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FAQ/Walkthrough by Mallowigi
Version 1.0, Last Updated 2012-02-04
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Table of Contents
1. Summary 2. Introduction
3. Version History
4. FAQs
5. Modes
1. Story Mode (New World Conquest)
2. Challenge Mode (Thousand Arena)
3. Multiplayer Mode
4. Training Mode
5. Team Edit Mode
6. Treasures
7. Options
6. Game System and Controls
1. Basics
2. Controls
3. Support Character Summoning (NEW!)
4. One Piece Rage
5. Bingo Guard
6. Logia Guard (NEW!)
7. Support Character Combo (NEW!)
8. Guard Break (NEW!)
9. Zoan Boost (NEW!)
10. Status effects
11. Items
12. Character Natures
7. Walkthrough
1. Introduction
2. Walkthrough
3. First Island: West Romance Dawn Island
4. Island 2: East Romance Dawn Island
5. Island 3: "East Memories Kingdom"
6. Island 4: "Marine Lagoon Mountain"
7. Island 5: "Justice Mountain"
8. Erbaf Coliseum
9. Island 6: "Fishmen Island (West Entrance)"
10. Island 7: "Border of Paradise Island"
11. Island 8: "New World Archipelago"
12. Final Island: "Roger & Whitebeard Final Meeting"
13. -
8. Skills
9. Main Characters
10. Support Characters
11. Passwords
12. Links
13. Legal Information & Copyright
14. Thanks and stuff
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Summary
Introduction
Hi everybody, welcome to my FAQ/Walkthrough. I'm a big fan of One Piece and I found the games really awesome, especially the Gigant Battle series, which is pretty rare for games created from manga. I liked a lot the previous one, thus as soon as I heard that a sequel was out, I rushed into my favorite import website to get my hands on it. I finished it pretty quickly though, but after all this time I noticed that there was still no FAQ for this game, therefore I decided to make my coming out and write my first FAQ :)
I'll do my best to provide a clear FAQ to help everyone in need for help, especially for non Japanese speakers who can have a hard time understanding the game, that until a version comes out in our territories. Oh, and also, I'm french, so the FAQ may have some mistakes, but I hope you won't mind ;) In any case, if you see that I was not clear enough or that I made some gross mistakes, please inform me by email at [email protected]
Besides, I'm also using the GameFAQs format, which is supposed to clarify the information provided; nevertheless, if you find it hard reading the document because of the format, please inform me as well along with recommendations for better writing. Thanks :).
Version History
v1.0 (04/02/2012) : Reread the whole FAQ before the final release. v0.9 (01/02/2012) : Finished the Story Mode.
v0.8 (28/01/2012) : Done some of the island 8.
v0.7 (26/01/2012) : Finished island 6 and 7 and reread some of the FAQ.
v0.6 (21/01/2012) : Corrected "1 VS 100" conditions and added most of the skills
v0.5 (19/01/2012) : Finished fourth island, added skills, legal stuff, links, passwords & some FAQs.
v0.4 (14/01/2012) : Finished second and third island
v0.3 (11/01/2012) : Started Walkthrough, did first island
v0.2 (08/01/2012) : Did Modes, Game System and Controls
v0.1 (06/01/2012) : Started the FAQ
FAQs
How many characters are available in this version?
One Piece: Gigant Battle 2: Shin Sekai contains about 100 characters, which 45 of them are playable, doubling the number of playable characters compared to the previous version. Of course, this number doesn't include the cameo characters who appear in the stages background.
When does the game takes place in the manga storyline?
The game story focuses on four main parts of the manga arcs, which are:
Strawhat crew's training before the timeskip Post timeskip gathering at Sabaody Archipelago
Fishmen Island
Strong World
But of course, the previous arcs of the storyline are included as well.
Is the game planned for Europe or North America?
No information has been revealed to this date.
What are those "Red balloons" that float over the world map?
These are special levels that appear after a while (and more often after finishing the game). Finishing them give a lot of money and experience.
''How can I obtain the "Shin Sekai" difficulty in Thousand Arena and the 1 VS 100 challenge?
To get Shin Sekai difficulty (Very Hard), you have to win 5 tournaments in the Grand Line difficulty (Hard). The 1 VS 100 challenge is obtained by finishing 5 times the Royal Battle and 1 VS 1 Battle tournaments in Shin Sekai difficulty.
How do I unlock Neptune & Shirahoshi?
These characters are only available through Wi-Fi download content. I don't know for how long they will be available though.
How can I unlock the Strawhat Docking Emperor and Chopperman support?
Strawhat Docking Emperor is unlocked by finishing Thousand Arena's Battle Royale with every character in a given difficulty. Chopperman is unlocked by finishing the Duel Battle tournament.
What are Heat points and what can I do with them?
Heat points are points given after finishing Heat Battles which appear randomly after finishing missions. They can be used further on Rayleigh's shop to buy useful skills and in-battle Power-Ups.
Is there a place where I can grind experience quickly? And money?
