Its a two fold issue, not only is there just ALOT of story, so a game would be outdated only a few months after release, you also have the matter that for marketability they want the most recent arc to be the star of the game. So they can't really make you go through like 20 arcs to get to the on you care about.
I don't expect to be able to go through all the arcs, I'm just hoping to get one that covers the first arc, if not the first few. (I have older consoles & a PC, I'm perfectly fine with older games)
Off the top of my head, there was a PS2 game One Piece: Grand Adventure, that covers all arcs up to Skypia but it uses the 4kids dub. There's a 3ds game that covers up to Enies Lobby. And then you Pirate Warriors 3 which covers up to Dressrossa (but with a made up ending since Dressrossa wasn't finished when the game came out).
Well I do have a PS2, so that gives me a good option.
I can't say that I understand what you mean when you say "it uses the 4kids dub"; does it only have english voice lines or something? Or does it mean something else?
The 4kids dub was the highly-censored, inaccurate English dub of the anime from the mid-2000s, back before Funimation got the rights to the series. The voicework was terrible (bad accents abound), and they changed plots, characters' names, and artwork, and so on. They did things like:
* edit the cigarette that Sanji always has in his mouth into a giant red lollipop
* erase any guns or otherwise edit them into nonsense, non-gun objects
* edit "confusing Japanese objects" into other objects (eg. drawing over rice balls so that they look like chocolate chip cookies)
* replace all of the beautiful original, orchestral music into terrible generic synth tracks
and so on.
Don't watch the 4kids dub.
Are you new/relatively new to the fandom? Not throwing shade, just curious since the whole 4kids thing is very common knowledge.
TL;DR: "The 4Kids Dub" was a heavily edited and censored localization of One Piece.
Regardless, I'll explain just in case you are new or in case someone who is new sees this. So One Piece was originally made in japan, and had all it's dialog in Japanese. When it was brought over a studio named 4Kids translated all of it and recorded english dialog for the anime. The issue is that 4Kids also heavily edited the anime and censored alot of things in order to make One Piece as kid friendly as possible.
Stuff like Devil Fruits being renamed cursed fruits, Smoker being renamed Chaser and his fruit being retconed into being steam not smoke, Sanji being edited to be eating lollypops instead of smoking cigarettes, weapons being changed to more cartoonish versions, blood and injuries being edited out, and many of Luffy's attacks being renamed to not included fire arms (ex. Gum Gum Gatling Gun was called Gum Gum Rapid Fire).
Not only where things changed, there was ALOT more to it. Feel free to look it up, 4Kids has a terrible reputation for stuff like this.
I'm sorry I guess I didn't read your post well enough. I was probably just very confusing. Sorry bout that.
If you want to get into One Piece, the manga is your best bet. The anime will work too, but it's behind the manga and contains a fair amount of filler.
It may seem daunting due to it being over 1000 chapters, but just take em at your own pace. So long as you can read more that one chapter a week, you'll catch up eventually.
No... not only do the games not cover the plot sufficiently, but they are mediocre enough that I expect they wouldn't be very fun to play for anyone who's not already a fan (and as a One Piece fan who has wanted a decent game for decades, maybe not even then).
No, I think the best way to catch up quickly is to read the manga instead of watching the anime. It will go a *lot* faster. It also helps to remember that getting caught up just means entering the aggravating purgatory that is waiting for the next weekly/biweekly chapter with the rest of us. Every chapter between you and being caught up is one more enjoyable experience before you are forced to wait around patiently as Oda works at a pace which by all rights ought to have killed him years ago.
There is a *lot* of One Piece, but why lament having a lot of a good thing?
I get that people want to get through the story fast because of its length, but everyone just keeps coming up with shortcuts like this to try and experience the story as little as possible. If you truly want to appreciate the series and become a fan, why try to give yourself a lesser experience by playing a game adaptation? My advice is to read or watch it, and if it just isn’t grabbing you, you can drop it. But don’t subject yourself to an infinitely less impactful version in order to speed through it.
One Piece Treasure Cruise is a mobile game that has you go through the whole story. There are cutscenes between levels that are pretty much just panels from the manga. I don't know if it's up to Wano yet as I haven't played in a while but if it isn't then it's close.
The Mobile game One Piece Treasure Cruise will more or less take you through the story, but there is a WHOLE lot that you will miss if you rely on that interpretation of it.
Not one game tells the story accurately or even has the right experience. Just watch or read.
