One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush!

One Piece Grand Battle Rush! (グラバト! RUSH Gurabato! Rush) is a fighting game based on One Piece and the sequel to Grand Battle! 3. Grand Battle! Rush is the fourth and (to date) final game in the series released. The game was develloped by Ganbarion and published by Bandai and Atari. It was Released on March 17, 2005 in Japan, on September 6, 2005 in the USA and on September 29, 2005 in the European Union.

This is the first of the console games to be released in English, however its release in the American market came at a price. Due to neither anime nor manga being only at the Alabasta arc by release, many features were removed or changed from the American version. It is known in the US as just One Piece: Grand Battle.

Story
Much like the TV show, Monkey D. Luffy wants to take Gold Roger's place to become King of the Pirates. Together with his Crew namely, Nami, Zolo (Roronoa Zoro in the Japanese version), Usopp, and Sanji. are on a quest to search for the great treasure One Piece and also to fulfill their own dreams.

Gameplay
There are 4 different modes in the game:

This game continues the use of Grand Battle! 3's arena system with many of the previous arenas and special moves being reused. Updates and graphic enhancments were given (however not obivous) to many of the old arenas and new characters were introduced. The fighting styles were only minorly adjusted and most characters remain mostly as they were in Grand Battle! 3.

Battle Stages

 * Fushia Village: Luffy's hometown, where Higuma & his bandits will throw random objects at the players, and also, there will be a cow that charges at the players when hit and a spinning signpost that can be used to launch the players in a random direction.
 * Baratie: The Bistro of the Brine; Sanji's work place. It's a floating restaurant. You can fight only out of it. There is a deck were you can fight, and ruins of Don Krieg's ship that can be destroyed by use of a bomb. You also can also use the mast as a weapon.
 * Arlong Park: This is Arlong's HQ. Skinny field with Momoo in the middle. You can walk on momoo and even hit him in the face. There's two small houses that can crash and block a hole, preventing sinking, while Arlong's pirates attack the players (unless they are used by Arlong).
 * Lougetown: The place where Gold Roger was executed. The smallest field, no cliffs or water. The field can change in shape by attacking the walls. Marines will try to use nets to stun you (spots that the nets are dropped onto are marked with a white symbol a few seconds before the net is dropped). Lighting will hit the field sometimes. Alvida is in the middle, and will attack anyone who attacks her. citizens and buggy's pirates will toss things at you.
 * Drum Castle: Tony Tony Chopper's home. The stage is covered with snow and snowballs. Wapol is an item that eats or attacks the characters. Giant rabbits will throw snowballs at you. Wapol's bodygards will attack you.
 * Arabasta Kingdom: Crocodile and Mr. 2 Bon Kurei's stage. Occasionally a sandstorm will pop up getting bigger every time you hit it. Also, hitting Cobra will result in him getting angry and karate chop you all the way to the other side of the stage.
 * Eden Rock: The training area. No real obstacles. The eight stone pillars on the sides can be broken by attacks.

Removed Arenas
Two fighting arenas were omitted (they had not appeared in America yet) from the American version.


 * Maxim:
 * Sexy Foxy:

Characters
In One Piece: Grand Adventure, there is a total of 16 playable characters. In addition to the playable characters, there is a total of 31 support characters. Support characters are characters the player can choose in addition to their playable character. While the support characters are not controllable, they are able to help the player when called out. There are 4 types of support characters: Dash, Jump,Gun, and Area. Each type of support character has its own advantages and disadvantages in battle.

Each character is assigned support characters. Every character has at least one, but none of them have more than three.

Below is a list of the playable and support characters. Please note that the characters are refered to by the spelling in the game, not the manga or anime.

Removed Characters
Characters removed from American version:
 * Foxy the Silver Fox - with Hamburg and Porche as support.
 * Eneru - with 60,000,000 Volt Julungul as support.
 * Aokiji - with Ice Bike as support.
 * Afro Luffy - same as Luffy (was an alternate uniform).

Mini-Games
In the Japanese version, the minigames are hosted by Foxy and his crew, while in the American version, Usopp and his ragtag "pirates" took their place.

Usopp Race (Donut Race in the Japanese version): In this minigame, you must help Usopp, Nami, and Robin (changed to random villagers in the American version)'s boat get to the finish line by stopping Foxy's pirates (present in both versions) from shooting cannonballs at them by attacking them. The pirates drop fruit (and occasionally bombs) when defeated, so Support & Super attacks may be used).

Battle Bowl (Groggy Ring in the Japanese version): In this minigame, you must throw the "ball"(Gaimon) into the opponent's goal to earn points. Whoever has the highest score by the end of 30 seconds wins.

Alterations
Several alterations to the game overall were changed in the American version of the game because the American anime was not far enough


 * In the American anime, Ms. All-Sunday/Ms. Sunday/Nico Robin was not part of the Straw Hat Pirates at the time of the games release. Therefore, her extra costumes and all references of her association with the Strawhats were omitted.
 * The Davy Back Games mode was changed to feature Usopp and his Veggie Pirates and renamed mini-game mode, as Foxy and his crew did not appear in the anime at the time of the game's release. However they still can be seen in the background of some of the mini games, and Davy Back Fight rules still apply (IE, the winner gets to take one of the loser's crewmates.)
 * Usopp's Impact Dial attack, Afro Luffy's Gomu Gomu No Cannon, and an attack of Sanji's that can be seen in Kokoro no Chizu were removed from the American version.
 * Mihawk's necklace and sword were edited.
 * As with the english anime, Smoker's name is changed to Chaser and the cigars in his mouth are removed. However, the cigars strapped to his coat were not removed, nor the kanji for "justice"
 * In the Eden Rock stage Mihawk, Donquixote Doflamingo, and Bartholomew Kuma were edited to two guards as the two other members of the Shichibukai appeared after the Arabasta Arc and therefore had not appeared in the American anime. Also,the Gorosei(Five Elder Stars) were taken out and so was Lafitte for the same reason. This stage is in the japanese version the Marine HQ but doesn't have any connection to it in the english version

Trivia

 * An American only sequel, One Piece Grand Adventure, featuring several characters either excluded from the original game or new to any One Piece game, was released in 2006. This game is not counted in the Grand Battle series.
 * There are a few editing conflicts in the game, for example, in Logue town (Rogue town in the dub) the Marine gates still have the Marines sign, despite 4kids editing. More conflicts can be found in the One Piece Art section on the title screen, where images from removed openings, ending, and story arcs appear.
 * The straw hat costumes of the manga Volume 11 cover is a group of secret costumes by doing certain codes.
 * Translations for both the Japanese and American versions of this game were released in some Europeon countries (such as Spain).