Onimusha: Way of the Sword was released to major fanfare on September 4, praised as a successful revival of Capcom's long-dormant franchise. Despite it all, Onimusha: Way of the Sword's return made a big splash in the gaming community, showcasing that revivals, when executed with care, can be wildly successful.
Back in the PlayStation 2 days, Capcom was working overtime to release consistent action-meets-horror Onimusha titles, including multiple bonafied spin-offs. The company kept busy with the sword-fighting game until it wasn't, completely halting any activity on the Onimusha franchise sometime in 2013 after the release of Onimusha Soul, to focus on Resident Evil. Now that the title is back, it's time to look at it with fresh eyes, exploring why this remake worked despite the ever-changing gaming landscape.
Classified as the ultimate sword-fighting action hack-and-slash romp, Onimusha: Way of the Sword remains remarkably faithful to the franchise's DNA despite popular genre shifts. That's no easy task. It's not a Souslike title, and it's not open-world, two facets that have largely taken over the gaming world. Instead, the Capcom title manages to be its own thing entirely despite massive changes in the gaming landscape since the last Onimusha game was released almost a decade ago.
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Instead of pandering to a wider audience, Capcom and its developers stuck to their guns, honing in on the classic title and polishing it to a mirror finish with a few modernized additions that both casual and die-hard fans of the series loved. No compromises, no major changes to the format. Just pure Onimusha.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword remains remarkably faithful to the franchise's DNA despite popular genre shifts.
Timing-based counterattacks and parries via Issen remain but are much more fluid and showy, brought on by visual cues. It's all about timing and strategizing your plan of attack with this one. Like the originals, Onimusha: Way of the Sword also features soul-absorption, utilizing that ever-important Oni Gauntlet to suck up floating spiritual energy dropped by those pesky Genma after dispatching them. Specific souls offer specific healing benefits, while others offer upgrades and charging abilities.
Mechanics aside, the game's tone is very similar to that of the 2006 title, Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams. Both are jam-packed with samurai action, set in a mythological, grotesque, demon-infested world that leans dark and almost spooky. Uniquely, horror aesthetics remain from the original 2001 game, an aspect that you don't see very often in a true hack-and-slash romp. Beautiful Feudal Japan aesthetics are seamlessly blended with haunting, dingy, blood-stained castles and dank underground labs with nasty demons hiding out around every corner.
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