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One Piece Mansion

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This is a game with an interesting premise. You control the superintendent of an apartment with very weird tenants. Each tenant radiates either good or bad will through the walls. Renters that receive too much bad will literally explode and cause damage to the apartment. It's a delicate balance of placing the residents in a small building without them exploding. To mix things up, a rival landlord will send troublemakers to stay in your complex.

The games has very short story mode that most puzzle gamers will solve in one or two sittings. There is an "endless mode" where there is no goal except to see how long you can last.

The user interface is good and fast. The graphics are cute and well rendered. The music is forgettable and the sound effects are so-so.

This is one of those "could have been" games. The story could have been longer and better integrated. The sound effects could have been more dramatic. Some sort of multiplayer would have extended the life of the game

"One Peice Mansion" is one of the most original games I've played the past few years. It's hard to explain the gameplay, but the easiest way to explain it is that it's a puzzle type game where you place tenants in rooms, effecting the stress levels of their neighbors, good or bad, and you try and drive out bad guys by putting tenants next to them that put their stress up, and you try and meet goals while doing all this. It sounds complicated, but is in a way like Tetris in that you have to place your "peices" right so you can accomplish your goal, and, while actually playing, is really very simple and addicting. The graphics aren't mind blowing, but are well-above average for a puzzle/startagy game, the controls and very straight forward, and the sound fits the game, but it's not the kind of music that you'll want to turn your stereo off for. If your really into puzzle type games, this is a definate must buy, being the best puzzler of the yearprobably, and others should at least rent it. You might find a little hidden gem...

As the PS1 enters its "twilight" era, it's interesting to see what's slipping through the cracks and hitting the shelves now that Sony doesn't require everything to be thick with rotating 3D camera angles and hit a million units in sales. Case in point? "One Piece Mansion." It's non-violent, with some well-done cartoony 2D graphics, and the open-ended, non-story based mode is a maddening and yet addictive experience. It's a nice throwback to old-school puzzle games like Tetris - a genre that we haven't seen nearly enough of in recent years.