ONE PIECE TREASURE CRUISE Reviews

I have been playing this game for almost 3 years and I love it. But the low rating comes in due the fact that this game’s version, a.k.a. Global version, has been treated with less transparency then its Japanese counterpart. This lack of transparency is in much part due to the lack of laws in the US and other counties where global version is played. Namely, that the randomness of the characters acquired trough pulls with Gems that are obtained trough playing and by buying them is much less than the randomness used in the global version.
It is important to know that in the Japanese version that rates for the probabilities of obtaining a character is clearly displayed in the Japanese version, but this is not the case for the global version. This, and the large data collected recently supporting the belief that the rates are tampered with has made thousand of players like me raise our voices in protest for the way Bandai/Namco os handling it’s business.
I am a F2P customer, and I would never, I repeat, never spend a penny on this game. But there are other players that spend thousands of dollars, and they are being taken advantage of!
Once this company comes clean and transparent about the rates, I would be more then happy to rate the game 5 starts because it truly is a beautiful game to play more so if you are a fan of One Piece like me.

This is hands down the best One Piece app available on Apple devices so far. The leveling, characters, and daily rewards keep you interested in trying again and again day after day. However I’ve noticed 2 issues:
1) Often times during 5 to 11+ star missions they will have some crap boost that makes even a team of 6 all with Atk over 1,500 still lose in a single hit from the enemy. It’s very unsatisfying to work on a team just to be killed off over something I can’t control. Ambushes are even worse as it almost always happens.
2) I’ve noticed after you rank up your ships a couple times it hits a point where it fails to upgrade to a ridiculous level. Like after getting the ‘Piece of Spadille’ almost fully upgraded I ended up spending 350 soda only for it to fail everytime. It’s really frustrating.
Aside from those 2 things I love the game, though I wish monsters like the Sea Ants got better evolutions so there will more incentive to keep them. If you have allot of free time or very little free time due to kids ONEPIECETREASURECRUISE is perfect option for you. It’s possible to reach immense power without having to pay to win (though paying won’t exactly hurt your odds either).

It has been a great game to start off with, really enjoyable when it was released. It gets worse and worse with every single update. First, they didn’t fix too many of the UI issue, when I see my box with over 1000 character, that’s just something causes headache. Therefore, the newer bosses requires way too much tactical and specific characters to clear. When I have to spend money to process in the game, I normally delete that game right away. Also, the developer quit on this game long time ago, just like how they quit on dragon ball legend. Bandai has great titles and awesome developers, they know how to make games but eventually they do not know how to manage them in order to maximize their profit while the fans still enjoy the games. That’s right, we’re fans, not just players, most of us been spending money just for the title and the characters we love. That’s probably why Bandai didn’t border to manage their game seriously. I have to say, a lot of their games are awesome, but really lack of management.

I’ve been playing this game for going on 3 years and while I love One Piece and the game overall there are some things that need some massive improvements. The 1st being pull rates. The pull rates for the newest Sugo characters are trash. Rate boosted should actually mean something. We shouldn’t have a higher chance to pull an old, no longer useful, non-featured or rate boosted unit then one that is featured/rate-boosted. It really disincentives users from pulling. The 2nd thing that needs improvement are the gem costs. There is no reason that it should cost so much for so little return. Add that to the fact that “gem sales” aren’t actual sales (no price reduction) makes it unappealing to actually spend money on the game. Finally, the way they have handled a recent glitch within the game shows that they don’t actually care about the players because they are too worried about taking care about their bottom line. Take a not from Cygames which after player displeasure with certain actions taken have become widely accepted by many as a great developer which cares about its user base. In summary, fix the rates of pulling characters that are featured/rate-boosted, lower the price of gems/actually provide price cut gem sales, and actually prove that you care about your users otherwise this review is staying at 1 star.

Hello, I played this game roughly around when it first came out. I stopped playing because I felt the game was to hard to play through with my free to play crew. I had some good characters but it was truly unplayable for me. Now I download and they give you shanks and Beckman after the tutorial. They didn’t do that before. My crew was luffy gaimon and some grunts for the beginning levels. I used to have to grind for turtles for exp, now I have to more lobster feasts(exp) and than I know what to do with. I am gifted several gems and have pulled several sugo rares. Now I beat any level because I have a maxed out crew of sugo rares + one five star. I tested it on a level I had to use a extra gem to refill my health bar(clash lagoon) with my team back in the day. Now I beat that boss with a single attack that I missed. What’s the point in playing if ima beat every level like it’s nothing.