Experience is not really necessary in this game except for equipping skills. To gain experience quickly, first of all equip the "Double experience" skill (obtained after completing the Story mode), then finish a Erbaf Coliseum tournament in Lv100+ (they are hard). The same goes for money with the "Big profit" skill buyable in Rayleigh's shop.
I completely finished the Story Mode. What can I do next?
You can try to complete the Thousand Arena, which will take a lot of time and skills (especially the 1 VS 100 challenge). You can also compete against strangers via Wi-Fi for real challenge.
Modes
Here is an explanation of the different modes and sub-modes included in the game.
Story Mode (New World Conquest)
This is the main mode of the game, an big adventure to "conquer" the New World and get closer to the One Piece!
In the story mode you will have to visit about 8 main islands, each decomposed into little missions to complete in order to unlock playable and support characters, money and other useful stuff such as pictures. The missions vary from "Beat your opponent" to "Score the most points in the fight", "Survive for X seconds" or in some cases to collect a certain amount of items such as Diamonds, Meat pieces and other stuff.
In every level, you will have another alternative objective to fulfill in order to unlock more bonuses, which can require a more advanced level of gaming. Those alternative objectives will require you for instance to beat your opponent with a special technique, to beat a certain number of support characters or sometimes to beat your opponent with a specific character. These objectives are detailed in the Walkthrough section.
Challenge Mode (Thousand Arena)
This mode will allow you to fight against IA in a series of fights, allowing you to improve your fighting skills and unlock gallery pictures.
The mode is itself decomposed in a few submodes:
Battle Royale
A challenge of 5 battles in which you'll have to fight against multiple opponents. This tournament is split into 4 difficulties: Rookie, East Blue, Grand Line and Shin Sekai (unlocked after winning in Grand Line difficulty 5 times), which corresponds to the level of the IA and the number of opponents in each battle.
One to One Battle
A challenge of 5 battles when you have to face a single opponent in a duel. Like Battle Royale, this tournament is split into 4 difficulty levels.
Free Battle
A free fight against IA. The battle options are as follows:
Stage: The stage where the fight will take place. Rule: Point match (the one with the most points wins), Survival (the last remaining fighter wins) and
Berry match (the one with the most money wins)
In the case of the Survival match, you can choose how much wins will determine the victory.
Time: The time of the fight (30, 60 or 90 seconds). Items: The apparition rate of items (Low, Normal or High).
GP: The starting number of GP (0, 1, 2 or 3).
COM: 1, 2 or 3 opponents.
Tag: Type of tag match: None (Free for all), Free tag (Up to three teams) and 2 Vs 2.
Team: In case of tag match, the composition of teams.
1 VS 100
This mode is unlockable after winning 5 times in Shin Sekai difficulty on each mode (Battle Royale & One To One).
In this mode you will be asked to beat 100 opponents one after another without healing between each fight. Each opponent will have only a portion of their maximum HP, increasing with the number of fights. The fights are decomposed into 10 series of 10 opponents, with the last fight of each serie being a more "serious" fight, and by winning you will be rewarded by a piece of meat, allowing you to replenish some of your energy.
Multiplayer Mode
This mode allows you to fight against human players by Wireless communication or through Wi-Fi connection.
DS Wireless: Wireless battle over wireless communication.o Wireless play : Regular battle up to 4 participants who own a copy of the game.
o Raised Characters play: Fight against your friends with the leveled up characters from Story mode, with skills and such.
o Download play: Regular battle against your friends who don't own a copy of the game through "Download play".
o Vivre Link: Transfer your data from One Piece Gigant Battle.
Wi-Fi Connection: Fight against worldwide opponents through Wi-Fi.
o Worldwide battle: Battle against random worldwide opponents.
o Friend battle: Battle against your friends through Wi-Fi.
o Play records: View your opponents team you fought so far. You can "lock" teams to prevent them to be deleted after fighting a certain number of battles.
o Wi-Fi worldwide ranking: View your Wi-Fi ranking. You can also register yourself to the worldwide rankings.
o Download content: Download characters, levels and other stuff through Wi-Fi connection. Like in Pokemon, Ganbarion will provide content to be downloaded via Wifi which cannot be obtained otherwise. This content is only available for a certain amount of time, though I'm not sure if it could be unlocked by other means. The available content is displayed on the One Piece Gigant Battle 2 blog (see address at the end).
o Friend code: Show your friend code.
o Wi-Fi Connection Setup: Setup your Wi-Fi connection.
Team Transfer: Exchange teams with your friends through Wireless communication.
Personal Data: View your personal data.
Training Mode
In this mode you will have to opportunity to train and test your fighting skills against a moving or non-moving IA. Execute all your character moves to obtain the support version of your character as well as his Select Mode Avatar.
Important note
When starting a new game you'll have access to a basic roster of characters playable in the different modes (except the Story mode). You can finish training with these characters and get their Select Mode Avatar, but to enable their Support character version, you'll have to unlock them in Story Mode first.
