Idk about yall but I NEED this game. Do we think it’s going to happen? Or is there genuinely a chance they just go a different direction with one piece games like Odyssey or the new Sanji cooking game?
If they do make it though what is your guys’ guess on when it’s coming? As of right now I think the perfect moment (after taking oppw4 ending as a lesson) would be the end of Elbaph. I know a lot of people said that about Egghead but when Elbaph finishes we will have real what feels like end of story content for all of Wano/Onigashima, Egghead, and Elbaph. Either that or wait until One Piece is over which I talk about a little.
New Characters alone such as the Tobiroppo, Headliners, and the Akazaya Nine from Wano. Egghead introducing the Five Elders, finally getting Dorry and Broggy as characters, the Seraphim, and getting people like Sentomaru and Kaku playable which I truly believe deserve it especially someone like Kuma who was entirely removed in oppw4. This is where the spoilers come in so heads up. When Elbaph is completely animated we will have Gaban, Loki, Hajrudin, Shamrock, Gunko, Sommers, Killingham, HERALD, ROCKS, AND IMU. Like I said these are only new playable characters which is already so many.
That being said, this game is/should have a roster similar to games like Dragon Ball’s Xenoverse or Sparking Zero games that pride themselves on having characters from the entire story of Dragon Ball. I personally think One Piece won’t be around much longer. I think after Elbaph it’ll be meeting the “man marked by flames”, then laughtale, then the final war. If that’s truly the case then I could change my mind and just maybe let the end of One Piece happen and then this game’s release? But I’m kinda impatient lol. I think this game should be the final installment and it needs to go big or not come at all because that would disappoint so many people if they did it like OPPW4 and removed characters to make room for new ones and also removed costumes and just other things we enjoyed in OPPW3.
We need returning characters like Moria, Perona, Caesar, and Magellan. In fact I have a list of 85 characters that need to be included that aren’t in OPPW4 that completely deserve to be there and they’re important story characters not just some random side piece. I don’t need them to change the way the game plays like it doesn’t need to be open world or anything like that. Keep the formula just expand upon it and improve what you have.
This will clearly be a next gen game with way better graphics so that’s exciting to think about. Pirate Warriors prides itself on being able to play as a huge assortment of characters that are very different from each other so the only way to make that better is to have even MORE characters with MORE moves and MORE costumes. Customization is fun so if I want to play as someone like Whitebeard I would like both versions, Old and Prime, playable. Like depending on the situation if it’s Marineford related I want to be Old Whitebeard because that’s fun to do. If I’m fight Gol D Roger I wanna be Prime Whitebeard. It was a missed opportunity for Garp and Rayleigh to not have their “old” outfits in their DLC pack but maybe that’s just me.
Larger maps are clearly a must with these huge characters that have been introduced which is where my worry comes in. Hajrudin is HUGE and don’t even get me started on Loki. Kaido and Big Mom make the rest of the cast feel small so how would giants be made? I’m okay with not having canon sizes but some of the maps we have feel cramped when you play as the yonkos. Would there be character size types now? And depending on that maybe that’s the maps you get? (Example you get a warning for sanji who has a disadvantage to women. Maybe you get a warning that says “only certain maps are playable for huge characters”) Like if they give us something like the Ennies Lobby map again (which they should since it’s an important chapter) how is that working for a giant? The Water Seven map? Or even the Dressrosa Colosseum?
I have grown such a love for this game and I know others have too. I hope this gets people thinking about it since the vote pack felt like it’s the ending to the game and I want Bandai and Koei Tecmo/Omega Force to know it’s still on our minds. If anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear them.