I downloaded this game with the hope of having some challenges and feeling of success when I got pass a tough boss, or when I got lucky enough to get a sugo rare. The game no longer has those aspects. It is night and day from what it used to be. I may still keep it to collect gems and pull characters cuz I am a fan of the series.

Where to start? The rates for the games Rare Recruits is horrible. Bandai lies about the rates. You get crappy units that aren’t of any use after spending hard earned gems. Which mind you take months to save up for. Tons of units that are amazing don’t come back ever. Forcing you to purchase gems. They make it impossible to get good Legends and boost the good ones extremely low. Even if you spend a thousand dollars you wouldn’t even get the amazing Legend you want. That’s how bad it is. So saving gems is worthless and so is buying them. They make the content way too focused on SPECIFIC UNITS which only the new Legends are capable of clearing and are good for a month or two before a new one comes out repeating said cycle from above. They treat their player base like crap and see them as breathing piggy banks. Only wanting money, are incompetent in fixing issues, and punish their players for any errors they have made. STAY AWAY from this steaming pile of trash. Don’t give this greedy piece of crap any more money . They don’t deserve anything. It will be the best decision you could’ve ever made.

My daughter played this game for years and never missed a login day. She spent 40+ dollars in-game as well. But the iPad she had the game on crashed and we went through the grueling process of trying to get her data back. We had her account number, we had a purchase receipt, we had all the information they asked for. But I guess she got a couple things wrong, like the last mission that she did or her crew level, things she never thought she’d have to memorize. They told her they couldn’t give her data back because the information she gave didn’t match, yet they wouldn’t tell us anything else. I explained to them that she’s young and autistic, along with other medical problems, and also that she didn’t have any type of social media to back her data up because she’s too young to do so. This game was very calming for her, yet the people in charge didn’t help us out at all. I never thought they’d treat a mobile game’s data like it was someone’s social security number or bank account information. Their security is far too tight for a game some kids/teenagers probably play. She hasn’t been the same since losing her game, but I’m quickly trying to find her a replacement.

Ok so first off love the game it’s fun but it’s one thing that make sit so much more less fun than Dokkan battle and Brave Souls that being that the special leveling up is so stupid and ruins the game when in games like dokkan and Bleach it is guaranteed a lvl up this game does the dumbest thing possible and makes it have a PERCENTAGE to increase and compared to the other games that actually reward you this is the biggest if not the most stupid thing that brings it from 4 star to a 1 star I like that on my 2nd account I got rewarded well for being new but I think unless they fix the special percentage from being like 10% to 100% for using a dupe character then it will not be as popular or as good as Dokkan or Brave Souls and that saddens me bc it’s fun but I hate the 15 hours I did to grind Shanks to compete 1 recruit mission if your gonna have a “have a special reach a certain lvl” mission for a recruit then don’t make it absurdly hard like 6 either reduce it or just get rid of it

I don’t even know if I should call it management but that’s what I’m going with. The game itself is as fun as any gacha game, and it is fairly generous on how gems, the premium currency, is earned. The issue lies with Bandai Namco, or most likely the section of Bamco than runs OPTC, handles its fan base and communications. It treats the players like second class customers and just kinda says “Oops oh well” to it’s mistakes and isn’t transparent 100% with what is going on. Also I know it’s their game so they don't have to be generous on their banners but that’s not how you keep a player base since not everyone is going to want to spend hundreds of dollars just to pull on banners that players feel they’re being shafted on. One final note the whole “economy of the game” situation that just went down is really stupid considering the game is a PvE (You can compete with other players during special events but it’s not really PvP) game so there is zero harm in being nice with rewards other than the harm it does to Bandai’s wallet.

