23, 2006
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer, Online Multiplayer
Rating(s)	CERO: A
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS
Media	DS card

Jump Ultimate Stars is a fighting video game developed by Ganbarion and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the sequel to the popular Nintendo DS title, Jump Super Stars. The game was released in Japan on November 23, 2006. The game premise is similar to Nintendo's multi-character platform beat'em-up series, Super Smash Bros., except that it uses characters from Weekly Jump rather than Nintendo.

The game keeps many features from its predecessor, and adds many more. The game now has over 300 characters from 41 different Shōnen manga series compared to 160 characters from 27 different manga in the original. However, the characters from Hikaru no Go and Mr. Fullswing do not return in this sequel.

1 Gameplay
2 Represented series
3 External links

[edit] Gameplay

[edit] Decks

The bulk of the gameplay is based around using koma (manga panels, which also means "Panel" in Japanese.) that represent characters to create decks on a four by five grid. Koma come in various shapes and sizes, taking up one to eight blocks. There are three types of koma that can be initialized in battle. They are called help, support and battle koma. Each of these types have different roles in a deck, and are utilized to battle

Help koma are one panel koma that can give different boosts to characters they are placed next to. Support koma are two or three block koma that represent a character that are to help in battle. The character appears and either does an attack, boosts a character's abilities with a powerup, or heals a character. Battle koma are four to eight block koma that are used to battle. They are based off various manga panels and are used to represent what kind of special attacks the characters have.

Each battle koma comes with a certain nature. These natures, laughter, power and knowledge, act in a Rock, Paper, Scissors relationship with power beating knowledge, knowledge beating laughter, and laughter beating power. The stronger type will deal more damage to the weaker type. But the "rock" is not weak against the "paper". The attacks do normal damage.

When making a deck, the player must have at least one of each type of koma before the deck can be used in battle. A leader character also must be chosen. This character will always be the default character in battles and will represent the deck. Two optional hotkeys can be set to automatically switch to a character or use a support character when the L or R buttons are pressed.

[edit] Battle

Battles commence in arenas made to look like the page of a manga. Each arena has a unique background and obstacles based off of the different manga series. They also contain a variety of different platforms. Many are static while others will move, break, or disappear and reappear randomly. Certain walls and floors are also destructible. Another new feature is the ability hang of the edges of the cliffs or the edges of the levels. You can also climb back up which is the reason the feature was added.

[edit] New Features

Jump Ultimate Stars has been changed slightly from the gameplay of Jump Super Stars. Jump Ultimate Stars gives battle characters the ability to dash and to do a new attack while guarding, which, instead of breaking the guard of the opponent, forces them to change characters, and can be identified by a green glow comming out of the characters which executes it. Also, certain 7 and 8 panel koma obtain a visual difference during battle as opposed to the appearance of the 1-6 koma of the very same character, some of this variations also bring a totally different set of attacks to the character. Battle characters now have a new ability known as Ultimate Actions (UA). These UA are different for each character, as some recover health, other recover sp, while others can be used to dodge enemy attacks.

[edit] Represented series

This is a list of represented series in Jump Ultimate Stars. Most of the main characters from each series appear as characters within the games. The asterisk marks newly included series.