FINALLY. Thank you so much for your patience. I hope you enjoy this one, I felt extremely passionate about the chosen topic and I hope it shows! I'll be dropping an update video after this one where I'll talk about future plans, including Lost Odyssey Part 2, that I touch on slightly in the video. So expect this at some point in May! (Also, 28:41, I meant Rain Dinner's was Croc's base. Woopsie!) If you liked what you saw, please subscribe and if you REALLY liked it, go pledge on Patreon! It'd be great to see some new names. :) THANK YOU AGAIN, looking forward to having a chat in the Update! - Clemps

Just want to clarify that when luffy beat Bellamy. That was literally the only hit he had ever bothered throwing against him. One punch.

Coming from a 3D artist, It's genuinely impressive how well they have been able to translate Oda's style into these models. I'm just sorry to hear that the game is... difficult to love

37:20 Funnily enough, Oda confirmed in an interview that the One Piece will be a physical object/treasure because of how much he hates the "the real treasure was the friend we made along the way" trope

To this day, there's still one moment in One Piece that brings me to tears from the raw emotion it conveys.. Just hearing "I WANT TO LIVE!" makes me bawl my eyes out.

Alabasta is absolutely a slog, but I loved everything in the rest of the game after it. Really loved the moment at Water 7 where you examine an island nearby from the shore before entering the city, and everyone wonders whose memory is this since everyone clearly remembers there being no island close - with only Luffy being airheaded about such details, as usual - and then everyone chiming in with "Ah..." was on brand 😀

I love how when Adio reveals his power to the crew for the first time he INSISTS that "naaah, it's a shit power, really, no believe me, it's really shit it is"

Considering the whole thing about following dreams and Luffy's ability to inspire people, I am 100% expecting a "the real one piece is the friends we made along the way" moment, when they see there is no treasure, only to have some slapstick comedy moment knock down a wooden panel and reveal a mountain of gold and jewels.

In 1000 years, One Piece will be talked about alongside things like The Odyssey and Mahabharata as one of the great epics of human history.

I feel like I got baited when I saw odyssey but it’s ONE PIECE so its a fair trade 😂

Personal advice: If you're apprehensive about the length of the One Piece anime in its vanilla state and want a specific fan rec, One Pace has been doing wonders for me. Just know that some arcs (especially Skypiea) aren't done in One Pace yet, so you'll need to jump to OP Kai briefly, which has some errors, albeit nothing that I find dealbreaking. Alternatively you could just sub in the vanilla episodes under a watch guide for slightly better consistency

There's an increased player speed mod and difficulty mod for the game. Haven't tried the latter but the former thoroughly improved my experience through the game. You also don't need to fully zoom into 1st person to activate Luffy's grab, makes the action feel somewhat more fluid. Hope you enjoy the game more when you get back to it even if the padding doesn't get much better

I had been meaning to get into this series for like a decade and I finally started binging it a couple years back. That sweet spot of East Blue all the way to Ennis Lobby is some of the most joyous I've experienced in an anime. Pacing slows to a crawl from then on and I pretty much gave up on the anime during Whole Cake, but I still have nothing but fondness for the series and plan to jump back into Wano with how gorgeous the production looks. WE ARE!!

I am 48 years old and a moderate manga/anime lover. Last year, I finally tasted "One Piece" and I just loved it: humour, drama, charadesign. So I continued relentlessly (AKA binge-watching). Now I am at the end of Dressrosa arc. While Akira Toriyama is the illustrator and charadesigner of Dragon Quest , as I was watching it, I just didn't understand why there were no JRPG. Now, there is finally after more than 25 years.

I'm currently at the tail end of Whole Cake and I gotta say, I'm really enjoying myself so far. Admittedly I'm watching an edited version just to help speed up the anime's pacing because oh man you can see the anime stretching (hah hah) for time with some episodes. But the biggest consistent detriment to my enjoyment when it comes to One Piece is how Oda has unfortunately gotten weaker about how he's written his female characters. Dressrosa was painful at times when it came to its writing of Rebecca and how she was not allowed to impact the plot in any meaningful way. And what makes it worse is that Oda used to be really good about writing his female characters with more depth and agency like with Nami, Robin, and ViVi. I will say, Carrot has been an absolute joy to watch so maybe it was just something he struggled with for Dressrosa and the previous timeskip arcs but I don't know if it gets better or worse from where I'm at.

