Licensed anime games are no strangers to plot points that lean heavily into the source material, but with One Piece Odyssey sporting its own original story, it's perhaps a surprise to hear that it'll also be delving into Luffy and his crew's past.
The upcoming RPG primarily takes place on an entirely new island named Waford, but the Straw Hats will have to explore memories of their prior adventures in order to reclaim their abilities. The press release reads: "The Straw Hats visit their own memories to recover their powers with the help of Lim’s strange powers." Lim being an original character created for the game.
It could be a fairly interesting twist on your standard RPG formula, in which party members start out weak but eventually grow strong over the course of their escapades. Obviously, the Straw Hats are already powerful pirates by the time this game takes place, so these 'memories' are presumably a way to sell a sense of progression.
Anyway, you can take a trip back to the desert kingdom of Alabasta in the title's new trailer. One Piece Odyssey continues to show promise, and its release isn't too far off. It arrives on both PS5 and PS4 on the 13th January, 2023.
Are you ready to set sail with Luffy and the gang? Reclaim your own powers in the comments section below.
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Hasn't that been the main mechanic in metroidvania type games for decades now? Something dumb happens at start of game, lose all abilities and powers, adventure to reclaim.
Turn-Based jRPG... New One Piece original story... Eiichiro Oda art in 4K.
Day 1.
Definitely getting this. One Piece is perfect for an RPG and it's great to see it be turn-based rather than an RPG lite button masher.
So will I still need to watch the anime to understand this game? Or not?
@UltimateOtaku91 I doubt it. Don’t think even the devs would expect you to. The anime & manga are over 1000 chapters/episodes long & they still have like 1/3 of the story left to tell.
Also this has its own original story so all you might need is to have a read of a character synopsis for the straw hats if it’s not in game. Also the flash back missions would probably introduce you to the characters anyways.
Never seen or played anything One Piece before but this is the first jrpg I have been excited for in ages!
Happy for the refresher since I stopped around 200 episodes in over 10 years ago.
Also, don't change it because then I'll just feel like an "ackshually" guy, but it's officially Arabasta now. Just like Raftel is Laugh Tale. I prefer what we thought it was before.
Looks like DQXI, but based on One Piece.
DAY ONEEE BOIIII!
@Matroska Yea after the reveal that the island was called "laugh tale" I get the sinking feeling we might get some "moral" ending to the series.
Revisiting previous locations is nothing new for One Piece games, but I gotta give credit for how in depth this is. Cannot wait to play this game, and fingers crossed we revisit Water 7/Enies Lobby and we get some nice friendship moments with Usopp, Robin and Luffy considering how heavy that arc was for all 3 of them.
On an unrelated note, booked me and my friends tickets for One Piece Film Red next month, cannot wait!
Still not fussed about turn based but boi do I hope this turns out for the better
@Sakisa enjoy the movie.
This is actually great, I was worried whether or not there'd be any towns in this game 🙀
@Sakisa @MUG3NHC @Matroska @Agramonte This won't be a day 1 buy for me, but def exited to play this!
Love One Piece, still catching up on the series (recently started Fishman Island for the first time).
@KidBoruto
Wow, you in for a lot of great stuff
It is interesting to see how the art changes in different interpretations of his art as years go by. like going from the old Anime to the more recent Movies
I can understand that... tons of games out in that time. Turn Based jRPGs are one of my favorite types of games. So usually move them up the list
@Agramonte Oh so I've been told haha! I took too long of a break from watching the anime though, so I started re-watching from the very beginning.
Sadly then Funimation started to Merge with CrunchyRoll and they told everyone to cancel and switch over.
So I did...but yet they still haven't transferred over the english dub (I only watch an anime subbed if a dub doesn't exist).
So now I'm stuck unless I cave in and re-sub to Funimation just to resume watching.
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