Overall the narrative in this title is fine if you’re already a fan of the franchise. You only see him around three times before it’s over! It doesn’t really do Crocodile justice as an antagonist. For example, Alabastre sees you spending a lot of time just playing catch up to Vivi, and then within 40 minutes you see Crocodile for the first time and that’s the final fight of that saga. While you can unlock a brief write-up of each story as you play it, the presentation of them is all over the place as you quickly jump from key event to key event. The retelling of the arcs is also presented in a strange way. It’s to the point that Waford feels like an afterthought, especially in the earlier hours of the game. The pacing is all over the place, you spend much more time in the retellings than you do in the original story. The latter veers into the world of “What If” and sadly it doesn’t quite stick the landing in the cleanest way. What One Piece Odyssey presents is a mix of an original story with story recaps of main events. The gimmick here is the cast goes through these tales with the knowledge of what happened, so try to circumvent events for the cleanest victories. It’s not the most ideal way to experience any of them if you have no prior knowledge. These sections aren’t direct retellings but do cover some of the main events within the story. These see the cast experiencing a soft re-telling of 4 main arcs in the One Piece series: Alabastre, Water 7, Marineford, and Dressrosa. Several times within the story, Luffy and Co are expected to go into giant “memory cubes”. How much of the series are you expected to know? Is it canon? Where does it sit within the timeline? I would say that you are fine with this title if you have at least seen or read to the end of the Dressrosa story arc and I’ll explain why. Take it like the movies It’s just a fun adventure within the series, rather than being an integral piece of lore.Īs this title is based on a popular anime/manga franchise, there are always questions. Overall while the original aspect of the story is fun, it feels inconsequential and just stinks of being non-canon. I guess it is what you’d expect from an anime tie-in title though. A result is that some of the time characters appear and just feel like they’re there for fleeting fan service. The issue with this is that there is only so far the developers will go with the narrative. This is all while a mysterious character is overseeing events.įor the most part, One Piece Odyssey is an original adventure in terms of story. It’s down to Luffy and the Straw Hats to solve the mystery of Waford, win over the mysterious Lim, and get off the island while the Marines are slowly catching up to them. Here we meet the gun-wielding Adio and the jug-carrying, pirate-hating world of mystery Lim, who promptly steals the Straw Hat’s abilities and spreads them around the island in the form of cubes. The island is inhabited by Colossi and other mysterious creatures alongside two original characters for the game. Naturally, nothing’s quite what it seems here. One Piece Odyssey sees the Straw Hat Pirates led by their master of rubber and consumer of meat Monkey D Luffy, shipwrecked on the mysterious island of Waford. Will it be a diamond in the rough, or is this a case of another man’s trash actually being trash? A New Age Of Pirates This time around, the Straw Hat Pirates are taking another crack at the JRPG genre. Joking aside, One Piece is back with One Piece Odyssey. Another one of these is based on this little-known anime called One Piece. When not releasing bi-monthly Dragon Ball games, Bandai Namco also handles other Manga/Anime-related titles such as the fantastic JoJo’s All-Star Battle and Digimon Survive.
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