One Punch Man is an anime sensation and it has a few games on the mobile market. However, Crunchyroll has partnered with Perfect World, and the team is creating a One Punch Man game for mobile and PC platforms.
If you’re unfamiliar with Perfect World, this is the company that brought us games like Persona 5: The Phantom X and Tower Of Fantasy. So, this studio has some game-developing chops. It’s going to be available for Android, iSO, and PC when it launches. We don’t know exactly when this game will hit the market. The company did tell us that it’s going to come later this year.
One Punch Man World will let you fight and explore
As you can guess, this game allows you to fight your way through the monsters that invade Z-City, following the plot of the anime. You’ll battle smaller monsters and giant beasts. The gameplay seems similar to that of Devil May Cry or the newer Final Fantasy games.
As you can also guess, you’ll be using popular characters from the anime to do battle. This will include characters like Genos, Puri Puri Prisoner, Smile Man, Lightning Max, and more. You’ll use their signature attacks from the anime to fight off the enemies.
The trailer shows us gameplay with these characters, but it doesn’t show us direct gameplay with the man of the hour, the titular One Punch Man. There’s a reason for that. The story behind One Punch Man (or Saitama) is that he can basically kill any monster with one punch. So, that might be why we don’t see any footage of him fighting enemies. We’re not 100% sure about what the game is going to do about him as a character.
Along with fighting enemies, you’ll be able to explore Z-City. There will be different activities and minigames. If you’re looking for some social interaction, you can join the Hero Association and team up with other players to fight off more monsters.
If you’re a fan of the anime, you’ll be able to play through a story mode that goes through the first season of the show. We don’t know if more seasons will be added, but that would be nice.
You can pre-register for the PC version of the game starting today.