Never change a winning team. Finally if a little all the same. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 is therefore very similar to the first two episodes of the series. It's still a Musô (of which Dynasty Warriors is the most famous representative, if the term doesn't mean anything to you) adapted to the universe and the history of the famous shonen, always so popular in the Land of the Sun- Levant. If you missed the previous episodes and the work of KOEI passes you miles above the head, know that you will be dealing with a beat'em all in which you will beat up hundreds and hundreds of soldiers lambdas not frankly was-was, all while crossing large maps divided into zones, which you will have to take back one by one from the opponent by shooting down his generals.
BACK TO ORIGINS
Unlike the second installment however, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 returns to the manga's original storyline for its single-player, Legend Mode; which should delight fans who had not necessarily tasted the completely HS plot of the previous part, written especially for the development of the game. You will therefore be entitled to the essence of Luffy's adventures, from the very beginning of his quest until 'on its arrival on Dressrosa, all dubbed in Japanese with the official voices (shells in the subtitles included, even if they are not very numerous). Lifetime level, so you will get your money's worth. Especially since a Dream mode completes the story mode table, allowing you to embody one of the many non-playable characters (64 in total) during a series of missions and bosses artificially placed one after the other. others.AN ENDLESS HORIZON
The "Legend" mode should therefore occupy most of your time spent on the game, the number of chapters being very high, and it will take you long tens of minutes each time to overcome it. Especially since KOEI has not been a dead hand on the sidelines with secondary objectives (called "Treasure Hunt"), techniques to be unlocked for each hero according to their past actions (beat X enemies in a single fight for example), and always the system of coins to collect to customize its characters. All this without counting a large dose of replayability (finishing on Hard, obtaining S ranks) if you really want to unlock everything that can be unlocked in the game.Like its predecessors, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 quickly becomes boring and terribly repetitive.
However, if the fan-service is present, the game sensations are much less. Like its predecessors, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 quickly becomes boring and terribly repetitive. If the number of playable characters may seem like a palliative to boredom, the low number of combos and the almost non-existent enemy artificial intelligence quickly overcome this impression. Even duo or trio attacks, and managing supporting characters require no form of calculation or subtlety. And the passage on PS4 does not save the furniture: difficult to see any technical improvement in this third opus which once again does not set the bar very high visually, and which suffers from major concerns of readability and camera. Only the narration imitating the unfolding of the boxes of the manga deserves to be underlined.
