JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure System Guide

by iantothemax on July 19th, 2012 at 10:40 am

With Capcom’s recent announcement of an HD re-release of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, SoetaSoeren took it up on himself to put together a video for those unfamiliar with the game’s fighting system. His guide covers everything from movement, attacks, and defense to the unique Stand mechanic. If you’re looking to grab JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure when it hits Xbox Live and Playstation Network in August, do yourself a favor and check this video out. Some of the text moves a little fast, so be sure to pause the video at appropriate moments to catch all the information it presents.

For further information on the game’s characters and battle mechanics, feel free to check out the Shoryuken and Stand Crash wikis.

Source: SoetaSoeren

Smashbro29

One thing I don’t like? Number notation. Man, I HATE that crap. Who thought ti would be simpler to teach someone 6 is forward than say… FORWARD IS FORWARD.
- robjarv
  
  smdh if you don’t know by now that anime fighters use numpad notation
  - Smashbro29
    
    I know they do, it doesn’t make it any less stupid.
    - fiks
      
      “other languages are stupid because they’re not the language i know” – random street fighter 4 scrub
    - webweaver13s
      
      It makes perfect seance if you sit and think about it.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
    
    i dont see notations in my anime fighters
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000504766571 Milton O’Bannon
  
  because everyone in the FGC speaks english
  - Smashbro29
    
    So use that languages word for forward maybe?
    - spectaa
      
      Hopefully they aren’t as dumb as you.
    - http://www.facebook.com/thurl Thurl Bailey Jr
      
      all 6000+ of them?
    - http://twitter.com/EshiMusic Chris 画師 Manning
      
      awesome, so I should have to get a translator every time I want to read a combo posted on a japanese site? that’s way more convenient than using a universal notation like numbers!
- ZenTzen
  
  First not everyone speaks english and pad notation is easier and universal and no its not just anime fighters that use this notation
  - Smashbro29
    
    Yes it is just anime fighters and furthermore the SRK wiki of this game uses the better notation, on language see my other reply. On ease of use: consider this, if I play Mario do I tell someone to “6″ or do I tell them to walk forward?
    - ZenTzen
      
      Heres a little bit of trivia for you, only in america do they use f,d,b notation, every other game even capcom fighters use number notation outside of the US, this stuff isnt hard, people are just lazy to learn, like i said this stuff is universal, if america didnt start using the d,f,b whatever then we wouldnt be discussing this now
      - Smashbro29
        
        Guess what man? I’m not using meters or spelling the word “color” with a u either. Why is this different from that?
      - ZenTzen
        
        maybe because you seem lazy and unable to learn something thats really easy to understand
      - OP8
        
        I know you’re just a kid, but that really doesn’t excuse your ignorance. People as dumb as you shouldn’t be allowed to voice their opinion.
      - TheAquacharger
        
        I’m American and I want us to switch to the Metric system.
    - http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo
      
      Soul Calibur 5 and Tatsunoko vs Capcom’s communities also use number notation. Not just BB/GG/MB/AH.
      - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5FLRQI2X2LU3IHMCG7HEAEFD5I Cat Astrophy
        
        TvC is an anime fighter crossover. Close enough.
      - Eric Sheppard
        
        Internally, both SF4 and SFxT show that the developers use the number notation as well for naming command normals.
      - TheAquacharger
        
        Tekken as well.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
    
    im looking at my ps3 controller and sticks i dont see any numbers i never seen any with them neither no matter what language you speak everybody know up down left right but notations i dont think so
    - ZenTzen
      
      i dont see d,b,u,f either so stop trying to act like a smartass
    - spectaa
      
      ”
      no matter what language you speak everybody know up down left right” do you realize how idiotic this sentence made you sound?
    - OP8
      
      I’m looking at your comment, and I don’t see any puncuation. I never see any commas, periods or apostrophes with any of your comments.
- Mr_Kensou
  
  EXACTLY!! I was just thinking how the number notation is such rubbish and garbo thing to reale.It’s VERY simple: DP=Dragon Punch motion, F=Forward, and so forth.
  