I’ve played this game for multiple years and enjoyed it even though the grind can be a lot. I’ve built an account pouring a lot of time and money into it. I’ve backed it up with an old Facebook and didn’t realize I never backed it up again with my current (I know, big oof on my behalf). Even finding the form to send a request for restoration is a nightmare. I have tons of transaction recipes and answered multiple questions. Of course I don’t remember the last mission I played or even who was my third crew anyone who’s played this game a long time knows that they have a different grind mission every day and crews change frequently. I reached out on three different occasions providing proof of purchase and player ID. Sending screenshots of me using my crew. After three attempts of them saying they have inadequate information I think I’ve finally given up. For a game that literally just pours in money you’d think they could use those funds to have a decent team to make sure their customers are taken care of. It was a pretty fun time playing the game, but if something happens to your account just know that’s probably gone forever.

In general opinion, great anime game and One Piece game. Not much to say, except that I never get bored. There are so many things to do such as events and challenges. And I feel like the game actually gives you a chance. I never spend money and I have great strong characters. It’s just that some games you feel you have to spend actual money to feel strong in the game. In this game I just do challenges to receive the rainbow gems (whatever they are called) and it’s enough. The game also gives good rates on getting characters. So yeah, besides that the performance of the game is good to me, graphics are good. So I give this game a five out of five, for a much more fair advantage, decent gameplay and performance and finally the fact that spending money is more of an option. I never feel like spending my money to get characters! So if your a fan of One Piece go ahead and get It I definitely recommend. And have fun!

I love this game I've been playing it since it was released. Up until the Alabasta island the game is extremely enjoyable and the simple controls help this but I have one question to ask. Why the hell does all the enemies gain health pools and damage rival to the end level island boss and they all gain a special that depending on how your team is set up will destroy your health or make it to where you can't even attack for several turns letting your team to get demolished by low level tier enemies. With which you can only continue using a rainbow gem which you only get 5 when completing a island and a additional 3 throughout the course of the island too bad unless your a nigh master strategist you'll run out of these extremely fast. Now I realize money is king in corporations and businesses but you really need to stop making levels impossible to the point where you try to strong arm the payers into buying gems. So please make the game playable again and update the the game website more frequently so we at least have some idea on what we're about to head into.

As previous reviewers have stated, a large issue with the global version is the idea of rare recruits. I have done many multi-pulls only to receive nothing for it. In the Japanese version of the game, you are basically guaranteed a six star in every pull, and they even send you a free six star in the mail, along with the evolver set. In the global version the only “guaranteed” way to get a six star is to buy the gem bundle. Another issue I’ve seen, with my friends and I, is the download bonus. The best place to start is how slow it is. In the past the download bonus took no time at all, but now it takes so long, even when I’m on wi-fi. Not to mention, most of the times we don’t get, or even see a chest for the gem. I personally believe that we could do with out the download bonus, or at least it could be fixed in some way. The only other issue I have with the download bonus is that it happens to me twice a day. If we got equal treatment as the Japanese version, and the download bonus was better, then maybe I would give the game a higher rating, but until then I can only give the game two stars.

Been playing since 1.0 big time One Piece fan here. I’m F2P through and through. Was able to get many legends with most spending a dime. The game is very fun and engaging, for a free game, it is definitely one of the best and I’ve enjoyed it all these time. However as soon as they rolled out the “Treasure Map” mode, I quickly lost interest. Mainly, this mode requires FARRRRRR too much time. For the entire event duration, normally 4 days. You are required to play non-stop or at least divulge 3-4 hrs of continuously play to keep up with the progress. Worst of all, in order to keep up, you HAVE to spend gems to pull characters that boost your score. These score boosting characters are different each event so you are FORCED to spend gem in order to keep up, FORCED to spend hours a day to keep up. To a working professional, that is just too exhausting. I participated in 4 events and I officially quit OPTC. So long OPTC. Thanks for 3 years of fun.

Fisrt off I love the game, been with it for some time to time since it almost released. Game is pretty fun and was added a lot of features but honestly it has become terrible unbalanced.

By this i am talking about the competitive side to it besides the Kizuna clashes. TM and Kizuna requiring the newest units to advance and place in the top; while this is somewhat acceptable due to the type of game its not that big a deal even though players have little to no chance of earning the top spots or getting the rewards that would allow them to play better but also the PvP is broken.

