There’s no way around that, really, but it still results in a weird first half. If you’re not a diehard fan, you’re going to be lost. The Dressrosa arc in that game was mostly original, as not enough of the manga had been published for them to know the details, so they decided to spend half of the game going deeper on Dressrosa and Whole Cake Island, with some original Wano Kingdom stuff included. Omega Force clearly made a conscious choice to focus on content that the previous title couldn’t focus on. And then it skips Fishman Island and Punk Hazard. Then it skips Thriller Bark, focusing on Sabaody Archipelago, skips Impel Down, and then takes us back to Marineford for the umpteenth time. And then it completely skips Skypeia before jumping into Water 7/ Enies Lobby. The game starts with the Alabasta arc and gives it more detail than the last game did. Specifically, the game skips the first 17 volumes of the manga, only mentioning details in passing. It’s jarring and oftentimes doesn’t make a lot of sense, but with a series the size of One Piece, it’s hard to blame them. The third game in the series tried its best to cover each major arc in the manga, albeit briefly and often with just a single large map.īy comparison, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 spends the first half of the game only focusing on a few arcs before spending the latter half on the most recent ones. If you’re reading this, you know what One Piece is, so I’m not going to explain the gist or anything like that. But series devotees are likely going to find themselves going back to both for the foreseeable future. It also makes some fairly striking changes to the gameplay that successfully make it stand apart from the third game. Interestingly, it covers simultaneously less and more of the story, while removing a large chunk of characters and adding others.
To be clear, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 is a good entry in the series, but it doesn’t take away the last game’s value. However, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 breaks this cycle. The third game did it again, offering a surprisingly comprehensive story and an even more impressive amount of new combatants. The second game offered a breadth of characters and new stages that made it nearly pointless to go back to the first. One of the defining characteristics of entries in the One Piece: Pirate Warriors series is that they tend to make the previous game obsolete.
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