The "open" world of Odyssey (I'll come back to this later) is explored by talking to characters, doing generic quests like "defeat a specific enemy" or "collect a specific number of items" and grinding enemies in turn-based combat with a scheme of options that has been in place since the first Dragon Quest: Attack, Use Skill, Use Item, or group options menu. And now we come to One Piece Odyssey, a completely original instalment with Oda-san's hand behind the design of two of the new main characters and the shaping of their story as the franchise celebrates 25 years. Luffy's crew, others like One Piece: World Seeker failed miserably to deliver an experience that lived up to its name. And while less story-driven titles like the musou series One Piece: Pirate Warriors have managed to extract some of the essence of what it's like to be a member of Monkey D. The story of One Piece has not exactly translated well from the pages or the weekly episodes to the video games. In that time it has gone through different phases of varying quality in its story and animation, and I think that this idea can also be transferred to the video games adaptations of One Piece.
Eichiro Oda's magnum opus, a series about a boy who wants to become the new King of the Pirates, has been gluing me to the screen (and to a lesser extent, on the pages of the manga) for two decades now. Now, well into my thirties, there is only one anime series that I admit to following with any regularity: One Piece.
It's been more than 20 years of great stories, romances, fights and outlandish hairstyles with a whole range of themes, the result of the infinite ability of the creators to imagine whatever characters and plotlines that pop into their head. I have been watching Japanese animation since I was a pre-teen.
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