If you’re looking for a fighter with a solid, interesting roster, then One Piece: Burning Blood is right up your alley. But, if you seek story and new insight from your anime-based games, you will be left wanting.

PROS
+Great roster with lots of variety.
+Combat dynamic is well executed
+Simplistic Controls
+Well-designed Characters
+Frantic action and tons of eye candy during battle
+Overall cel-shaded presentation is very true to the manga and anime
+Tutorials & simple-to-remember controls make for accessible fighting action

Cons
-Short campaign's story
-Repetitive even for a fighting game
-30fps lock
-New players will be completely lost with the story
-The camera view during gameplay allows for bigger characters to cover too much of the screen
-AI can be unbelievably dumb at times
-Random difficulty spikes make completing certain objectives a frustrating chore
-Story recaps the events of the series in a way that's incomprehensible to the uninitiated

It goes without saying that existing fans will get the most out of this one, but fighting game enthusiasts should still find some fun in exploring the nuances of the title's combat system. On the surface, Burning Blood is an accessible brawler that's built on a pretty standard rock-paper-scissors foundation: quick, normal combos beat guard breaking attacks to the punch, guard breakers smash through your foe's defences, and blocking nullifies regular blows. It's simple stuff at first, but once you factor in perfectly timed guards, sidesteps, heavy guard breakers, unique special attacks, and aerial offensives, things quickly become much more complex.

In terms of combat, One Piece Burning Blood does a good job of empowering you with spectacular fighting skills, no matter which character you opt for. In the same vein as the aforementioned Naruto games or the recent Saint Seiya brawlers, you take your chosen character(s) into battle, and attempt to put together a successful series of attacks.
With Square and Triangle as your main attacks, things feel pretty comfortable within moments, but the addition of ranged attacks, special moves, guard-breaks, tag moves called Unity Assists and Breaks, and the powerful Awakened state add extra depth that could easily have been missing. It’s never going to trouble any of the more technical 3D fighters, but there’s still a lot to grasp.

There are intense difficulty spikes at points in the campaign, which often rob proceedings of their fun, and I wasn’t sure whether the fact that every character levels up with use – they’ll still advance slowly without it – meant that I was simply at a disadvantage from the off.

One Piece: Burning Blood suffers from one of the worst things you can these days, repetitiveness. It’s evident in the gameplay, the story mode, and even the characters you fight while playing online. The top tier has kind of already been established, and players are quick to flock to it because they want a win. Ultimately your victories are won because you played better defense than your opponent, which runs counter to the bombastic nature of the One Piece series. Sure you can throw out all the wild attacks you want, and they’ll look really cool, but they’re also easily avoidable, and counterable. The lack of depth is what kills what should have been a really fun game, and that’s a shame because the effort to make this game beautiful is there, it’s just a shame the gameplay didn’t receive the same effort.

Final Verdict: 2.5/5 passable
I'm not a fan of One Piece: Burning Blood and it's not because of the unfamiliar source material. The combat here just isn't that fun, and no amount of colorful anime action will change that.While One Piece: Burning Blood may look pretty, offer some nice content and a bizarre cast it wasn’t enough to keep me interested. I can’t even imagine fans of the anime would get much out of this release, especially as this is just the latest entry in a long line of games based on this franchise.

usopp being able to win against admirals just feels good

- Locked to 30 FPS

- Alt tabbing while in full screen will force windowed mode. You will have to go into settings to revert this

- Constant online connection issues.

- FMV cutscenes can audio desync

- The art style for this game for is not very good. The "pencil sketched shadows" effect looks slapped on

- Character animation in the main campaign's cutscenes are stilted and of low-quality

- Basic tutorials, no combo trials/challenges, and no advanced tips for characters

- Combat is sluggish, shallow, repetitive, and restrictive

- Attacking in general takes forever to startup and to recover

- There is unresponsiveness and/or delay with moving, jumping, or preforming directional attacks

- Spamming certain moves are encouraged, as several character-specific attacks are safe on block, can't be punished consistently, and do tons of damage

- Story-relevant character abilities (Logia, Haki, etc.) have no drawbacks, and make sets of characters objectively better than others. They feel tacked on, they take the enjoyment away from having a clean even match, and they really don't improve or add anything of worth to the already mediocre core gameplay loop

- "Flash Guard" and "Flash Counter" mechanics reward players with no risk involved, as they cost nothing to preform. They seemingly exist to artificially make CPU opponents more difficult, as they will use it whenever they feel like interrupting your combo

- There is no grabbing in this "fighting" game. The alternative, guard breaks, are not a good substitute. They take forever to startup, and are very easy to avoid, and punish. So blocking or dodging everything becomes overpowered. Other
fighting games have it so if you block enough, your guard will break naturally. Why this game doesn't is beyond me

- Guard breaks are supposed to be beaten by normal attacks. Sometimes a guard break will recognize a attack string and will be beaten in response, as it should. Sometimes it does not. The fact that everything has so much startup, delay, and recovery does not help anyone

