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One Piece: World Seeker Reviews Thread
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I just don't understand how a massive franchise such as One Piece just can't get a truly good action/adventure-title. Surely the audience is big enough to warrant a larger budget?
Not really. In an open world game like this, it will always be more wise to attempt to go all out with the moveset of one character as opposed to the entire Strawhat crew. It's something I'd like to see them improve on moving forward, there are other games (as well as other, much better suited genres for them to consider for future games) one could play to get if they want to play as other members of the crew.
Though I do get the argument that if it was going to be a middling experience regardless, that one would prefer it to be a middling experience where they get to play as everyone lol
Nah, people have been wanting an open world OP game for ages. That won't change just because World Seeker, the first attempt, didn't turn out to be people's dream game. Just need better developers/higher budget behind it next time around.
i remember when i was really curious about this big ambitious game for the 20th anniversary..and it ended up being this one...
nowadays an "anime game" has to appeal to the west and on this side onepiece it's way behind properties like naruto, dragonball..even bleach and my hero academia have probably more western fans than onepiece at this point.
because it's truly massive only on japan and japan stopped being a relevant market years ago.
nowadays an "anime game" has to appeal to the west and on this side onepiece it's way behind properties like naruto, dragonball..even bleach and my hero academia have probably more western fans than onepiece at this point.
This being open world was probably an attempt to grab more people than the fans.
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Ouch. Last One Piece game I bought was Unlimited World Red and when I saw that this game was made by the same developers, I knew it wasn't going to be good. Hell at least in Unlimited World Red you can play as characters other than Luffy. One Piece deserves better than this.
Hero Academia isn't a surprise. It's the biggest Jump franchise to hit as hard as Naruto did in the early 2000's. Bleach though? Absolutely not. One Piece volumes are still getting published in English, the anime still has an on going dub, and has as much useless merchandise as other Jump series. Saying the west doesn't care about One Piece is extremely dumb.
This game is crappy! Just played a couple of hours of it.
-A large circle on the map that I have to run around looking for the next quest trigger. Not my idea of fun. Give me a hint (landmark, etc) if you want me to look for it or just give me a dot on the map like most open world games.
-Combat feels slow, unresponsive and weirdly balanced. Grunts are quick to die and their melee attacks don't do much damage but the guns hit way too hard. The dodge doesn't mesh well with the combos. The IGN review was right, it would be nice to be able to cancel into it.
-A lot of QOL shit is baked into the skill tree (and expensive to boot!) Treasure chests take like 5 second to open and you have to buy a skill to unlock a faster open? Fuck off!
-The jump is too fast and too low. Feels terrible. That ruins the hover ability to a degree as you can't get enough air to use it in a way that feels good. Sure, you can use it off the rocket jump but why didn't they make the standard jump higher and floatier?
-Side quests are all fetch quests so far. Get 3 shells, get 5 berries, etc.
Lots of negatives and not many positives from what I've played so far. I need something to keep me occupied till Sekiro so I'll probably hold on to it for the time being but I'm disappointed that it doesn't feel nicer to play. The flow of the gameplay isn't as smooth as it feels like it should be. It feels herky-jerky.
-A large circle on the map that I have to run around looking for the next quest trigger. Not my idea of fun. Give me a hint (landmark, etc) if you want me to look for it or just give me a dot on the map like most open world games.
-Combat feels slow, unresponsive and weirdly balanced. Grunts are quick to die and their melee attacks don't do much damage but the guns hit way too hard. The dodge doesn't mesh well with the combos. The IGN review was right, it would be nice to be able to cancel into it.
-A lot of QOL shit is baked into the skill tree (and expensive to boot!) Treasure chests take like 5 second to open and you have to buy a skill to unlock a faster open? Fuck off!
-The jump is too fast and too low. Feels terrible. That ruins the hover ability to a degree as you can't get enough air to use it in a way that feels good. Sure, you can use it off the rocket jump but why didn't they make the standard jump higher and floatier?
-Side quests are all fetch quests so far. Get 3 shells, get 5 berries, etc.
