>>712942186It’s more of a sidegrade. It had more recent arcs (PW3 ends with a cobbled together Dressrosa, PW4 goes up to a cobbled together Wano) but the combat itself was generally worse, it cuts a LOT of arcs when PW3 covered basically all the major ones, and tons of characters both playable and non-playable got cut out as well. Unless you REALLY want to play as characters that are only in PW4, PW3 is mostly better.
Also, the mission mode was worse IMO. Replacing the SOULful island map with a generic menu was pretty lame and it felt like it took way less time to complete it