Team Edit Mode
The Team Edit Mode allows you to create and edit teams of fighters to use in the different game modes. You can create up to 20 teams, assign them a name, move or delete them.
Once you're ready to create your team, select an empty slot (or select an existing team to edit) and you'll be forwarded to the Character selection screen.
After you've selected your main character, you can select up to 3 support characters, but before that, you'll have a few options to enhance your team by pressing Y. In this menu, you can select a specific characteristic for each of your support characters. These characteristics are:
None: No changes. Swordsman: When the gauge of the support character is full, the character is summoned
automatically.
Navigator: The support character's gauge is filling faster, but the character will have less HP.
Sharpshooter: The support character appears behind the main character.
Cook: Gives one GP Point, but sometimes the food is too spicy.
Doctor: Restores status effects, but the character's gauge is filling slower.
Archeologist: Gives a Speed Up bonus, but the character's gauge is filling slower.
Shipwright: Gives a Def Up bonus, but sometimes electrifies the main character.
Musician: Gives an Attack Up bonus, but sometimes confuses the main character.
Supernova: Boost experience received by the support character.
Once you've assigned your characteristics, choose wisely which support character will receive which characteristic.
Note
These characteristics are unlocked by finishing some missions in the Story mode.
Each support character gives a specific bonus to the main character. In addition, some characters who share a bond with the main character will giving them an additional bonus (or malus in some cases). For instance, Luffy and Ace share a brother bond, therefore putting Ace as Luffy's support character will give an additional bonus (Special Attack up).
In addition, some combination of characters may give another additional bonus! For instance, putting Garp and Dragon as support characters for Luffy will create the "Luffy's Family" Bond, granting you an additional Attack Up and Support Character filling gauge speed up. These special bonds are represented by a link icon over the characters sprites. Try finding the best combinations to increase your winning chances!
Once you've finished picking up your characters, you give your team a name, and that's it, you can use your team everywhere (except in 1 VS 100 unfortunately).
Important note:
You can also create teams outside of the Team Edit Menu, when you usually select your characters (such as in the Story Mode or Thousand Arena). To do so, once you've finished picking up your characters, when the game asks you if you're ready to fight, press Y to register your current team.
Treasures
Here you can view all the data that you accumulated through the game. These are divided into 5 categories:
Character Profiles: View the character profiles and listen to their voices. Passwords: Enter passwords to unlock different bonus stuff. These passwords are usually given in
Bandai's One Piece goodies, but some generous users are kind enough to share them with us :). Also, some of them will be given in the game's official website (see Address section).
Sounds: Listen to the game musics.
Gallery: View the pictures you've unlocked so far.
Battle Log: View your game statistics.
o Fight records: Ranking of your main characters, support characters, and other combat statistics (number of wins, losses, KOs...)
o Achievements: Other statistics and achievements you've unlocked so far.
Options
Set options for the game.
Music volume Sound Effects volume
Voice volume
Select Mode Avatar: Choose an avatar to display in the Main Menu. To unlock new avatars, finish Training mode with each character.
Key Config: Here you can configure the buttons as you wish.
Reset: Reset all options to default.
Erase All Data (Erasing data is irreversible)
Game System and Controls
Basics
For those who didn't play the previous version, here is a pretty detailed explanation of the game basics.
One Piece Gigant Battle 2: Shin Sekai is a fighting game in 2D where your objective is to reduce your opponent life to zero before the time runs out. A match can oppose two, three or four characters, in a Free for all match or Tag Team match.
Each player have a team composed of a main character and up to three support characters. At the time of a fight, each player's main character have specific characteristics which are:
HP (Health Points) GP (Gigant Points)
Attack
Defense
Speed
These characteristics can be improved or reduced by items, by support characters or through other means such as background elements.
Support characters have a filling gauge which is filling up with time, each support character having a different filling time. When that gauge is full, the support character can be summoned, giving assistance to the main character in various ways.
Each main character have a panel of moves at their disposal, along with two special attacks and one secret attack, which are their most powerful moves. These special attacks require Gigant Points (GP) to be executed, which are obtained by landing hits, receiving damage, successfully blocking attacks and eating food. The number of remaining GP are shown below the Health bar along with a "GP bar". The maximum number of GP is 3 (or 4 in some cases - see further).
The battles take place in arenas representing certain parts of the manga's storyline. Arenas are not flat and can contain many fighting areas as well as holes, lava pits, edges and other background elements that interfere with your fights, giving more life to the match. Be aware of everything that surround you, not only your opponents!