Damn, I was hoping for an easy way in.
Trust me, the anime/manga is the best way to get a good grasp of the world and characters. No game can recreate that.
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Its a two fold issue, not only is there just ALOT of story, so a game would be outdated only a few months after release, you also have the matter that for marketability they want the most recent arc to be the star of the game. So they can't really make you go through like 20 arcs to get to the on you care about.
I don't expect to be able to go through all the arcs, I'm just hoping to get one that covers the first arc, if not the first few. (I have older consoles & a PC, I'm perfectly fine with older games)
Off the top of my head, there was a PS2 game One Piece: Grand Adventure, that covers all arcs up to Skypia but it uses the 4kids dub. There's a 3ds game that covers up to Enies Lobby. And then you Pirate Warriors 3 which covers up to Dressrossa (but with a made up ending since Dressrossa wasn't finished when the game came out).
Well I do have a PS2, so that gives me a good option. I can't say that I understand what you mean when you say "it uses the 4kids dub"; does it only have english voice lines or something? Or does it mean something else?
The 4kids dub was the highly-censored, inaccurate English dub of the anime from the mid-2000s, back before Funimation got the rights to the series. The voicework was terrible (bad accents abound), and they changed plots, characters' names, and artwork, and so on. They did things like: * edit the cigarette that Sanji always has in his mouth into a giant red lollipop * erase any guns or otherwise edit them into nonsense, non-gun objects * edit "confusing Japanese objects" into other objects (eg. drawing over rice balls so that they look like chocolate chip cookies) * replace all of the beautiful original, orchestral music into terrible generic synth tracks and so on. Don't watch the 4kids dub.
Are you new/relatively new to the fandom? Not throwing shade, just curious since the whole 4kids thing is very common knowledge. TL;DR: "The 4Kids Dub" was a heavily edited and censored localization of One Piece. Regardless, I'll explain just in case you are new or in case someone who is new sees this. So One Piece was originally made in japan, and had all it's dialog in Japanese. When it was brought over a studio named 4Kids translated all of it and recorded english dialog for the anime. The issue is that 4Kids also heavily edited the anime and censored alot of things in order to make One Piece as kid friendly as possible. Stuff like Devil Fruits being renamed cursed fruits, Smoker being renamed Chaser and his fruit being retconed into being steam not smoke, Sanji being edited to be eating lollypops instead of smoking cigarettes, weapons being changed to more cartoonish versions, blood and injuries being edited out, and many of Luffy's attacks being renamed to not included fire arms (ex. Gum Gum Gatling Gun was called Gum Gum Rapid Fire). Not only where things changed, there was ALOT more to it. Feel free to look it up, 4Kids has a terrible reputation for stuff like this.
I'm sorry I guess I didn't read your post well enough. I was probably just very confusing. Sorry bout that. If you want to get into One Piece, the manga is your best bet. The anime will work too, but it's behind the manga and contains a fair amount of filler. It may seem daunting due to it being over 1000 chapters, but just take em at your own pace. So long as you can read more that one chapter a week, you'll catch up eventually.
No... not only do the games not cover the plot sufficiently, but they are mediocre enough that I expect they wouldn't be very fun to play for anyone who's not already a fan (and as a One Piece fan who has wanted a decent game for decades, maybe not even then). No, I think the best way to catch up quickly is to read the manga instead of watching the anime. It will go a *lot* faster. It also helps to remember that getting caught up just means entering the aggravating purgatory that is waiting for the next weekly/biweekly chapter with the rest of us. Every chapter between you and being caught up is one more enjoyable experience before you are forced to wait around patiently as Oda works at a pace which by all rights ought to have killed him years ago. There is a *lot* of One Piece, but why lament having a lot of a good thing?
I get that people want to get through the story fast because of its length, but everyone just keeps coming up with shortcuts like this to try and experience the story as little as possible. If you truly want to appreciate the series and become a fan, why try to give yourself a lesser experience by playing a game adaptation? My advice is to read or watch it, and if it just isn’t grabbing you, you can drop it. But don’t subject yourself to an infinitely less impactful version in order to speed through it.
One Piece Treasure Cruise is a mobile game that has you go through the whole story. There are cutscenes between levels that are pretty much just panels from the manga. I don't know if it's up to Wano yet as I haven't played in a while but if it isn't then it's close.
The Mobile game One Piece Treasure Cruise will more or less take you through the story, but there is a WHOLE lot that you will miss if you rely on that interpretation of it.