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Friday12th May 2023
News PS5, PS4's Likeable One Piece RPG Adds Story DLC This Month
Reunion of memories
The previously announced Reunion of Memories story DLC for likeable RPG One Piece Odyssey will set sail to PS5 and PS4 from 25th May, publisher Bandai Namco has now officially confirmed. In addition to expanding the story of the anime adaptation, this offering will also have a greater emphasis on combat, promising more tactical...
Wednesday5th Apr 2023
News One Piece Odyssey DLC Reunion of Memories Announced for PS5, PS4
Back to Waford
Bandai Namco has announced PS5, PS4 JRPG One Piece Odyssey will receive an expansion in the coming months that brings another mystery to Waford, centred around the Black Cubes. Neither a price nor release date have been revealed yet, but the trailer above provides some more context. In a separate video, producer Katsuaki Tsuzuki says...
Thursday19th Jan 2023
News One Piece Odyssey Among Japan's Best Sellers During Launch Week
Second only to Pokemon
One Piece Odyssey was one of the best-selling games in Japan during its first week on the market, with only the joint sales of Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet beating it to top spot. The PS4 version sold best at 35,123 units, while the PS5 edition sold 26,879 copies. It beat out competition from other Nintendo
Wednesday11th Jan 2023
News One Piece Odyssey Gets a Great Launch Trailer Ahead of Friday's PS5, PS4 Release
Raise the sails
One Piece Odyssey is just days away from its release on PS5 and PS4, and so Bandai Namco's dropped a hype-inducing launch trailer. Despite clocking in at just over a couple of minutes, it's a really good showcase of the RPG's style, and features loads of character cameos that'll have fans excited. We've already played the game, by...
Tuesday10th Jan 2023
News One Piece Odyssey PS5, PS4 Demo Is Available Now
Begin your journey today
A demo for One Piece Odyssey is now live on the PS Store across the UK, Europe, and the USA, letting you play the first few hours of the JRPG. Weighing in at 7.75GB, it's a fairly small download and you can carry over your progress into the full game if you like what you play. The full title releases for PS5, PS4 on 13th...
Monday9th Jan 2023
News One Piece Odyssey PS5, PS4 Trophies Will Make You Grind for that Platinum
Several pieces
As if there was any doubt, the Trophy list for One Piece Odyssey might take you a while to complete. The full rundown of digital trinkets has been revealed via PSNProfiles, and it looks as though the JRPG may require a little grinding if you want that shiny Platinum. A lot of the Trophies are tied to story progression, but you'll...
Wednesday21st Dec 2022
News One Piece Odyssey Looks Like a PS5, PS4 Must Play for JRPG Fans
You Luffy to see it
Sometimes you just want a classic JRPG experience, and One Piece Odyssey looks poised to scratch that itch from 13th January, 2023. While this trailer is an epic 11 minutes in length, we can summarise it in a sentence: this is Dragon Quest with a Straw Hat skin. Okay, that’s a little reductive as there are some fresh ideas on...
Monday19th Dec 2022
News Try One Piece Odyssey in Free PS5, PS4 Demo from 10th January
Just prior to launch
One Piece Odyssey is taking the long-running anime in a new direction next year, adopting a turn-based combat system as opposed to the action that Straw Hat Pirate aficionados may be accustomed to. You’re probably going to want to try it out for yourself then, yeah? Well, fortunately publisher Bandai Namco has got your back,...
Tuesday22nd Nov 2022
News One Piece Odyssey's Water 7 Is a City Ripe for JRPG Exploration
So much to do, so little time
One Piece Odyssey is slowly but surely gearing up for departure, with the epic JRPG based on the prolific anime setting sail on 13th January. Today we got a new gameplay trailer, again largely concerned with Water 7, the fabled City of Water. Veteran fans of the genre will no doubt expect to be running about, doing a...
