One Piece: Kaizoku Musou review (part 1)

Since running out of One Piece last month I’ve been filling the gaping void in my life by playing insane amounts of Kaizoku Musou, which we picked up on holiday in Japan earlier this year. I don’t play a lot of games these days – generally if we pick up a new title my sister does most of the playing and I’ll stick to wandering in to watch now and then – so it’s no mark in its favour that this game has kept me entertained so long. It is terrifically good fun, and given that it is apparently breaking sales records for both Musou titles and One Piece games, the Japanese fanbase would appear to agree with me on that count. Better yet, it’s coming out in English in a few months time, and I would heartily recommend it to any One Piece fan with access to a PS3.

( The basics, highlights and lowlights, saving the character-specific stuff for another post )