i've seen a guy go thru all the ReBirth series on PC awhile back and he said the original ps3 versions of the games were even worse, too point of were he need a guide to beat the first game, those games seem like it's just copypasta rooms over and over again and the talking parts are just like as long as a VN, it's like how not to make an RPG
but other than i can't decide to play either one piece warrios 3 or hyrule warriors defentive editon for switch
I owned the first one on PS3, and yeah all the jokes were horrible. They weren't "references" or "parodies" it was just Neptune basically shouting "HEY DID YOU KNOW MARIO EXISTS!"
Combine that with an endless grind, being locked out of recruiting the other characters if Neptune died too many times, fetch quests tied to other fetch quests... I gave up on having to find the sacred weapons of "Miyamoto, Gates, Naka, and... the name of the Sony person", again, no joke outside of "The Weapons are named after famous people associated with those COMPANIES! Get it!?!? Even though Bill Gates had nothing to do with the Xbox's development in the slightest and thus honoring him specifically is as random as if they had a 3DO Console Goddess"
You don't find the weapons, you find the PIECES of the weapons, then have to do quests to repair them... most specifically I gave up when I run through several quests just to be able to enter a dungeon, where I'd find the "String of the Bow of Gates!" (Seriously, Bill Gates has more to do with the Windows 95 version of Doom than the Xbox itself, was any research at all done? You know what'd be kind of funny, if the Nintendo Goddess bragged about a magical dress called a "Rare Wear", but the Microsoft Goddess stole it and proceeded to be very incompetent at using it, never getting positive results, but refusing to give it back... since ya know that references something about gaming and not just the fact that games exist, and would be... something of a joke)
and even then you don't actually get to use these magic super weapons, you just... need them to continue the story.
I quit and never looked back, right now I'm playing the PC Remake, the jokes are a lot better (by that I mean existant, it resembles a spoof instead of just shouting "HEY LOOK! I KNOW A FRANCHISE EXISTS!"), the best character from the original (Nisa, who actually acted like a parody of the company she personified, probably because Nippon Ichi wrote her lines and they're good at humor, especially self-referential) is missing, but the gameplay is improved and more action based.
I never played the original sequels, but I hear the Remakes are almost identical to the original, they only really overhauled the first one because even these people knew how bad it was.
I had gotten the first game way back when it came out because I thought the idea of celebrating gaming with a literal console war and having characters who spoofed various moments in gaming history was a cool idea, but god damn does the execution leave much to be desired.
The fact that all of the characters are either bland (Neptune, Blanc), or derivative (Compa is just Flonne from Disgaea, Iffy is every Tomboy character ever) doesn't help, and anytime Neptune isn't being bland she's being obnoxiously unfunny.
How did that trainwreck ever had sequels, let alone six or seven sequels, a Senran Kagura style entry, a visual novel, three remakes, and an anime? It can't be the fanservice, none of the girls are particularly sexy or interesting. I guess I can see the sex appeal in Compa, Noire, and Vert specifically, but two of those are characters you get very late in and ONLY if you don't lose Planeptune Shares by having Neptune die in battle too often. Since Neptune HAS to be in the party for a majority of the game even if you do get the extra three DLC characters, it's guruanteed she's gonna take a few losses, especially in a game genre as reliant on RNG as a turn based RPG. (The remake made it more of an Action RPG to combat this specific problem)
From what little I've seen of the anime, the writing isn't very improved from the first entry. I mean the line "Oooh baby, you make my Metal Gear as Solid as a Snake" actually made it in the fucking anime.
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Anyway enough of that rant, if you're choosing between One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 and Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition, I'd say unless you're a massive One Piece fanboy go for Hyrule Warriors it's just a better experience overall.
I mean they're both Warriors games so they both have a lot of replayability. (Though I seriously have to wonder why Vivi and Mr. 2 Bon Clay aren't playable in One Piece Pirate Warriors 3)
