Bought it on sale, resurrecting this thread!
So far it's been pretty fun, it's crazy how hectic it gets and I assume its because of the PS4? I don't remember constantly climbing to 3k enemies beaten this easily and quickly before in PW1 or 2.
I just reached Marineford in the story mode, I like that they finally regulated coins to just powering up your stats but at the same time didn't change anything about the chests in stages. Big royal chests now only carry a mere 300 beli or more since coins were moved, removing whatever little exploration there was. I also find the legend, treasure event, crew skill and all that to be a little confusing. Treasure events are in game events that can sometimes only be triggered by certain fighters, which adds replayability which is nice. But then the Legend thing seems kinda pointless, I 100% certain legends my first time playing the episodes. Also calling it a 'Legend' is what confuses me since its just a giant poster but there's a seperate thing called skill posters which I don't know the function of at all. It's like they removed half the things from the shops and just put them into a different section since most of the rewards are data voices and things like that.
My only complaint is the super super condensed story cutscenes and talking scenes, did they re-use like half the cutscenes from PW1 or something? Some cutscenes looked super familiar. I noticed it would be a talking scene then they add in a 5 second scene using ingame models(almost comes off as something from Source Filmmaker, where it feels like its some dude posing different figures for fun re-creating scenes) then you have different cutscenes that look really good(Luffy vs. Lucci for instance). The story goes at such breakneck speed it's almost tiring, I wonder if things will slow down once I reach the new world but I assume it'll still be a Arc an Episode.
I kinda wish they didn't remove the stylish mode, I liked pressing a button and going into a high powered state. Right now starting off a stage with like 4 crewmates essentially lets you kizuana rush nonstop, but once you make them your 'allies' then building up kizuna rush takes forever since the buildup slows down and consumes meter from all crewmates. But man is it fun, just mashing square and then 5 dudes pop out doing full combos. In a way it kinda fixes the problem with PW1/2 where AOE characters like Aokiji and Mihawk were broken since that was the defacto way to clear mobs.
I've only played as Luffy and Crocodile so far, I assume each character in the skill poster section is a playable character? If so there's a ton in this game, yet they had to make some awkward changes to the story for lack of characters like Kidd(Luffy and Law pose with a big space inbetween them where Kidds supposed to be). I still don't know why they gave us Garp yet we STILL don't have a playable Wapol or Arlong. I remember the data moves for Wapol in PW2 showed us he has different moves and bombs for each of his forms yet that seems to be quite the detail for a simple NPC...hey at least all the warlords and admirals are playable.
So far so good, I wish I knew how to do rescue requests though, I sometimes get a SOS alert but there's no option to go help, just pressing touchpad puts me in my own lobby.
didnt expect anything new after DLC 1 and DLC 2 
