Plunder you find on your adventures, plus a little money, can be used to redevelop the town that serves as the hub for all of your adventuring. Ganbarion have also included a town-building metagame to sink your teeth into. The latter are basically buffs you can assign to a character, boosting attack or a particular resistance. It’s imaginative to say the least. There’s also a levelling system and “power words”.
At one point a dragon casually appears, which Luffy attacks for something to eat (because he’s just badass) while at another point a mad scientist has created a giant jam monster.
Boss battles dial things up a notch, too. There’re the standard goons, alongside some knight-type guys and, for some reason, a race of desert-dwelling seals, to name but a few. There’s a plethora of baddies to beat up as well.
This triggers a short attack animation and most enemies just disappear. It feels like you’re playing an anime cartoon.Īs you fight you’ll build an SP bar that allows you to unleash a special attack by pressing R1 and a face button, either by yourself or with all three characters. does a good job of managing them, and battles become chaotic, enemies flying across the screen, your three heroes’ focal points drawing opponents in and then knocking them away. When you’re not directly controlling them the A.I. Luffy uses his elasticated body to bounce around a battle, while the shipwright Franky can lay down a turret for other characters to use. You’ve got two attacks, mapped to square and triangle, which can be combined in combos and with a jump to defeat your enemies, and while this may sound sparse, the ability to swap between two other party members – chosen before you leave the central town – means you never get bored. The cast is varied and great.Īll of which is tied to a really satisfying combat system. All are a little bit silly, but you have the big, hulking idiot, the more serious samurai, the giant talking squirrel. Perhaps as a legacy of the volume of content to draw upon, each character has a unique personality. This should matter, it really should, yet somehow it doesn’t.
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Introduction to each character amounts to a few lines of text that flash briefly during the opening cutscene, and with several anime seasons alongside a staggering 35 other games in the series you can understand why – Ganbarion expects you to know who is who. And that’s the first barrier to entry: you’re very aware Unlimited World Red is part of a wider series. Luffy, Captain of the Straw Hats, sets off to save them from the clutches of what I’m assuming are series regular villains – he seems to recognise most of them anyway. The adventure starts when the Straw Hat pirates spot an island, set off to explore it and are instantly kidnapped. I have no idea what is going on with One Piece Unlimited World Red. Overall it's a playable game and enjoyable, but hampered by not having more content to get the most out of it.Oh Japan, you be so crazy. The fact that it isn't fully voice acted during in-game conversations, with the characters awkwardly pantomiming, was also a sticking point with a minor grumble of not having a English dub either (But then again that's nothing new since Funimation rarely does these outside the shows). Combat was also cited to be too simplistic and not have many options because of this (Luffy doesn't have Gear 2nd moves for some reason and Gear 4th variations like Snake-Man are relegated to a one and done use when you activate them) which can quickly lead to monotony. This was eventually mitigated with DLC releases, with the first featuring Zoro) and not really giving the player much to do to justify the open world design other then a few side quests that rarely have much variety. However it was likewise chided for having Luffy be the only playable character (Especially since other games like Unlimited Adventure, Unlimited Cruise and Unlimited World : Red let you play as the other Straw Hats.
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