Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26873003-20150819103652/@comment-26871105-20150819115853

Part 5 is so cool, you get Sticky Fingers, Purple Haze, Sex Pistols, Back Sabbath, Polnareff Polnareff Polnareff etc etc etc! Then Gold Experience Requiem shows up and ruin everything Part 5 stands for, at least for me (though I never really liked Gold Experience much to begin with, the power just doesn't make all that much sense even in JoJoverse, so GER just rubs more salt onto my face).

I don't mind people being utterly OP as long as the execution is good (such as One Punch Man or TTGL), but I don't think that's the case with GER. To me it just feels a little out of place, it's like a cheap solution to all the hard problems that fly in Giorno's general direction instead of being a part of the story progression if you get what I mean.

Then Diavolo/King Crimson is just not a well planned out villian for me, since he practically triggered the birth of the abomination that is GER due to his way overly broken ability. Yes it's indeed cool and creative, but balance wise it's just not a great component of this arc.

Considering Part 4 worked without having to resort to giving both the protagonist and the antagonist some off-the-chart abilities. The third bomb Bites the Dust works on a condition and Kira doesn't have full control over its power/effect (he has to work out who was killed to trigger the looping every time it happens as he retains no memory of the event however the person subjected to the bomb does. Nor can he cast it on himself, and he can not use Killer Queen until he cancels Bites the Dust). And so it was a great example of making "invincible" powers without having it simply being broken.

Then there is Part 3, it at least has a legit reason for it to pull the "Jotaro can stop time too", as it is foreshadowed throughout the entire SC since the very first episode/chapter so I can't say it is just taken straight out of his arse. However GER, in this case, is (or maybe I should be blaming King Crimson instead).

Other than that problem, Part 5 is pretty cool and I like it a lot too. It's definitely one of the most well done part of the entire JoJo series.

EDIT: Oh the ending, Diavolo got the Terunosuke treatment but 100 times worse. Not sure what's with Araki's occasional over the top overkilling.