As a big fan of the series and someone who did finish Odyssey: The original parts of its story are quite good and specifically the Marineford and Dressrosa Memorias were great, but the first half of the game is generally a slog and it doesn't really put up a challenge (unless you forget to upgrade your equipment / cook revival items like I did until the Tower of Law). I'm hoping that the devs take some good feedback for the dlc and recreate the Eneru face meme

"All the movies are non-canon", he says as he shows a movie that's possibly the most canon

“If this is a world with Looney Tune-like properties then he’s the Toon!” …Shishishishishi…

Great to have you back, Clemps. I really enjoyed this video. I used to be into One Piece years ago, but I did fall out of it over time. At this point, I probably won't get back into it but I appreciate you talking about why you love the manga/anime. It

New channel video!! Been missing you Zeke

You never cease to entertain and inform, Clempsy. Thank you so much for the vid! The game does look gorgeous, maybe it's time to try DQXIS

One Piece is still my favourite shonen serie ever. I remember getting into it back in elementary school when it was running on tv and I stil love it like twenty years later, even if I don´t consistently keep up with the manga. Oda is one of my major inspirations when it comes to world building and the sheer amount of effort and detail that go into it.

Honestly speaking, if it turned out One Piece was a giant troll move the guy did just to get back at the Navy I honestly think Luffy would still find the Positive even in that. Even if it was a lie, I think Luffy would still smile saying it brought him many adventures and it gave him friends that are irreplicable. And he managed to not only help people along the way but also made the world just a lil better for everyone, and this is coming from someone who isn't even a fan of the series.

Would just like to thank you for every shot of Nami and Nico

Woo Clemps my boy, really looking forward to watching this one!

Started one piece early 2021 and finished it November of the same year, I'm all caught up and can't wait for the next chapter

I’ve been reading one piece and loving it as much as ever

Mfers really out here crying at one piece scenes where Hamburger Johnson of the Ham ham fleet gives a speech about love an equality whilst Salad man of the bad salad gang tries to kill him because someone poured hot water on him as a child.

My only.issue with One Piece Odyssey is the implications that the Sunny broke when it's made of Adam wood

Great to see another fantastic video, I occasionally rewatch some of your videos because I really enjoy how you talk about games and you've introduced me to some series I really love. I got Fuga: Melodies of Steel a while back after your video introduced me to it and I have finally been playing and loving it in prep for it's sequel's release next week.

Let’s gooooo i missed this guy

i've recently started watching one piece with my best friend and we're now halfway through skypiea and loving it. having someone to talk to during the slower moments is doing wonders.

It's good to see a video from you again. I'd like to hear you humor more often. I should watch your streams. 😅

Ok clemps! You convinced me. Starting from chapter 1 now! See you in 5 years when i catch up!

I love One Piece. I loved anime games when I was younger. But a thought that nagged at me even then was the exhaustion I felt playing through the Namek arc, then the Android arc, then the Cell Games arc for the 13th time. And that was how much those games could actually do with the properties they had and how comparatively little they actually did with them. I had sworn off those games cause of how disappointed I felt, but this game drew me in. Partially cause I'm a OP mark and partially cause maybe they actually pulled it off. They didn't. What I will say is how I noticed that we stopped at exactly the same point. Right after you get the smaller crab and cross the sand lake. I just couldn't anymore. Great video!!

love you endlessly Clemps ♥️

Wow they really just wrote my boy brook out huh? XD

With book depository closing I ended up ordering the latest 30 volumes of the manga to get my collection up to speed, and I’ve just started re reading the series. Real nice trip down memory lane but hoo boy…it’s gonna take me a long while to catch up. Video was great! Had my suspicions that the padding and difficulty were the game’s Achilles heel…

Happy to see another great video and from my favorite manga series no less! Checked out the demo for Odyssey a while back and...yeah it seems neat but retreading story arcs we see in every other game is a bit of a bummer, but that's licensed games for ya I guess.

Hello Clemps, I love your channel and have been watching since the days of your collabs with SuperBestFriends. I have only one complaint, which I hope is tempered by how much I appreciate your analyses (especially about the Nier/Drakengard games, which I credit with a deeper understanding that I personally gained on transhumanist narrative and the dichotomy of hope and despair): You said, "the second colossi." Colossi would be the plural, and, as an English teacher, this sentence should instead read, "the second colossus." Otherwise, even as someone who bounced off of 4Kids One Piece twenty years ago, this was a delightfully entertaining video. Keep up the wonderful work!

Great video as always!

UNCLE CLEMPS IS BACK BABYYYYY So glad to see you again!

One Piece Lost Odyssey. That's it, that's the comment. Jk, loved the video!! Your content is always worth the wait, no matter how long it takes. One Piece is such a wonderful series, it's a shame not a lot of games can capture the same magic like the anime / manga does.

