Eventually, Luffy discovers the Devil Fruit user he heard about was Smoker, a Marine officer who doesn’t particularly like young the supernova pirate. Enemy vision and hearing ranges aren’t short, however, so sneaking is usually a better option. While the game has stealth mechanics, they’re not incredibly involved, and mostly center around sneaking up to enemies using a barrel or just dropping in before they know what hit them. In the first section, I was tasked with crossing a long bridge to meet with a Devil Fruit user that Jeanne suspects might be one of Luffy’s crewmates. While there’s no English dub for World Seeker, all of the characters have the same voice actors from the TV show, so fans won’t suffer any soundalikes that don’t sound quite right. Not only are Jeanne and Isaac designed by One Piece artist and writer Eiichiro Oda, but Oda oversaw the game’s story as a whole. In terms of authenticity, Bandai Namco and developer Ganbarion are pulling out all the stops with World Seeker.

Once Strawhat wakes up, he meets a rebellion group lead by a woman named Jeanne that wants to take the islands back from Isaac and promises to help Luffy find his crew. After things go sideways, the crew is scattered about around the Prison Islands under the jurisdiction of the powerful Warden Isaac, from whom Luffy only barely escaped with his life after a fight. The game’s intro sets up its story: during a heist on an island, the Strawhat pirates realize they’ve been tricked, and Luffy, pretending to surrender to the Navy and the World Government, turned out to be quite real. Ahead of the game’s release in a few weeks, I went hands-on with the core gameplay in Bandai Namco’s open world title. Bandai Namco is hoping that its newest One Piece game, titled World Seeker, will help turn that tide and expose the series to new people in the west. Yet this success never really permeated the American zeitgeist the way some contemporaries and rivals have for whatever reason. A few years ago, One Piece very quietly hit the milestone of the best-selling manga series by volume of all time, surpassing even the classic Dragon Ball.

English audio tracks for one piece