- 1 vs 2, or 1 vs 3 matches are not balanced. In fact, there is no benefit for playing a solo character in a match, at all. You don't get any health, defense, and/or attack buffs to compensate. You do not get meter faster. You can't do meter-specific options, as they require a team. There is no solo/single character meter-using options, other than going into super. You don't get any more EXP or in-game currency, or unlock any achievement for winning any match solo

- You can only have a max of 3 support characters. If you're playing solo/single, for instance, you can't use the extra "Team Points" to fit in any more support characters to compensate for the fact that solo/single matches are not balanced in your favor. The "Team Point" system seemingly exists because the developers knew that certain characters were overpowered, and chose to implement this, rather than fix the fundamental balance issues that make this game frustrating to play

- Characters can level up. It is not explained. What does leveling up do? Why does it exist? What benefit does it add to the game? I'll tell you: if you're playing a low level character, higher rank CPUs become nearly impossible to beat. They have too much life, and do too much damage. It makes the game a mountain of a challenge to beat with skill alone

- The game's "challenge mode", Wanted Posters, has a grading system. It is harsh and frustrating to get high grades. Why? On top of dealing with the generally terrible, unbalanced combat. You have to not get hit, and finish matches quickly. Most CPU will be content with sitting around blocking all day, waiting for the moment when they can spam the moves they have that can kill you instantly. A large portion of Wanted Posters force you to play with characters that you may be unfamiliar with, and are not good at. The biggest issue with this mode is the fact that you CANNOT RESTART A MATCH. You either have to let the CPU kill you, or quit a match, wait until your dumped into the selection screen, and try again. This would not be a complaint, if you not for the fact that you CAN RESTART IN THE MAIN CAMPAIGN. Why did they forget to add that quality of life feature to this mode, where the bulk of the single player content lies? Your guess is as good as mine

- "Flag Battle Mode" is not explained at all. I can barely find any resources explaining what it is and how to play it on the internet, even

- There are no alternate colors or outfits for characters, with the exception of a handful of story-relevant ones. You will have to fork over the money to buy the DLC if you truly itch for some variety

IN CONCLUSION:
There are better One Piece games you can buy
There are better "anime" games you can buy
There are better fighting games you can buy
There are cheaper games you can buy, that play better, and are not locked to 30 FPS
And for the price of this One Piece: Burning Blood, you can buy several of those games
Please use your valuable money to buy something else

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Okay, here's my write up, as response to the apparent commotion for this review, six years later:

Spike Chunsoft (the developer) would go on to release Jump Force and "One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows". Both games would have their online services canned, and Jump Force was delisted entirely from all digital stores. I find this very funny. Being Bamco-licensed anime games, OPM and Burning Blood are still listed at (or near) full price on this store.
Arc System Works, two years after Burning Blood in 2018, released Dragon Ball FighterZ (published by Bamco), showing that it is possible to make a quality fighting game of an licensed anime property. It plays wonderfully, and it looks beautiful.
Even if you aren't a fan of traditional 2D fighters, there are now much better options for anime arena fighters. CyberConnect2 with Demon Slayer; Byking with My Hero One's Justice; APLUS with Kill la Kill IF. All of these are games that are fairly well received, if not better.

This game was apart of my introduction of One Piece as a franchise. As a fan and avid manga reader of it now, I can look back at this game and say that it was a massive miss; it could of been so much better if it was handled by a team who actually cared about the property.
Looking at the conclusion I written six years ago, I don't honestly know if there are quality One Piece games that you can play now, either on Steam or on current consoles.
I do know that when I got to hour 41 of this game and completed it, I was incredibly frustrated. I wrote this review and was done with it. I am still done; I have no desire to revisit this game.
This review is messy, and harsh, and blunt. I apologize--it still comes off strong.

I would like to thank society desu for their corrections. Unfortunately Steam does not allow you to reply to review threads. I also thank everyone else for their corrections as well; if anything, I want people who come across this game on the store, and this review, to have accurate and factual understanding.

And to you, who are reading this, and are perhaps still mad at a review I wrote six years ago: I don't know what to tell you. The review stays. My feelings are that what it represents, both the game itself, and me at the time when wrote it, are of value.
As a fan of One Piece, I believe we should ask for Bandai Namco and its developers to do better.

I encourage you to write your own review of this game (if you own it already--I don't recommend buying it), so that anyone who checks out One Piece: Burning Blood on the Steam store page can have a fair assessment of its quality, before making a purchasing decision.
Now please let me be.

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The campaign was really short, only one ''rushed'' arc.
Other than that it's a really good game for any One Piece fan.

you can play as 3 nico robins

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ could be better
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a backyard of bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
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☐ 9
☐ 10

You can play as Nico Robin

Where is One Piece Burning Blood 2 ODA?

THE ONE PIECE, THE ONE PIECE IS REAAAAAL



Can we get much higher, so highhhhhhhh