One Piece: Unlimited Adventure



One Piece: Unlimited Adventure （ワンピース：アンリミテッドアドベンチャー Wan Pīsu: Anrimiteddo Adobenchaa) is a video game for the Nintendo Wii video game console based on the anime/manga series One Piece. It has already been released in Japan on April 26, 2007 and in North America on January 22, 2008, but the release date for the European version has yet to be announced. The English version of the game uses the Funimation voice actors.

The Beginning
The story begins with Nami giving the rest of the crew new clothes she had made for them. While they are sailing, Luffy cries that there is no food, which Sanji says is impossible. Usopp then reminds Luffy that he, Luffy, and Chopper and eaten it all during an eating contest, resulting in a brutal beat-down upon the three from Nami, Zoro, and Sanji. Luffy and Chopper are forced to fish for food, while Usopp is on look-out duty for any islands they can use to restock. Instead of catching anything edible, Luffy fishes out what appears to be a blue orb, which no one pays any attention to. Luffy propels himself above the ship and wishes that an island would appear. To the crew's amazement, one does appear underneath the ship, causing the Thousand Sunny, the crew-members, as well as a few supplies, to scatter across the island.

The Plot
After falling from the sky, Luffy finds himself on an area of the island filled with grass, trees, waterfalls, ponds, with the ocean nearby. The supplies from the ship soon fall around him too, allowing him to set up a temporary camp (serving as the "hub" for the rest of the game). He begins his search for his crew-members, but seals have been placed on the island. Luffy discovers that the orb he found can break these seals, allowing him to explore the island. After rounding up his crew-mates, Robin finds a faded artifact that mentions "mankind's happiness", leading the crew to believe there is a treasure somewhere on the island. However, whenever they break a seal, a strange creature named Popora comes and tries to stop them.

They don't realize his motive until Robin finds an ancient script on a wall that details the things that were faded on the previous artifact. The crew learns that a great evil is sealed on the island, and that Popora has been guarding the seals for a thousand years. However, the Straw Hat's had already undone a great number of seals and they decide to continue breaking them so they can defeat the great evil and set Popora free from his duty.

Story Mode
A basic Adventure game with platforms, puzzles and item collecting. Story Mode features seven different large areas that the Straw Hats can explore: from jungles, to snow-capped mountains, to a series of underground tunnels. Each character has their own unique skill-set, and thus, their own unique way of fighting. The characters can explore the areas to further the plot, or to collect items to feed the orb, or to build things that can help the characters along the way (bridges, Perfect Clima-Tact, bombs, ect.).

You can also build things for the crew-members to use, such as a kitchen for Sanji, or compounding tools for Chopper. You can collect ingredients to make food to increase the stats of your characters, or medicine to heal them during battle. As a side-quest, Usopp can build a net and a fishing rod so that you can catch different creatures on the island.

Vs. Mode
Play as any of the over 40 characters you meet throughout the game(including basic enemies and final boss) in a battle mode. Play either Survival mode to see if you how fast you can clear 200 enemies of all types, or fight against a computer or a friend in a basic battle.

Main Playable characters

 * Monkey D. Luffy
 * Roronoa Zoro
 * Nami
 * Usopp
 * Sanji
 * Tony Tony Chopper
 * Nico Robin
 * Franky

Unlockable Characters
These characters can only be used in Vs. Mode and Survival Mode:
 * Smoker
 * Mihawk
 * Don Krieg
 * Kaku
 * Spandam
 * Eneru
 * Arlong
 * Crocodile
 * Portgas D. Ace
 * Red-Haired Shanks
 * Rob Lucci
 * Rob Lucci: Model Leopard
 * Aokiji
 * Mr. 2 Bon Kurei°
 * Nefertari Vivi°
 * Paulie°
 * Calgara°
 * Whitebeard°

These characters can only be used in Vs. Mode:
 * Popora
 * Evil Guardian
 * Evil Master Beast
 * Various Marines and Pirates
 * Ancient soldiers native to the island of the game
 * Captains of the soldiers (some of which have attacks that symbolize)
 * Gin
 * Captain Morgan
 * Miss Goldenweek
 * Pearl
 * Captain Kuro
 * Wiper
 * Bellamy
 * Igaram
 * Rocket Man

° Optional bosses who have no real part in the story.

Story's Characters

 * Popora: a bunny like Guardian of the island. Most of the game he is only a plot device to show the character's, the island's, and his own past. In the mid-point of the game Popora becomes an unplayable ally.