Controls
If you hadn't set up your own config, default controls are as following:
A = JumpB = AttackY = BlockX = Pick up/DropR = Activate Gigant PointsForward-Forward = DashA in the air = Double JumpA+Down in the air = Speed up drop.Y + Left-Left/Right-Right = Evade (consume a half GP)Direction + B while carrying an object = Throw the object*NEW* Up-Up (on land) = Move camera up*NEW* Down-Down (on land) = Move camera down*NEW* Dash+Jump = Dashed Jump
Moves
Each character has his own set of moves, but the key combinations are kind of the same for all the characters. These combinations are:
BB - BB - B - BB - B - Forward+BUp+BUp+B - Up+BUp+Forward+BUp+Forward+B - Up+Forward+BDown+Forward+BDown+Forward+B - Down+Forward+BDown+BDash+BJump+BJump+Up+BJump+Up+Forward+BJump+Down+Forward+BJump+Down+BX (Throw)
R then B - A = Special attack 1 (consume 1 GP)R then Y - B = Special attack 2 (consume 2 GP)R then X - Y - A = Secret attack (consume 3 GP)
Some characters have other moves in addition (or replacement) to these moves. While some of those key combinations require a simple action such as pressing and holding B, some of these may require the character to enter into a "second state" before performing the move. (ex: Old Chopper eating a Rumble Ball). These key combinations are available at every moment by pressing Start and choosing "Key Combinations" (the second menu).
Support Character Summoning (NEW!)
A feature that made its apparition in this sequel is the Support Character Summoning which allows the player to summon his support characters by pressing L + another button relatively to the support character he wants to call.
L + Y : First support summoningL + B : Second support summoningL + A : Third support summoning
One Piece Rage
One Piece Rage (One Piece Heat in Japanese) is a state when the main character has his stats doubled, his energy replenished and his GP gauge constantly refilled, but at the high cost of constantly draining his life until he got only one HP left. This is sort of a last resort state, giving a losing player a last chance to turn the tables.
This state is entered automatically when the player's HP reach zero and his GP gauge is full, but the player can activate it anytime by pressing simultaneously the buttons A, B, X and Y with a full GP gauge.
In One Piece Rage, because the GP are constantly refilled, the player can execute his Special Attacks one after another, but can execute his Secret Atttack ONLY ONCE, after what his HP are immediately reduced to 1 and his GP to 0.
Important note
One Piece Rage is triggered automatically when your HP reach 0 and your GP gauge is full, however, if your opponent is beating you with a Special or a Secret Attack, you'll lose instantly. Therefore, think about finishing your opponents with a special technique as soon as possible!
Another important note
You can only trigger 1 OP rage per fight (or per life in Point or Berry match). Which means, if you got a Log Pose after getting out of a Rage state, you won't be able to enter again in this state even though your GP gauge is full.
Bingo Guard
Bingo Guard is a special type of guard that prevents the player from losing HP while blocking and additionnaly grant him a half GP. This is done by pressing Y at the exact moment the hit lands and is shown by the symbol "Bingo".
Mastering those Bingo guards are vital in more advanced fights.
Logia Bingo Guard (NEW!)
In addition to these effects, Logia users will teleport instantly behind their opponent after performing a Bingo Guard.
Logia Guard (NEW!)
One of the other handy additions of this sequel is a new type of guard called the Logia Guard. This guard can only be performed by Logia users and provide a complete immunity to attacks (except for throws, Special and Secret attacks curiously), in exchange of GP draining.
This guard is performed by pressing Down+Y on the ground and are only available to Logia users.
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Those characters are: Ace, Smoker, Crocodile, Ener, Aka Inu, Ki Zaru, Ao Kiji and Cariboo. Blackbeard doesn't enter in this category, even though he's a Logia (this is a particularity of the Yami Yami fruit).
Support Character Combo (NEW!)
Another interesting new feature: the Support Character Combo. This is performed by calling other support characters while one is performing his attack, triggering the joining support characters to immediately attack after the first one has finished without preparation time.
This creates a brand new fighting style, choosing the support characters not only for their attacks and bonuses, but also for their combination attacks.
For instance, a combo "Zoro -> Perona -> Jinbei" will do a wave slash, followed by the Negative Hollow depression to prevent the opponent to fly away, and terminated by a powerful Shark Tile Punch, inflicting a lot of damage.
You can also couple attacks with support attacks and special attacks. For example, you can start your Secret Attack after invoking Kuma, causing him to teleport you to your opponent without him understanding where you're coming from. A lot of possibilities exist, some of them are available on the One Piece Gigant Battle 2 Japanese blog.
Guard Break (NEW!)
This game introduced a new concept well known in fighting games called Guard Break. Like you can assume, this means that some moves cannot be blocked alone, in which case would cause the guard to be broken. In that case, a "Broken" symbol will appear above the character's head.
Guard Breaking moves are most often Special and Secret attacks, but not only. Sometimes, normal attacks which are not supposed to be blocked whatsoever will cause the guard to break. For example, Law's Room is an attack that break through guards, although it is a normal attack. Same goes for Drake's Roar and Luffy's Haoshoku Haki.
But aside from that, there is still another reason that would cause the guard to break, called Guard Weakening. This is caused by constantly attacking a blocking character, which would result by weakening his guard until it breaks. The blocking players cannot see that their guard is weakening, instead, they can see that their opponent will soon be breaking their guard by an exclamation mark showing above their heads. In that case, it's preferable to consider evasion.
Zoan Boost (NEW!)
