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One Piece: Pirates' Carnival

Game

One Piece: Pirates' Carnival is a four-player party game for PlayStation 2 and GameCube from developer h.a.n.d. Crews race across themed boards, flip panels for cash and recruits, and compete in more than thirty mini-games drawn from the series.

Genre: Party
Platform: PlayStation 2, GameCube
Developer: h.a.n.d.
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
Release Year: 2005
Japan Release Date: 2005-11-23
North America Release Date: 2006-09-12
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Gameplay

The game is a board-based party title for up to four players. Competitors move across gameboards themed after series locations, revealing panels to earn money and add crew members from a pool of more than one hundred characters. Panels split into event tiles with instant effects, mini-game tiles that trigger contests, and captain tiles that stage special boss battles across over thirty mini-games.
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Localization

The North American edition trimmed content set beyond the Skypiea arc and replaced the original music. These changes lined the release up with the 4Kids English dub of the anime, which had not yet reached the later parts of the story at the time.
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Orange-haired Nami from One Piece smiles warmly while wearing a sleek, form-fitting blue and gold sci-fi spacesuit against a vibrant cosmic backdrop of stars, planets, and galaxies.
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Wearing a purple halter dress, Nico Robin from One Piece smiles gently as she touches a carved stone pillar amidst sunlit ruins and blooming purple flowers.
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Release and Reception

The game was developed by h.a.n.d. and published by Namco Bandai Games, launching in Japan on November 23, 2005, and in North America in September 2006. Critics received it poorly, with Metacritic scores in the high forties, GameSpot at 5.4, and IGN at 4.5 out of ten.
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