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One Piece Mansion

Capcom - PlayStation - 2001 (this has nothing to do with the other thing called One Piece!)

One Piece Mansion is an intense action puzzle game where you try to keep your mansion in the black for as long as possible by making sure tenants don't get too stressed. I'm a big fan! it's upsettingly underrated for how fun it is, especially considering it was directed by the same guy as Devil May Cry. it doesn't attempt the same simple elegance as Tetris, which is good to see, because other games that attempted that simplicity like Yoshi and Zoop never were as fun as Tetris in my opinion, but I'll easily take One Piece Mansion over Tetris. then again, I'm not much a fan of Tetris. has anyone gotten as good at One Piece Mansion as some are at that?

about the gameplay: you try to maintain a mansion of cube-shaped rooms to keep from going bankrupt for as long as possible. if a tenant gets too stressed, their room explodes and you lose a bunch of money. a red arrow means a tenant is giving stress in that direction, and a green one means they're removing it; during the game you can hold a button to show every stress arrow at once like in the screenshot. tenants can also be moved for a small amount of money. the game speed ebbs and flows over time and you lose more money per exploded room the longer you've lasted. great, right?

but, importantly, there are tenants from a criminal organization called Syndicate 5 that randomly move in, don't pay rent and go out of their way to stress out other tenants. those ones you want to overstress on purpose to make them go away, and the game keeps track of how many you forced out with each high score. every tenant's green and red arrows are double-edged swords: you want to keep your paying tenants stress-free but not accidentally keep around a criminal, and you want to overstress criminals without forcing out paying tenants. that's where the fun is: One Piece Mansion could have easily left out the criminals and just been about keeping everyone at low stress, but they create conflict and make the game about frantically managing which tenants are where to overstress a select few but keep all the others in balance.

the criminals are more varied than their stress patterns. each one wanders around and causes different problems in other tenants' rooms that you have to walk to and take care of. those little chases spice up the gameplay in a way I've never seen in other action puzzle games. these little flamey guys are especially annoying because if you leave a fire too long it'll burn rooms down and sometimes decides to spread.

also, certain tenants change depending on how stressed they are. for example, there's a student penguin that doesn't do anything until he's stressed, then he'll stress out the folks to his sides and bottom diagonals. probably strategically important but I'm not good enough for that. and the difficulty levels, instead of changing game speed or costs or rent, change the sets of tenants you can randomly get and the width of the play area, which is much more interesting.

anyway, there's also a story mode with some arbitrary goals and a really cute looking antagonist (everyone looks cute, actually, the art style is cute) that's basically meant to teach you the management skills you need for endless. it's a real shame it hasn't been remade or cloned, as I don't think there's anything like it and it seriously holds up. it would make a great mobile game — touch controls would suit it well — though it's not exactly the best for playing in short bursts since an endless game can easily go over 30 minutes. then again, Onion Games's Million Onion Hotel can somehow go for 20 when it feels more like 2. One Piece Mansion isn't especially expensive, around $15 for a complete copy when I last checked, and easy to find on eBay. the only reading is the simple menus, the simple story and the tenant lore blurbs so if you have a Japanese unit with no way to play US games you'll be able to play this just fine. I'm lucky to have found this game and some of the others I like on old, old episodes of Game Grumps when they played whatever they picked off the shelf. my high score on normal is 9y5m4w with 77 Syndicate 5 forced out! I got a much higher one on a 3DS emulator but it was running at about half speed so I don't think it counts.

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