Once the adventure has started, we are greeted by a rather suggestive declaration of intent: “A story of ties, to create memories”. As I told you, the feeling of naturalness you get by playing One Piece Odyssey is absolutely unsettlingand once again leaves the thought that it took 25 years to have a game like this dedicated to One Piece. One Piece Odyssey is in fact the son of the vision of Yuji Hori, the creator of Dragon Quest, and offers turn-based combat, with a linear exploration approach typical of a certain Japanese role-playing game canon. It’s hard not to draw parallels to Dragon Questthe historic Square Enix series, from which the team took inspiration to understand which path to take in the genre. From the first moment this statement acquires a certain credibility, because the feeling of playing something familiar and perfectly contextualized is there.

In development for 5 years at ILCA, One Piece Odyssey has always been a j-rpg because the team thought it was the perfect genre to tell the varied adventures of Eiichiro Oda’s world. However, the desire to try it was great, and thanks to Bandai Namco I was able to spend exactly 3 hours in the company of One Piece Odysseyplaying all the introductory part and testing the systems that characterize the experience. One wonders why no one has done it before, but they are trifles that we can easily give up.

The Japanese role-playing game, so loved in the West as well, seemed like the right choice to decline the world of One Piece in a new, different way. At the announcement of One Piece Odyssey but I was surprised, because it was the first time that a team tried a different path, that of the j-rpg. Each of these projects has tried to tell the iconic work with a different approach, trying to find the best way to express its peculiarities. From the smash-like (remember that Battle Stadium DON?) to the musou, passing through more traditional adventure experiences. In 25 years of history, the work of Eiichiro Oda has repeatedly embraced the world of video games, facing different genres. One Piece needs no introduction, not even in the world of video games.

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