One Piece Mansion
- September 27, 2001 14:27 PM PST
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Regulating happiness in order to build a honking apartment building is all part of the job in the new puzzler One Piece Mansion from Capcom.
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As the manager of an apartment complex, you must arrange tenants so as to keep their stress levels low so they remain in the building and pay rent. Extraneous variables come into play, too, as members of a local syndicate drop in to start fires, steal from tenants, and commit other acts of stress-inducing mischief. Unfortunately, the game doesn?t maintain any long-term interest: defusing problems and room-swapping tenants are more work than fun and the process becomes tiresome after the third stage or so.
It?s a shame the game isn?t as fun to play as it is to watch. Various tenants are imbued with hilarious sprite character animations (think super-deformed Jet Grind Radio), simple controls that make room management a breeze, and whimsical music that?s certain to cycle in your head for days. Despite its pretty sights and sounds, though, One Piece Mansion doesn?t live up to its potential and merits a brief rental at best.
