JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven

spoilers for jojo's bizarre adventure: eyes of heaven, jojo's bizarre adventure, part 3: stardust crusaders, and jojo's bizarre adventure, part 4: diamond is unbreakable.

so, i've been obsessed with jojo since 2020. during the pandemic, i binged the show and read part 7. (my slow ass still needs to finish part 8. i'll do it eventually...) i recently rewatched the series since i made my sister watch it, and my obsession has been breathing a new life. my sister got me eyes of heaven for christmas. (and she also got herself a volume of the part 2 manga, but won't let me have it...) beforehand, i would always watch compilations of eyes of heaven because this game has one shining feature to it: interactions. you get to see characters from different parts who have never canonically interacted with each other get to talk to each other. long-lost family members can interact here. different generations can interact here. older versions of characters can interact with dead friends and foes from the past. this game put a lot of detail into that feature for sure, because you get so many unique interactions between characters.

this game also comes packed with a story. this story features the characters getting mixed up into each other's parts, and they're using the corpse parts from part 7 to try and correct everything. and dio is the villain (again). the dio in this game -- dio, gone to heaven or whatever -- was quite jolly. he was very animated. all of the budget went to him for sure. he had to stunt on the joestars one last time. i understand.

i do wish that the in-story characters interacted more. we had like thirty people from every part just chilling in the turtle. and i bet you they weren't talking. shy asses. (you would only sometimes hear josuke 4 and joseph's loud asses from outside the turtle. like damn. be quiet.) the story itself was enjoyable. the ending was really cute. i'm assuming we entered an alternate universe where everyone is alive. because of this, jotaro isn't all scared to be around his family anymore, and we get an ending of him bringing jolyne to morioh for part 4 instead of going alone. very sweet. no more trauma.

i will say that fighting games aren't my forte, so i was getting my ass kicked at first before i got the hang of things. there was something so hard about zeppeli for me. idk, he kept kicking my ass every time i had to fight him (which was quite a bit). what's cool is that the characters each have their own fighting styles, which are basically hamon, close-range stands, long-range stands, and... speedwagon, who has like a big ass hammer and brings in henchmen. i was the best with close-range stand type characters, with giorno being my favorite to play. because it's giorno, duh. i can just stab gold experience with the arrow and we're good to go. i also played well with josuke 4. i ended the beef with him because we needed to win. it took me a second to figure out the hamon characters, especially jonathan, because they fight so differently. and i didn't do well with the long-range stand type characters, especially johnny. (omg, if you get knocked off your horse as johnny, you literally just crawl slowly on the ground, waiting for your horse to come back. it's so sad...) and diavolo's theme is my favorite. i'll give him his 7s.