One Piece is an animated adaptation of its manga. In this world, there are pirates, those who search for power or the ultimate treasure, or the One Piece, and there are marines, those who are employed by the government to resist and fight against the pirates’ havoc. Various abilities come from the mastery of one’s race and one’s enhancement of a fighting style. One of these is Haki, the mastery of the energy within everyone’s life force. Mystical powers can be gained by consuming fruits, called Devil Fruits. In return for these powers, the ability to swim is traded. This is a large negative when they are traveling various seas.
The story One Piece is one of the Big 3 of Anime, along with Naruto and Bleach. These made the most influence in the history of shonen anime. Blox Fruits is a Roblox game drawing inspiration from One Piece. Its popularity has contributed to One Piece’s fame, and in return, One Piece’s popularity influenced the massive influx of players to their game.
In spite of being an iteration of One Piece, the game is popular in and of itself. A One Piece game idea sounds great and there’s a massive appeal in its popularity. But there are already many more let downs than successful games that deserve this level of popularity. In truth, what made this game popular isn’t the concept of a One Piece game. It’s the creator’s effort and acknowledgement! Games can have many updates, but Blox Fruits updates are not made without great care and effort. Many take months to finalize. In each of these updates, you can see many additions or changes that require months of preparation. Updates that would damage the integrity of the game have been wisely avoided.
For example, many One Piece games have added the main character’s overpowered abilities far too soon after release. By avoiding this, the game has vivid diversity in individual powers. Usually the trend is to make the character and skills a central focus of the game, but Blox Fruits doesn’t have this. Instead of centralizing the game around the main character of the anime, the game takes the unique perspective of incorporating various storylines and races into the plot. They have encouraged and enhanced the animation, including gameplay, so that even repetitive actions have hidden, worthwhile rewards. For example: pressing the attack button and being AFK (Away From Keyboard).
Another example is the evolution of the players’ races. Many other games haven’t thought to add this amount of races, furthermore, they had the idea of evolutions. While they anticipate the next update, veteran players remain entertained by attempting to get accustomed to new gameplay, adventuring the depths of new additions, and discovering new features from updates. Many new features can only be experienced to their full extent through gameplay. This is where time and effort cannot be replaced by using real money to buy extra benefits for progression.
Blox Fruits is appreciated by fans of Roblox and the youth of the One Piece game community. The depth and creativity of not only the storyline, but the technical aspects of the program, and the attention dedicated to the whole of the game are relished by the fans, self included. It is no wonder that there were 42.29 billion lifetime visits by Nov. 18th, 2024 and RoMonitor Stats shows 400 thousand players are active each day. Update 20 holds the title of having 3.7 million active players at once; a result of their work and love for their game and One Piece. Detail is everything to an experienced gamer, and Blox Fruits certainly delivers their details.
