This is kind of a dud. The 'original story' is just a generic overarching plot that exists to give a reason to have you re-experienced some prominent arcs from the manga/anime. Really all the One Piece games with an original narrative do this and it gets a little grating. Like, if you want to play the hits, just do that! Gimme a One Piece: Luffarot or something, I dunno.

Gameplay here is pretty dull too. But if you're into One Piece, it's always nice to spend some time with the Strawhats. Even if it's in a package of mediocrity.

One piece unlimited world red, though flawed, is a fun action game that will appeal to anyone that likes one piece. The games main issue is that it expects you to enter all of its levels numerous times in order to collect resources to build up the town which serves as your hub world, however all of the levels are extremely linear in design and would work much better if you only had to visit them once. Still every level is quite a treat to play through on your first time and you'll see and fight many familiar faces from the manga. The game's combat is very simple and somewhat mindless, but still fun, however suffers during boss fights due to a lack of readability of the enemies attack patterns, especially on the tiny 3DS screen. Definitely the strongest part of the game is its story. Though it doesn't quite hold up when compared to something you could actually find in one piece, it was written by Oda himself and has some fun character interactions, a great villain, and a very sweet ending. Overall i enjoyed one piece: unlimited world red a lot despite its issues.