I keep hearing so much good stuff about this. I watched the trailer and it looked better than I would have thought, except like you said, the powers look a bit odd.
Read a NYT interview with Oda rm the other day and it seems like he had a lot of say in it. I'm sure that makes a big difference. I'll have to check it out, but I'm already reading the manga and watching the anime, so I don't want to just One Piece 24/7!