WE ARE! TALKING ABOUT ONE PIECE~

I've decided to get back into following One Piece. Being so far behind, I have quite a task ahead of me. What am I doing to catch up? Well, just bought One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 on Steam and intend on slamming through that. One Piece games are always a lot of fun, but I'm wondering if anyone here has gotten their hands dirty with it yet?

Yeah, it definitely does skip over a bit of stuff. The entire series of events on Alvida's ship isn't in the game, nor is Shanks saving Luffy from the sea monster. It covers the basics though, and does serve as a decent refresher while I kill time playing a decent little game. Not too far in though, just kicked Buggy's butt. Looking forward to Kuro, he was always a pretty cool villain.

author=Liberty
I was sure it diverted from the proper story and had a certain someone still alive and kicking

I don't even know if I should hide that, I thought it was common knowledge at this point, like Aeris. I'm a long ways off from knowing if he doesn't legit kick the bucket in the game, but I'll post here when I find out. I hope they don't change that, because it seems like a pretty major thing to disregard. From what I've read, the game supposedly faithfully follows the story up until Dressrosa or whatever it's called (after Impel Down, the arcs/story become very foggy because that's as far as I read/watched) while culling some minor arcs and filler. I looked at a walkthrough and noticed that the whole ordeal with Foxy before Water 7 is absent, but I don't mind too much. Never liked Foxy anyway.

And with that said, playing Pirate Warriors 3 kinda makes me want to check out Hyrule Warriors since it's also one of those Dynasty Warriors spin-off sort of games. Not sure why, but the game lets you use a few people at the beginning who don't appear until a little later (Tashigi) or A LOT later, as in New World later (Ivankov, Law).

But yeah, I'm just going to chill and play the game up until the last bits of the story that I'm familiar with for the sake of refreshing my knowledge of the series. After that, I'll try to legit follow it again.

That moment where the crews said their vows was incredibly monumental and awesome.
Truly a great moment. I feel quite happy with this chapter.

EDIT: Why are you using mangapanda? A scanlations website that still exclusively uses a page-by-page browsing is quickly being left behind by other websites with all-page support. I use mangasee (becoming manga.life soon), i find the translation better (for example, the 800 chapter's called "an underling's vow" instead of "exchanging akazukis" and has a bit more personality put into certain character's dialogue, at least i think so).

author=Mirak
...But that site has the chapter up almost as soon as it's released.

Hang on, luffy doesn't like the taste of alcohol? So what does he drink everytime he celebrates? Water?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrothyMugsOfWater

author=Mirak
That's a trope about censorship though.

I don't remember very good, but i recall luffy once said that a pirate crew should be getting drunk while listening to music when he was throwing a tantrum about wanting a musician on the ship. I don't know if i i'm bullshitting because i read it too long ago though so i may be wrong.

Yeah I know, I was just kidding around about it.

Well, he said he didn't like the taste of alcohol, not that he wouldn't drink it. It's possible that his assertion that pirates must drink is like his assertions to Franky about "romantic adventuring" and wearing armour- he thinks he needs to do it in order to do things "right".

Either that or he was making a quick excuse to not drink the parent cup. But Luffy doesn't seem like the kind of guy to make an excuse like that, since he sucks at lying.

I played a bit of Pirate Warriors 3 now, here's a few things I thought while playing through the plot:

-Several highly dramatic scenes are either dropped (such as Shanks saving Luffy) or abbreviated (such as Sanji's backstory)
-'What if' scenarios will most likely only occur when doing side missions like beating Mihawk in Chapter 1, most seem to be only extra plot scenes unlocked. I had one where Luffy encourages Corby and an exchange between Sanji and Luffy about defending the Baratie
-It's far less graphical in most places, like in the scene where Mihawk slices open Zorro, it doesn't even leave censor marks (the black spots most censored Anime has)
-Usopp is absurdly powerful because most of his attacks are not only ranged, but also unblockable. His special move does have a lot of startup which lets the enemies dodge easily, though.

I can write a bit more as I continue.