Cairo Cairo!
Sueña!
No pararás Luffy
Sueña!
No pararás Zoro
Sueña!
No pararás Nami
Sueña!
No rindas
Mucho más, mucho más, mucho más
mucho más, mucho más

Es como la historia comenzará
En la Gran Línea hay un
tesoro por encontrar
El pirata que pondrá los ojos en él
Será el Rey de los Piratas
Él será el Rey

Cairo Cairo Cairo oh-oh!
Su nombre es Luffy
Es Monkey D.Luffy
Y será el Rey de Piratas
Está hecho de liga
Yo-ho-ho Gum-Gum comió
Cairo Cairo!

Su nombre es Zoro, es como un samurai
Ella es Nami, y llena atrás no quedará
El grupo de piratas que ven aquí
Logrará lo que sea
con su nuevo rey

Cairo Cairo Cairo oh-oh!
Listos a One Piece a buscar el
Tesoro en la Gran Línea
Cairo Cairo!
Todos por One Piece!

Foul, foul little game. Barely even a Warriors title.

If QTEs, linear hallways with no real objectives, poorly animated cutscenes that're inferior to some original SFM animations and half-baked rosters are your thing, wire in.

Not for me, though.

I'm frankly amazed this is even considered a musou, it's even more juvenile and underbaked than DW2. This is, at the time of posting, the worst game I've played during the musou marathon.

They tried really hard to make this musou not a musou and it came out better than you'd think but worse than you'd hope. Story Mode has the best combat in a licensed musou yet, and a stellar artstyle that perfectly reflects the manga, but is even tighter and more linear than FOTNS, being a corridor to square to corridor affair that boils down to a lot of mashing buttons against waves of enemies. It's broken up with some Zelda style platforming which is cute at first but after a few stages just gets dire and boring. This is definitely the most cinematic game Omega Force has made yet, with some great cutscenes and super fun quick time events recreating moments from the show, so it might be worth a peep on youtube for that alone. Another Episode makes the game play more like a traditional musou, but at that point there's really no reason to play this over 3 unless you have squeezed every drop out of that game and 2

The first Pirate Warriors game is not really any surprising, as much as it is of a novelty of a full fledged "Warriors" game in the One Piece universe, this one actually manages to use a minimal part of the content from the actual series, and what it does accomplish it does it with frame rates below 30 FPS which makes this game pretty unbearable at times.

Half-assed platforming mechanics, pretty barebones combat system and level progression and a pretty dumb collectible system plagued with RNG making the platinum reeeeeally time consuming to get (I stopped at around the 26 hour mark, but seeing others—mostly trophy hunters—sink in hundreds of hours just doesn't really sit right well with me when I want to move on to other games)

It's just not really all that good? It's kinda like paying for a half-finished product, even though it takes place in the pre-timeskip part of One Piece, you really don't get to see much more besides the main crew and the extra characters that show up in the later stages, something that is fixed in the later games but having so much content in around 600 chapters just for them to use just a few was pretty underwhelming.

One day I'll come back and try to get that platinum but I'm pretty burnt out from this game already, and I'm riddled with actual things to do in the daily so, not anytime soon.

Pretty faithful retelling of the story up until the 2 year time skip. While the platforming in the main log is a unique gimmick in this title, I can't say I really enjoyed it and felt like it detracted from the experience. The game is at it's peak with the other logs that allow you to play as the other characters and annihilate hundreds of enemies in one level. It does get repetitve too, but thats most likely the case with every Warriors game. One Piece fans will most likely enjoy it, but there are definitely better Warriors titles out there.

I think Pirate Warriors is one of the better Musou spin-off series for several reasons, but most of them weren’t realized until the sequel. The main story only has a handful of levels with traditional Musou gameplay, with most of it spent in inoffensive but dull linear levels filled with QTEs. I’m going to assume this was done in an attempt to retell One Piece’s story in a more cinematic manner, but as Pirate Warriors 3 proved, you can retell most of the arcs in a fairly faithful but fun manner using the Musou formula. It feels like the game is almost ashamed at times to be a Musou and does whatever it can to distance itself from the structure, but what we get is even more bland because that’s just not what the dev team specializes in.

The Musou levels we did get, mostly contained in the character side stories, are much more enjoyable. Pirate Warriors has always contained some of the wildest and most diverse movesets in any Musou game ever, from Luffy’s wide AOE attacks using his rubber body, to Nami tactically setting up thunderclouds on the field to trigger a hellstorm, to Hancock being able to turn certain enemy officers to stone and deliver tag-team combos with her pet snake. It’s all some very creative implementations of these characters’ powers and no two warriors feel the same, which is a pretty rare claim to make in Musou. Unfortunately there’s not many stages and nothing to do except grind after clearing them, an unfortunate effect of so much of the production value being pushed on the lackluster main story. I’m really glad that the sequels focused more on actual Musou gameplay and expanded on what worked in this one.