Love your work mate

I've been passing the time since the last video rewatching all your old video and everyone on the twitch archive channel. Love all the content ❤

I really appreciate the excellent video. It confirmed that I am morbidly uninterested in One Piece, but still a very good video.

great vid! you sold me on trying the game someday

I have seen so so much one piece, and I'm still playing catch up, as in I still have hundreds of episodes to enjoy for the first time

One Piece is my undisputed favorite manga of all time, and a strong contender for my favorite story of all time. I won't claim to love it more than anyone else, because that would be silly, but to me, its one of the greatest treasures in my life. So with that said, I was really hoping you were going to tell me about how imaginative and interesting this setting is and how its one of the best non-canon adventures the Straw Hats have ever been on. Now, seeing that its just another case of "this anime game is just the canon story, but remixed to be not as good" for large chunks of it really sucks.

Odyssey sounds like the anime: the game. Plenty of potential, bogged down by padding and flashbacks. I dream of the day we get a good OP game without any caveats. Where the devs are allowed to design new outfits instead of those goddamn Fishman Island threads. Where the game isn't just a retread of familiar ground with fan-favourite characters randomly inserted into the story for no reason. Maybe when the series is over we can have that freedom.

Im glad I wasn't the only one that felt this way. If they had just told an original story with old islands as the backdrop, I probably would've liked it more. I couldn't even make it out of Alabasta. I think the moment that broke me was the whole walking up to the cave and then making me walk all the way back to do nothing and then walking to the cave again was what got me. I also appreciate that the characters acknowledge that they're in a memory but, the fact that they just forget certain things like the crab mover for no reason other than to pad the gameplay? Why????

"One Piece" was the friends we made along the way.

Loved the video Clemps. I was curious about this game. Extremely casual OP enjoyer so I might just keep going through the manga now cuz of this :3

25:56 The Keyblade really sells the point of dreading a game with memory versions of a story you JUST went through. XD

i played through the whole game. It was extremely painful at times. But my love of one piece helped me pushed through. the little moments throughout and the ost helps. But oh boy, i am too old to deal with padding anymore.

Clemps video always good always healing

Babe, wake up, new Clemps video!

What a great video for one piece fans and gamers!

I'm on the last chapter of the game & have enjoyed it over all but I feel like they dropped the ball in one particular segment. *SPOILERS* I feel it would've been much better if Ace was "rescued" at the end of Marineford. We should've rescued him this go around & then they could've really twisted the knife by having the crew escape to Memoria & once they're there Ace would either: A) Simply be gone once they all get back to Memoria; everyone looks around to find him missing because he's just a manifestion of a memory that can't exist beyond the Marineford segment. Glad we "saved this version of him but we're left with a hollow victory. B) everyone's there, including Ace; the crew just rolls with it, why question a good thing? They throw one of there parties where they all happily banter, with him expressing his gratitude to everyone & how proud he is of his baby brother's huge leap in strength but then a few minutes into the scene, he abruptly starts to disappear (like Corazon in Dressrosa). He's not understanding what's going on, crewmates frantically turning to Lim to ask if she can stop/fix what's going on but she'll be too out of her depth to even give an explanation & Luffy will lose him all over again, even after saving him. An arguably more painful scenario. C) OR my personal preference; have it play out like scenario B but ultimately nothing happens. He's just somehow still around to everyone's confusion, especially Lim's & have him join the crew for the remainder of the game. Have him pick up on the details of the situation he's now in & learn that he's a manifestion of a memory & once the previously mentioned Corazon bit wraps up, Ace could hang back to ask Lim "is that what's going to happen to me?" with her responding with "I don't know" & have that weigh on his mind for the remainder of the game & at the end pull a FFX with him disappear after coming to terms that he's not the real Ace but being content with having been able to help his brother along his journey before saying goodbye to Luffy (again). Just IMAGINE the interactions with Sabo in the Dressrosa segment! Ace reuniting with the brother he thought was long dead (& now has his Devil Fruit), Sabo getting to see the the brother he knows to be dead and Luffy having both his big brothers back, for just awhile at least. All three boys together again. OMG, that would've been amazing fan fiction BS right there, lol! 🥲 ANYTHING would've been better than him getting hit with a stray off screen fireball to then just fall over & smolder to death in a jank, lackluster animation with everyone just going "... OK, gotta go!" like it was no big deal. It left me going "wait, that's it? THAT'S IT?!" & I had to stop playing for a few days due to how anticlimactic it was. 😩 Like I said, I dig the game over all but the fumbling of the revisit to Marineford really took the wind out of my sails.

Gotta get ready for that Fuga 2 video

Best youtube channel

You did it!!!

For the algorithm the great computer of the sky

One Piece is one of those shows that I've tried to get into several times, but I just keep falling off and I couldn't tell you why. This may have convinced me to give it another shot. We'll see if I manage to stay on board this time.

