User blog comment:Monkey.D.Me/Overratted New World is OVERRATTED!!/@comment-3119203-20121120233119

The New World is certainly living up to expectations. Everyone has haki, and everyone is truly at the top of their game. A lowly Marine scientist has been enough to defeat an entire crew, and merely forgetting a payment results in war with one of the most powerful pirates alive. This chapter was freakin amazing just for the two pages containing info on SAD and artificial DFs. An army of a few hundred Zoan users? Yeah, that's scary.

About the bounties, you forget the scale of the World Government. Even without some of the revenue from Wano and Yonko-controlled islands, they control four blues and like 170 countries or something. Most of those bounties are empty threats anyways, and if a person brings in a bounty head, they are probably going to be captured themselves (I believe there was an SBS where Oda stated that Marines capture pirates turning in other pirates). The bounties are really, therefore, a sort of danger indicator.

The weather is the least of the worries. It wasn't a problem in the Grand Line, it won't be a problem here.

I for one am absolutely stunned by the level of science in the areas of Devil Fruits. Caesar surely delivered as a scientist, even if he isn't the best villain ever. The fact that Devil Fruits are more commonplace shows the escalating level of strength in the New World. And because of these new, amped-up fighters, haki has become more prevalent. Seriously, if you don't have haki, you're probably gonna die. Maybe that was the test you were talking about.