  But nevertheless, pretty decent video.
  - Smashbro29
    
    Furthermore, the number notation is flawed in that you not only need to know this numberpad thing, you need to know what it’s like FLIPPED on the fly, whereas “forward” is relative to which direction the character is facing.
    - ZenTzen
      
      no its not, you only need to know in number notation that 6 is forward, 4 is back, etc, like you say qcb, in number notation you just need to say 214, whats so hard to understand
      - Smashbro29
        
        It’s hard to understand because while I try and decode this shit in my brain I picture a numberpad and do the translating so “236″ is down down-right than right on my actual numberpad a QCF from the opposite direction looks like “214″
      - ZenTzen
        
        Maybe if you took the time to learn it you wouldnt have that problem, because from my point of view your making a huge deal out of something thats extremely simple
      - http://twitter.com/dougfunnie87 doug
        
        well maybe you are just a fucken idiot then.
    - http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo
      
      6 is forward. F is forward. Same shit, no need to flip, it is always relative to opponents.
  - http://www.facebook.com/caiooa Caio Alzred
    
    Cause it’s impractical to writed some comands by extense. Or you try to use the name of a fg jargon for the commands ( fb, rdp, hcb, 360) or you use number notation.
    Number notation is the universal cause sometimes you don’t have a jargon for a move.
    - Smashbro29
      
      dp is definitely easier than “263″ and as for the rest of them instead of say… 6 for forward you could write F so it’d f, df. b. Incredibly difficult right?
      - http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo
        
        623 is quicker than f, d, df. dp is quicker than both though, yes, but i read “623b” quicker than “dpb” because of the contrast of shapes. But is a personal thing and pretty much everyone can get used to multiple systems, they are just arbitrary ways of organizing knowledge generally done on a community-by-community basis with some small, different advantages.
  - http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo
    
    It is quicker/easier for many to read 4B than b.b, 2c instead of c.c or d.c. The numbers contrast with letters and make it easier to skim. Plus, it is more international.
- http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo
  
  You can get used to it like learning literally any other thing in fighting games. It is quicker for many situations/people to read due to things like numbers contrasting with letters(4B versus b.b or away medium or whatever the fuck.) and is more international.
  
  Also, there’s a difference between speech and text. BBQ versus just saying Barbeque.
- http://twitter.com/onReload onReload
  
  Forward isn’t forward when you work across language barriers. And it’s a lot more cumbersome
- spectaa
  
  Forward means shit in Japan (and many other places on the globe), don’t be surprised to see number notation here and there.
- pootnannies
  
  it’s good to know and use both depending on what language the person uses when passing info on combos and stuff. in this case the video was in english so i agree that only english speakers will understand anything in this vid but since this game is almost exclusively played by japanese it’s important that you get used to the numpad notation.
- http://www.facebook.com/victoly Matthew Taylor
  
  Quit whining.
  
  It’s just as simple if not simpler.
- dietdrkelp
  
  Did you yell at your teacher when variables was introduced in algebra? Numbers are quicker to understand. Not to mention one can easily visualize how the motion looks on a numpad. It takes a bit of getting used to, but why should that be a problem?
- Blk_Azn
  
  Oooo man Rosetta Stone for the FGC plz. haha
- Kelohmello
  
  Numbers are universal. It’s a large part of why we use them. If I tell a japanese guy who doesn’t know english that a combo uses quarter circle forward + heavy punch, he’s not gonna understand that. If I tell him 236HP, he could probably understand that, since we all know what numbers are.
http://twitter.com/Drakonvlast Joseph Picker

Pick Petshop, roll face on controller, win
- http://twitter.com/GrapeATL Grape 포도 약탈품
  
  lose*
davidcxr

smdh if u use number notation
- http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo
  
  shaking my head if you bitch about someone having a different arbitrary system of organizing knowledge than your own
- spectaa
  
  You guys are whining like babies about this. Some people use other notation than you, deal with it.
http://twitter.com/lchipoo Ichipoo

Hey, if a “weeaboo otaku anime” player like me can adjust to SF notation in just a day then I’m positive that the rest of you are competent enough to do the same in reverse, it’s not that hard. =

