BioedwinMX

With the GameOverse pilot coming out, I thought it’d be nice to revisit the original NES game that started the franchise

Now, I know the pilot is based on the 2003 PS2 game, but not only do I not own a PS2, this game (even if it flopped) is what started the whole thing so it only feels right to begin here (definitely not because I’m too lazy to download an emulator, cough cough)

Anyways, i did submit pne for the GMTK gamejam 2025.... as my first game

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Luffy - peasant turned king - King arthur, Sun wukong and King David. Mainly because luffy is seemingly a random kid from the botton of the hierarchy, but he is actually the chosen one in some way.

Zoro - wandering ronin - No liege, aimless but honorable. For some reason, his last name is french? (Roronoa comes from Francois Lolonois) , also in one piece european swordsmen are stronger ever since Kaido reached wano. So maybe there is something there.

Nami - femme fatale, witch? - this one is harder, Robin Hood is clearly there at the start, but with the way she hoards wealth and makes unfair deals, you could argue she is some sorts of weather witch.

Ussop - cmon - the boy who cried wolf, pinocchio, the giant bean stalk, aesopp, probably the character with most references to fiction.

Sanji - prince - straight up a prince, a gallant knight, for some reason takes the role of princess in whole cake island, there is some tokusatsu there.

Chopper - reindeer/monster - Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, all the stuff about the yeti.

Robin - archeologist - Indiana Jones and the like.

With all the new reveals and stuff, it is silly that they didn't go all out, taking into account what they knew. But on second thought, what could they possibly do that they didn't try? Like, in order of events after Jaya.

Luffy went into the sky to fight God.

An admiral spared him, just because.

Got spared by CP9, the offcial assassination squad of the World government, because robin let herself be captured.

Beat CP9, a buster call, and fled successfully on an operation shouldn't have worked.

Got spared by Garp.

Beat another warlord, but at least barely managed to survive.

Got spared again, by another warlord this time.

Got saved by the same warlord, while they had sent another Admiral after his ass.

Broke into, out of, and reach marineford while they were on maximun security... SOMEHOW.

Didn't get killed in marineford. To be fair, they had other, more urgent problems.

Didn't manage to capture him in Sabaody nor in Punk hazard.

Doflamingo whole shtick got outsmarted, and bite the world government in their ass.

So, if something out of the ordinary happens and isn't acknowledged by bystander or extras, it's because it probably is far more common in that world.