One Piece: Pirates Carnival

One Piece: Pirates' Carnival (パイレーツカーニバル Paireetsu Kaanibaru) was made for the Playstation 2 and Gamecube. It is a party game inspired by the popular One Piece anime. One Piece: Pirates' Carnival comprises over 30 different minigames, which support up to four players, and includes an Reversi-like board game mode in which winning minigames lets you take control of squares and recruit pirates for your ship's crew. The game was released on November 23, 2005 in Japan and on September 13, 2006 in the USA.

Gameplay
The main style of gameplay is the Board Game, which features a massive gameboard consisting of dozens of panels. The objective of the game is to have as much money as possible when every tile belongs to a player. Each player has two varieties of money - the money earned from winning a minigame and the money earned from simply owning a panel. Note that while the latter is easily increased (and just as easily decreased), only three effects in the entire game can affect the former.

Each of the four players take turns uncovering panels around the gameboard; who goes first is determined by a minigame at the beginning that takes place at the center panel. While at the beginning, players can only uncover panels that are close to the central one, as the game goes on, more panels may be uncovered. A panel owned by a player is marked by being bordered with the player's colors; if the color is gray, then nobody owns it and anyone can select it.

Panels
There are three types of panels on the gameboard:

Event: These panels, when uncovered, results in the player who uncovered them immediately gaining ownership of them. All event panels have some sort of effect, from increasing/decreasing the player's money to gaining ownership of a panel that an opponent owns.

Mini-Game: These panels, when uncovered, list a trio of minigames, one of which the player that uncovered it chooses to engage in with all the other players. The winner of the minigame gains ownership of the panel.

Captain: These panels, when uncovered, result in a special minigame where the player who uncovers them plays as the captain of the game, and follows different rules than all the other players. If the captain wins, the player who uncovered the panel earns ownership of it, while if one of the other players win, they gain ownership of it. Note that captain panels are always found in pairs, and that if a player gains ownership of one, the other is also revealed and brought under ownership of him/her. Similarly, captain panels also change ownership/get destroyed/get frozen in unison.

Note that if two panels of the same color are in line with one another, all uncovered panels between them with different colors switch to the color of the two panels on the edges, and are brought under ownership of the player with the color.

Trivia

 * The opening sequence in the game was heavily edited for the English dub. In the frames where Franky and the Franky Family were seen, it was replaced by in game screen pans of Buggy the Clown, Mohji and Cabaji. Blackbeard, Eneru, and The Foxy Pirates' screentime in the opening were also removed for gameplay footage. In one of the final segments, where it showed a group of characters, Wiper and Bellamy were replaced by Crocodile and Mr. 2, and Porche of the Foxy Pirates was replaced by Captain Hina.
 * Though they were cut from the opening, for some reason 4Kids Entertainment decided to keep the Skypiea stage in the game, but made the board a secret and can only be accessed through a password. Blackbeard, Bellamy the Hyena, Wiper (now dubbed Wyler), Satori, and Eneru can all still be in the game.
 * Certain Captain game characters were also taken out, for example, Kalifa and Kaku were replaced by Cabaji and Mohji, Blueno was replaced by Pandaman, and Franky and the Franky Family was replaced by "NEW" Buggy and Cabaji. All the mini-games were still the same in playability, but the speaking role before each game shows a one picture panel for Pandaman and Cabaji/Mohji.