Lastly, there are little mini games which serve to break up the seemingly endless cycle of walking around dungeons and fighting enemies, but they basically all boil down to glorified quick time events and nothing more.For 13 years, the One Piece series has crossed borders for the video game industry, where it has been present on consoles such as the original PlayStation up to 3, and on Nintendo consoles from GameCube, DS to Wii and 3DS. There’s also a crafting mechanic in the title involving collecting parts and recipes, but it just makes getting items feel more convoluted without adding actual enjoyment to the process. There is the element of positioning to try to get hits on multiple opponents with one attack and knocking them into walls for added damage, but much of it is inconsistent to execute and entirely unnecessary for success.Īs each stage the player wanders through is the very definition of bland and uninspired with fights waiting at nearly every corner, it becomes repetitive and hellishly dull within the first hour of game play. Skill points earned after combat can be used to unlock new moves or extend the power of the ones already learned, but it basically boils down to just pressing the same two buttons over and over again without much thought and using a TP skill once there are enough points.
The combat is broken off into selecting a target and doing a series of hits, and as the hits connect, the character gains TP which can be used to unleash special attacks. However, perhaps the game’s poor use of such coveted licensed material could be forgiven if the game play was compelling, but unfortunately, that is also not the case. Romance Dawn “covers” many of the story arcs in One Piece, but considering how poorly they’re produced and implemented within the game itself, I would say that this was not necessarily a good thing. While the game makes blatant use of the animated show’s screenshots to tell the story, it’s done poorly and there is very little to do other than watch little character portraits bobble up and down as they spout out nonsense for long periods of time. As expected, it skips over a lot of important information – his family and how he got his elastic superpowers are unexplained, as there are many skips as the plot is condensed to a mere shell of its true self.įans will find the haphazard butchering of their beloved story to be blasphemous, and newcomers will find themselves lost and uninterested as it does a poor job of laying the foundation.
The story begins its earnest at the start of the series, as Luffy makes his promises to become the greatest pirate ever. Romance Dawn opens with an animated intro that verifies the notion that One Piece clearly has the most crying scenes in all of shounen. If he was such a great pirate, why did he get captured and executed?
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