

If the player has any tarot cards in their inventory, Avdol can perform a fortune-telling for any one character. TRASH allows the player to destroy any items permanently. REMOVE opens the equipped items page for a character and allows the player to remove any equipped items.

EQUIP prompts the player to select a character, and then select an item to be equipped by that character. The USE option opens the list of consumable items such as vitamins or cigarettes, and allows the player to use them.

This opens another set of options: USE, EQUIP, REMOVE, or TRASH. This can advance the story, provide useful hints on what to do next, or simply give bits of lore or flavor. Interacts with other characters on-screen, such as shopkeepers or other NPCs. Use the cursor to examine and interact with points of interest in the environment, as well as uncover hidden items. The player can take the following actions when not in combat: Other menus allow looking at detailed stats of the characters. The bottom half of the screen is used to display the faces of the characters and gameplay options while the top half displays dialogs. The character can thus only really move left or right in a given screen and go from screen to screen only a key points that allow traveling upward. The camera is positioned in front of the controlled character and only a horizontal stripe at the center of the screen is used to display the characters and the environment. The characters can also buy, use or equip items. The game's Biorhythm System ( バイオリズムシステム, Baiorizumu Shisutemu) also modifies how well a character can fight depending on their state of mind such as stress. If either HP or MP reaches 0, then the character is down or is too discouraged to fight. Like most RPGs, the player manages the heroes of Stardust Crusaders who can level up as they fight and whose health (named HP) and mental state (named "mental points" or MP) must be taken care of. Just like in the story, the game features Jotaro Kujo and his companions traveling the world together and battling enemy Stand users to reach DIO. It is sometimes also referred to as a side-scrolling RPG. The player controls the protagonists of Stardust Crusaders in a combination of Point and click adventure and classic third-person RPG.