Monday7th Nov 2022
News New One Piece Odyssey Trailer Revisits Water 7 with Fresh Gameplay
Water water everywhere
As previously reported, One Piece Odyssey will transport players back to various Straw Hat adventures from the source material — and the latest story arc to be featured is Water 7, when the gang visited the City of Water. This new trailer's got some fresh gameplay footage, as our heroes take a look around the aforementioned...
Saturday22nd Oct 2022
News One Piece Odyssey Opens Up with 7 Minutes of Gameplay
Side quests, combat, and more
One Piece Odyssey isn't that far off, so it's about time that we got some decent gameplay footage. This latest trailer gives us more insight into the title's structure, with Luffy and his crew taking on a couple of side quests and fighting some turn-based battles. While the side quests look rather...uninspired (gather...
Thursday6th Oct 2022
News One Piece Odyssey Has You Explore Memories of Old Straw Hat Adventures
Back to Alabasta
Licensed anime games are no strangers to plot points that lean heavily into the source material, but with One Piece Odyssey sporting its own original story, it's perhaps a surprise to hear that it'll also be delving into Luffy and his crew's past. The upcoming RPG primarily takes place on an entirely new island named Waford, but...
Thursday15th Sep 2022
News One Piece Odyssey Isn't Launching in 2022 After All
2023 it is
You know, it always seemed weird that One Piece Odyssey never got a confirmed release date despite all of its showings earlier in the year. Tokyo Game Show was, realistically, going to be its last chance of locking down a date — and it has. But unfortunately for One Piece enthusiasts, the RPG is no longer launching in 2022. One Piece...
Tuesday5th Jul 2022
News 18 Minutes of One Piece Odyssey Gameplay Debuted at Anime Expo 2022
Shaping up nicely
18 minutes of new One Piece Odyssey gameplay was shown off during an Anime Expo 2022 live stream, and the upcoming JRPG is looking strong. In the video, Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hat Crew are exploring a mysterious island, engaging in turn-based combat and some light traversal. The gameplay and even art style are very...
Thursday30th Jun 2022
News One Piece Odyssey Dev Diary Finally Shows Turn Based Battle Gameplay and More
One Piece goes full RPG
Bandai Namco has released a new developer-focused trailer for One Piece Odyssey, which actually features quite a bit of new gameplay footage. The headline here is that we finally get to see the game's turn based battle system in action towards the end of the video — and it looks suitably explosive. The dev diary also goes...
Thursday23rd Jun 2022
News First One Piece Odyssey Gameplay Will Be Dropping Soon
Will be at Anime Expo 2022
One Piece Odyssey was announced back in March, but outside of some screenshots and a couple of brief trailers, we're yet to see any real gameplay. And this is despite the fact that the game's scheduled to launch later this year. Fortunately, it looks like fresh footage is heading our way soon. One Piece Odyssey will have...
Thursday9th Jun 2022
News One Piece Odyssey Recruits a New Story Trailer, But Still No Release Date
The one piece of the puzzle
We honestly thought that a One Piece Odyssey release date was a lock for Summer Game Fest, but all we got was a new, mostly cinematic trailer. It shows how Luffy and his crew ended up in the game's strange setting, with glimpses of the RPG's gameplay peppered throughout. One Piece Odyssey is still scheduled for 2022, so...
Tuesday7th Jun 2022
News One Piece Odyssey Charts a Course for Summer Game Fest Live
Release date?
We're getting an update on One Piece Odyssey at Summer Game Fest Live this Thursday, the event's official social media accounts have confirmed. The party-based RPG was announced a few months back, but we're yet to really see it in action. We're betting on it getting a meaty trailer during Geoff's show, and probably a release date. It...
Monday28th Mar 2022
News One Piece Odyssey RPG Announced for PS5, PS4
Setting sail in 2022
A brand new One Piece game has just been announced for both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. One Piece Odyssey is an RPG and will feature an original story penned by One Piece author Eiichiro Oda. It's also set to release at some point in 2022, so we probably won't be waiting long for additional information. We're hoping that...
