Shonen Jump's One Piece Pirates' Carnival

by Bandai Namco Games

Product Features

• Dozens of wacky pirates - Choose from 7 playable characters from Luffy's Straw Hat Pirates, and encounter dozens more
• Expand your crew and your pirate power - Pick a block on the map, win the mini-game, and conquer the block
• Choose your mode - Three game play modes to choose from - Board Game mode, Mini Game Collection mode, and Versus Games mode
• Classic mini-games with a hilarious twist; Over 30 mini-games, each in the comical, quirky style of One Piece.
• Join Luffy and his crew for a crazy adventure on the high seas!

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000EZ3FDK
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,016 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Different from the previous One Piece games Pirates Carnival is a party game featuring over forty mini games. The mini games feature simple controls and promise to recreate well-known scenes from the original One Piece body of work. The game features support for four players with some games featuring split screen play and others placing all four players in the same area.Format: GAMECUBE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 722674300155 Manufacturer No: 30015

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Party Fun with a One Piece Attitude, October 28, 2006

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shonen Jump's One Piece Pirates' Carnival (Video Game)

If you enjoy mini-game multiplayer fun like the Mario Party series, then One Piece Pirates' Carnival will be right up your alley.

Where Mario Party has a main board with a "path" like Life or CandyLand, in Pirates' Carnival your main board is a grid, more like Othello. You're trying to turn squares to your color and capture as many as you can.

In order to win a given square, you have to play a mini-game. This is quite fun in a situation where other people are around to play with, or you can play against the computer to hone your skills. You can choose to play as a variety of male or female characters.

If you're playing against the computer, you can even set the difficulty level of each of the 3 other players. So you can start with them all on easy, and slowly work your way up with some easy and some harder.

The mini-games are pretty fun, and involve the One Piece crew. You can slide around in a ring trying to bash each other out, sort of a cross between Sumo rules and sliding samurai sensibilities. Other games involve dodging missiles, racing, and other traditional mini-game tasks.

The graphics are reasonably good here, with rippling water, cel shaded graphics and characters from the series. The sounds match up well with the series, which depending on how fond you are of the US version, could be a good or bad thing.

Because the game is fun multiplayer, and because you can ramp up the difficulty based on your own skills, the game can be played pretty much forever. There's always a new challenge in the game. Unlike the path-based games like Mario Party, the strategic challenges of the main board here are great for building up logic skills.

Now, there's the caveat that if you don't enjoy Mario Party style mini-games, you probably won't enjoy this either. It's not a long, epic story. It doesn't involve complex keystrokes to trounce an enemy. However, if you're up for light arcadey fun, and have friends you can hang out with for a few hours, definitely give Pirates' Carnival a try.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One Piece does Mario Party, September 23, 2006

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Simon (Brampton, ON) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shonen Jump's One Piece Pirates' Carnival (Video Game)

Early reviews from the major gaming sites seem to be trashing this game, and I think it's a bit unfair. One Piece: Pirates' Carnival is your basic Mario Party-style board game. Pick your character and participate in a bunch of button-mashing mini games. There is a decent strategic element, as the rules play kind of like "Othello" where you can steal your opponents squares and winnings. And the One Piece license is put to good use here: it's fun to see how they've reimagined scenes from the manga to fit the party game format, and its a kick seeing your favourite characters in deformed/chibi/cel-shaded style. And there's lots of voiceovers from the cast (which may or may not be a good thing if you don't like the 4Kids dub).

Where I felt the game came up short was that the mini-games aren't as diverse as in Mario party. There are some innovative ones, but mostly it's a 1 vs 3 scenario where one player controls a powerful boss character while the other 3 try to foil him. After awhile, these type of games start to feel the same. And like all American releases, some of the content has been removed from the Japanese version because the series isn't as far ahead here. But we've come to expect that by now.

If you like One Piece, I really do recommend this (or the Japanese version) as a purchase. It's amusing, and it's fun to come back to with friends every so often. Just be aware that it doesn't offer anything new from Mario Party, and you should be fine.

5.0 out of 5 stars Looks sort of silly but fun game, January 31, 2009

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Genell S. Baun (West Bend, WI) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Shonen Jump's One Piece Pirates' Carnival (Video Game)

Again I will say that Game Cube has some really fun games that just can't be duplicated. My kids turned up their noses when they saw this one arrive but soon they were all fighting over the controller. Fun game.