 * Popora's Creator: An old man who created Popora out of clay. He wanted the island to be a paradise for Popora. His backstory along with Popora's is very similar to Tony Tony Chopper's past.


 * The Evil Guardian (魔人, Majin): The Evil Guardian, also known as "Evil Master Beast" in its final form, is the great evil that plagues the island. The seals on the island were made to keep this beast from destroying the island (and possibly the world). All of its attacks are borrowed from the stronger enemies the Straw Hat Pirates have faced, including Crocodile, Don Krieg, Aokiji, and Enel.


 * Ancient Soldiers: The underlings of The Great Evil Guardian, they also borrow their attacks from the underlings and weaker characters that the Straw Hat Pirates have met. These enemies start to appear after the Ruin's seals are broken.

Items
Orb: used to unlock seals on the island

Pick Axe: used to dig and to break rocks

Net: used to catch various creatures on the island

Fishing Rod: used to catch fish on the island

Dub Related
Although the production and localization rights have changed hands from 4Kids to Funimation, several edits that have appeared in games overseen by 4Kids (possibly as the change of hands was in the middle of development) have been carried over such as:


 * The Marines' uniform shirts have been edited to the 'Navy' version of the uniforms. though notably the kanji for "Justice" (正義 Seigi) was not edited off the high ranking Marines nor Smoker.
 * Another edit is Mihawk's giant sword, which sports a shorter hilt to appear less cross-shaped as well as his cross necklace, which has had the sides chopped off, to eliminate the religious symbolism of a cross. This is likely due to Nintendo of America's strict rules against religion and profanity in their games.

Family Audience
Namco Bandai, who ported the game to English, released official CG models and screenshots for the game on their Flickr account. Among such files was the model for the character Smoker going by "Chaser" in the filename and mouseover. The model had been edited from the Japanese version to remove the cigars from the character's mouth. Upon receiving an email from a user from Arlong Park forums concerning the change, Namco Bandai confirmed to the user that they would be aiming for a "family audience". Thusly, the character's name would be changed to the 4Kids and edited Funimation dub name "Chaser". As of November 28, 2007, it was confirmed in preview videos posted by IGN that Smoker will be called Smoker in the game, but the cigars in his mouth are still missing.

Although Namco Bandai wanted the game to be geared towards a "family audience", it does have a handful of questionable lines, such as Luffy telling Smoker, "I'm going to kick your ass".

Censorship of Franky
On the American version of the boxart, Franky is absent as it would appear they didn't wish to spoil him joining. However he appears in the booklet (along with mostly crewmembers), he also appears in the pre-playing scene and throughout the game forwards of that. The game also starts with the crew on the Thousand Sunny.

Another slight edit that was made was in Franky's joining flashback. In the Japanese version his naked butt is clearly seen, but in the American version a plank was edited sticking up from some of the spare parts around him to censor him. But it was still implied that he was indeed naked, as Sanji states "Ugh.. Franky! You're not wearing any underwear again!", followed by Luffy throwing Franky's speedos to him.

Games Notes

 * The game is renowned for becoming slow when loading once 4 characters are available to play.
 * Aside from Shanks, Whitebeard and several other characters are featured despite actually a lack of fighting style being shown for those characters (at this point Shanks and Whitebeard both have only thrown one strike each). This is not the first time in the series this has happened. For example, Grand Battle! and its sequels also featured characters which had not actually fought during the series. i.e Shanks (who at that point hadn't fought at all).


 * Each character has a level, similar to a tier list. The higher the number, the stronger the character (however it should be noted that is non-canon and not an accurate measure of the character actual strength). In vs mode, when choosing a team, the team's level must be at the most 8 or 15, depending on which mode you choose.
 * If you fight a boss which has a real part in the game (like Portgas D. Ace, Red Haired Shanks, Mihawk and many others) before the the little introduction the boss has starts a flashback including the character will show up. However, if you battle an optional boss, (like Vivi, Calgara, or Whitebeard) there appears no flashback, but still have their presentation and the little conversation before the battle.
 * Zoro is clearly shown using Yubashiri even though the storyline takes place after the Enies Lobby Arc and Shuu had already destroyed it. This is because while the game is after the Enies Lobby Arc, it is still before the Thriller Bark Arc, therefore, Zoro had not yet taken Shuusui from Ryuuma.
 * Nami's Climatact is shown hanging from a bracelet on her leg, even when she uses it. This only applies to her normal outfit in the game.