Onimusha: Warlords

Onimusha: A Classic Action Game Remastered

After Capcom’s great successes in the first generation of PlayStation, especially with series like Resident Evil and Dino Crisis, the company wanted to follow in the same footsteps with the launch of the second PlayStation in 2001 and a new action game following the same style with a fixed camera style but with more action and set in the samurai era, titled “Onimusha”. Now, 18 years after the release of the original version, we get a remastered version of one of the classic games that fans have clamored for so much to return. Was the game really worth returning to the gaming arena? Today we present you a review of the remastered version of it.

Onomusha is an action game with lots of puzzles. The events take place in the period of the Japanese samurai clan wars and we live an adventure with the character Samanosuke from the Akechi tribe, who tries to save his cousin, Princess Yuki, from demonic forces that suddenly appeared and began to destroy humanity to hunt. Events accelerate when Samanosuke receives a power that helps him. By eliminating these demons, this is where the adventure begins to find out what is the secret behind their backs and what is the end of these wars.

Technical Improvements and Graphics

We can say that the introduction to this game is one of the most epic scenes in the history of the industry, and I have always loved it since the game’s original release. Now let’s talk about the game on a technical level. Well, since it is a remaster of a classic game, we have to take this into account since the game allows playback in widescreen 16:9 or 3:4 format. The classic screen is 3:4 with the appearance of black borders in classic gaming. The game introduces a system of fixed graphical backgrounds. In fact, this type of game suffers a lot from the transfer to the remaster version, since the resolution of these backgrounds in the original is not high, but Capcom has tried to represent them well here and the graphics in general they are fine, even the details. The characters aren’t bad, but they certainly don’t measure up to the current generation, and we’ve seen remastered versions of other games that are much better.

The game’s audio has been reproduced, be it as a melody or as voice acting for the characters, and the game allows you to play it with the “disastrous” Western voice acting or the “distinctive” Japanese voice acting, giving you the freedom to choose . The game’s tunes are generally good, but the original tunes were better, while the Japanese voice acting adds a nice dimension to the game as it keeps up with the events of the era. It is old Japanese and we definitely advise you not to try the game with western sounds as they are very bad.

Action-Packed Gameplay and Puzzles

Innomusha is a third-person action game with lots of puzzles. Certainly this type of game has evolved a lot over the years. However, the game presents itself well here in the way it uses the sword and other weapons, including an arrow and a pistol, despite the difficulty of using firearms due to the controls. Samnowski can choose between three types. There are swords of different colors and different special strikes, and there are also crystals that you have to develop to higher levels in order to open some of the doors that require it. Overall, the combat system is very good in terms of blocking and attacking, and the pace of the game’s difficulty increases greatly as you progress through the events within as you face stronger enemies, although it lacks a wide variety of enemies to choose from .

The game also introduces a lot of puzzles as it progresses, similar to the Resident Evil and Dino Crisis games, whether it’s trying to press buttons to get out of the cage or trying to get boxes open with numbers and letters. The game offers a good variety of “Very Short” gameplay durations, meaning you can finish the game in under three hours if you know what you’re doing. If you are playing the game for the first time it may also take a little longer and the game offers more than one difficulty level and also some additional side options to get treasures.

Control System and Overall Experience

In addition to improving the graphics, the remaster version offers a new control system that is more suitable for the current generation of players, but players can also play the game with the old controls “or the so-called tank controls,” which also simulates the classic Resident Evil games , and I actually found it a little hard to go back to that in this game. Since it is more action-packed than Resident Evil, it was necessary to use modern controls. One of the problems that the game brings back are the shooting angles again, since the camera in the game is fixed. It is an action game in which you face opponents at high speed. Sometimes you have to fight a lot with the firing angles to try to catch up with the enemy who has disappeared from the screen.

Although the game doesn’t quite keep up with the times in many of its elements, be it in gameplay or graphics, it is still a very nice action game and worth a try as long as you accept these shortcomings. The story is interesting and the level of direction of the game is very characteristic and it is undoubtedly one of the games that deserve a try by players and we hope that Capcom will continue to provide a remastered version to the rest of the series in the future.