Spike Chunsoft's Jump Force arrives on Switch more than a full year after its release on other platforms and it is, as it was then, a very mixed bag of anime nuts. Jump Force Deluxe Edition is an easy to learn, easy to master button-mashing brawler with a huge roster of over fifty characters from the illustrious archives of Shonen Jump magazine, it's a game that impresses in its initial hour or thereabouts before you start to get to grips with just how one-note the whole thing really is. This is a problem that's compounded in a Switch port that's a little too blurry to be comfortable in handheld and really struggles to maintain a decent framerate in its hub area when you take things online.
The story here, such as it is, sees you assume control of a player-created character who's been severely injured in an attack on New York City by Dragon Ball's big-brained baddie, Frieza. After being revived by Trunks using a mysterious Umbras Cube, you're granted the ability to become a Manga fighting hero and whisked back to Jump Force HQ where you'll choose a team of fighters to hook up with in order to put a stop to an apocalyptic plot involving Venoms, Umbras cubes and plenty of inexplicably convoluted conversations.
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