JUMP FORCE Deluxe Edition (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.8 Update + All DLCs

Jump Force Deluxe Edition is a Japanese crossover fighting game developed by Spike Chunsoft and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment featuring characters from various manga series featured in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump anthology in celebration of the magazine’s 50th anniversary. The game was released on February 14, 2019, in Japan for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and the following day worldwide in addition to Windows. A Nintendo Switch port was released worldwide on August 28, 2020. The game received mixed reviews from critics.

GAMEPLAY

Jump Force is a 1-v-1 fighting game where the player controls a team of three characters from a selection of various manga series featured in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. Players control one character at a time while the others are used as support, with players able to switch between them during battle. Combat functions similarly to the previous Jump fighting game, such as J-Stars Victory VS, Dragon Ball Xenoverse sub-series, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm sub-series, and One Piece: Burning Blood, with players moving around a 3D space and utilizing various combos and special moves to attack their opponents. The match ends when one team depletes the other’s health bar.

PREMISE

When the real world collides with many of the Shōnen Jump universes, humanity is invaded by the “Venoms”, an army of mind-controlled villains led by Kane and Galena. In order to fight back, many heroes are recruited to join the “Jump Force” under the leadership of Director Glover and his AI partner Navigator. But a suspicious figure is using both the Jump Force and the Venoms in an attempt to gain a mysterious artifact and merge all worlds into one.

CHARACTERS

The game’s launch roster features 40 playable characters from 16 series, with 14 additional characters available as downloadable content via Character Passes and three added as part of a free update for a total of 57 characters. In addition, players are allowed to create their own unique playable characters, customizing them with abilities, outfits, and accessories earned through gameplay.

SETTING AND STORY

Trunks revive the civilians with a cybernetic device called an umbras cube, giving them the potential to be a hero like them. Glover explains that the manga worlds from ‘‘Jump‘‘ have somehow begun merging with the real world and using their own umbras cubes to turn evil-hearted humans into Venoms, forcing him to create the Jump Force to quell the threat; the organization consists of heroes from the ‘‘Jump‘‘ worlds, along with other people saved through the cubes.

The Jump Force discovers other heroes being mind-controlled by umbra cubes charged with evil energy. She steals the collected umbra cubes and gives them to her master Kane, a man seeking to wipe out humanity in revenge for the deaths of his family. The player pursues and defeats Kane, but Glover reveals himself as Prometheus, the true mastermind behind the merging of the worlds and Galena’s true master, having used Kane to sow chaos across the worlds.

Having outlived his usefulness, Galena seemingly kills Kane and proceeds to stall the heroes to allow Prometheus to continue his plans. He steals the player’s cube for its good energy, planning to use it to balance the evil energy he collected from the villains to become a god. The villains form a temporary truce with the heroes, while a still-alive Kane uses the last of his strength to give his cube to the player and Goku empowers them further with the energy from all of the Jump Force, allowing them to destroy Prometheus.

However, Prometheus’s death does not separate the realities, leaving Earth still under threat from the Jump villains. At Trunks’ suggestion, the player character becomes the new Jump Force director and continues to protect humanity. Meanwhile, Light finds a umbras cube left behind by Prometheus, planning to use its dark energy to re-power his Death Note.