Great review

I started reading One Piece a few months ago but with the job getting super busy I haven't been able to keep going. Thanks to this though, I'm going to try to watch it ;w; thank you!!!

THE BMASK BIT HAD ME ROLLING. FISH PEOPLE.

Everyday I wake up, I’m grateful to be alive at the same time as Oda 🙏🏼

Ive been considering picking up one piece again, this might just be the kick I needed to do it Great video!

Pirate Goku

A quote that will always pull all of my heart strings is Ace saying thank you for loving me

CLEMPS AND ONE PIECE? Yes...

Damn was just getting into One Piece so amazing timing

The only thing missing from this video was a lack of rubber gloves. Otherwise, great video! Always a great day when you post content!

THE ONE CLEMPS IS REAAAAAL

HELP literally 20 seconds into the video already had me laughing. GOOD SHIT

Hey! Loved the video. I hate to admit this as a huge OP fan myself (even a co-host of an OP-themed podcast), but I dropped the game at nearly the EXACT place as you, only stopping as soon as Water 7 began in the game. Same as you: despite absolutely loving One Piece, the pacing of the missions and the lack of narrative creativity within the established rules of Odyssey (at least in Arabasta) got me burnt out. I intend to finish the game at some point for the pod, buuuuu~uuut it drained my excitement a bit. Great job on this, BTW! You've come a long way since your Drakengard vids!

Fine, you have convinced me; I going to start to read One Piece.

OH COME MY WAY

The best way to enjoy one piece imo is the fan reedited anime like one pace that remove all the fats and stay closer to the manga. Get the best of both worlds that way.

Sounds like the memorable/nostalgic main attraction of visiting old memories only served to have you say "Yea I remember these people and places" but slowed down any kind of main plot during that time.

i freaking love one piece i've been on this train for a long time and i can't wait to get to THE one piece treasure

I was hooked when you mentioned b mask

i've litereally just restarted watching this series, i read the mange for a while but stopped due to adhd and with my current job it's fine to have it sorta on the background until i catch up to where i was

It's really unfortunate that so many One Piece games do the story retread. Unlimited World Red did the same thing and while it did work for me as a lapsed fan and lover of games that feel like they came off the ps2, it is tiresome that they don't just settle on an original story for a whole game. This video kicked my "I should get back to reading One Piece" into gear again though, so great job!!

Yay clemps and one piece tyvm. Nom Nom NOm

15 minutes into the video "skipping right to it" I forgot I was even watching a video game review lol

Timmy catching strays ICANT

Return of the king

I'm glad I made the right call on Odyssey. I played the demo and it seemed good but from what I played of the first chapter it looked like they front loaded a lot of the newer things. This game along with a lot of other One Piece media that I don't like in recent time is this need to revisit moments and Arcs of the past. I understand that One Piece is very long and people who were watching/reading 20 years ago might not remember everything or people picked it up recently and skipped ahead to see what's current. It's this constant need to revisit and fear of doing anything new that especially in the video games that's getting annoying. Also the tiring use of the Fishman Island arc outfits even through the Straw Hats haven't worn those outfits in about...10 years now. I understand from a game design pov it's easier to use the marketable outfits and modeling them is much easier but still. It's One Piece, it's one of the most imaginative series ever made. You'd think game designers would use the world and characters in fun and interesting ways but nah let's just revisit a bunch of popular moments.

thanks for the video clemps

I've tried watching One Pace but it took out too many little things out of that the anime did that I liked. A good ol fast forward button and filler list is enough for me but if you do care about being as ACURATE AS POSSIBLE then yeah go for One Pace! I kinda want a version of One Pace that just removes the non canon stuff and reduce the recaps/flashbacks to a normal understandable amount. Kinda sad to see an emotional scene and think in the back of your head I am going to see this repeated over and over for the rest of the arc.

"If I had a 1000 children do you think I could love them all? No!" Clemps out here living the Big Mom lifestyle 😂

Loved the video, very good!

The horde of people trying to get me to watch one piece grows

man the manga iteration of that belamy punch is so much better lol

OPO could have been so much more one odd thing is that they did not use cel shading to make it look more animated but tried this semi real graphical style wich looks uncanny in places. But it was a good excuse for Clemps to talk aoput One Piece wich is an automatic win ( great stuff Clemps, + if you want to branch out into One piece videos or anime in general that would be most welcome)

amazing intro

I dropped it after the Croc fight. I CAN NOT believe they immediately make you go back to Alabasta lmao

To be honest, I screeched at the mention of B-Mask. He's one of my favorite KZfaqrs.