Recent reviews by Hikaru

While the story, world-building, characterization, and interactions between the Strawhats is wonderfully done and feels nearly canon (especially the Sanji and Nami shipping here and there.)

There is a few things to say about the game play that I am not a big fan of.

For an anime game that calls itself 'open world.' It is LIMITED.

-For one, If the story wants you to go somewhere and you try to go off on your own, a character will say something and the screen will blacken and send you where you last were.

-Two, while you can wander around when not having to do something, your area of wandering is locked to the map, if an area is on the map you can explore it. But to get to that area, or go anywhere else, you can't. Like if one area of the map has a path and you want to get to the path near that. You see that nice small row of rocks between you and it? You can't jump over them. This gets annoying after a while as you can't take any shortcuts to get places unless they're designated with an icon to use Luffy's swinging or jumping. If it doesn't have an icon or designated, no shortcut.

-Three, you can play as any of the characters, but they all have overworld skills, so as much as you want to play as Sanji or Nami or others, Luffy is still the one that can swing up or the only one to use CoO (why?) and grab things from afar so he's the most useful to play as. It kind of railroads you into relying on him the most.

-Four, EXP. Despite letting you limit your team to 4 characters and choosing who they are. Everyone will still receive EXP even your reserve crew. So if you had any plans of say having Sanji lvl max and Zoro lvl 1 (lmao), you can't. It divides it out evenly for them and for some odd reason Usopp keeps up with Luffy and gains levels the fastest..

Despite that, if you like One Piece, love the characters, and follow the manga religiously and want that 'extra adventure.' It's still great for story and and a One Piece game. Treat it like a fanfic that you can play and you'll enjoy it. Just don't put any faith in its 'open world,' label.

The chess of the future.

Part of hacking locks is actually knowing the mechanics behind it. You know, the insides, how it works, where the tool actually needs to press against, etc...

This sim gives none of that. It tells you to wiggle the tool with the mouse and click A or D to pick. That's it.

For the safe lock? The old stethascope and combination trick. Again, not really explained. Just move till you hear clicking, then spin back and forth. At least that one, one can infer how it works. Not so much the first.

Then we have the third simulation. Bomb wire cutting. And if you know nothing about that? Prepare to blow it up. It literally just gives it to you and says to cut wires. Once again, no explanation of how they work.

This is supposed to be a simulator of their functions, not hollywood lock picking.

Very disappointed as one who's actually interested/attempted in learning the art.

Honestly should have been free. I feel like I wasted my money.

That's not how hacking works.

While yes, a bruteforcer may get that result, it will take much much longer. And the other 'programs' on there may get those results, but that is not how you use them or how they work. This game is more the script kiddie simulator than the hacking simulator. And while the hacking sims and games aren't supposed to be super realistic or even close, this one takes the cake. It's not entertaining or fun in story, the person telling you to hack things is conceited and arrogant sounding the entire time and the game feels like you're trying to be loluber1337.

There's misspellings everywhere, you can't have more than one window open on the desktop, so if you forget passwords or like the IP, you have to keep going back and forth or write it down. And for the love of god, the command prompt you're given literally only accepts the command for the direct file, rather than you know, listing files, going to directories, things that a normal terminal console would give.

... There's way better hacking simulators or games on steam that don't make you feel like a complete skiddie and with actual entertaining stories that don't talk down to you.

Also, more points taken off for breaking in the middle of the pong-game loading.