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[Gonzito]

The combat looks amazing, I love the animations but it seems like they are taking the Majima route with the main character but maybe there will be some good character development, hopefully at least

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I was excited when it was announced, but the gameplay just looks like Onimusha from way back, but with a 3rd person camera.

Which doesn't have to be bad per se, but it doesn't do it for me.

 

[Nickolaidas]

I approve them going slow, offering an alternative to fast combat like in Ninja Gaiden and Sekiro.

 

[March Climber]

I hope they bring back the phantom realm. I need to hear Capcom's orchestra perform Gale:

 

[Toots]

The tone and jokey-ness of the main character is off...not a fan of that. Other than that it looks great.

Found it extremely offensive too !
A samurai should always be super badass and cool (picture of me below for reference)

Anyway the "use whatever you can to win" gameplay seems cool let's hope there is a few more option than throw tatami on ennemies and throw them in the fire or into each other !

 

[Caio]

I really liked what I saw, definitely keeping this on my radar.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Japanese trailer



This is how I'll play

 

[GymWolf]

Japanese trailer



This is how I'll play

Yep, the english trailer was hilariously bad.

 

[JimmyRustler]

The humour seems a bit strange at first but if they do it right this might actually be end up a good romp I think.

 

[KeepThemEyesOpen]

Main character is cringe as fuck. Hard pass

Thanks for Onimusha 2 though! Hopefully next up is 3 remastered.

Passing this up because the main character is cringe but you liked Onimusha 2... The hypocrisy.

 

[KeepThemEyesOpen]

I beat Onimusha 1 this week and waiting for 2. I played them before but they were never goofy. Its a new Onimusha so day one anyway.

Are you sure you played them before?

 

[KeepThemEyesOpen]

The combat looks insanely slow and insanely boring. Onimusha combat should be faster paced with alot of movement similar to ninja gaiden but not as fast as that obviously. This was incredibly jank and incredibly below par in all honesty and didn't look fun to play at all.

Onimusha as a whole just isn't for you then.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Take your ritalin man.

 

[HYDE]

That enemy that gets sliced in half from head to toe looked gore-ius!

 

[PatientGamer]

they'll up the ante on the graphics come release, right? Apart from the MC's face, the game looks like a high-res PS3/early PS4 game.

 

[Tomofdahook17]

I feel like I'm on crazy pills reading the negative reactions. It looks amazing to me. Loving the way that you can slice enemies apart depending on where you hit them. Using environmental objects to your advantage coupled with the slower combat looks unique. It's like if it isn't a dark edgy PC and no 10 hit combos lifting the enemy into the air to Hayabusa drop them, it sucks to people.

Same man! More authentic sword play is what I prefer like Ghost of Tsushima. And this goofy character was kind of giving me Nathan Drake vibes believe it or not. Especially when he ran away haha. I actually laughed at this trailer which the majority of games these days can't get me to do.

 

[DavidGzz]

Japanese trailer



This is how I'll play

No dismemberment? I know you mean the voice but that sucks for the Japanese audience.

 

[ungalo]

Shinmen Takezo.

He's kinda goofy. I'm interesting but combat looks too Soulslike.

what the hell ? It doesn't look Soulslike

 

[Sacred]

This was one of the most boring and bland looking games shown at state of play.

 

[Kadve]

Haven't looked at this series very much. Worth getting in to? Heard the earlier ones hasn't aged well though.

 

[Arch-Angel]

Same here. This game looks intriguing, but would I be lost, regarding the story, if I never played any of the others?

 

[Connificent]

You dont need to play the originals

 

[Mibu no ookami]

The tone and jokey-ness of the main character is off...not a fan of that. Other than that it looks great.

I agree with you, but I'm sure they're going for some of Toshiro Mifune's comedic range. The real problem like almost always is the really bad English dub and voice sync.

This is not a game you're going to want to play in English, and you'd think at this point these companies would know they should market the games subbed.

 

[Loboxxx]

The expressiveness, the animations, the physics, everything is a marvel. A must have.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Japanese trailer



This is how I'll play

Great minds...


My guess is they went with a UK local actor because of the strikes impacting Capcom voice over work preventing them from getting SAG-AFTRA voice actors.