One Piece: Gear Spirit

A Japanese fighting game for DS based around the anime One-Piece. It is very similar to Super Smash Bros.
Nintendo DS

Overview

There is no story within Gear Spirit, instead the story mode features players being sent to random locations to fight battles against three random enemy characters. However, there will occasionally be battles which correspond to fights in the anime, with some random characters thrown in e.g. Luffy will have to fight Smoker and then fight Rob Lucci.

Gameplay

The characters of One-Piece duke it out.
The characters of One-Piece duke it out.

Gear Spirit is a 2D fighter, much like Super Smash Bros. or Jump Super Stars. Characters are controlled using the d-pad to move, the face buttons are used to attack and jump, and special attacks are performed by using cards on the touch screen. Fights consist of four player characters each gaining points from killing another characters via depleting their health or pushing them out of the ring, however, each player loses points for dying. The winner from each round is the player with the most points at the end of the time.

Characters

Eight characters are available from the start, while there are twelve further unlockable characters.

  • Monkey D. Luffy Unlocked from the start
  • Roronoa Zoro Unlocked from the start
  • Nami Unlocked from the start
  • Usopp Unlocked from the start
  • Sanji Unlocked from the start
  • Tony Tony Chopper Unlocked from the start
  • Nico Robin Unlocked from the start
  • Franky Unlocked from the start
  • Vivi Nefertari Unlocked by Completing Story Mode with any four characters
  • Kaku Unlocked by Completing Story Mode with Nico Robin
  • Rob Lucci Unlocked by Completing Story Mode with Franky
  • Portgas D. Ace Unlocked by completing Story Mode with any two characters
  • Aokiji Unlocked by completing Story Mode with Tony Tony Chopper
  • Sir Crocodile Unlocked by completing Story Mode with any three characters
  • Enel Unlocked by completing Story Mode with any five characters
  • Dracule Mihawk Unlocked by completing Story Mode with every character
  • Shanks Unlocked by completing Story Mode with Mihawk
  • Blackbeard Unlocked by completing Story Mode with Shanks
  • Brook Unlocked by max out bounties on all starting characters

Four different costumes are available for each character. Three of these re-colour of the original costume and one slightly alters the costume.

Stages

Most stages (except Rocketman Train) are multi-platform 2D stages and some stages have specific items that can be used to the player's advantage e.g. Skypiea has a bell that can be knocked to send a shockwave towards enemies and other stages can have special events which endanger the characters e.g. On Rocketman Train a giant wave will occasionally appear which can kill characters caught in it.

  • Rogue Town
  • Alabasta Ruins
  • Rocketman Train
  • Enies Lobby's
  • Tower of Justice
  • Skypiea
  • Thousand Sunny
  • Banaro Island

Cards

Cards are how the player uses special attacks and status effects. Each player character has 3 levels of special attacks, each one causing a cut-scene to take place in which damage from the attack is dealt. The other cards are used to heal characters, boost their strength or defence, or lower enemies stats. All cards cost between 1–3 points of which the player being able to accumulate a total of 15 points.

Apart from the standard three cards the player can collect assist cards which call in other characters to convey some kind of specific effect. These are not unlike the assist trophies from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

One Piece: Gear Spirit

Game Details

Name
One Piece: Gear Spirit
Release Date
2007-08-30
Genre
Fighting
Theme
Comedy
Anime
Developer
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Matrix Software
Publisher
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Platform
Nintendo DS