Bandai Namco announced JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R DLC character Leone Abbacchio from Part 5: Golden Wind will be available on September 1. Players who own the second Season Pass will be able to play as Leone even sooner, however.
This past June, Bandai Namco confirmed more DLC would be on the way for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R. Season Pass 2 will bring three new characters with Leone Abbacchio being the first one.
Abbacchio Comes to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R
Leone Abbacchio will release first for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Season Pass 2 owners on August 30. Two days later, Abbacchio will be playable as a standard DLC character to those without the Season Pass on September 1. Two more characters will be revealed in the near future. The second character is set to be from Diamond Is Unbreakable, or Part 4, and the third character will be from Part 8, JoJolion.
While waiting on new DLC characters, watch the new trailer below.
Official Trailer
Here’s an overview of the game, via Steam:
Well known for its charismatic heroes, striking art style, and unforgettable catch phrases (“Yare yare daze…”), another installment of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is coming! JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R!
Stunning visuals authentic to Hirohiko Araki’s Style
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R captures the over-the-top art style that is vintage JoJo, allowing you to experience the JoJo universe with powerful imagery as if Hirohiko Araki’s manga had come to life. Now you too can freely move the characters created by Hirohiko Araki with your own hands, and feel as if you’re inside the manga where graphics and text meet to invoke the characteristic “ゴゴゴゴゴ“.
50 playable characters from all JoJo arcs
Jonathan Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, DIO, Jolyne Cujoh, and other characters from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure gather across multiple generations! With 50 playable characters from all arcs, you can experience popular battles from each story, and see characters from different universes interact for the first time!
A variety of game modes
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R consists of All Star Battle Mode, Arcade Mode, Online Mode, Versus Mode, Practice Mode, and Gallery Mode. The main mode, All Star Battle Mode, features not only clashes between characters from the original game, but also brand new battles that are unique to All-Star Battle R. You can play through over 100 battles with various settings and conditions. All Star Battle Mode also offers special cosmetic skins for characters and unique illustrations that can be enjoyed in gallery mode.
How the game has evolved from the original All Star Battle
Based on the All Star Battle system released in 2014, the game design of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R reinvigorates the experience with adjustments to the fighting tempo and the addition of hit stops and jump dashes. With new audio recordings from the Part 6 anime voice actors, the full atmosphere of the animated series is realized. Both fans who have played the original All Star Battle and newcomers will be able to enjoy the experience.
Lastly, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is available now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam worldwide.