Lots of negatives and not many positives from what I've played so far. I need something to keep me occupied till Sekiro so I'll probably hold on to it for the time being but I'm disappointed that it doesn't feel nicer to play. The flow of the gameplay isn't as smooth as it feels like it should be. It feels herky-jerky.
i didn't say that the west doesn't care about onepiece, i said that it's massive only in japan, thus they are not gonna put the budget it would need for a great game on the table
Of course but the studios behind those games are just not talented enough.
lol what ? it's the best seller in France by far which is the second biggest market after Japan in mangas/anime lol...
This one passed me by but man its on the list. May cover it in the International Gaming Podcast instead of a review
I'll have to subscribe to that, thanks! Your like my go to person for any reviews since you always align well within mine, so how you feel is usually how I'll feel.
Not sure you should be bragging to us about wasting a ton of time on shitty games.
Don't gaslight, it's rude. Gastino has nothing to do with Ceasar Clown.
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Pretty sure that his point was about how much fun he had with those games smh
I wasn't bragging? Fuck off?
Seriously
IDK When game get made but I will be dissapoint if he not appear in the game.
Since Story is focus on science in one piece world and Germa 66 have some role.
Unless Oda save him for something
I had this game for a few weeks but didn't have time to play it until today (launch day)... and I was... thoroughly surprised and enjoyed it more than I thought it would. Granted, for any games like these, you HAVE to be a fan to really enjoy it. I streamed it for a bit, so if you want to see some blind footage of it, check my archive here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/395732675
You instinctively would be making a triple a game for a single market AKA Japan. Which probably doesn't really make any sense
It's almost quite literally that game with a slightly bigger budget. Except the co op and playing as other strawhats are gone
Can't play as Zoro either which is far more important but I see your point.I keep seeing this it's for the fans rebuttal...and ok fine.. But I can't play as sanji so it ain't that either
This game looked ass from the jump though, I'm not shocked the reviews are middling.
BN puts out way too many of these anime games far too often for them to be very good. They always feel half baked like the devs had something but didn't quite reach the finish line
Ya, and it didn't stop them from being playable in Unlimited World Red.
No but I'm pretty sure that artwork has nothing to do with the final game, no one mentionned it after the reveal and enough people finished the story without talking about it.
It was criminal to hype us with this.
That wasn't open world and the levels were flat compared to the verticality of World Seeker.
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Having played through this, I can definitely attest that this is a garbage game, and this is coming from one of the biggest One Piece fans alive. Even though people were calling it to be trash (correctly) from the first trailer, I held out hope that it would actually be good but that hope is all gone. It's repetitive, boring, and downright lazy in it's design. About the only fun thing I enjoyed was using Gomu Gomu no Rocket to traverse the land, and the graphics are nice, but that's literally about it. Fighting gets boring quickly due to it literally being a one button attack system, minus ranged and special attacks. Fighting some of the big hitters of the One Piece world invokes none of the excitement it should, and feels like you're dealing with with standard fodder enemies, except in the case of downright annoying and cheap bosses like Kizaru on higher difficulty. Speaking of difficulty, most of the fodder pirates/marines are more of a threat than some of the bosses, and even worse, the difficulty spikes randomly after certain chapters, even though you'll be dealing with the same enemies. It's about as lazy as a way to implement difficulty increase with no logic behind it, and it's even worse on the higher difficulties.
Basically, even if you're a hardcore One Piece fan like myself, I'd just say stay away or wait until it's inevitably in the bargin bin... and even then, I'd say you''re actually better off with One Piece Unlimited World Red, at least that was entertaining and you could play as the other Straw Hat's.
Basically, even if you're a hardcore One Piece fan like myself, I'd just say stay away or wait until it's inevitably in the bargin bin... and even then, I'd say you''re actually better off with One Piece Unlimited World Red, at least that was entertaining and you could play as the other Straw Hat's.
Aside from the franchise's peak back in the early 2010s, One Piece games never sold especially well, even in Japan itself, for some reason compared to how successful the anime and manga are. Merchandising-wise too, One Piece is much smaller than what the tv ratings and manga volumes sales would indicate. For some reason, One Piece's audience just doesn't seem to be all that fond of spending in products outside of the series itself.
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