Onimusha: Warlords Reviews

Unskippable cut scenes that scale in length with boss difficulty are truly painful. Healing items are scarce and if you use them early on the end game gets real tricky. Other than that masterpiece pure cinema. Play in Japanese for the freaky deaky cut scenes :D

If you like classical Resident Evil games, you will like this game's mechanics too. This version supports analog controls and is the way to play the game if you haven't purchased it before. Having said that, blurry visuals and dated controls will affect your experience and enjoyment.

Such a classic. Love this game. And when Modern RPG gameplay is applied to this legend, it'll be too awesome!

It's a good, simple, and short game. Combat is fun but not all that interesting or deep. The fixed camera can cause some issues and some enemies can hit you off screen but it's really not that big of a deal. The story isn't super enthralling but it does its job. The atmosphere and music are where this game really shines for me. Overall, I'd give it a 7.8/10.

This game is a classic. I originally played it on the PS2 back when it was new, and it immediately became one of my favorite games due to it's setting (mid 1500's Japan), gameplay, music, and it's crazy, yet compelling, story line. For those newer to the series that have an aversion to the Souls-Like games (like I do), I should point out that you have nothing to fear here. While there is a bit of a challenge, it's not the throw your keyboard against the wall and monitor in the trash frustrating that Souls-Like games have. This game is actually FUN to play hacking up monsters while upgrading your weapons. Also, I should address Steam Deck capability. The game DOES run on the Steam deck flawlessly during regular gameplay and normal movie sequences, however the CG-movies (the movie sequences with the good-for-the-time graphics) don't play nice with the Steam Deck. There's 5 in total, 3 don't play at all, 2 are stuttering and jittery. You can easily skip them and go back into the game, but 4 of these sequences are important to the story (one is the opening, two are major plot points, and the last is the ending). Luckily, there's the internet so I'd recommend just watching these sections on YouTube if you haven't played the game before and are playing on the Steam Deck. I highly recommend this game, even with the Steam Deck issues. If the idea of playing as a Samurai fighting monsters in feudal Japan interests you, don't let modern gaming tropes scare you away from this one (nor the second, since Onimusha 2 is coming out soon and is just as good), it's worth your time and won't infuriate you with it's difficulty.

Short, sweet, and a lot of fun. Replay value too like Resi with costume unlocks, harder difficulty and ranking system based on what you accomplish on your run.

A solid and unique game in it's youth/past. I have played the original PS2 version many years ago. But with the remaster it shows it's age significantly. Onimusha Warlords is very much the weakest out of the Quadrology. The game is extremely short, lacks replayability other than trying to get all of the collectibles to play the additional little mini-games. However this version of the game still lacks "Genma onimusha" features which is extremely disappointing, Genma Onimusha being a mini-DLC updated version of the game for the OG Fat Xbox. Which gave a little bit more features, that is missing in this version including some additional armor, some new mini-games and a few other QOL changes such as swapping weapons on the fly etc. If you wanna play a piece of video game history get it on sale or wait until the Onimusha 2 Samurai's Destiny comes out and get the two pack. Thankfully it seems that capcom is reviving the series yet again so hopefully more of it will come around here soon including Onimusha 3 Demon Siege and Dawn of Dreams.

Just as good as I remember. Nearly perfect port too. Onimusha Warlords, the first game in the series, is one of my favorite games. I think Sengoku classic Resident Evil is a very apt descriptor in a lot of ways, but it is distinct enough to set itself apart. The atmosphere is amazing and the pre-rendered backgrounds look fantastic. The gameplay is also perfectly balanced for first timers to the Onimusha series. The combat just feels very good. The pacing is great as well. The tank controls are done well enough in a way that it rarely feels like it gets in the way, and it respects player agency in a lot of ways while not becoming too obtuse like a lot of these older games fall victim to. A short game as well. If you take your time, it can take 5-6 hours to beat the first time around. That being said, I do have two problems with this port. One disappointing, the other not very. The first is that this game is a port of Onimusha *Warlords* and does not contain any content from *Genma* Onimusha. If you, reader are not aware, Capcom at the time was a Sony first developer, and Microsoft just released the original Xbox. To help Xbox break into eastern markets, Microsoft wanted to make a deal with Capcom to make Resident Evil an Xbox exclusive and Capcom declined and offered to make a *definitive* edition of Onimusha Warlords on Xbox. Thus we got Genma Onimusha as an Xbox exclusive that has a ton of new content and also *skippable cutscenes!* Whole new areas and new mechanics too. I really wish this was added in as maybe a Genma mode setting because Genma is absolutely the definitive way to play Onimusha 1. I think that would make the game a perfect game for me. The second thing is much smaller. They re-did the OST for the game. The original was wonderful, and you can still get it in this port with a mod. But they removed it because of some legal reason with the original composer or something and I completely understand why. For sure mod in the original OST when you play. This is an almost perfect port of Onimusha Warlords. And nothing more. This is like if they ported vanilla Kingdom Hearts II instead of Final Mix.

First of all, the game is too short. Reaching to final boss took me only 3.5 hours. Considering what it wants to accomplish, the combat is quite shallow as it's all about spamming square and sometimes, block with L1 while all the mobs have many features from dashing to somersault. Alongside Samanosuke's 3 different weapons, there is also bow and arrow but neither it's useable nor the game doesn't explain anywhere how to use it. And the final boss is naturally old-fashioned as it is purely designed not to get beaten.The funny thing is that, Samanosuke says: "Even if I die, I will destroy you!" before the final boss fight but, when he dies, it's Game Over and the boss doesn't get destroyed LMAO. The story is whatever. And lastly, puzzles require trial and error or speed instead of brains. Still, it's a short fun game that you might try when you're looking for some small action. 7/10

Pre-rendered backgrounds are great and never should've fallen out of fashion. For a port of a PS2 game, this does a decent job of preserving the quality of them. The game otherwise is decent though only about 4 hours long if you don't want to engage with the bonus game mode or challenge runs.