Any time there is an Anton and Coolpecker thread up on 8/v/, someone usually brings up 7th Stand User 2 (which I will be referring to this as 7SU2 from now on) in the threads. I usually comment on what I did and why the project went to shit, but before I go into why that happened we need some context first.
For those of you that don’t know, 7SU2 was a planned fan-sequel to the original fan-game Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: 7th Stand User created by Clayman. where you play as a stand user that travels along with the characters from the Stardust Crusaders arc. The original fangame is very good in its own right and I highly suggest you play it if you’re a fan of Jojo, it’s still being updated to this very day, I will provide a download link to the game at the end.
So way back on 8/v/ we had Jojo threads back in 2015 or 2016, it was mainly for Jojo’s heritage for the future, where we had tournaments but there was a discussion for the other Jojo games and of course, the 7th stand user. Some of you may or may not know me but I was the BigDickDad. At the time I believe I had run out of juice from developing SwampQuest (More on that here). I stated that I always wanted to do a fan-sequel to the game and posted some proof of concept about it, a lot of people were also interested and so we got into a group discussion and wrote down some ideas. At the time I believe there was a few of us Me, MFB, Trace and some others I can’t remember (if you do ever find this, contact me and I will add you here). My job was one of the writers and mappers. Obviously, we grew in size, unfortunately, that also meant we had our worse nightmares arrive… Ideafags.
For those of you that don’t know Ideafags are people that keep contributing ideas but never actually able to make said ideas themselves. There were a lot of these, so much so that development of the fan-game itself never actually got started properly (that’s why there hasn’t been a full demo yet). I started to leave the project quietly because of this, I would pop back in just to see if it was worth staying but the number of fan-characters and how much work was put into them rather than the actual content of the game made me leave for good. What development was in the game however was small and minimal, the actual “programming” was just cobbled together scripts from Yanfly and half of it was music stolen from the first game. Some of the cutscenes are very rough as well, some of them with pretty bad writing.
They even have a patreon with no posts, I have no clue if they actually had permission from Clayman to do such a thing. Why they would need one anyway I have no idea, considering they already have an artist on the project. Anon’s Bizarre Adventure has no funding put into it and yet has more development put into it. If they weren’t making fan-characters and stuff that wasn’t important to the player’s experience then they could have had a demo out sometime last year.
This project is most likely dead, the last real update from them was November 2016 and even then it was just text. I’m sure there are other reasons why and this game will never get finished. I was going to talk about this in the “Road To Final Drill” post I felt like it deserves its own post. In the next post, I will be talking about the plans I had for the game originally before they were changed or removed entirely.
Download Link to 7th Stand User: https://7thjojo.tumblr.com/tagged/7th-stand-user
Download Link to what has been done of 7th Stand User 2 (Thanks Trace): https://www.mediafire.com/file/qbtdbasa9fv93ez/0.4.41.7z/file
The Final Drill Official Site 