JJOCT7 R3M14 Jojolity

Judge Gregor Yuvecksky (Logic Sandwich)

Moony’s expertise in her commitment issues is put on full display! Joking aside, I think taking the puppet show from the write up and running with it made for a very fun Narrative, one that might not necessarily “advance” the character in the traditional sense, but reveals something about them with a beginning, middle, and end.

I mentioned the tech in Quality in passing, largely for how self-evidently robust it is to the strat, but my issue is in how the tech and Narrative cohere. Mind, there is prose about unions and mentions of wedding imagery, there isn’t the same ludonarrative consonance that pushes these Jojolities into the upper echelons. Nonetheless, I definitely appreciate the Narrative here, and while I could see myself giving a “7.5” in both categories, moving the 8 to Quality and giving a high [7] Jojolity best describes my position on the whole. Great job!

“This is the power of ｢Midnight Rider｣...All things are flawed, and weak, but within their core, there is a potential for greatness. That is the ability of my Stand… To draw out that potential, so that all may reach their proper destination.”

Vasant “Combat Tricks” Bulsara’s expertise lies in environmental manipulation and versatility of approach rather than strength of approach. While the prose isn’t as robust, the narrative is self-evident through the emphasis on Logistics, tying Vasant’s in spirituality with a (cosmetic) finisher, “exorcizing” Moony using Actions from humble disinfecting wipes. I’d like more narrative work, but an [8] feels appropriate for the robustness and creativity. Great job!

Judge Noriko Yabuuchi (CPU_Dragon)

Moony has a strong display, with separate narrative and mechanics that both stand on their own well. The narrative of unveiling Moony’s own terrible things she’s done and people she’s abandoned mixed in with the narrative of Anthrax creating a sort of marriage into her, smoothing out that fear and making Moony ‘better’ as a person. I think that the shows could have been integrated a bit better into the mechanics and integration was a bit thin on the ground past the wedding imagery used. That said, the quality of overall work is high; they do stand on their own. I’ll give a 7/10.

As for Vasant, I feel like Vasant really does show exactly how his Stand can fight. Turning the endgame into an aggressive combo with a wide variety of Lotuses used was tight as hell, and while not as extensive as Moony’s were a bit better integrated. I felt really convinced with Vasant’s exorcism, and I applaud Vasant for turning an allowance in Disinfect into an unorthodox win condition; I feel like a low 8/10 is warranted!

Judge Keith Moon (Alphamon)

Alright, now we get to wipe the limescale off… oh, it’s just a scaling thing? OK, like a building? No? Scaling stands? OK, I’ll get my other hat then…

We’ll start again with Children Fight Chickens, who open the match with absolutely as much kitchen fuckery as Anthraxily possible, followed by nabbing every useful item on the map, even a tent-tarp blindfold- which kind of astounds me, because I assumed your stand could just make glasses and tint them with itself- to make itself stronger and annoy the absolute shit out of your opponent.

There’s also the church you’re building over there, the wonderful, grassy church of murder that you’re going to marry a biker in before killing him against it. I have to say, that’s pretty metal. This too, is done with the power of scaling- specifically, act 3’s- so it adds to the overall effect and feel.

To dial it back a bit, the entire strat is spent building up to a single, important moment: The End.

Now, to talk about… hrm… Elected Geriatric- no? Eh, whatever- we start the match with what else but lotuses! Lotuses, absolutely everywhere, every second, perhaps even ten of them, in order to make the ultimate weapon: The Lotus Bomb.

For every touched piece of equipment, like a park bench, a road block, a tent, a tree, your bike and the like, to every unique bodily action, like your legs jumping, your mouth breathing, and the things of that nature, your stand has the ability to grow and scale off of it. And Scale, of course, it does!

With that done and dusted, I can see giving both of these beam-balancing strats solid **8**s for their trouble!

As a final aside, This feels almost like a match made in scaler’s heaven, as even T3's Gregor, old Gregor, would be filling the field with guns before the timer was up. He’d also not be put in this match because he’d do exactly that, and potentially have enough gun-arms to make the giant doom ball in the sky and fire down, out of the other stand user’s range, but that’s life innit?