Another new feature is called Zoan Boost and consists in granting a Stat boost to Zoan users by pressing Down+Y. This stat boost has the same effect as collecting a Diamond, which mean an Attack, Defense and Speed boost, and costs a half GP.
Moreover, Zoan users can have now up to 4 GP (and 4 GP are required to perform One Piece Rage), which mean that they can perform a Secret Attack followed by another Special Attack, or do two Special Attacks Lv2, or perform a Zoan Boost before activating their Secret Attack, etc. However, 4 GP are now required for triggering the OP Rage.
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Zoan users are: Chopper (Pre and Post Timeskip), Drake, Marco and Rob Lucci.
Status effects
Status effects are caused either by objects found on the battlefield or by certain attacks received by the main characters or support characters. These are:
Paralysis: You are stunned for a while. Keep pressing on a direction to reduce the paralysis time. Indigestion: You are stunned for a while and lose HP and GP. Caused by eating rotten food.
Poison: You are constantly losing HP for a certain time.
Frozen: You are stunned for a while and the damage received is doubled.
Burnt: You are constantly losing HP. However, you can pass your burn to an opponent by touching him (and in the opposite you can be burned by touching a burning opponent).
Hot Food: You can't stop running and guarding for a while.
Blind: Your screen is white or black for a while.
Electrified:You are sustaining shocks every second, preventing you of doing combos and executing your special and secret attacks.
Confused: Your left and your right are inversed.
Stoned: Paralyzed for a short while. Caused by Hancock.
Slowed Down: You are running slower for a short while. Caused by Foxy.
Depressed: You can't move for a short while. Caused by Perona.
Charmed: You can't move for a short while. Caused by Hancock and Wapol.
Infant: You are taken back to your childhood and can't move for a while. Caused by Bonney.
Tension Hormones: You get an Attack, Defense and Speed Up bonus and one, two or three more GP. However, after a certain time your HP will go to half, quarter or 1 HP. Caused by Ivankov.
Wind Blow: The wind is blowing in your direction, hindering your moves. Caused by Dragon.
Constricted: Cannot attack nor block for a while. Caused by Hina.
Armor: Suppresses the damage recoil. Caused by Ivankov or Hodi to himself.
?: You're stunned for a short while. Triggered when the attack doesn't do the wanted effect.
Guard Broken: See Guard Break.
Items
Here is a list of all the items that can found on the battlefield.
Containerso Barrels: Contain exclusively food.
o Crates: Contain attacking items such as bombs, lamps but also log poses and peppers.
o Treasures: Contain stat boosts.
Note: doing a Dash attack on a container will throw the container forward instead of breaking it. Any opponent that is in its course will be paralyzed.
Foodo Rice balls: Recover a short amount of HP and 1 GP.
o Takoyaki: Recover a moderate amount of HP and 1 GP.
o Meat loaf: Recover a high amount of HP and 1 GP.
o Rotten rice Balls: Cause an indigestion.
o Rotten takoyaki: Cause an indigetion.
o Rotten meat loaf: Cause an indigestion.
o Apple: Recover a lot of HP or explodes. Dropped by Doc Q.
Note: Food items will rot after staying for a while without being eaten.
Attack items:o Bombs: Explode at contact or after a certain amount of time.
o Peppers: Cause the spicy food status.
o Lamps: Upon broken, will spread little flames that cause a burning status.
o Cola Bottles: Upon thrown on the floor, the gas inside will cause the bottle to fly randomly, hitting anybody in its course.
o Beach balls: Do very little damage, but break guards.
o Dumbells: Do moderate damage, can't be blocked and knock over characters.
o Log Poses (Hourglasses): When the arrow is pointed upwards, give 3 GP. If pointed downwards, remove 3 GP.
o Den Den Mushis (Snails): Purple Den Den Mushis will speed up Support characters filling gauge. Black Den Den Mushis will slow it down or reset it.
o Amiudakes (Mushrooms): Change form every second, giving another status effect. Red Amiudakes give an all stat Boost, purple Amiudakes poison your character, striped blue Amiudakes paralyze him and the green swirling Amiudakes confuse him.
o Foxy faces: Same effect as normal bombs, except that Foxy bombs are flying straight until they touch something. Appear only in the Judicial Sky stage.
o Rocket spears: Same effect as a sword attack, except that they are flying straight at the direction they were thrown. Appear only in the Rusukaina/Torino stage.
Note: Throwing Log Poses and Den Den Mushis to opponents will trigger their inverted effects.
Stat Boosts:o Attack Up: Grant an attack boost for 10 seconds.
o Defense Up: Grant a defense boost for 10 seconds.
o Speed Up: Grant a speed boost for 10 seconds
o Diamonds: Boost the three stats at once.
