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.

This game fucking blows until you unlock Aquila and Eryx then it becomes ok! I totally checked out on the plot tbh, but I liked the news anchor guy a lot. Made a really good level and fight. But this game just isn't DMC. Besides the blatant hatred for its source material, it's just not as fluid or complex or fun. I had no fun combos going except one projectile stun into SPIIIIIN with Aquila. That was fun, and I liked knocked people off the ground with Eryx and spiking them into pits. That was about it. Very happy this reboot attempt died.