One Piece: Gear Spirit

One Piece: Gear Spirit is a fighting game for the Nintendo DS based on the manga and anime, One Piece. It was developed by Bandai and was released on August 30, 2007 in Japan. The game does not have a basic storyline. In this respect it is similar to Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. series. In the story mode the player fight random characters at different stages, and each character has two event stages where they battle a rival or another character that is related to their story in the anime. For instance, in Blackbeard's story, one of the characters he encounters in his event stage is Portgas D. Ace.