Character Natures
Another thing to denote is that characters are now separated into natures, relevantly to the manga's attributions. Each nature has its pros and its cons, giving more diversity in the game. These natures are:
Standard (No devil fruit)o Icon: Sword
o Pros:
Damage reduction from falling into water
GP accumulation increased
Boost items effects increased
o Cons:
No additional abilities
Superhuman (Paramecia)
o Icon: Punch
o Pros:
Can break guard after constantly attacking
Have unique abilities
o Cons:
More damage received from swords and staves (except for Buggy)
Elemental (Logia)
o Icon: Star
o Pros:
Logia Bingo Guard
Logia Guard
o Cons:
Bingo Guards give less GP
Animal (Zoan)
o Icon: Claw
o Pros:
4 GP instead of 3
Zoan Boost
Attacks give more GP
o Cons:
Receiving damage give less GP
One Piece Rage needs 4 GP
Some characters also have specific characteristics on top of their nature. Examples:
Luffy, Chopper, Eneru, Hodi Jones, Aka Inu are immune to Hancock Stone Attacks. Fishmen (Hodi & Jinbe) lose a half GP instead of HP when falling in water. Decken is not concerned
since he's a Devil Fruit user.
Usopp cannot be depressed by Perona's Negative Hollow.
Blackbeard cannot use Logia's abilities (Logia Guard and Logia Bingo).
Sanji is weaker against women.
The support characters also have "natures" according to their attack type. These are:
Sword: Normal attack. Smiley: Support attack (cause status effects, block attacks, give GP...)
Counter: Only retaliate when attacked.
Walkthrough
Introduction
The story mode is an adventure where you visit islands and complete missions retracing all the major events that happened in the storyline, plus some other completely new missions. Finishing missions will give you rewards such as money, pictures, support characters and main characters to use in the different game modes.
You start your adventure with Luffy and two other captains of your choice among the available choices, and a bunch of support characters. Then, by completing missions and areas, you'll get more and more companions and advance to the other islands until the final island in the New World. If in the beginning the missions are really simple, the missions will quickly start to become more and more challenging.
Levels and Experience
The story mode use a system of levels and experience, well known in many other RPG. Your characters start at level 0, and by completing missions you'll be gaining experience and advance to upper levels. Of course, the more leveled you are, the less experience you'll receive from easy battles. The maximum level is 10 (compared to 50 in One Piece Gigant Battle).
Please note however that unlike the precedent opus, experience doesn't really improve your characters characteristics. Instead, the levels grant you skills and increase your Skill Points. The more leveled you are, the more skill points you'll have, the maximum being 15 SP. Characteristic improvement is done through something called the Ranking System.
Ranking System
Ganbarion totally revisited the experience system of the previous game and offered an original experience system called the Ranking system. The reason behind that choice is that, in the same way the dangerosity of someone is determined by his reward in the manga, in the game it is determined by the rank. Therefore, rank will improve the characters characteristics for ALL the characters, thus removing the need to grind experience in useless fights.
Rank is based on six main characteristics, which are:
1. Recruited pirates (available characters/support)2. Level Up Stars (Total of main characters' levels)
3. Total Friend Points (Total of support characters' levels)
4. Areas cleared
5. Alt missions cleared
6. Extensions bought (shop expansions/world extensions/skills sold at shops)
Each time you got a new character, finish a level or buy an extension at a shop, the related characteristic gains more experience, and after a certain amount, gains a new level, impacting a specific characteristic of all your characters. The addition of those levels determine the final rank. Likewise, each of these characteristics can only go as far as a maximum level.
The highest rank you can go is 150.
Special moves and Shops
In addition to their initial moveset, each character have three unique special moves that use GP. In story mode however, these moves are initially locked to make more sense to the character progression system. To unlock them, you have to buy them at a shop. Therefore, you must make your way to the shops as soon as possible to improve your characters.
The prices are usually: 400 B for the Lv 1, 2400 B for the Lv 2 and 6000 B for the Lv 3, but these prices obviously depend on the character. Moreover, the Lv 3 techniques are in most cases not available till you buy "shop extensions". So you'll need a lot of money before you can have access to all your characters techniques.
About Shop extensions: Usually when you first enter into a shop, you'll only have access to the characters special moves. However, once you beat the boss of the island, you'll get access to the shop extensions. Inside, you'll be able to buy three sets of items:
World extensions: new levels for the current island. Shop expansions: new special moves available to buy (often lv 3 techniques). Also reduces the price
of the previously available items by 20% (only the original prices are listed in this FAQ).
Skills: Unique skills only available here.
Moreover, buying these extensions will increase your rank, thus developing your characters.
About money: Earning money is usually done by completing missions and alternative missions. Moreover, each time you complete a region's missions (you can see regions on the map), you'll be granted an additional money bonus, and the same goes for alternative missions.
But aside from that, sometimes you'll receive a bonus from Nami, the amount depending on the total of levels you've completely finished so far. In addition, the island's shop owner may also grant you bonus items to use at your will.
So the more levels you finish, the more money you'll receive!
Bonus items
Like said previously, sometimes the shop's owner of the current island will reward you with bonus items. These are the usual bonus items, e.g. Attack Up, Defense Up, Speed Up, Diamond, Log Pose and Den Den Mushi, with the main difference being that they will last for the whole fight.
