Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26873003-20150815171419/@comment-26873003-20150816183756

I feel like it was because Part 3 was meant to be an introduction to the concept of Stands, it was designed by Araki as a bit lighthearted adventure of best friends across the world, rushing from Japan to Egypt in order to save Holly. Notice how a lot of the Stands have very simple abilities, like controlling fire, being physically strong, controlling ice, sand, etc. One thing that bothered me about Stardust Crusaders is that the battles with enemy Stands were really really short, lasting 3 or 4 chapters, while in Part 4 the battles sometimes lasted up to 10 chapters. I really enjoyed Part 3, but Part 4's back story as well as geographical location, allowed for more development of each characters personality and bonds between them. I generally feel that Stardust Crusaders were more straightforward action packed, while Part 4 was more psychological and oriented towards the characters spiritual and personal weaknesses.

As a note, as much as I was able to create a decent tier list of Stands from Part 3 (in one of my earlier threads), I feel like there is little to no point in creating Part 4 Stand tier list, mainly because of Stands like Pearl Jam, Cinderella, Superfly, etc. who can silmply be not compared easily to more straightforward offensive Stands like Aqua Necklace for example. Unless I'm wrong and there is a point in making a tier list, that would be really nice since I like doing stuff like that.