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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 Continues Franchise Tradition of Being Bonkers

The good news is that a friendship stealing weapon wouldn't work on me. The bad news is that it's because I have no friendships to be stolen. (╯︵╰,)

Apr. 12 2013

Posted by: Alex

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One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2

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"Why is everything in quotes?"

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I love One Piece as a fan of cartoons, comic books, and video games. It takes all the great parts about those things and rolls it into something truly epic. The goofy art style alone harkens back to my younger days watching Saturday morning cartoons. I actually like how ridiculous the proportions on the ladies are. Makes me think of Jessica Rabbit in a good way. It breaks my heart that there are people who have the capacity to still love a whimsical cartoon but won't give it a try. I don't even watch that much anime anymore but One Piece has stayed with me for years. It is hands down my favorite cartoon of all time.

That first game was as tedious as you expect those types of games. I can appreciate that they drummed up this plot just so you can get dream matches between the various villains of the series but I know how one note the game play is regardless. I might buy it because I'm a sucker for this franchise but I can't in good conscience recommend it to the average gamer.

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Hmm, insane complicated anime and the Dynasty Warriors guys combined together. Sounds like a good fit to me.

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this is neither here nor there, but i kinda wish there was another anime for me to get lost in like evangelion, ghost in the shell, or cowboy bebop. maybe it's for lack of trying, but i'd love to find another anime as psychologically disturbing/outright horrifying as evangelion, or something as mature as GITS. nothing else but those seem appealing to me (samurai champloo was damn good too tho)

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@mrslaphappy said:

Hmm, insane complicated anime and the Dynasty Warriors guys combined together. Sounds like a good fit to me.

Can't tell if you're serious. Not only is dynasty warriors as simple as a brick but it's shallow and repetitive which makes it the complete opposite of the one piece series and a terrible fit.

But I guess those games cost 3 bucks to make and sell like crazy so they probably won't go with an original title with dept and character anytime soon...

It's in moments like this that I start to think ''maybe Phil Fish was right after all''

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I think I'll be picking up a PS3 this holiday solely to get the damn Warriors games that never make it to Xbox.

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That basically looks like some fist of the north star hot garbage with uglier art. Awesome.

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This game looks like crap. I wish CyberConnect would make a proper OP game...

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So it looks like a Fist of the North Star mod with an anime version of Stretch Armstrong (or Plastic Man) and friends...a quick look would be interesting as not going anywhere near this game myself.

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this is neither here nor there, but i kinda wish there was another anime for me to get lost in like evangelion, ghost in the shell, or cowboy bebop. maybe it's for lack of trying, but i'd love to find another anime as psychologically disturbing/outright horrifying as evangelion, or something as mature as GITS. nothing else but those seem appealing to me (samurai champloo was damn good too tho)

Attack On Titan is the show for you! Good news, it started last weekend! Here, have episode one. If it puts the manga version to animation as well as it did in the first episode for the rest of the show, it'll be one of those greats alongside Cowboy Bebop and Ghost In the Shell, for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTSKqiD_aWA

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Well ... I -do- like tits. So maybe?

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this is neither here nor there, but i kinda wish there was another anime for me to get lost in like evangelion, ghost in the shell, or cowboy bebop. maybe it's for lack of trying, but i'd love to find another anime as psychologically disturbing/outright horrifying as evangelion, or something as mature as GITS. nothing else but those seem appealing to me (samurai champloo was damn good too tho)

Have you tried Psycho Pass? It's like Minority Report meets Clockwork Orange.

Psycho Pass on Hulu

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Needs more "quotes."

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One Piece deserves an awesome RPG game. Fighting and beat em up games don't represent the best things about the series well, which is the sense of adventure and characters. The world being reduced to an arena is not appealing.

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One piece of poop.

Yup I know that I'm so clever.

Luffy does like asking people is they poop,

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WHY DOES EVERYONE IN ANIME YELL ALL THE TIME

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@tristenkw5: The first season is really weak compared to the rest of the series. Read the manga or wikipedia or something. I felt the show really hit its stride during the Arlong Park arc.

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I know I just made this joke on the other video, but... I'm eagerly awaiting Brad's review.

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@ripelivejam: Legend of the Galactic Heroes, straight up. There's a better description than I can manage located here (SA forums), but basically it's a sprawling war/politics story centered on the conflict of two human galactic civilizations (no aliens) with a huge cast, good writing, and tons of intrigue. It's crazy good.

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this is neither here nor there, but i kinda wish there was another anime for me to get lost in like evangelion, ghost in the shell, or cowboy bebop. maybe it's for lack of trying, but i'd love to find another anime as psychologically disturbing/outright horrifying as evangelion, or something as mature as GITS. nothing else but those seem appealing to me (samurai champloo was damn good too tho)

Same. I've seen the exact same shows, and they were cool. Death Note was okay too I guess. But besides that, no thank you Anime.

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@scotto:It's a Chinese cartoon. Why wouldn't you expect everything to be somewhat exaggerated?

@manu_fan10ne:Oh wow, I'm conflicted. I always find tattoos like this to be so tacky (anime ones especially), but that's just so perfect.

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Did that guy have TWO cigars?

I don't even have one

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I am 38 and what is this?

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The One Piece games are the "Dynasty Warrior" styled games I'm even remotely interested in ... And they're the only ones that are almost impossible to get ahold of. Stupid digital only releases...

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This is probably the funniest non intentionally funny trailers for anything that I have ever seen

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Oh Japan.......

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@pyrodactyl:

Fair enough, I misspoke. Insane and ridiculous anime combined with a ridiculous large scale battle game with simple controls. There I even used the same word to describe both.

Look, I wasn't trolling to piss people off, but if you are gonna get uppity about it lets do this. I have never watched One Piece. I have heard good things, but just don't watch a whole lot of TV or movies. What I have seen has seemed silly and crazy in that generic label that gets put on most anime however. Now, I can tell you that I played a shitload of Dynasty Warriors 3 and what I saw from the trailer made me consider a purchase because I would like to know more about One Piece and haven't played a DW game since 2003.

If one little offhanded comment is enough to cram your panties all the way up your ass, I guess we just have differing opinions and you need to live with it.

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@mrslaphappy: Well I've got news for you then. One Piece is not something you should watch unless you want to complement the manga or for certain moments and for the openings, seeing as it's been riddled with terrible pacing, very low effort animation and with an ever diminishing budget for years now. What I'm telling everyone who might be interested in One Piece is to remember that it's foremost a manga and that it should always be your main focus. So if you enjoy endearing characters, adventure and great world building then check it out. It's not like it'll take long to catch up once you get hooked and then you'll just regret having to wait for new chapters.

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A friend just posted this on facebook. Pretty relevant I think.

That's freaking incredible.

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(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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OP seriously needs to be made into a Vs. fighting game by a competent developer. I vote for Treasure, they did good work with the Bleach DS games.

And why are people talking about the anime? Read the manga so you can be up to date like everyone else (and bypass fillers).

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What the hell did I just watch?

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So this is an anime game about girl with big boobs?

Isn't that all anime games?

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One Piece is awesome but his just looks like a Dynasty Warriors re-skin

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@tristenkw5: Don't base the show on the first season trust me its really slow it gets much better after if you want to see how good the show really gets, watch film Z its amazing its the closest depiction to how the show really is.