Every One Piece game that isn't a musou just misses the mark so hard.

Remember all those bits from the manga where Luffy runs around collecting 2 Small Flowers and 6 Jewel Slugs so some no-name can make a brooch for you that adds +2 to agility? Fuck me.

It shouldnae feel this bad to traverse an open-world as a dude made of rubber. You can kinda Spider-Man zip to things, but it's so Start/Stop that you might as well just walk. There's an upgrade that lets you zip and soar for a bit and it feels great until the game decides you've moved far enough and drops you in place like a stone. The mid-air momentum just dies. Sounds like fun, eh?

Combat is shite too. No move-cancelling, so you're stuck in basic animations until it finishes and lets you press the dodge button. Enemies either do nothing while waiting to be punched, or constantly wail on you, no middle ground. Shots from guns knock you out of animations and onto the ground, so you need to wait 3 seconds for Luffy to stand back up. Also yer special moves like Red Hawk sometimes just miss because the game decided an enemy has i-frames. There's nothing fun about this.

Not even a massive OP fan like myself can put up with this. I quit to dashboard and immediately deleted it when I was asked to do a tailing mission on the Germa 66.

Reviewed on Aug 31, 2022


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