JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future | November 25, 1999

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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険


 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future is a fighting game developed by Capcom, based on Part 3 of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stardust Crusaders. It was first released in arcades in September 1999, and later ported to the Dreamcast on November 25, 1999. The Dreamcast version includes the previous game as a bonus. Later, on October 26, 2000, a version with online play, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future for Matching Service, was released. However, the online service was terminated on September 1, 2003.

The title Heritage for the Future was originally a subtitle attached to Part 3 before it was added to the game. This was the final game to be released using Capcom's CP System III hardware.

Thirteen years after the arcade release, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future HDVer. was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on August 21 and 22, 2012, respectively. The service was terminated on September 4, 2014.



The core gameplay is similar to the previous installment, but several new characters have been added, with new special moves and super combos for some. The overall balance has been adjusted, and a differentiation in "Stand gauges" has been introduced for each character. Additionally, the "Guard Cancel" command has been changed from 236+Strong to 623+Strong.

A new mode, "Challenge Mode," has been added alongside the Story Mode. In Challenge Mode, players fight a random selection of 10 characters from the previous game with a single health bar, earning points based on factors like remaining health, combo count, and use of super combos. Players can choose to restore health or increase the super combo gauge after each victory. The mode features additional characters such as Hol Horse, Pet Shop, Mariah, and Anubis Two-Sword Polnareff, as well as hidden characters like Rubber Soul, Kahn, Hol Horse & Boingo, and the Flower of Overcoming Fear, bringing the total character count to 22. However, these new characters do not appear as CPU-controlled opponents in Challenge Mode.

The opening demo has been altered, now featuring Vanilla Ice and Hol Horse, instead of DIO and Jotaro. The title logo has been changed from red to blue, and the health gauge color changed from green to purple. The super combo animations have also been revised, and new narration has been added.

The game was bundled with the previous JoJo's Bizarre Adventure on a single GD-ROM, and while it lacks some additional features such as the Super Story Mode seen in the earlier PlayStation version, it has shorter loading times and a higher fidelity in its arcade port compared to the Dreamcast version.

The later release of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future for Matching Service also fixed certain bugs, but the online service was shut down in 2003.

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