I honestly don’t see the issue of respecting the notation a community for game uses. If I’m learning how to play SF, I best be prepared to see SF notation on the forums, for games like MB, GG, BB, SC, etc. I’m expecting to see number notation. It really is not problem for me to switch my “notation lenses” and I do so because I want to respect the notation the community for that particular game uses. This “hurr durr I hate number notation” bashing I see occasionally is really silly to me if you ask me.
- Barry Hui
  
  i say just go with arrows. or bananas. everyone loves bananas.
- Smashbro29
  
  Capcom and SNK games use the “SF” notation, if I saw this on a BB thing, I wouldn’t comment (I’d still think it was dumb) but this is a Capcom game and I fail to see how the license used affects the community using a new notation.
  - http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo
    
    TVC also uses number notation. It has nothing to do with who made the game, it is a matter of what the community ended up doing.
    Also, do you really think japanese people who make SF guides refer to quartercircle motions as QCF? I bet they use either something based on their language or number notation.
    - ZenTzen
      
      number notation is japanese, the d,f,b notation was created by the american SF community because at the time they had no knowledge of the number notation thats why people are acting like this now
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
  
  why would i wanna learn notations when i rarely see it and my games doesnt use them and controllers and stick doesnt use it BECAUSE ITS USELESS i have yet to see a game come with a booklet or in game movelist that uses notations its just a PC thing
  - http://twitter.com/lchipoo Ichipoo
    
    If you’re serious about learning how to play JoJo, then you better learn to RESPECT the notation that the community for that particular game used. Like I said before, I came from learning how to play anime fighters seriously first, then when the time came for me to learn how to play 3S and MvC2, rather than asking the members to switch to “number notations,” I RESPECTED their decision to use SF notation and took the time to LEARN their jargon. Sure I rarely play Capcom games but I wanted to learn their notation and jargon as a sign of GOODWILL to their players.
    
    You and a few other members’ attitude is the same as a tourist who is another country for vacation but asking the locals to speak your native language simply because they can’t understand it and didn’t even bother to learn a few phrases in the locals’ language.
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
      
      learn how to play Jojo little late for that and i sure didnt learn from notations i have yet to see a guide with notations for any game there was no such thing as notations when i was growing up so why i need it now when they start making controllers and games that use it then ill learn
      and im american my ps3 is in english and so is my games and when i ask it how to do a move it sure isnt notations so no tourist here
      - http://twitter.com/onReload onReload
        
        When you were growing up, did they have punctuation marks?
      - Kudakero
        
        Seems not.
        Anyway, all the discussion is quite dumb. If it wasn’t for notations people like japanese could not export the tech they find. I can only imagine how unfair it can get when you don’t know at all what the enemy can do. Just think about Evo. Americans would be wiped out in no time without knowing international notation.
http://twitter.com/Mightfo Mightfo

god damn comment system
- http://fuzzbuzzwar.tumblr.com/ Zeidust
  
  No shit. When I saw 84 Comments. I was thinking ‘whoa this game is getting hype!’. Upon reading said comments I realized that it was just Smashbro opening up a can of retard troll meat.
http://twitter.com/poke133 Drago Umeharevich

the number system is only annoying in combo listings
nice tutorial, i love Jojo.. it’s one of the few “anime” games and comics i actually enjoy

no big eyed lolis or anti-hero emos.. just a bunch of burlesque manly men and vampires and shit, possessing mystical powers and on a quest to kill each other in clever and graphic ways

why the fuck is Japan only doing loli sparkly gay fighters? it took Capcom to make a decent anime game that i don’t have to feel embarassed by playing it..
- fiks
  
  “emos”
  oh man i havent seen someone use that word like this since 2004, you must be a dinosaur
  tell me, do you have an angelfire page with copypasted explosions all over it?
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5FLRQI2X2LU3IHMCG7HEAEFD5I Cat Astrophy
    
    It’s listed as a genre of music worldwide. You must be deaf or one of those closed-minded “I only listen to one genre” tools.
    - fiks
      
      Did you even read what I said? “use that word like this”. I didnt refer to it being used to refer to a musical genre, but a derogatory and simplistic term for a perceived type of character. Read carefully before you throw lazy insults like “You must be deaf”.
- Brandon Lee
  
  Dio has heartshaped kneecaps.
  
