It's fabulously over the top in almost all instances, and unlike the last game, there isn't a dull moment to be had. By the end of the story, you've fought every member of Luffy's crew, joined with his dad Whitebeard, and fought the largest, most unlikely alliance of pirate crews ever assembled. This unlikely alliance of Marine and Pirate is the backbone of a story chalk full of ridiculous team ups. Stumbling into the laboratory wing, Luffy sets off a chain reaction that results in most of his entire crew falling under a form of mind control, which forces him to leave them and join with Smoker, a Marine he's run afoul of plenty of times previously. In this original “Dream Story,” Luffy and the crew of the Thousand Sunny find their way to Punk Hazard, a testing ground owned by the Marines, the military wing of the World Government and sworn enemy of all things pirate. PW2 breaks from the manga storylines that its predecessor held so dearly to. I couldn't have predicted ever writing that One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 is, quite simply, brilliant. By the time I was told we had a code for it, I literally, old definition, squealed with joy. I never expected those feelings to be right. As the weeks towards its release counted down, there was this incomprehensible giddiness building inside me, bubbling up and filling the empty spaces left by the summer doldrums. I did a bit of digging once I heard there was going to be a sequel, and it started to sound like, while still a clone, they had made some changes that actually made a Pirate Warriors 2. I still think that.Īnd then the strangest thing happened.
I thought by making it a Dynasty Warrior clone, and a pretty mediocre one at that, Tecmo Koei had done a real disservice to the franchise and it's wonderful fiction.
After reviewing One Piece: Pirate Warriors, having went so far as to name it my “worst game” of last year in our series of GOTY podcasts, there was a 0.023% chance that I would like its sequel.
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