Set Sail With The Straw Hats
Announced early this year, it was revealed that we weren’t only getting a new One Piece video game. We were getting two!
Details have been scarce, though we do know that one of them, entitled Grand Cruise, is going to be a VR exclusive that will drop us right into the world of Luffy and company. The other, simply known as Dawn, is rumoured to be something “incredible.” Given the amount of One Piece action games we’ve gotten over the years, that’s a big promise.
According to an article on Crunchyroll –
There are two notable One Piece game projects on the horizon. Both were announced over the summer. There’s Grand Cruise. It’s for the PlayStation VR, but, beyond that, little is known. There’s also what was given the code name “Dawn.” It involves Shueisha, Toei Animation, and Bandai Namco, plus the cooperation of Eiichiro Oda. Beyond that, and the description of being “unprecedented,” nothing is known. An early look at the hype is at least suggesting something about the premise.
Last year, Oda said in regards to the manga he’d wrap up the Whole Cake Island arc and run into the Reverie council of kings and Wano arcs in 2017. Then, over the summer, One Piece editor Takumi Naito and publisher Shueisha’s Taku Sugita said Wano will be amazing… the biggest thing to hit the series since The Marine Ford arc.
It’s hard to say what kind of adventure we’re in for. The idea of potentially playing as or fighting alongside the Straw Hats in VR sounds amazin, especially if we get to let loose our own Devil Fruit abilities. Dawn on the other hand sounds like a different beast altogether. Are they looking to perfect on their usual formula of hack and slash entries like Burning Blood? Or could it be the kind of open-world game fans have been demanding for years!