  Just sayin’
  - RLT4LIFE
    
    Dio also has a thing about dropping construction vehicles on top of people. Not alot of people would notice while their being crushed under a Road Roller.
  - http://www.facebook.com/AL.x.and.her Alexander ‘Al King’ Clay
    
    before you die, the last thing you see are his heart shaped kneecaps. WRY
    - http://twitter.com/Phangry Robert Wrongness
      
      He also has a heart on the crown on his forehead. His stand, the World, also has hearts in its design.
  - http://fuzzbuzzwar.tumblr.com/ Zeidust
    
    Are you going to be the one to ask him “Wryyyyyy would you wear that?”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Slayton/563921933 Jon Slayton

These comments are why we’re still stuck not using the metric system.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
  
  These comments are why alot of countries still stuck using the metric system.
  there i fixed it for you
  - http://twitter.com/Suna_19 Graham Large
    
    If you ever actually use the metric system, you’d realize how much better it is than english units
    - TheAquacharger
      
      yeah it is. Best thing about Chemistry class was metric system and learning to build airplanes.
  - Kudakero
    
    Tell me how practical english units are. Fuck logic, right? It’s American, it must be ok. Well, guess what, it isn’t. It has no logic behind it. Metric system is easier to use and understand. Please, why don’t you smartass just shut the hell up?
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
      
      the jackass calling someone a smart ass i should just forget what ive been taught and raised knowing fuck the american way right PLEASE why dont you wannabe take your ass to another country if you dont like it
      - Kudakero
        
        I’m european. And i can tell you that the “american way” it’s despised for a lot of reasons, even in america.
http://twitter.com/quotesdeezy Josh Sunarso

Why didn’ they put their names on the hud? So weird.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=696482282 Edgar Alcaine

Sadly wont be buying this. 20 is way too much.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=605514248 Ramy Rattana
  
  I’m feeling you, mate. 15 would of been nice, but something about 5 more dollars makes my jimmies rustle. do not want.
- http://fuzzbuzzwar.tumblr.com/ Zeidust
  
  Sad I know. You blew your allowance on the Steam Sale.
Zyrus

Number Notation- the revolutionary 20 year old method to weed out shotoscrubs from your community.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5FLRQI2X2LU3IHMCG7HEAEFD5I Cat Astrophy
  
  It’s really more of a hipster enabler to make themselves feel more underground. There’s enough FGC jargon within a game as well as fighters in general that throwing numbers into the mix to replace every basic direction is really just complexity for the sake of complexity.
  - Louis Lam
    
    It’s not hipster when everyone except for american SF players are using it.
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=605514248 Ramy Rattana
      
      I find it simpler to just use a number pad to drop down a couple commands to my friends, but there is always a handful that will bitch about what number is what and expect me to use QCF or HCB or DP.
      - TheAquacharger
        
        yeah. I have that problem too. I’m so used to the numbers now that when people ask for a combo I give them the numbers. A few people get super pissed when I do that.
        Of course I just tell them to deal with it.
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5FLRQI2X2LU3IHMCG7HEAEFD5I Cat Astrophy
      
      I don’t play SF but I do play Marvel. So it’s still hipster.
      - Louis Lam
        
        Because you’re not using it?
- http://twitter.com/Classicpj classicpj
  
  i totally agree. i wonder how these scrubs communicate when they visit foreign countries if they cant even bother to learn simple numeric combo notations
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5FLRQI2X2LU3IHMCG7HEAEFD5I Cat Astrophy
    
    You speak the global business language. Doesn’t hurt me not to know another language but you’re at a disadvantage anywhere else in the world not to know some English. If they don’t understand DP, QCB, etc. it’s their loss.
    
