Sometimes it looks like everybody and their canine is leaping on the open-world bandwagon, however pairing the free-wheeling cartoon pirate adventures of One Piece with a world that allows you to bounce, swing and spin your manner freely from battle to battle looks like a savvy name.
Enter One Piece: World Seeker, studio Ganbarion’s ambitious-looking undertaking to pull the long-running anime and manga franchise into fashionable gaming relevance. Within, we’ve acquired a bit of little bit of (subtitled, assuming you activate captions) chatter from director Koji Nakajima, interspersed with a couple of moments of intriguing gameplay footage.
More than something, the snippets of gameplay above remind me of the higher Spider-Man video games. Luffy’s stretchy rubber-based powers give him a broadly comparable suite of skills to Peter Parker, albeit wrapped in a really totally different aesthetic. The finish result’s largely the identical, although, permitting for some high-flying feats of agility mixed with unarmed fight that stretches properly past what you’d consider as conventional melee vary.
Whether it was their specific intent at the beginning of growth or not, Bandai-Namco might need inadvertently give you the subsequent huge superhero recreation, a style that feels surprisingly underserved regardless of the explosion of Marvel films. It helps that Luffy’s bare-handed and eccentric preventing model signifies that there’s going to be little to no capturing or stabbing happening, relieving you of the ethical qualms usually related to beating down a dozen expendable goons. Batman he’s not.
Visually, the factor that strikes me probably the most is how clearly outlined the principle characters are from the backdrops. While the skies and seas and gorgeously blue and clear, the paths and chateau partitions proven are rendered in a barely muted palette, permitting the principle characters and their primary-coloured outfits to face out, nearly as in the event that they’re animated cels being laid over a static backdrop.
While there’s no launch date on it but, Bandai-Namco hope to launch One Piece: World Seeker someday this 12 months, with a deliberate RRP of $60. The English model will see a multi-platform launch, together with PC, though the unfortunate few Japanese avid gamers are due for some disappointment; in One Piece’s house territory, World Seeker is ready to be a PS4 unique.
