If you haven’t observed, 2022 has far and away grow to be the 12 months of media conglomerates capitalizing on possession of disparate properties. You can see it clearly within the realm of video video games like MultiVersus and the ultimate boss of wacky crossovers, Fortnite. Not to be not noted, fashionable manga writer Shonen Jump has plunged into the online game pool as properly with a crossover sport of its personal.
Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions is a 2D isometric tactical online game developed by Momo-Pi, the oldsters behind the turn-based puzzle sport Persephone. You play as Damien, a meek child struggling together with his household’s current transfer from France to Japan. Unfortunately, Damien doesn’t have the chance to air out his grievances together with his dad and mom as a result of they left him dwelling alone with an inventory of chores. Luckily for Damien, he’s obtained a vivid creativeness to assist him go alongside sooner and fight his niggling anxieties about loneliness. Whenever Damien will get overwhelmed, like coping with small speak with a loud neighbor or calming down his nervous canine, he recontextualizes the eventualities as if he had been in a manga. Through this lens, he transforms into the manga’s fearless protagonist, Captain Velvet Meteor.
Captain Velvet Meteor’s fight is just like Live A Live’s tile-centric fight system, albeit way more simplified. You management Captain Meteor and a Shonen Jump character as they navigate their approach via puzzles and turn-based battles. Because characters share a well being bar, their positioning performs a serious position in how battles play out. Successfully defeating hordes of enemies rewards you with each a replenished well being bar and elevated motion factors. While preliminary ranges play like a breezy sport of anime checkers, its later ranges spice issues up by reworking right into a difficult sport of chess. Its climactic ultimate boss fights, which frequently embody dope designs like an enormous kaiju canine, are a blitzkrieg of frenetic fight interlaced with traps and waves of enemies.
Where Captain Velvet Meteor shines is in that it doesn’t go the simple route by making Damien’s machinations contain heroic crew ups with well-established Shonen Jump protagonists like Goku from Dragon Ball Z, or Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto (they’re most likely too busy inflicting mayhem in Fortnite). Instead, Damien groups up with newer and reasonably lesser-known shonen protagonists:
- Loid Forger from Spy x Family
- Kafka Hibino from Kaiju No. 8
- Gabimaru from Hell’s Paradise
- Ushio Kofune from Summer Time Rendering
- Chloé Love and Kai Iod from Ghost Reaper Girl
- Chrome from Heart Gear
- Princess and Ex from ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess
- Slime from Slime Life
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Prior to playing Captain Velvet Meteor, I’d solely learn Spy x Family, Kaiju No.8, and Hell’s Paradise and was at a loss at any time when the opposite roughly 62.5 p.c of Damian’s manga favs appeared on-screen. While most crossover video games ignore the premise of its contrasting properties for the novelty of its nonsensical crossovers, Captain Velvet Meteor avoids this pitfall by crafting an enthralling story that respects the supply materials of its manga with battles that seize their vitality and tells its personal story.
To my shock, the sport not solely efficiently achieved its not-so-subtle advertising and marketing purpose of producing my curiosity in studying different manga properties by offering a tough synopsis of their tales, it additionally weaved a compelling story the place every character imparts heartwarming life recommendation to Damien. If that’s not the definition of being a hero, I don’t know what’s.
It’s not typically a online game crafts a considerate story because the baseline for its blatant fanservice crossover, however Captain Velvet Meteor has its cake and eats it too. And it’s rattling scrumptious.