While completely fun its unbalanced as well as having a bad Rng that cost you matches and your ranking. Most of the time I used the same if not stronger team than the enemy player but suddenly the enemy activates all their specials in a row even when you have higher speed and lower cooldown.

Game is great but these issues are present even in Japans version if I am not mistaken and thiuroughly ruin the experience for a lot of players. Even though it’s fun it’s definitely frustrating to be unable to play a match and rank somewhat decently if you are hindered by bad game structure. Needs reworking and some balance as it currently is frustrating to have access to rewards and incentive to play when it’s clearly bad

I want to rate this higher but I can’t based on performance alone. The constant downloading, even though I have chosen the mass:bulk download option, is annoying but I can deal with it. The being cheated out of characters when performing a pull after finally earning rainbow gems through gameplay is insulting. A few times I have contemplated spending money on this game because I LOVE One Piece, but after each pull I retract that thought. I know if I were to spend money I would only be disappointed & feel like i’ve been ripped off. In addition to that, progress in the game can go incredibly slow based on the steep difficulty curve. Now it may just be me, but with upgrading my characters as much as I can in every way possible, the story seems to really slow down in pace do to overpowered opponents & slow battle pace. I originally played this game around the time it came up but when I upgraded my mobile device & tried to log back into my account but everything was gone. I gladly started over because of my love for it but now some of these issues make it frustrating going forward.

I mean, for a phone game, there really is a LOT of content here. If you're a One Piece fan, it's even BETTER. The game is addicting, and it's fun to see your favorite characters grow and evolve, let alone play. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for something free to kill time with. It definitely doesn't BEG for your money, like a lot of games do. The only drawback is every once in awhile, it'll have to take a long time to download new data to the game. But it's worth it! And even then: you can have it download data automatically! This game wins!!!
UPDATE: it got better. Now there are super evolutions that help to include time-skip versions of your favorite characters! So it's always updating!
UPDATE UPDATE: I'm still playing this a year later so it's keeping itself fresh and it's always getting bigger and better.
MEGA UPDATE: it's still so good!
ULTRA UPDATE: It's stiiilllll tha king baybeeee!

Amazing game, probably one of the best in ONEPIECETREASURECRUISE Store. Regardless if you watch/read One Piece. New management has really improved this game. After a long silence from the Devs. And an uproar, of a very devoted, ONE PIECE community. Changes have been made. Whoever took charge of the team or project began listening to fans. :) I know many who are very appreciative of this. It would have been really sad to see it go under.

If you took time to read this or happened upon it by chance. It was not by chance. Have an amazing day, 😌 you are an individual and no one else can be you. I don’t have to know you to tell you this. Do what gives you joy and worry not of others expectations of you. Set yourself a standard and begin following your own. Much love from one human being to another!! ❤️

If you're a fan of one piece play this game. If not but u enjoy strategy games, give it a shot. My advice to you is the first to rare recruits u get should be good ones if u wanna progress well through the game. If not consider re downloading and starting over. The game will only continue to improve as they release new maps and characters, which will in turn make more team strategies possible. With the version 4.0 that was just released, Bandai has shown once again a genuine effort to innovate. Their efforts have paid off with an increasingly strategic game with a seemingly endless amount of customization available to the players (in regards to the teams they build).

Unfortunately, despite my love of this game, I will be changing my rating to 1* until they clear up this "sugofest rate controversy" on global. I look forward to them explaining their innocence or making moves to right any wrongs so I can change it back to a 5*.

Great game, I’ve been playing for 5+ years. The game is perfect for fans of One Piece. It has monthly character batches and content to beat. There are 4 main game modes (1) normal story/raids/coliseums: using a team of 6 to clear a stage with a boss at the end that could mostly be described as puzzle/strategy/tap timing. (2) treasure mode: a monthly game mode where you move through a map collecting rewards and use multiple different teams to clear mini bosses. (3) Kizuna: develop 3 teams to do as much damage as possible to a certain boss (4) pirate rumble: develop a 5-8 man team to beat other teams in a hands off, automatic, PvP RNG fight.

The game has had its ups and downs. The developers can be a bit stingy and a little greedy at times. And the price of gems is usually ridiculous, but it’s overall a very enjoyable game and community that I’ve spent way too much of my life on.