One Piece: Unlimited Adventure



One Piece: Unlimited Adventure is an upcoming video game for the Wii based on the anime/manga of One Piece. It has already been released in Japan on April 26, 2007. It has been released 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 will use the Funimation voice actors.

Storyline
-The Beginning- The Straw Hat Pirates aboard the Thousand Sunny are in peril as food and water supplies are running low. After Luffy reveals that he, Usopp, and Chopper wasted all the food in an eating contest, Sanji makes him and Chopper fish to make up for their lost, as well as Usopp looking out for any near by islands to restock. Instead of catching any tasty fish, Luffy catches what appears to be a jewel. He tries to show the others his new found mystery jewel, but no one is interested. They are more worried about the lack of food. "Can't eat it, we don't need it." Luffy decides to use a Gum Gum Rocket to launch himself into the air to get a better view hoping to see an island. For one reason of another the Jewel reacts and an island is emerges from the sea, under the Thousand Sunny.

-The Plot- Luffy and company decide to search the island for the "Hidden Treasure" which can only be found by breaking all the seals. A strange creature is trying to prevent them from breaking the seals. Not knowning what he is protecting, the Straw Hats decide to go along with breaking the seals as they look for the "Hidden Treasure". However, at various points in the story, Robin deciphers various stones and murals with history of the island inscribed on them. Realizing that there is actually a powerful monster imprisoned, the crew think about running away. However, after witnessing some of Popora's memories, Luffy then decides they will break all of the seals, and beat the monster, which will finally end Popora's 1000 years of lonliness.

Gameplay
Using the Wii remote you can use the crew's weapons or items (and possibly in-between) players can use the characters special offenses or possibly defenses, the items simply work like the Legend of Zelda inventory, and characters may have special abilities or exclusive items (like in Sonic Adventure), some of the attacks from the One Piece fighting games will return.

-Story Mode-

An basic Adventure game with platforms, puzzles and item collecting. To go farther in the game you must collect so many of certain items for Franky and Usopp to make new tools for you to clear and make paths. Fishing and Bug hunting is also a huge side quest and some bugs and fish are needed to be capture for you to break certain seals.

-Vs. Mode-

Play as any of the over 40 characters you meet throughtout the game(including basic enemies and final boss) in a battle mode. Play either Surivial 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

Other Characters
° Optional bosses who have no real part in the story.
 * Mihawk
 * Don Krieg
 * Arlong
 * Smoker
 * Sir Crocodile
 * Eneru
 * Red-Haired Shanks
 * Portgas D. Ace
 * Spandam
 * Kaku
 * Rob Lucci
 * Mr. 2 Bon Kurei°
 * Paulie°
 * Aokiji
 * Nefertari Vivi°
 * Whitebeard°
 * Calgara°
 * Popora
 * Evil Guardian
 * Evil Master Beast
 * Various Marines and Pirates
 * Ancient soldiers native to the island of the game
 * Captains of the soldiers

Story's Characters
-Popora- Popora is a bunny like gaurdian 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 Gaudian- The Evil Gaurdian(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, for example Crocodile's "Ground Death".

-Ancient Soldiers- The underlings of The Great Evil Gaurdian, 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

Changes
-Name Changes-

-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 have been carried over, such as the Marines' uniform shirts have been edited to the 'Navy' version of the uniforms. 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 elimnate the religious symbolism of a cross.

-Family Audience-

Namco Bandai, who is porting 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 & 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 "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-

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 renouned for becoming slow when loading once 4 characters are aviable to play.
 * This game continues to use Shanks pre-skypiea outfit despite referencing chapter 434 where Shanks meets Whitebeard.
 * Aside from Shanks, Whitebeard and several other characters are featured despite actaully 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.