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One Piece: Romance Dawn

The game is an RPG; it uses turn-based battles and action commands that help guide the player. The player commands the protagonist Luffy and other characters that are in his crew. The characters level up, and…

38 20 December 2012

One Piece: Romance Dawn is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Three Rings Inc., released 20 December 2012 on Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Portable.

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What One Piece: Romance Dawn is

One Piece: Romance Dawn is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Three Rings Inc. and released in 2012. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Portable.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game is an RPG; it uses turn-based battles and action commands that help guide the player. The player commands the protagonist Luffy and other characters that are in his crew. The characters level up, and the player can strengthen attacks by obtaining points. All characters and enemies are from the One Piece series and play the same roles as seen in the source material. Cutscenes are told in a manga style.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the One Piece series

One Piece: Romance Dawn is the 39th of 86 entries we hold in the One Piece series. The next entry was One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 - Collector's Editon in 2013. Its critic score of 38 is 23 points below the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is One Piece: Pirate Warriors at 80.

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How it was received

One Piece: Romance Dawn holds a critic score of 38 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 32 points below the year average.

What it launched against

One Piece: Romance Dawn launched on 20 December 2012, within three weeks of Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn, Kentucky Route Zero and Yakuza 5. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn, Kentucky Route Zero, Yakuza 5.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did One Piece: Romance Dawn come out?
One Piece: Romance Dawn was released on 20 December 2012 for Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Portable.

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