Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash gets February 2024 release on consoles and PC
3D-action brawler Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash will be unveiled early next year.
Revealed yesterday, the Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. title will arrive on February 2 on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC (via Steam). This is the first major video game for the popular manga series, which has sold over 80 million copies worldwide. New York Comic Con attendees will be able to play a demo of the game this weekend at Bandai Namco’s booth (Booth 2319).
A synopsis for Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash, which follows the events from the first season of the popular anime adaptation, reads:
In Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash, players will form two-character teams to fight in exhilarating and intense battles to defend humanity against monsters known as Curses in modern-day Tokyo at Jujutsu High. Different character combinations will have unique synergies and power dynamics, resulting in a wide range of powerful tag-team attacks, explosive combinations and more. “Cursed techniques” can be mastered by completing battles to increase each fighter’s power level, which unlocks stronger attacks as they progress. Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash features over 15 playable fighters, including fan-favorite characters: Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki, Gojo Satoru, Maki Zen’in, Toge Inumaki, Panda and the legendary King of Curses, Ryomen Sukuna.
Pre-orders for Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash can be made here. The Digital Deluxe Edition of the game comes with the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death DLC and the Jujusta 2024 Baseball Mini-game. The Digital Ultimate Edition features everything in the Digital Deluxe Edition as well as a digital artbook/soundtrack and anime end theme 1 outfit set DLC. All pre-orders come with a Jujutsu High first-year outfit set.
The second season for Jujutsu Kaisen premiered over the summer on Crunchyroll. A synopsis for season two reads:
This is the innocent spring that the two strongest lost forever. Itadori Yuji took Ryomen Sukuna into his own body in June 2018. Okkotsu Yuta freed Orimoto Rika from her curse in December 2017. And now it's spring 2006. Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, two peerless jujutsu sorcerers from Jujutsu High, have been given two missions by Tengen, an immortal known as the cornerstone of the jujutsu community. One mission is the escorting and erasure of the "Star Plasma Vessel", Amanai Riko, the girl chosen as the best match to merge with Tengen. So the two of them set out on their escort mission in order to keep the jujutsu community going, but an assassin calling himself Fushiguro interferes in an attempt to assassinate the Star Plasma Vessel. The pasts of Gojo and Geto, the ones who would later be known as the most powerful jujutsu sorcerer and the most evil curse user, are about to be revealed…