Fans from both worlds will adore it, and I found it to be a perfect appetiser as I await The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom later this year.One Piece Odyssey transports the Straw Hat Crew to a mysterious new island where they embark on quests and fight powerful enemies and massive bosses in exciting turn-based battles. This is a distinctive, appealing example of the JRPG genre that also nails the essence of the One Piece universe. Its overall theme is an examination of the nature of friendship, although thankfully, it’s too funny and bizarre to ever become twee. That feels at odds with the game’s general vibe of naivety and sweetness, which at times treads the sort of territory occupied by the Zelda and Ni no Kuni games. One Piece Odyssey isn’t perfect: it takes a while to hit its stride, and it’s hard to ignore the scantily clad, anatomically unfeasible presentation of two of its female characters.
It introduces a welcome, fresh strategic element to what could otherwise have felt overfamiliar. The game divides its battlefields into areas, giving characters close-up and ranged special attacks that can be applied to a single enemy, or several. Luffy has a body made from rubber, so he can launch barrages of punches on distant enemies, or extend an arm to reach inaccessible areas, or catapult enemies across the battlefield.
This narrative conveniently allows you to build up your characters from scratch, shaping them to a large extent, and one of One Piece Odyssey’s strengths is that the characters’ signature abilities feed into both battling and puzzle-solving. Swiftly realising that Luffy and co aren’t like other pirates (they’re too nice, for one thing), she then helps them to regain those powers via epic quests set in recognisable places from the One Piece canon, reconstructed from the crew’s memories. Main character Luffy and his motley band of Straw Hat Pirates are marooned on the mysterious island Waford, deprived of their powers by local resident Lim. Story-wise, in keeping with the comics, it’s bonkers.
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