One Piece: Burning Blood is a great experience for fans of the One Piece Series. Those who are familiar with One Piece will be excited to see their favorite characters in a faithful representation of a pivotal story arc. However, there is not enough happening in Burning Blood's fighting mechanics to spike the interests of those who are either unfamiliar...
One Piece: Burning Blood2016
One Piece: Burning Blood
2016 Bandai Namco Entertainment68Worthwhile
Playtime
ModerateIt typically takes about 12 hours to finish the game.
Playable on
- Steam DeckVerified
- Steam MachineVerified
Available on
- −90%$4.99
- −90%$5.99
- −90%$5.99
Game modes
- 2 players
- 2 players
Details
- Launch
- April 21, 2016
- Developer
- Spike Chunsoft
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Themes
Overview
The game that all One Piece fans have been waiting for. One Piece Burning Blood is a dynamic and colourful new fighting game featuring the worlds most famous pirate: Monkey D. Luffy.
Screenshots
Reception
Press65
Players80
WorthwhileGreat- Metacritic66from 45 reviews
- OpenCritic64from 33 reviews
Visually, this game is right up there with some of CyberConnect2's successful Naruto games, too bad the gameplay didn't follow suit.
One Piece: Burning Blood is one of those middle of the road games that makes game reviewers weep. The fun of praising or decimating a title stolen away without so much as a cheeky card. The game itself does work as an introduction to the series, giving the briefest of glimpses as to why it's so popular, and piling on the fan service with countless playable...
While One Piece: Burning Blood may look pretty, offer some nice content and a bizarre cast (including a cross dressing pirate based on Rocky Horror Picture Show's Frank N Furter), 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...
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.
