A new RPG from the hugely popular manga and anime series ONE PIECE, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the series! The famed pirate, Monkey.D.Luffy, better known as Straw Hat Luffy, and his Straw Hat Crew, are sailing across the New World in search of the next island and the next adventure that awaits them. But during their voyage they are caught in a storm and shipwrecked. They find themselves washed up on a lush tropical island surrounded by constantly raging storms... Separated from his crew, Luffy sets off on a grand, new adventure to find his friends and escape the island! Dangerous new enemies, terrifying forces of nature, and more await them! Play as various members of the Straw Hat Crew in a classic RPG set in the world of the popular ONE PIECE anime!

There is no difficulty setting, but if you plan to get the full completion with the DLC achievements, you will be given a number of accessories from purchasing the Adventure Expansion that make the beginning of the game especially easy and adds a ton of stats to all of your characters. You can give them one of each (attack, defense, HP, and guts) or load up Luffy with four attack boosts to make him a powerhouse.

As you play through the story, I would highly suggest following the video under Collector (10G) to grab all the Yaya Cubes as you go through each area, as well as completing all the side-quests you see (marked with blue icons on the map), memory links (purple icons) and grab bounties from the taverns and complete those (yellow icons) so that you have less backtracking to do later on. You will need to return to earlier sections for some locked treasure chests once you get the key in Chapter 8, and probably to find some of the hidden items that you can spot while playing as Sanji, Robin, and Nami - always have one of those three as your on-screen character unless you need someone else's ability at that specific moment. Also be on the lookout for each character's specific Cube Fragments which are the glowing green pickups.

One thing this game does extremely poorly is helping you track some of the collectible and crafting achievements. The Yaya Cubes specifically mentioned above, there are 99 of these and absolutely no way in game to figure out which ones you may be missing. Similarly, cooking with Sanji and crafting with Usopp is not tracked at all, so write down which of those you do with each character and do not craft more than one of each kind of food/trick so you can avoid grinding out materials later on.

Once you unlock the ability to auto-battle shortly into the game, this can easily get you through most of the basic fights in the game. The team will use special moves, healing abilities, and even items effectively - it's one of the better auto-battle AI systems I have seen. Feel free to use that, and press  in battle to speed up all the attack animations to make things go a bit quicker.

Step 2: Mop Up Collectibles and Quests
Once you are done with the story, go back through every area and ensure you have complete all of the side-quests and bounties, collected all the Yaya Cubes, character Cube Fragments, and locked chests, found enough hidden items with Sanji, Robin, and Nami, build bridges with Franky, and crafted one of each recipe with Sanji and Trick Ball with Usopp.

Step 3: Level Up and Defeat Powerful Enemies
You will want to be a minimum of Level 70, or overlevel to 80+ to really make this step simple, and defeat each of the Powerful Enemies unlocked by one of the side-quests. See Challenge Enemy Conqueror (125G) for info on how to power level and where to find each of these bosses.
 

To begin the Reuinion of Memories story, you will need to complete the story of the main game first, then a new blue cube will show up next to the save point at Adio's house in Waford. You can use this to enter the DLC, and you can use any save point inside the DLC (which will now glow red instead of blue) to exit the DLC, then use the cube again to return.

This DLC is fairly straightforward, though it does have two separate endings. The [A] ending consists of finding seven hidden Ninja Yoisa in the added chapters and choosing positive choices with Lim (see Cleared final chapter [A] (125G) for the exact choices). You will want to collect the ninjas as you go, but DO NOT complete the objectives in the menu to get the rewards. You want to complete the DLC once without the rewards to receive the basic [L] ending, saving prior to the final boss fight. Then, reload that save and claim all the rewards from the menu and beat the boss a second time to get the [A] ending.

Note: It is important to do the endings in this order, because if you answer with all the positive Lim choices and complete all the Yoisa challenges from the menu on the same save file, you will only be eligible for the [A] ending. The only way to then get the [L] ending is replaying the entire DLC and instead select the bad Lim dialogue choices, since the Yoisa challenges are saved to your character permanetly. To avoid a second playthrough of the DLC, pay close attention to these requirements.

The fights in this DLC can sometimes be annoying, as they often have special win conditions such as beating the enemy with a specific character, or once even harming a character to under 20% health without killing them. The fights show a recommended level of 55-70 throughout the DLC, but those estimates are way off. The final few bosses could one-shot me at Level 90+ and even had to tweak some of my accessory setups to do decent damage. More on that in the guide below.

For your party, I would suggest using Chopper to heal and stuffing him full of DEF/HP/GUTS accessories to make him a tank. Add a TP Auto-Regen and he can just throw an area-wide heal every time. I then used Zoro, Luffy, and Nami since they all had attacks that could hit every enemy in the fight, and have decent single-target attacks as well for bosses. Stuff each of them with ATT/HP and sprinkle in some extra DEF/GUTS through fusion. As mentioned above, you may need to swap accessories for certain fights to target an enemy's weakness.

One Piece Odyssey was quite an enjoyable RPG! I loved the combat system, though most fights I was able to just auto-battle. Once I got to the powerful enemies and the DLC it really brought some strategy into the game though. The exploration and puzzles were good. The side-quests were all quick but provided some good dialogue. The achievements aren't too bad, with only a little planning needed for the DLC endings to avoid two playthroughs of that content - the base game can be done without any worries of missables. The game is also fairly simple up to the end of the DLC, but with a little strategy and proper use of the accessory fusion system as outlined in the guide, you should have little trouble.