What is the best One Piece game? Check out the JV Ranking After One Piece Odyssey Released
Game News What is the best One Piece game? Check out the JV Ranking After One Piece Odyssey Released
Like the prejudices that surround their television adaptations, manga often struggle when it comes to adapting them to our consoles. One Piece is no exception to the rule and the license has been lukewarm and cold over the years regarding its video games. Is the release of One Piece Odyssey a sign of a comeback?
Summary
- One Piece Odyssey
- One Piece: Romance Dawn
- One Piece Unlimited Cruise 1: The Treasure Under the Waves
- One Piece: Giant Battle
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors
One Piece Odyssey
It’s the new kid on the block: One Piece Odyssey was released on Friday January 13 on PC, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. It differs from its predecessors mainly in its gameplay: it replaces the usual sauce beat them up for turn-based combat, emphasizing each character’s strategies with animations taken directly from the television adaptation. It is enough to ensure fans of the original works a certain loyalty, especially since these are also the main arcs of the manga that One Piece Odyssey players are reliving (in an alternative way).
What is enough? According to JV, Odyssey now forms “the most complete and daring adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s work“despite the rapid redundant or even terrifying experience, but can serve as a model for the development of the ultimate game.
One Piece: Romance Dawn
Aside from One Piece Odyssey, One Piece: Romance Dawn is the last One Piece game to inherit a rating higher than 13/20. Released on November 23, 2013 on the 3DS in Europe (it was released in 2012 in Japan on the PlayStation Portable), it is the first video game to focus its gameplay on role-playing games (or RPGs). Like the Odyssey, One Piece: Romance Dawn seems to show the same pitfalls ten years ago: a very faithful adaptation to the manga as the player will relive the main narrative arcs of the first 50 volumes through a series of dungeons.
In the end, JV gave it a score of 14/20, praising the 30 minutes of new cutscenes and the thought-out battle system while criticizing One Piece: Romance Dawn for being “somewhat rested in the rare aura of this rare shonen“.
One Piece Unlimited Cruise 1: The Treasure Under the Waves
It’s probably the least action-oriented One Piece game, but it doesn’t seem to fail, on the contrary. Rated 15/20, One Piece Unlimited Cruise 1: Treasure Under the Waves puts more emphasis on discovering and exploring islands than action scenes. The latter is full of treasure useful for crafts, which each crew can use according to their abilities (Chopper will make the medicines, Sanji will cook while Chopper and Franky will make the tools). The emphasis is definitely on freedom but this One Piece game doesn’t forget about fighting. In addition to the Versus mode consisting of 30 characters, waves of enemies will try to push back your crops: it’s up to you to defeat them using techniques from the manga, which can be improved as you use the this.
Something that attracted JV’s editorial staff when the game was released in 2009. If it stays far from the standards followed for video game adaptations of manga, it is nevertheless “a complete game specifically dedicated to fans of side quests / side quests in action and adventure games“.
One Piece: Giant Battle
After the national success of Jump Ultimate Stars in Japan (which was unfortunately not released in Europe at the time), One Piece: Gigant Battle released on DS on July 01, 2011 was inspired by the latter’s concept. . A Smash Bros kind of like but with different protagonists of Eiichiro Oda’s universe. Although the cast of playable characters is limited, at least 70 support heroes are included in the game. With no scenario to speak of, the title imposes several challenges on players on each island, renewing as you go. There is a small dimension to the game where you can improve your characters’ stats as well as purchase special abilities.
If this adaptation without intrigue is guilty by the number of its playable characters and the absence of an online mode, it releases “enough energy and good humor to appeal to all manga fans“.
One Piece: Pirate Warriors
This is the most prolific video game saga of One piece in video games. Just like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm developed by CyberConnect 2, the One Piece: Pirate Warriors is available in four opus, the first released in September 2012 on PlayStation 3, which still has the best rating of the One Piece video game with 16/20 which means Very good. This is the first adaptation of the game to land in Europe with HD packaging. It adopted the principle of Musoua beat’em up subgenre where the player must fend off waves of enemies while conquering territories.
A magnificent opus that stands out for its diverse and varied gameplay stages. JV only regrets the lack of variety in terms of playable characters since if Luffy is greatly highlighted, his companions are well behind and are only playable during very specific sequences.
In any case, One Piece Odyssey will probably not be one of the important games of 2023 but it seems to bring fresh air to the video game adaptations of the universe created by Eiichiro Oda. With a score of 14/20, he manages to disrupt the best in the license. What to be enthusiastic about the future of Luffy and his companions on our game consoles.
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