Game news What is the best One Piece game? Check out the JV Ranking after the release of One Piece Odyssey
Like the prejudice surrounding their TV 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 blown lukewarm and cold on its video games over the past few years. Is the release of One Piece Odyssey the sign of the comeback?
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- One Piece Odyssey
- One Piece: Romance Dawn
- One Piece Unlimited Cruise 1: Treasure Under the Waves
- One Piece: Giant Battle
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors
One Piece Odyssey
This is the new kid on the block: One Piece Odyssey released Friday, January 13th on PC, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. It differs from its predecessors in particular for its gameplay: it’s the usual sauce Knock her down for turn-based combat, emphasizing each character’s techniques, whose animations are taken directly from the television adaptation. Enough to ensure some fidelity to fans of the original works, especially since they are also major arcs of the manga that One Piece Odyssey players will relive (in an alternative way).
what is enough According to JV, Odyssey today is “the most complete and daring adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s work“despite quickly superfluous or even deterrent 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 above 13/20. It was released on November 23, 2013 on 3DS in Europe (it was released in Japan on PlayStation Portable in 2012) and is the first video game to focus its gameplay on Role-Playing Games (or RPGs). like odyssey, One Piece: Romance Dawn seems to have the same pitfalls as it did ten years ago: a very faithful adaptation to the manga, as the player will relive the grand 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 well-thought-out combat system, while criticizing One Piece: Romance Dawn for being “deigned a little too much on the extraordinary aura of this extraordinary shonen“.
One Piece Unlimited Cruise 1: Treasure Under the Waves
It’s probably the least action-oriented One Piece game, but it doesn’t seem to have missed that, quite the opposite. Rated 15/20, One Piece Unlimited Cruise 1: Treasure Under the Waves puts more emphasis on the discovery and exploration of the islands than on the action scenes. The latter are full of treasures useful for crafting, which each crew member can use according to their skills (Chopper makes medicines, Sanji cooks, while Chopper and Franky make tools). So the emphasis is really on freedom, but this One Piece game doesn’t forget about fighting. In addition to the 30-character versus mode, waves of enemies will try to push back your crops: it’s up to you to defeat them using techniques from the manga that you can improve as you use them.
Something that seduced the JV editors when the game was released in 2009. If it stays far from the standards held for manga video game adaptations, it is nonetheless”a complete game especially aimed at fans of side quests in action and adventure games“.
One Piece: Giant Battle
Following the national success of Jump Ultimate Stars in Japan (which sadly wasn’t released in Europe at the time), One Piece: Gigant Battle, released on DS on July 1st, 2011, was inspired by its concept. A kind of Smash Bros like but with the different protagonists from Eiichiro Oda’s universe. While the choice of playable characters is limited, no fewer than 70 support heroes come with the game.Without a notable scenario, the title presents players with multiple challenges on each island, which gradually renew themselves. There is a small RPG dimension where you can improve your characters’ stats and buy special skills.
If this adaptation sins without intrigue by its number of playable characters and by the lack of an online mode, it releases “enough energy and good humor to seduce all manga fans“.
One Piece: Pirate Warriors
It is the most prolific video game saga of One piece in video games. how Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm developed by CyberConnect 2, the One Piece: Pirate Warriors are available in four works, the first was released in September 2012 on PlayStation 3, which still has the best rating of any One Piece video game with 16/20 very good. This is the first adaptation of the game to land in Europe with HD packaging. It adopts the principle of Musua subgenre of beat ’em up in which the player must fend off waves of enemies while conquering territory.
A very good work that stands out due to its diverse and varied game phases. JV only regrets the lack of variety in terms of playable characters, since when Luffy is heavily emphasized, his companions lag far behind and are only playable during very specific sequences.
In any case, One Piece Odyssey will probably not be one of the essential games of 2023, but it seems to bring a breath of fresh air to the video game adaptations of the universe created by Eiichiro Oda. With a score of 14/20, he manages to rank among the best in the licence. What will inspire the future of Luffy and his companions on our game consoles.
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