''My Hero One's Justice'', known in Japan as ''My Hero Academia: One's Justice'', is a 2018

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developed and published by

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for

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, and

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. The game is based on the

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series ''

My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...

'' by

Kōhei Horikoshi is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the manga series '' Ōmagadoki Dōbutsuen'', '' Barrage'' and ''My Hero Academia'', all of which have been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. Horikoshi is ...

Production and release

In the first 2018 issue of

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'' magazine, it was announced that a video game based on the ''

'' franchise was in development from

. The game was released on the

and

in Japan on August 23, 2018. Internationally, the game was released on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4,

, and

platforms on October 26, 2018. Endeavor and Shoot-style Izuku Midoriya were given out as a

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bonus and later as paid DLC. Inasa Yoarashi was also made available as paid DLC on November 14, 2018.

Reception

Jordan Ramée from ''

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'' praised the characters, controls, and easter eggs to the original source material while criticizing the story mode for requiring knowledge of the source material. Alex Santa Maria from ''

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'' praised the presentation, online play, and representation of the

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series, while also criticizing the AI, camera, and fighting system. Clark A. from ''Digitally Downloaded'' praised the game's presentation and gameplay, though felt some of the main series' aspects were lost. Mitchell Saltzman from ''

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'' praised the action and visuals, though also criticizing the game's combat and story mode. Dave Aubrey from ''

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'' praised the graphics and the beginning of the game, though Aubrey felt it got repetitive after a few hours of play. Dom Reseigh-Lincoln from ''

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'' praised the visuals and presentation, while criticizing the gameplay as missed potential. Richard Eisenbeis from ''

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'' praised the "if" stories, while criticizing the online play as laggy and the character roster as unbalanced. In its first week, the game sold 24,626 units on the Nintendo Switch and 16,036 units on the PlayStation 4, for a total of 40,652. In January 2019, it was announced the game had shipped over 500,000 copies.

Sequel

A sequel, titled ''My Hero One's Justice 2'', was announced in an issue of ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' in September 2019. It was released in Japan for

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, and

on March 12, 2020. It was released internationally on the same platforms the next day.

References

External links

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