3.5/5 ★ – fez219's review of One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3.

Super solid! This is actually my first warriors game but I really enjoyed it. It takes you on a great, compressed tour of Luffy's adventures and gives you all the highlights - no small feat for ~800 chapters of manga/episodes of tv to be in one game. The roster here is huge, and each character has quite a few moves to pick up. Critically, they all play exactly as they should and have all the moves you want them to have. One Piece is a perfect fit for warriors as well, as each character is more than strong enough to blow through millions of goons. The kizuna rush mechanic- where your crew slowly grows and joins in on your attacks and super - is perfect for One Piec. Overall, it's extremely reverent to the source material yet still very fun. It also gives a lot of runtime to the earlier arcs. Because of this, I think it's a better fit than 4 for OP newbies to learn more about the world before diving into the anime or manga. And because it came out a while ago, it stops in Dressrossa (and the finale is OC). So fans invested in Wano and looking for an experience that plays more to the New World would probably be better served by jumping to 4, which mostly focuses on newer stuff. It also plays pretty damn well. There's quite a few combos to pick up, but once you get them down, you'll feel very strong. A few boss fights are a tad sloppy, but the game is never difficult enough for it to really matter. It's still tighter than the typical arena fighter. It's still a warriors game though. It's repetitive and grindy by nature, and some objectives are pretty boring. I enjoyed it, but by the end I was ready for it to be over. I certainly didn't feel like putting in another hundred hours to unlock all the characters and moves and level everyone up. If you're into the grind, you'll love the coun subsystem that adds SO much to do. But if you're not, you won't feel like grinding out the rest of the game. I definitely didn't love that so much of the characters were locked behind arbitrarily replaying levels over and over, but that's par for the course for these sorts of games. Overall, it's definitely worth a run through its campaign for One Piece fans, but the extra content is probably best left to the Dynasty Warriors addicts. It's a great One Piece game but by no means a masterpiece.