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[BennyBlanco]

I'm hyped boys. Downloading now.

 

[drotahorror]

There's 20000 guests and only a few hundred members on. Strange

Can't wait to play this. Honestly thought it shit on Wolverine.

Even Alan Wake showed up and sort of looked alright

 

[MMaRsu]

Post in thread 'Onimusha: Way of the Sword Demo Impressions'

Today at 1:36 AM

I also love you use abject in environments for combat.

• Danjin44

 

[BossLackey]

There's 20000 guests and only a few hundred members on. Strange

Can't wait to play this. Honestly thought it shit on Wolverine.

Even Alan Wake showed up and sort of looked alright

Agreed. Hyped for Onimusha, Wolverine looks mid at best.

 

[Danjin44]

I already played the demo 3 times. I fucking loved it!

 

[bender]

Just finished the demo.

+I really liked Musashi's characterization and the brief interplay between he and the "woman in the gauntlet"
-The visuals while nice enough kind of lack personality. I finished Onimusha 2 for the first time this week and the areas in the game hold up wonderfully and often have a painterly look to them.
-Animations are a little stiff. Musashi looks like he needs to take a deuce when he runs.
-Combat is stamina based and has a stance break system. It feels really, really slow and the parry window on block feels really generous. You'll see more trash mobs in any given encounter in the demo than were ever in the PS2 titles. The "problem" is that they treat you like a Hong Kong martial arts star and only attack one at a time (beyond the archers). And once you stance break an enemy you can usually chain 4-5 kills off that break.
=I do like that some enemies feign an attack to try to throw off your block/parry timing.
=The boss fight (speaking of fun personalities) was a little more interesting in this regard. Still incredibly easy to parry and then stance break, but you have to wear out his stamina bar twice and his attack strings are more challenging. His second phase throws in a grab that most be dodged instead of parried which most trash mobs don't employ. The clash mechanic during the fight is a nice call back to Onimusha 2.
-Being able to move while soul collecting kind of kills the risk/reward of that mechanic.

 

[davidjaffe]

Combat is a blast and it manages to feel like classic ONIMUSHA while also feeling modern. End boss was super tricky and dropping it to story showed off the timing for the button presses for block and dodge (which i needed to know cause my old man brain could not read the 'non parry' red flash in time).

I played ONIMUSHA 3 again recently and loved the sense of adventure it had. This lacks that so far. It is just a demo so whatever but I missed that. I also felt the colors were way too washed out. BUT overall the combat feels fantastic and fun and I am jazzed for the final. Oh, also, the English VO is pretty bad IMO.

 

[Danjin44]

the English VO is pretty bad IMO.

Its a game with Japanese setting with Japanese characters, no one should play this game with english voices.

 

[bender]

Oh, also, the English VO is pretty bad IMO.

 

[davidjaffe]

english is what the default was set to. i assume default settings is what the devs want us to experience ideally.

 

[Seomel]

You were 1m quicker

 

[HYDE]

Combat is a blast and it manages to feel like classic ONIMUSHA while also feeling modern. End boss was super tricky and dropping it to story showed off the timing for the button presses for block and dodge (which i needed to know cause my old man brain could not read the 'non parry' red flash in time).

I played ONIMUSHA 3 again recently and loved the sense of adventure it had. This lacks that so far. It is just a demo so whatever but I missed that. I also felt the colors were way too washed out. BUT overall the combat feels fantastic and fun and I am jazzed for the final. Oh, also, the English VO is pretty bad IMO.

Jaffe is it true that you guys were inspired by the original DMC when you designed GOW? Also didn't Ninja Gaiden also borrow from it? I am stoked to watch the Odyssey soon and loved God of War. Thanks for producing one of my GOATs!

 

[DeVeAn]

Its a game with Japanese setting with Japanese characters, no one should play this game with english voices.

Yeah 2nd time through I switch to Japanese VO. Dub I usually prefer but MC sounded off.

 

[Cao Cao]

That's not Onimusha, stop calling it that just for better marketing -.-

 

[SkylineRKR]

Slightly OT: With Dawn of Dreams coming out in August, chances of an Oni 3 remaster are slim now?

Combat is a blast and it manages to feel like classic ONIMUSHA while also feeling modern. End boss was super tricky and dropping it to story showed off the timing for the button presses for block and dodge (which i needed to know cause my old man brain could not read the 'non parry' red flash in time).

I played ONIMUSHA 3 again recently and loved the sense of adventure it had. This lacks that so far. It is just a demo so whatever but I missed that. I also felt the colors were way too washed out. BUT overall the combat feels fantastic and fun and I am jazzed for the final. Oh, also, the English VO is pretty bad IMO.

I feel this new Onimusha is more honest to the classic games. Not relying on cinematic flash or autokills. God of War, which you know very well, has removed all the freedom in its combat, and the gore as well. Its only GoW in name. I feel this Onimusha isn't 'modernized'.

I hope GoW one day also returns to something thats heavily based on the original trilogy.

 

[TrebleShot]

Just trying it now on PS5 PRO
yeah capcom don't miss. This feels fantastic to play.

Day 0 , playing in Japanese Vo also so glad this isn't a souls like.

 

[Ryseer]

Jaffe is it true that you guys were inspired by the original DMC when you designed GOW? Also didn't Ninja Gaiden also borrow from it? I am stoked to watch the Odyssey soon and loved God of War. Thanks for producing one of my GOATs!

The Odyssey looks like actual woke slop.....good luck with that.