Basically it coasted on advertising. People thought it's the next big thing because they saw it everywhere, not realising that thats because more money went into advertising than paying the devs to make a good game.

I never watched the anime or read the manga so please take this with a grain of salt but my family and I have enjoyed the first few episodes of live action One Piece. Its nothing phenomenal but its cute and fun

A lot of contrarian liberal fucks bought in to stick it to the wokes, too.

It looks like a generic game tbh, I'd almost mistake it for Ubisoft slop