To use them, simply press X after selecting a level and before entering to the character selection screen. Use them with parcimony, they are particularly rare!
After finishing the game, you'll be able to buy more of these items in exchange of "Heat Points" that you obtain by finishing "Heat Up Levels".
Skills
A new system has also been introduced in the Story mode: the Skill system. It grants you the possibility to customize your characters abilities depending on the situation and tastes.
Each character have Skill points and Skill slots, which depends on the character's level.
- Skill slots determine how many skills the character can have at the same time. He starts with only one slot and can have up to four/five slots at his maximal level, depending on the character.
- Skill points (also referred as Skill Cost in the game) determine at which extent the character can wear a skill. The more useful a skill is, the more costly it will be. For instance, "HP Up" will cost only 2 SP, while "HP Up +" will cost 4 SP. The character starts with 0 SP, and will gain about 2 SP per level for the 5 first levels, then 1 SP for the 5 last, granting a maximum of 15 SP.
Skills can be acquired by two means: by buying them or by fulfilling certain conditions.
The conditions vary from the simple level up to the mere "beat a boss with at least 80% HP left", "execute 50 times the Lv 1 special moves", "finish a certain level" etc... Therefore, it is possible that you'll gain a new skill even though you've actually failed the mission. You can see the conditions required to obtain the skill in the skill menu, as long as you've already obtained that skill with another character.
However, for people who don't seek challenge, or who have money to burn, there exists an easier way to obtain a skill: by simply buying it from the skill menu. However, prior to this you'll need your character to be at least level 3, otherwise you wouldn't be able to buy it. Also, some skills must be bought at shops before you can unlock it.
For the list of skills and their effects, refer to the Skills section.
Heat Up Levels and Secret Levels
Also, sometimes after finishing missions, a notification will appear on the bottom of the map notifying that a Heat Up Level opened on a particular island for a level you've already cleared. These are the same missions
but with their difficulty enhanced. Finishing these missions will grant you Heat Points which could be used at the final shop for unique skills or boost items.
Another information regarding what are called Secret levels. These are levels that appear out of nowhere without notifying in the form of a red balloon. Just stay on a particular portion of the map and wait for that balloon to appear (browse the map with X and select the balloon with the stylus when it appears). If it doesn't appear after a while, go to another island and try again. These levels are particularly hard!
Walkthrough
Set Sail! Get ready for a new aventure!
First you'll have to choose your first set of main and support characters. Three sets are initially available:
1. Main: Law & Crocodile; Support: Bepo, Caimie, Mr. 1 & Mr. 2 Bon-Clay2. Main: Ace & Hancock; Support: Joz, Marco, Margaret & Dadan
3. Main: Drake & Mihawk; Support: Apoo, Sengoku, Sentoumaru & Perona
I personally chose Law & Crocodile, but choose who you prefer, it doesn't matter. In the end, the characters you didn't choose will only be available through secret missions and some will even be unlocked at the far end of the game!
I also suggest you to complete Training mode as soon as you get a new main character to unlock his Support character version.
First Island: West Romance Dawn Island
Level 1: "Everyone, Set Sail!!!"
VS Zoro. A good time to get used to the controls.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: Roronoa Zoro (Main Character)
Alt. Objective: None.
Reward: 600 B.
Level 2: "Jinbe's Advice"
Luffy & Hancock VS Jinbe.
Objective: Win with Luffy and Hancock.
Reward: 400 B.
Alt. Objective: Hit your opponent with a support character.
Reward: 700 B.
Level 3: "Point battle"
VS Sanji & Ivankov. Point battle.
Objective: Get the most points in the match.
Reward: Sanji (Main character)
Alt. Objective: Score at least 3 points.
Reward: Inazuma (Support character)
Level 5: "I'll definitely get stronger!"
VS Chopper.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: 400 B
Alt. Objective: Throw your opponent twice.
Reward: 600 B
Level 6: "Dream forest"
VS Luffy. Item battle.
Objective: Eat the most meat loaves.
Reward: 200 B
Alt. Objective: Eat at least 6 pieces of meat.
Reward: Level 10-B unlocked.
Level 7: "The Hawkeye & The Ghost Girl"
VS Mihawk & Perona.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: 400 B
Alt. Objective: Win with Zoro.
Reward: Perona (Support character)
Wonderful Shop "Heracles-sun"
Luffy Lv1 : 400 B Luffy Lv2: 2400 B
Luffy Lv3: 6000 B (shop lv2)
Chopper Lv1: 400 B
Chopper Lv2: 2400 B
Chopper Lv3: 6000 B (shop lv2)
Franky Lv1: 400 B
Franky Lv2: 2400 B
Franky Lv3: 6000 B (shop lv2)
Law Lv1: 600 B
Law Lv2: 2400 B (shop lv2)
Law Lv3: 4800 B (shop lv3)
Drake Lv1: 600 B
Drake Lv2: 2400 B (shop lv2)
Drake Lv3: 4800 B (shop lv3)
Ace Lv1: 1440 B
Ace Lv2: 4800 B (shop lv2)
Ace Lv3: 5500 B (shop lv3)
Picture "Please wait a little longer, guys. I'll do a little detour": 8000 B (shop lv2)
World extension 1 (Level 18): 2400 B
World extension 2 (Level 16): 3200 B
World extension 3 (Level 19 & 26): 3200 B
World extension 4 (Level 37): 4000 B
Shop expansion 1: 1600 B
Shop expansion 2: 3000 B
Skill: 3000 B
Level 9: "Berry Battle"
VS Franky. Berry battle.
