3/5 ★ – Austion_Ernie's review of Jump Force.

Jump Force Bite-Sized Review What I expected of Jump Force was another barebone anime-based fighter with an enticing roster and story potential. Jump Force delivers an average fighter with some depth to keep you guessing but ultimately leaves you feeling underwhelmed. It’s anime tropes keep you enthralled, but only momentarily as the story lacks any real execution.  Jump Force starts you out as collateral damage caught in Frieza’s beam. You are a normie who has a cube inserted into you by Trunks and his robotic companion. Your pure heart heightens your abilities to make you a hero capable of immense power. You form teams of sorts and seek out the cause of people’s evil intent being used as power against the worlds. Gameplay is repetitive but deep enough to make you feel like you have a chance and counter to whoever or whatever you face, even if it takes you a few retries. The combat is still fun and although the basics are repetitive, you are given the choice to swap abilities and turn your plan into a different approach for every battle. Each franchise has a legitimate amount of representation in the moves that are available.  You progress fairly quickly and level up yourself as well as your companions. You go from mission to mission by choice, but some things must happen in a sequence in order to progress in the story and it isn’t fully explained well. I was just running around the hub world, of which I never like in anime based fighters and this is no exception, until I eventually stumbled across the next beat.  Jump Force has a significant amount of pull considering it’s fighting genre and its character creator gives you the ability to spice up your character differently with every playthrough. The gameplay loop consists of you accepting missions from people within in the hub, fighting it out, returning to the hub, buying skills or clothing, repeat. The loop works but doesn’t change anything from others in the genre. Overall, Jump Force is an average fighter that brings a killer lineup, but its bad presentation leaves it feeling lackluster coupled with typical tropes of both anime and games in the genre. 👌