“The characters from One Piece have vastly individualistic qualities, like how Carrot is unable to activate her Sulong transformation unless it’s night time, or how Sanji will never kick a woman. Carrot’s Sulong transformation in the anime. Katsuaki-san acknowledges this fact, and confirms that the team has put in a lot of effort to do their anime counterparts justice. Retaining the unique, colourful personalities of these characters, thus, requires fine and thorough thought. Where the former title introduced crowd favourite Shanks as a new playable character, Pirate Warriors 4 will welcome the debut of villains Basil Hawkins and Kaido, alongside ex-Marine admiral Kuzan and the red-haired Vinsmoke Ichiji, both of whom can be player-controlled.
Pirate Warriors 3 certainly impressed with a robust roster of 37 characters, and its successor isn’t going to lose out with more than 40 of them in the line-up. The vast world of One Piece presents a challenge, though. As such, the team often has to put their imagination prowess to use, and visualise the best scenes and pirate figures that will make for interesting playable content. Citing the example of the Davy Back Fight Arc, Katsuaki-san explains that the one-versus-one battle format made it unsuitable for hack-n-slash, where one has to go up against waves and waves of enemies – even if the animation action is able to carry over well to a game setting. “After that, we decide and prioritise which characters are suitable for the selected parts – taking into consideration the sentiments of fans, of course – and the Alabasta and Whole Cake Island story arcs happened to end up as the top picks.”īut there are some limitations that come with gameplay, particularly of the title’s musou genre.
“We took into consideration what fans love in the One Piece itself, such as their favourite characters and parts of the overall narrative, by looking at the SNS (social networking services) and JUMP popularity polls,” he shared in the presence of a translator during an interview at the Thailand Game Show. In fact, the content is selected based on what the team thinks users would like to experience. But according to Katsuaki-san, not every aspect of that will be brought into the game.
It should prove to be an emotional, thrilling affair, considering how hyped and well fleshed-out the latter story arc was. The anime visual for the Whole Cake Island Arc. The newest installment seeks to continue the tradition, spanning across the 39-episode Alabasta Arc, to the Whole Cake Island Arc, all accompanied by an original story involving the Wano Country. With the exception of Pirate Warriors 2, which featured an entirely original storyline, the previous game entries all saw a mix of canon mashed up with new elements. Here’s the dilemma that comes with adapting a popular piece of work across a different medium: should it follow the original canon storyline, or is there room to introduce some new content? Game producer Tsuzuki Katsuaki-san.Ī mix of both is usually the resulting course of action, but even then, striking a fine balance between new and existing elements proves to be a tough challenge as well, and no one knows this better than game producer Tsuzuki Katsuaki of the upcoming game, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4.
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