Objective: Collect the most money.
Reward: Franky (Main character)
Alt. Objective: Collect at least 300 B.
Reward: 500 B
Level 10: "Treasure battle"
VS Nami. Special battle.
Objective: Collect the most diamonds.
Reward: Nami (Main character)
Alt. Objective: Collect at least 6 diamonds.
Reward: 500 B
Level 10-B: "Who put a tanuki in my path?!"
Hancock & Margaret VS Chopper.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: 400 B
Alt. Objective: Win in less than 20 seconds.
Reward: Margaret, Sweetpea & Aphelandra (support character)
Level 12: "Brook's rehearsal"
VS Brook.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: Caimie & Pappug (support character)
Alt. Objective: Win with more than 75% HP left.
Reward: 500 B
Level 13: "Usochoppator"
VS Usopp & Chopper.
Objective: Beat your opponents.
Reward: 200 B
Alt. Objective: Throw your opponent at least twice.
Reward: 400 B
Level 14: "Robin's Jailbreak"
With Robin VS Ao Kiji. Survive for 40 seconds.
Objective: Survive and protect Robin until the time runs out.
Reward: Nico Robin (Main character)
Alt. Objective: Beat Ao Kiji once.
Reward: 400 B
Level 17: "Special attacks battle"
VS Franky. Berry battle.
Objective: Obtain the most money.
Reward: 400 B
Alt. Objective: Hit your opponent with a special attack twice.
Reward: 400 B
Boss battle: "2 years ago former selves"
VS Strawhat Pirates Pre-Timeskip (with Luffy, Zoro & Sanji as main characters).
Objective: Beat your opponents.
Reward: Old Luffy (Main character)
Alt. Objective: Win with a Strawhat pirate.
Reward: "Rendezvous 2 years later!" picture.
Level 16 (world extension): "Zoro's harsh training"
VS Zoro. Dumbells are falling out of the sky.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: 400 B
Alt. Objective: Hit your opponent with a support character attack, twice.
Reward: "Swordsman" characteristic. (see Team Edit Mode)
Level 18-B (world extension): "The Legend of the Sacred Burning Beast"
VS Rage Franky. Only in the Karakuri part of the arena.
Objective: Survive for 40 seconds.
Reward: 600 B
Alt. Objective: Finish the match with at least 25% HP left.
Reward: Picture "Fraaaaaaanky!!"
Level 19 (world extension): "Surrounded by beautiful ladies!"
VS Vivi (with Nami), Robin (with Sadi-chan) & Hancock (with Perona).
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: Picture "I'll follow you everywhere"
Alt. Objective: Win with Sanji.
Reward: 800 B
Level 26-B (world extension): "Proof of strength"
VS Hancock (with Rayleigh), Mihawk & Jinbe (with Ivankov). Free for all fight
Objective: Beat your opponents.
Reward: 500 B
Alt. Objective: Execute at least 3 Bingo Guards. Do it against Sandersonia.
Reward: 800 B
Level 37 (world extension): " "Dark King" Silvers Rayleigh"
VS Luffy & Rayleigh.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: 500 B
Alt. Objective: Beat at least one support character.
Reward: Silvers Rayleigh (support character)
Level 65 (secret password): "You're back, Tanukichi!"
VS Old Chopper & Pandaman.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: Picture "I'm here for you, my name is Chopperman!"
Alt. Objective: Beat Pandaman.
Reward: 2000 B
Island 2: East Romance Dawn Island
Level 18: "Protect the Sunny!"
Kuma with Duval & Hatchan VS Smoker with Hina & Tashigi.
Objective: Beat your opponent.
Reward: Tashigi (Support character)
Alt. Objective: Finish the match with at least 25% HP left.
Reward: Picture "Duval's Tragedy"
Level 20: "Chasing away the pursuers!"
Brook & Duval VS Ki Zaru & Sentoumaru
Objective: Do not let bombs touch your character for 50 seconds.
Reward: Brook (Main character)
Alt. Objective: Finish the match with at least 75% HP left.
Reward: Duval (Support character)
Level 18-C: "Sabaody Bubbles"
Special battle: Stay on the bubbles without touching the ground. You can use Down-Down to see where the bubbles will pop out.
Objective: Stay on the bubbles for 7 seconds
Reward: 300 B
Alt. Objective: Stay on the bubbles for 15 seconds.
Reward: 400 B
