The popularity of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime has exploded recently due to the success of its first season, and the second season has also been completed and has been very popular as well. It is normal for a title this popular to have a fighting game, right? We would say yes if the game was as polished and beautiful in all respects as the games in the Naruto and Dragon Ball series, and no if the game was like the Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash game that we are reviewing today, and which we begin the review to confirm that it was very disappointing.
Let me summarize the matter for you from the beginning. The game is not worth the value of $60, nor is it worth less than that. As a fan of the anime and manga of Jujutsu Kaisen, I was very disappointed with the game! First, the start menu looks like a game from the beginning of the year 2000. There is no distinctive design for it, but rather 3-second scenes from the anime that are repeated every moment. Secondly, the gameplay is very superficial. The game gives you the choice between 1 vs. 1 or 2 vs. 2 in combat, but the biggest problem is that most of the movements It relies on a 2 versus 2 system, which makes the first system useless, and here we come to the biggest problem, which is the playing system itself.
Player movements are divided into two parts: normal strikes in order to increase your ability meter and thus you can use curse strikes to repel the opponent, and curse strikes that cause damage to the opponent; The problem here is that most of the normal strikes do not cause any harm to the opponent at all! Its benefit is to increase the ability to perform curse blows, and this is very annoying and causes a lot of boredom because your successive blows (combo) will have no benefit. Of course I say combo here, but in reality, I preferred to press one button in succession at a time, and I tried to vary between the blows, but To no avail.
As for waking up in the game, it is about performing a super strike with a repeated move every time you use it, especially the Domain Exapnsion. This system in the anime distinguishes it from the rest of the anime, and its idea is to bring the opponent to an isolated place where he has a major weak point.. In the game, the place is a A short animation for a fatal blow only. I cannot understand why they did not make it a complete change of phase for a certain time like the anime?!
Well, let’s talk now about the story system. The game quotes the story of the first season and the movie 0 only, and the events are narrated by Axel Maret! It consists of still images from the anime and adding sounds in the background?! I felt like it was a mobile game, and of course because I watched the anime and knew the story, I just skipped all the scenes of the comic because it wasted my time. Unlike the games in the Naruto and Dragon ball series, there is no replay of the most important events with very beautiful graphics, and this is something that frustrated me a lot. The series of frustrations continues with the online system, as it is one of the saddest things I have seen because it takes an eternity to find opponents to fight, and it also suffers a lot in the quality of communication, and I quickly lost hope in it.
The music in the game is beautiful because it is directly from the anime, and the relationship system is considered a distinctive type of system in order to get clothes for the characters and also new characters to play with. Every time you finish a chapter in the story mode, the list of relationships is updated and accordingly you get the contents in it.
Unfortunately, the game is an exploitation of the name of the anime to develop a game whose level is as low as a game in the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series Conclusion: If you are a fan of the series, stay away from this game completely, and if you love anime games in general, stay away from it as well.
(We reviewed the game on PlayStation 5 with a copy we obtained from the publisher)
