One Piece: World Seeker

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One Piece: World Seeker is an action-adventure game where you play as Monkey D. Luffy, the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, from a third person perspective. It is also the first open world title in the series. Having obtained all the base game achievements (I will be returning to the DLC at a later date) and amassing nearly 50 hours, I will be listing all the positives and negatives, so you can decide whether it will be worth your time.
Positives
+ An original story written by series creator Eiichiro Oda. It's nothing groundbreaking, so don't expect the same quality you get from the manga, but it's solid enough to keep you interested until you reach the end. There are two new characters and the villain is ok at best, but he isn't someone who stands out much.
+ Visually, the game is impressive. From the moment you land on the island, it instantly draws you in. The detail put into the landscape is great. Whether that be a town, city, plaza, naval base, forests, etc. The game does have flaws, but this isn't one. The cutscenes and cinematics all look quite sharp as well.
+ The map is big. It will take you a fair bit of time to discover and explore everything. You will unlock the use of fast travel later on, but uncovering the map is a fun experience. The island easily feels like something that would fit into the One Piece universe. The wanted posters from the show of the crew and other characters you can find I thought were a nice touch.
+ There are various skills you can unlock for Luffy through gaining XP from defeating enemies and completing missions. To be precise, six different skill trees are present for you to upgrade. Combat will come across as slow at the start, but this will open up in due time as you get to use a number of abilities.
+ The Japanese voice actors reprise their roles from their characters in the anime and do an excellent job as you expect.
+ The story is a suitable length, and that's not taking into account all the sidequests, collectibles, upgrades and working on achievements (if you care). Basically, you will have to put in a considerable number of hours if you want to get everything. There's normally something to do so you won't get bored.
+ Photo mode allows you to set filters and tweak the appearance settings of pictures in order to take your favourite screenshot. As someone who takes a ton of screenshots of games, a small feature like this goes a long way for me. Just try not to take them all of Nami and Robin if you can help it.
+ The equipment system enables you to use materials found across the island to craft gear and boost your different styles and customise your own playstyle as you see fit. For example, focus more on observation haki over armament haki or vice versa. You can even upgrade the same equipment more than once to get a superior version, but it's not always guaranteed.
+ You can collect outfits from arcs of the series and films and then have Luffy change into them at the Thousand Sunny.
Negatives
- Combat can become somewhat repetitive. Later on in the game, you'll most likely find yourself repeating the same move over and over in battles just to get rid of the enemies faster.
- Stealth combat is badly executed. You'll be able to take one target out unaware, but more often than not, groups are so close to one another, they will be alerted straight afterward.
- The sniper enemy types can be frustrating beyond belief. One of the most annoying parts about combat in this game is when you get shot backwards, and you lose control of your character for a few seconds. I stuck to normal difficulty throughout my game and thought it was challenging enough, but I can only imagine how horrendous they are on the three higher difficulties. Yes, you read that right. There's hard, very hard and extreme. I wouldn't advise you to go on those, however, but you do you.
- Too many of the missions have you doing the same task. Speak to someone - Go to a location - Beat up some pirates or sailors - Head back. They could have freshened it up a little.
- The music could have been much better. It sounded generic and sometimes similar. Whether I was in a town, city, or in battle. It was more of the same. Not awful, but not memorable.
- Besides the DLC with Law, Sabo and Zoro, you only play as Luffy. It would have been cool to have seen some missions played out as other straw hats rather than simply only talking to them as an NPC. Even if they weren't fleshed out with abilities.
- You can't explore the Thousand Sunny fully! Ok, this is a minor gripe, but I would have liked to have seen the inside of the ship. Maybe place some Easter eggs in there from the anime.
- The game can stutter and lag in places. Perhaps this was down to my own PC. It wasn't often, and you might have to play around with the screen and graphic settings more than once.
- Remember to manually save frequently! The game only autosaves after important story events. I learned the hard way once, that if you die, you lose all progress. Materials gathered, skills unlocked, chests opened, you name it. It was a killer. Don't always rely on autosave. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Conclusion
Is this the perfect One Piece game? It isn't by a long shot, but do I regret my time with it? Absolutely not. Despite the setbacks it has, if you are into One Piece, there's a strong chance you will become immersed in this game as I was and get hooked. I plan to return in the near future and complete the DLC so I can reach 100%. Far as an open world One Piece game goes, you won't find much better. I do want to try Odyssey out, but as an avid One Piece fan, I can do nothing but highly recommend this. I would suggest you buy it on sale. I wouldn't pay more than £20, and it was under £10 when I bought it. Thank you for reading my review!

