(before I play the series)
I always knew I was going to get into the Yakuza series, but shyed myself away from it for some reason. I would dodge any spoilers of the franchise to save myself for the future.
That changed recently whilst watching a LAD Infinite Wealth clip where Ichiban is randomly just running along the beach, some motherfucker drops from a tree on accident, and immediately engages in a battle with him. The fact that the game took that as "On sight" element and put you straight into TB made me want to play the whole series ASAP

Kind of a weird, but different approach to arena-fighters. Competitive wise, this game shouldn't even be considered, let alone All Star Battle. It definitely scratches the Jojo itch, but only for like 2 to 4 weeks, would also call it a honeymoon game. Despite that, the campaign was unique and integrated manga only (at the time) characters, and even gave them dependent voice actors and colorings (based off of Araki). I do think that if another Jojo game came out that wasn't a remaster 2.5 fighter and an Japan only arcade game, that it would be a hit. Last potential was maining the Jojos in Jump Force, but we don't talk about JF here

Just an beautiful game. I had the pleasure of playing this whilst I babysat my brother kitten, and straight up binged this game. Kind of rare for me to just complete the game, and go to Youtube JUST to REWATCH the entire story I just played through, in essentially one shot. Speaking of one shot, the usage of camerawork is just impressive; out of this world. Implementing this consistent camera angle of non-changing scenes is just so impressive. The amount of effort put into this game not only by Santa Monica studio, but the narrative designer/ script writer, the in-body actors for EVERYONE, their voicework, just simply everything. It deserves the praise, as I made a Playstation account JUST to play this game. (then later down the line for Jojo's Eyes Of Heaven)