I'll open up with the positives: The visuals and effects are pleasing to the eye. The menu and UI are easy to navigate and easy on the eyes. The character interactions are great, especially if you're a fan. If you like One Piece's overused gags, you'll love seeing them here(gotta love em). Many good ideas in this game, such as smaller battles happening amidst a bigger brawl. The idea of a One Piece RPG is fantastic and they shouldn't give up on it. I love the idea I first mentioned in particular. Sadly, as others have said it just isn't executed that well so that is where the positives end.

The negative: The story is fairly uninteresting. It has some moments of polish, but really ends up just being yet another bland One Piece filler arc instead of a believable part of the One Piece story. Most of the good ideas aren't implemented that well, in that the game's enemies are so weak that you don't need to devise any strategy or worry about type differences or any reason to not just use your strongest special attacks over and over. The game just tosses resources at you, so you'll never run out of HP or TP unless you impose restrictions on yourself. Even bosses are nothing more than a small irritation. The final boss is among the easiest in the game. Just spam Zoro's Black Rope Twister and any of Luffy's Gear 4th techniques and its done in very little time. The side content and post-game content is quite dull. The bounties in particular had a lot of potential, but all of the bounty pirates that you hunt aren't even worthy of being considered "filler". This game's areas may be pretty to look at, but only Alabasta had any real work put into them. The rest are very dull and short in comparison. On that subject, traversing the world with all of the various Straw Hat pirate abilities is a great idea, but in this game its just plain clunky and boring. Zipping around with Luffy feels stunted, and more than anything they make you switch to Chopper to get through a small hole or tunnel. You barely use the other Straw Hats, but their abilities aren't that great either. Nami finds money. Sanji finds ingredients. Robin finds research lore. Usopp shoots down bird nests. Franky builds bridges. Zoro cuts metal barriers, and the funny thing is I can't for the life of me remember if Brook does anything. That's how dull and rare it is to use most of the Straw Hats in the overworld. The music is fitting, but you're not going to be going back to any of this music to enjoy it on its own. One of the biggest issues is also the fact that the DLC offered for the game reuses so many assets and locations from the base game that it doesn't seem worth the purchase in the slightest, even when on sale. I don't see myself getting it.

The gist of it is that I can't really recommend this game. It comes off as a horribly rushed game once you get past its surface. It was so dull that most of my playtime was idling on the pause menu. It took me nearly two years of off and on playing to finally get through it. I am a huge One Piece fan and I had hoped it would get better, but it didn't. Skip it and hope the next One Piece game is given more time and love.

I'll just start by saying that i'm not a fan of One Piece, I have not watched or read it in years.
I really did enjoy the game and a lot of the negative will be nitpicking more than anything. They need more explaining as to what is the problem which make it seems long but is not that much in reallity.
I'll also avoid spoilers except a very very very minor one that doesn't reveal anything important.

tldr : game is very fun but has a few missed opportunities and small issues.
Really good if you like one piece.
Might be nice if you know about it and are lightly interested in its world like myself.


It look really nice and fits the artstyle of the anime very well.
A unique story but still very tightly related to past stories of the manga played with a different perspective.
I'm not a big JRPG player but the combat system was pretty unique and fun.
Being able to walk around in important places is neat (although your characters are a bit slow).
You can control most of the strawhats even outside of fights (has some issues i'll explain later).
Lots of content if you don't ignore what's unnecessary but might get repetitive at some point.
Had no issues at all playing with mouse and keyboard.



I do not believe it to be any important spoiler as it is something you find out about very early on in the game and is core to it but, if you truly want to know nothing story wise then careful :
most of the game allows you to explores the past places your characters have been to. I'll only tell the first one which is Alabasta. Except you have access to your whole crew, but instead of playing these arcs with characters that weren't there, the game simply finds an excuse as to why you can't play them, in this case franky and brook and even robin is unavailable for a part of the story considering the role she had in it.
In summary, the game misses the chance to create something fun and unique about the story of the game and manga and stays pretty uncreative in that regard overall.

You can control almost every strawhat to explore the world and each have their own ability, which sounds pretty cool because you think you can just explore everything with your favorite character, but, you will find yourself playing as luffy most of the time since his ability to progress within areas is mandatory all the time and the quality of life of picking items from far away.
You will also spend a lot of time switching between characters whenever you need zoro to cut something or chopper's size to enter new places for exemple.
Meanwhile, characters like sanji, robin or nami have very little use and you'll explore most areas barely using them because each time you wanna swap character, you have to enter a menu, select the character you want and have a small fade to black while it switches, which isn't bad at first but gets boring very quickly.
Exploring can also be a chore despite the few teleports you have access to considering the size of some areas (mostly the cities) compared to the speed at which you move.

The game has a lot of sidequests, which seems like a good opportunity to have all you crew interact with all sorts of characters, but too many of them are about sanji being ♥♥♥♥♥ for the quest giver.
Seriously, characters like zoro or robin barely interact with the rest of the world during those quest, while sanji is overpresent in so many of them.
It corelates to the fact that each character is kind of stripped down to it's minimum.
Sanji is ♥♥♥♥♥ for every female character, zoro only talks about being lost, nami about money ...
The game focuses pretty hard on the core of the characters and not much else.

To end this here, the game is really fun.
The negative part of the review might seem long, but it's mostly a few things that need explaining as to why it's a "problem" as opposed to the good parts which is just basically explaining a few things I enjoyed and that made this game pretty good in my opinion.

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