    I mean really, a command notation isn’t JUST numbers…there’s button inputs as well…you don’t have numbers for those and thus have to translate so..yeah…pointless and hipster
    
    The only number notation that makes sense is Tekken since it’s lot easier to keep track of 4 numbers vs 9.
- http://fuzzbuzzwar.tumblr.com/ Zeidust
  
  The # notation is easy sauce. I get more confused browsing character sub threads and see acronyms for their move sets. BITD (pun), I didn’t know what AHVB meant. It can be confusing as hell, and we need our own urban dictionary on this forum sometimes.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Almeson-Hoku-James/100000479628267 Almeson Hoku James

As someone that has never played the Jojos series, movement and defensive mechanics are pretty similar to KoF
- http://twitter.com/Suna_19 Graham Large
  
  I was just thinking that as I watched the video. In addition, there are some Guilty Gear style mechanics as well
  - pootnannies
    
    it looks like kof/gg/persona4 in one. i never got really into this game but i think it’s because there was no one interested in playing it. i hate that fucking little dog though. that alone could kill this game.
    - http://twitter.com/onReload onReload
      
      iggy, the dog, is not your problem. he’s not that great. to me, it’s more like kof + darkstalkers, as it has chains, guard cancels, and some of the weird properties like a dash taking you off the ground
    - petran79
      
      iggy has the best grab in the game and can finish a round with grabs if you how to grab
http://www.youtube.com/brawlersuptv Brawlers Up Tv

Nice beginners video. That’s sad people don’t understand notations and actually took time out of their day to complain about something made to help them. The same players complaining.. 1st world problems smh..
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001775299607 Nathen Based Ream

PetShop is the ONLY character using 6 buttons lmao
Michael Tuder

All fighers are anime games. Name one fighter where there isn’t a pretty asian guy, a guy with spikey hair, crazy clothes normal people don’t wear (even the ‘odd’ people don’t wear…), so on and so forth.
- http://twitter.com/Phangry Robert Wrongness
  
  The other funny thing is that Guile, Rose, and Juri’s character designs were all take straight from the JoJo manga.
  - http://twitter.com/superscience890 Brandon
    
    But Guile isn’t a Nazi robot D:
    
    It would be hilarious though lol
  - ZenTzen
    
    Thats right and for those that want to see the characters
    Guile is based on a Nazi officer from part 2 named Rudolf von Stroheim
    Rose is based on Lisa Lisa another character and the mother of JoJo from Part 2
    And Juri is based on Jolyne Kujo the main character from Part 6
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Almeson-Hoku-James/100000479628267 Almeson Hoku James
      
      And Benimaru from KoF was based off Polnareff. That hair.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TIC7WNRSMFBSCLF6OR6JQJAAZA sb
  
  a pretty asian guy and spikey hair makes a game anime Oookay SF MvC3 Tekken MK i can go on none of those are anime fighters MB GG BB P4U Chaos Code i can go on those games are anime fighters
  - ZenTzen
    
    SF and Tekken are anime they are full of anime designs, SF even has anime endings for the characters, MvC3 is also an anime game so please stfu
http://twitter.com/xxTeefxx Mostafa Darwish

heh i cant wait for the ressurection of jojo! i’ve been playing it as well as GGXXAC from like…5 years ago tell now…and specifically jojo since it was released.

SO cant wait to show people what jojo game is ACTUALLY like, and how hard it’s to do shit in this game lol.

Practice the BNB’s if u can because they are not that easy at all.
hope they can also remove the stupid loops and infinites? like the birds ice trap infinite, Jojo short jump SP, lp, f+mp~ MP qcb+mp ~ re loop infinite. Vanilla Ice beast qcb+p Infinite….and removal of this stupid imba trap from kakyuin lol
http://twitter.com/xxTeefxx Mostafa Darwish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pm-g0xRVGU

dio fans! basic bnb’s for dio.

this dude who uploaded the jojo vids, the bnb’s…they are all done with prog stick, but really very doable and nothing that hard at all once u get used to the system. it takes a while though if u never played jojo.
if anyone interested, get a hold of a general combo knowledge. every char is there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngV5wXlnXn4

the uploader by the name of Min0xSFIV, got all the bnb’s in general for all chars.
kaede_rukawa

even to this day they can’t still use arrows
IDIDTHaaaat

For those of you wondering where this training guide will take you, check out this footage of gameplay. learn you notations scrubs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldTPxgFwfc&list=UUrxMHMBvUk8mgPD8zzoVCxg&index=1&feature=plcp
http://twitter.com/Adnan199X Adnan

…is the numerical notation really that hard to understand though? Fair enough if it’s not the one you’re used to, but all you have to do to understand it the first time you see it is to literally look at your keyboard. You guys are making a big deal outta nothing.
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