One Piece: Unlimited Cruise

One Piece: Unlimited Cruise (ワンピース:アンリミテッドクルーズ 波に揺れる秘宝, Wan Pīsu: Anrimiteddo Kurūzu) is a video game for the Nintendo's Wii console based on the popular manga and anime One Piece. The game was released in two episodes which act as parts of a single story, the first was released on September 11th 2009 in Japan, and the second episode was released on February 26th 2009 in Japan.

Unlike, the predecessor One Piece: Unlimited Adventure, Unlimited Cruise was localised by only in PAL regions (Europe and Australia roughly) and the PAL versions only have Japanese voices with English subtitles instead of the FUNimation dub. Episodes 1 and 2 were released on June 19th of 2009 and September 25th 2009 in Europe respectively. The PAL Episode 1 was released on June 25, 2009 in Australia. It was additionally released as One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Double Pack in Germany on June 25th 2010, this pack contains both of the European games within separate boxes. There has yet to be a release date for North America.

The game has also been announced to be released on the upcoming handheld system Nintendo 3DS under the title "One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP". The game is to be released May 26, 2011, and it will contain both episodes, plus more extra characters, missions and modes. It has been announced for North America, but release dates have been postponed due to the Japan earthquake disaster.

Main
All of the main characters get new costumes much like they did in Unlimited Adventure (though where the costumes came from isn't mentioned). Each character's new costume features an animal theme. The Thousand Sunny can also be fully explored, unlike in Unlimited Adventure where it mostly remained stationary on the beach. Scans revealed that this game includes Zoro's new katana Shusui.

Costume Themes
All crew members have animal based themed costumes. Early screenshots of Brook showed him dressed in his normal clothes, however Brook was later given his own animal themed costume. After beating the game once the player can go to the lockers in the Thousand Sunny where you can switch all of the characters costumes from animal themed to the clothes they normally wear (clothing from Thriller Bark Arc).

Other Information
Brook now has the ability to run on water, much like in the anime and manga, Franky can build bridges and ladders (Acting in a way similiar to the points where Gaburi is used), and Usopp can only become Sogeking through his C + Shake attack (Where in Unlimited Adventure, it was an alternate costume) and can use the Impact Dial. Nami also can use her Waver. The main characters movesets have also been upgraded from Unlimited adventure so they can now utilize moves from recent chapters from the manga, as well as old moves that weren't included in Unlimited Adventure.

Characters
According to the information released by Famitsu, the Marines and The Enforcers will make an appearance. Wapol, Buggy the Clown, Captain Kuro, Don Krieg, Arlong, and Enel have all been confirmed as Bosses in the game. Buggy appear's in a plant-developed environment, and Enel appears to be in a clearing in a forest with the Spaceys. Buggy will be able to use his powers obtained from the Bara Bara No Mi and his Buggy Ball, Wapol will be able to transform using his Baku Baku Factory. Spandam and Aokiji, Shanks and Mihawk, and Kaku and Lucci will be partnered up as dual bosses.

Exclusively to the 3DS edition, Emporio Ivankov, Boa Hancock, Marco, Jozu and Jinbe will appear, possibly as bosses.

Minor Enemies

 * Marines
 * Agents
 * Pirates
 * Enforcers
 * Rock Monster
 * Spaceys
 * General Zombies
 * Zombies
 * Risky Brothers
 * Alabasta Soldiers/Baroque Works
 * Pacifista
 * Gaimon
 * Robots from Unlimited Adventure
 * Generals from Unlimited Adventure

Locations
There are five different islands in Episode 1; A winter island, a desert island with a seashell, an island with a giant tree and waterfalls under it, and a island that is essentially a giant cave. The final island is where you fight the final boss. The Thousand Sunny can be explored, showing many of the rooms inside of it. In the Tankōbon version of One Piece manga, Oda drew a detailed interior design for Thousand Sunny including each piece of furniture and passage ways. From the current preview it seems Unlimited Cruise kept Oda's design down to exact detail down to the patterns on the walls and furniture.

In Episode 2, there are five locations(not including Thousand Sunny) : a desert location that looks like Alabasta, and a dark, murky, ruinous place that looks reminiscent of Thriller Bark. The Thousand Sunny is a stage, however, it is not an island. There is also an Island that looks similar to the "Seaside Zone" of Unlimited Adventure, but lightly edited, and based on the island in the Ocean's Dream arc. There is a location that is a floating island that resembles the island Skypiea. The final island is where to fight Yami, it also looks nearly identical to how it looked in Episode 1.

In One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP for 3DS, a Marineford Mode will be included, in which the player can play during the Whitebeard War as Luffy or Ace (no other characters have been confirmed as playable in this mode so far).

Trivia

 * Although the word "Cola" is clearly spoken, in the European version of the opening scene when Usopp activates Channel 0, the subtitle text reads that it is "Soda Powered." The reason for this change is unknown.
 * Because he had yet to fight in the series when the game was made, Whitebeard fights with his tubes attached in this game while in the series he fights without them. The opposite goes for his Devil Fruit; Whitebeard's Gura Gura no Mi at the time Episode 2 was released was not known, and so all of his attacks utilize his bisento weapon, accompanied by yellow/white waves of power. It seems, although, that the 3DS version will add Gura Gura no Mi powers to Whitebeard's movelist.
 * In the game's profile section there is a mistranslation on Garp's page where it says that he was a legendary pirate (as opposed to a Marine).
 * For unknown reasons, Shanks uses his old sword as opposed to his current.

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