Pros:
> Straw Hat Gang
> You get to play as Law
> Decent Story
> You get to play as Law
> Game truly feels like a one piece arc in the anime
> You get to play as Law
> Easy but fun combat
> You get to play as Law
> Dialogue you can expect of the straw hats
> Did I mention Law?
Cons:
> Gum-Gum Seastone bullet interruption!
> Zoro gets lost in weird places man (anime accurate but still)

I can't stress how good of a game this is.
If you love One Piece this game is for you, I 100%'d Burning Blood, Pirate Warriors 4, and started Odyssey and this one is the BEST by far.
I really hope there is a sequel or at least a very similar style game because it is phenomenal.
Edit: I would still recommend getting it on sale, $60 is not a fair price for any game to be honest.

Reasonably fun game despite being 5 years old now:
Played without the DLCs. Pretty fun game overall. The movement mechanics seems a little odd at times, but once you get used to it, it doesn't feel so awkward. A lot of side missions that are not required for main story but good to do for raising "Karma" points with certain characters to alter in-game events. Also there are some end-game content that is pretty fun as well, and worth exploring and playing for after completing the main game. The game generates an easy-to-access save game keeping everything including stats at a point late in the game that allows you to get all side quests. Getting to the end twice, I managed to get a slightly different ending after getting all 100% Karma and finishing with all side-quests finished, so that's notable as well. The game is 5 years old now, feels overall like it's aging quite well. I have obtained all-but-one achievements in the main game without DLCs, with that final one just taking some real-time waiting. So I will be going in every day for the next few days just to wrap that up. The audio and animated sequences are great though brief. I only wish there were more animated sequences and that all of the lines are voiced. Nevertheless, reasonable fun especially at the current low sale price.
Just a few quick thoughts, and not a standard review.

From 34 hours of Gameplay the combat is pretty great, no where near as good as a musou title like OPPW3 or OPPW4 but still fun. The story is excellent feeling just like a filler arc where the characters and environment go through development and the moves are easy to understand and there is lots to choose from. One of the main combat elements is by pressing RT for Gomu-Gomu-Pistol which shoots almost like a gun with a dot for aim appearing in the centre. Although i always use armament mode, observation looks as it has some pretty cool looking moves as armament goes for slower hard hitting moves like Bazooka whole Observation uses fast weaker hitting moves like gattling. The game has a pretty drastic difficulty curve but making sure you level up stats that help in combat will help a lot, i have learned to BLOCK at any given chance. Gear 4 is one of the highlights as it prevents you from taking damage allowing you to enter an invincible state, do not understand all the negative critisism the game receives as its very fun especially when looking at the disaster of Unlimited world Red.
The game has 3 major story DLC. One for Zoro, Sabo, and Law. I have currently only played Zoro's Campaign and honestly it is very fun, it events line up with the main story so make sure to play that first. Zoro has an entire new skill tree being able to use some of his iconic moves. Gomu-Gomu-Pistol is Replaced with 360 Caliber Phoenix however this move goes way slower then luffy's however has less range. Zoro can enter serious mode which is similar to gear 4 in the sense he does not take damage.

this game is the best one piece open world game i can find and i like how it has a different story to the normal one piece story the graphics are amazing

combat is ass, story is slow, missions are EVERYWHERE but namis honkers are big