Wii Review: One Piece Unlimited Adventure

Everyone’s unique band of pirates is off on another adventure in the quest for One Piece. Join Luffy and the Strawhat Crew for their first adventure on the Wii. This story features a completely original story as well as combines major points from the series itself that brings back the reason why fans have fallen in love with the series.

Unlimited Adventure starts off in traditional One Piece fashion, humorous and unexpected. Beginning after the events of Enies Lobby, the crew is enjoying a peaceful day on the Thousand Sunny, until an island rises from the sea and the crew is shipwrecked. That leaves you as the Crew’s captain to recover your allies. As you progress, you continuously run into a small creature that inhabits the island and wants to get lost. There’s a secret on this island and he wants to keep it that way. Of course, Luffy wants to know the secret. The crew continues to investigate the island’s unique terrain, ranging from Deep Jungles, Autumn Colored Ruins, and Frigid Peaks.

Taking control of your favorite crew, including new member: Franky the Cyborg, has never been this in depth. You have access to all of the crew, individually, and their unique moves. Moves must be unlocked through either leveling up, certain items or special events, which makes this Adventure/RPG/Fighting game reflect the series so well. The sad part is that there are some moves that are really hard to raise or unlock that it might make some people give up. Speaking the series, majority of the boss battle allow you to relive some of the series most unique adversaries, introducing them in a memorable flash back, in case you haven’t seen them so far or you missed them. The bosses are just as tough as you would remember in the series. Some so hard that you will have to plan out the fight or use the Usopp method, hitting the enemy and running for dear life, just like the series. As a courtesy to the die-hard fans, Funimation has done the redub for the game and changes to the game and its reference to the original has been minimized as much as possible. Zoro has his old name, Franky’s voice is finally heard and Chopper’s forms have gone back being called points.

The Control scheme of the game is fairly simple. Combining the Wii remote and Nunchuk, you are able to control the large range of abilities and actions at your command. Nunchuk for movement and Remote for action is the general control scheme. As the game progresses, you gain access numerous items that play upon the adventure/rpg aspect of the game. Seeing that you are on a mysterious island, surviving is based upon what you can find on the island, so item collecting becomes on a main focus of the game. Such a need on collecting items and chance can be found to be annoying and deter some people from playing but this can be dampened by using the time to train.

In regards to music and graphics, this game has done a marvelous job representing the series, in all its unique flair. While camera issues do occur once in a while, it is easily overlooked because usually was you want to see is most likely nothing important or just an eyecatch that was put in the game to distract you. With optional bosses, a versus mode, and special features for beating the game twice, there is plenty reasons for replaying the game. Fans of the series will instantly love it, as well as, those who are getting into it. For those who aren’t accustom to the series, its still a great and varied game which a cheap price that won’t hurt your wallet.

See you out on high seas!