![]() ![]() ![]() Which means, in One Piece terms, you gain the ability to re-experience several past arcs from the series Alabasta, Water 7/Enies Lobby, etc. One of Lim’s powers enables her to transport people into Memoria, a place composed of people’s memories, in order to gather strength to unlock the power of the cubes. ![]() You’ll constantly be swapping between different crew members to mop up enemies, as you just won’t do much damage against enemies that aren’t weak to a character’s attacks.Getting the cubes basically involves two things: exploring ruins on the island and delving into memories. Power is strong against speed, speed is strong against technique, and technique is strong against power. One Piece Odyssey uses a rock-paper-scissors weakness system where characters and enemies are either power, speed, or technique types. But the kicker is that you can swap between the whole crew at will as long as the active characters haven’t used their turns. Battles are turn-based and you can have four characters active at once. I don’t think any other game has come this close to actually making it feel like you’re controlling the Straw Hat crew.Īnd that extends to fights. Luffy can stretch to grab grapple points, Chopper’s short enough to make it past tight structures, and Zoro can cut iron objects such as crates or gates that block the way. You’ll have most of the crew in your party at any given time and can swap between them freely in the field where they have different capabilities. One Piece Odyssey honestly does a respectable job with its general gameplay flow and combat. Of course, this is all fanboy whinging.īut that’s enough complaining about things not directly related to gameplay. For instance, Franky doesn’t even technically join the party until over 20 hours into the game when you reach the midway point. Even if a couple of characters, namely Franky and Brook, get thrown to the wayside. The voice cast is just as good as ever, and I always enjoy listening to them bring these characters to life. On the other hand, almost all of the important dialogue is fully voiced. This isn’t what I wanted and, frankly, it isn’t what should have been done. It can really feel like the game is padding itself out. And there are plenty of times you’ll simply walk to a marker, watch a scene, walk to another marker, watch another scene, and then be told to backtrack to where you started from. What did you fight your way through it for? Nothing. At one point, they go into a cave to make it to Rain Dinners, only for Luffy to break the exit. The Alabasta section is hours of the crew traveling to try and find Crocodile. The Strawhats are accosted by a young woman named Lim who turns their abilities into cubes and flings them across the island, leaving the crew weak and powerless at level one. There, they find some mysteries, new characters a (seemingly) brand new adventure waiting for them. The Sunny (the Strawhat Pirates’ ship) gets shipwrecked and the crew finds itself on a mysterious island called Waford. One Piece Odyssey kicks things off with an opening we’ve seen in One Piece games before. I imagined I would explore the island and experience a purely original story take place. Yohohoho!ĭuring the game’s first few hours, I assumed it was basically a turn-based version of Unlimited Adventure. It’s got a lot of content, a unique battle system that mostly plays to the series’ strengths, plus it has more voice-acted dialogue than other series game. The franchise isn’t really known for pumping out quality games, however Odyssey is a good JRPG. But I’m not going to do that I’m settling for hundreds of words instead. This job requires me to review One Piece Odyssey purely as a game, but as a fan, I could spend thousands of words rambling about how I found the premise and narrative choices aggravating and unsatisfying. ![]() I’m a One Piece fanboy to the point that it’s difficult for me to review this game. ![]()
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