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Thankfully the combat does, to some degree, not share this dullness. The lack of a sprint button or anything like it makes traversing the base a bore and offers no motivation to go exploring after your first time getting stuck in a large, empty tunnel moving slower than I do going back to work after my lunch break.

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Your main hub of operations, the needlessly large Umbras base, also serves as your menu wherein you can play multiplayer games, shop, accept missions and upgrade your character вЂ“ and this system doesnвЂ™t work as well as it has in other games. Now, the annoyance of not having a main menu aside, the start of the game had me pretty intrigued вЂ“ unfortunately the rest of the story didnвЂ™t. There was so much that could have been done, but instead so little was achieved save a handful of interactions that evoked a grin or giggle from me (like Boruto calling Vegeta an old man).

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Part of the reason for this is that the story doesnвЂ™t have as much fun with itself as it could have, and it tries to be this serious narrative вЂ“ and whilst IвЂ™m all for serious stories, when you have so many characters from so many different series and you fail to capitalize on that, I deduct points. It really isnвЂ™t anything to write home about and honestly proved to be a slog going through the whole thing. I wish there were some unique options for hair and the like not attributed to an already existing character, but this is not a deal-breaker by any means. You then get to create this new and improved you in a character customization system that, whilst essentially just mixes and matches hairstyles and features out of its character roster, proves to be enjoyable. Your character is then revived by Trunks through something called an Umbras cube, giving you anime-like powers in the process. You play as a random civilian that is unfortunate enough to be caught by a stray lazer beam, compliments of a fighting Goku and mind-controlled Frieza in New York. As you boot, youвЂ™re thrown straight into the action by immediately entering the story mode вЂ“ and in all fairness the story does get off to an interesting start.

So, this tale of woe begins with booting up the game for the first time.

What I didnвЂ™t know, however, was that the ghost of J-stars past was waiting just around the corner with a folding metal chair, all too ready to crush our hopes and dreams. A Shounen Jump 50th anniversary brawler, developed by studio Spike Chunsoft, promising a wide variety of characters powered by the same engine from the Ninja Storm series? Yes, IвЂ™ll take two please. As a massive fan of anime brawlers, I was madly in love with (and rabidly excited for) Jump Force when I first saw the trailer for it last year.