While the story, world-building, characterization, and interactions between the Strawhats is wonderfully done and feels nearly canon (especially the Sanji and Nami shipping here and there.)

There is a few things to say about the game play that I am not a big fan of.

For an anime game that calls itself 'open world.' It is LIMITED.

-For one, If the story wants you to go somewhere and you try to go off on your own, a character will say something and the screen will blacken and send you where you last were.

-Two, while you can wander around when not having to do something, your area of wandering is locked to the map, if an area is on the map you can explore it. But to get to that area, or go anywhere else, you can't. Like if one area of the map has a path and you want to get to the path near that. You see that nice small row of rocks between you and it? You can't jump over them. This gets annoying after a while as you can't take any shortcuts to get places unless they're designated with an icon to use Luffy's swinging or jumping. If it doesn't have an icon or designated, no shortcut.

-Three, you can play as any of the characters, but they all have overworld skills, so as much as you want to play as Sanji or Nami or others, Luffy is still the one that can swing up or the only one to use CoO (why?) and grab things from afar so he's the most useful to play as. It kind of railroads you into relying on him the most.

-Four, EXP. Despite letting you limit your team to 4 characters and choosing who they are. Everyone will still receive EXP even your reserve crew. So if you had any plans of say having Sanji lvl max and Zoro lvl 1 (lmao), you can't. It divides it out evenly for them and for some odd reason Usopp keeps up with Luffy and gains levels the fastest..

Despite that, if you like One Piece, love the characters, and follow the manga religiously and want that 'extra adventure.' It's still great for story and and a One Piece game. Treat it like a fanfic that you can play and you'll enjoy it. Just don't put any faith in its 'open world,' label.

While the story, world-building, characterization, and interactions between the Strawhats is wonderfully done and feels nearly canon (especially the Sanji and Nami shipping here and there.) There is a few things to say about the game play that I am not a big fan of. For an anime game that calls itself 'open world.' It is LIMITED. -For one, If the story wants you to go somewhere and you try to go off on your own, a character will say something and the screen will blacken and send you where you last were. -Two, while you can wander around when not having to do something, your area of wandering is locked to the map, if an area is on the map you can explore it. But to get to that area, or go anywhere else, you can't. Like if one area of the map has a path and you want to get to the path near that. You see that nice small row of rocks between you and it? You can't jump over them. This gets annoying after a while as you can't take any shortcuts to get places unless they're designated with an icon to use Luffy's swinging or jumping. If it doesn't have an icon or designated, no shortcut. -Three, you can play as any of the characters, but they all have overworld skills, so as much as you want to play as Sanji or Nami or others, Luffy is still the one that can swing up or the only one to use CoO (why?) and grab things from afar so he's the most useful to play as. It kind of railroads you into relying on him the most. -Four, EXP. Despite letting you limit your team to 4 characters and choosing who they are. Everyone will still receive EXP even your reserve crew. So if you had any plans of say having Sanji lvl max and Zoro lvl 1 (lmao), you can't. It divides it out evenly for them and for some odd reason Usopp keeps up with Luffy and gains levels the fastest.. Despite that, if you like One Piece, love the characters, and follow the manga religiously and want that 'extra adventure.' It's still great for story and and a One Piece game. Treat it like a fanfic that you can play and you'll enjoy it. Just don't put any faith in its 'open world,' label.