And the right gear can help you immensely in your fights. And you can also make consumable items to heal yourself, revive a fallen foe, etc.īoss fights will test your mettle much more than the regular mobs. In fact, gear plays a pretty big part in the game and let’s you customize your characters in wacky ways. You can then use these items to make new gear that will give you stat bonuses. The game also has an item creation system that allows you to combine various ingredients to make brand new items. And during certain parts, the game goes into Grand Stream Action mode and you’ll be running along and must make split-second decisions to dodge enemies or time-based attacks to break through barriers. If you’re fast enough, you can dodge them entirely and proceed deeper into the level. Of course, you don't have to fight the enemies at all. Aside from attacking, you can guard, run, or do special moves like Luffy’s Gear, which unlocks a more powerful move set for the next turn, or Chopper’s Emergency Surgery, where he heals the whole group. You can do so by doing regular attacks on enemies. To pull off the super moves, you’ll have to charge up your Tension Points. According to the Namco PR lady, these were random and not based on any specific set of circumstances. And sometimes, after special attacks you can do a Grand Chain and do even more damage. When I was playing Luffy, I was able to pull off a few attacks on each enemy. Not only will they take more damage, they’ll be more likely to drop treasure.Įach move in battle, you have a limited amount of Attack Points that determine how many attacks you can use. This has tactical advantages, because you can line up enemies and knock them into each other and off of walls nearby to increase damage. The battle system is a turn-based free-roaming hybrid that allows you to position yourself in the battlefield, before you choose your move. In these playable areas, you’ll be fighting a lot of bad guys. But on some levels, you'll get to choose which members to take with you, or even switch them out during the level. It might just be one character, or a whole group. I have to say, it’s kind of adorable.įor the most part, when you land on a playable area, you’ll get to play as crew members specific to that part of the story. You travel from place to place in a little Going Merry. The world is represented by a giant map, with little structures on each island to represent what it is. Places with red dots are optional and will help you level up your characters. Areas with green dots are story only, and you’ll get to watch anime clips or characters act out the scenes. For instance, ports with yellow dots are story-based levels you can play through. The areas are color coded to tell you what you can do there.
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You’ll be able to stop along the way at all the main locales from the story, plus some new extra areas. The game starts in Luffy’s hometown of Windmill Village and goes all the way to the Marineford. They popped by Shonen Jump headquarters and let me give it a go. It’s an RPG for the 3DS that is scheduled to get a physical boxed release February 11th. Namco Bandai has been making SJ fans’ dreams come true with all the games they’ve brought stateside, and they’re not done yet! One of the more interesting games they’ve got on the horizon is One Piece: Romance Dawn.