Fortunately, there’s a generous fast-travel system, so getting from place to place is at least quick and painless as long as you’ve already been there.The thought of a popular anime like One Piece getting a game piqued my interest. Not to mention the fact that if you try to rocket around any heavily guarded city or base, snipers will just shoot you out of the sky, forcing you to take the long way around. This makes traversal feel way more “stop and go” than it really should be in a game like this. He can’t run up walls, he only has one-air dash that can only be used once he loses momentum, and he can only swing at designated areas in just one city. But while Spider-Man has a whole assortment of moves designed to keep his momentum going in just about any environment, Luffy isn’t quite built the same way. In certain situations, this is fun in the same way that web-zipping around New York City is fun in Marvel’s Spider-Man. Luffy can zipline to them and propel himself forward. Not Quite Spider-ManWorld Seeker is at least close to making navigating its large open world a joy, but it doesn’t quite hit the mark here either. The worst is a required treasure hunt mission with a map that’s ridiculously misleading and doesn’t correspond to the landmarks in the world. There are insta-fail stealth missions despite the fact that World Seeker has basically zero stealth mechanics, and there are needle-in-a-haystack missions where you must talk to virtually every NPC on the island to find the three that actually have relevant information. Several aspects of both the combat and mission design are at best poorly thought out or at worst straight-up terrible. The issues go way beyond just the repetition, though. Sure, getting Bazooka in the Armament stance gave me a way to deal huge damage to single targets, but ultimately all it did was make it so that instead of running into a fight pressing one button a bunch of times I just ran into a fight holding one button for a few seconds. Completing missions rewards skill points that can be used to purchase new abilities from four skill trees, but none of them evolve the combat in a way that makes it any more interesting. That got old within an hour, and there were 19 left go. (It’s hard to get creative when the obvious solution is right in front of you, and less obvious solutions aren’t any more fun in the first place.) There are a few enemies, like the shielded marines and robots, that require you to use ranged attacks, but apart from that, every fight against regular enemies played out almost exactly the same way. For the most part, it didn’t matter what kind of enemies I faced or which of the stances I use, because I still just got up in their face and mindlessly mashed the same button until everything was dead.
“The problem is that the enemies barely do anything that would require you to give any thought to the combat whatsoever. Punching and GatheringWorld Seeker is a bland and formulaic open-world adventure, which means you’ll spend a lot of time going from waypoint to waypoint, taking on main missions and side missions that both have you going to a spot, beating up a bunch of dudes, collecting a bunch of meaningless sparklies on the ground, or opening treasure chests that take an excruciatingly long time to reveal their contents.
Unfortunately, while the story gets much better as it goes on, the actual gameplay of World Seeker does not. The smaller moments are told with single-line quips and text, but the animations are charming and perfectly encapsulate each character.
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It helps, too, that it looks way better than it plays, and that the big moments are told via beautifully rendered cutscenes featuring full voice acting from the usual cast, along with the fantastic Rikiya Koyama and Ayumi Fujimura as Isaac and Jeanne respectively. “It’s nowhere near the quality level of a standard One Piece arc, but for what essentially amounts to filler, World Seeker’s story is surprising in all the right ways.
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