It’s pretty obvious that Onimusha draws influence from a lot of places. It really is just a case of beating the bosses and saving the princess. Beyond that, there isn’t really much in the way of plot. Together, they discover how much the demons suck and chase a boy around the castle. He’s also accompanied by a kunoichi named Kaede, who is rad despite her lack of power glove. Samanosuke is just a typical samurai, until a clan of ogres (really, they’re oni, but the translation is a bit shaky) slap a gauntlet on his arm that allows him to absorb demon souls to power up his weapons. That last part may be a bit of a curveball, but it all boils down to your basic “rescue the princess” plot. You play as Samanosuke as he attempts to rescue a princess from the clutches of a horde of demons, who are trying to power-up their recently acquired, undead Oda Nobunaga. The plot is a pretty basic samurai plot if you crossed it with a tokusatsu movie. The biggest differences, however, are that supplies aren’t nearly as harshly limited and combat isn’t nearly as hobbled as it was in Capcom’s seminal zombie series You traipse around a big castle, solving puzzles and battling demons, and, most strikingly, the backgrounds are rendered as 2D backdrops, rather than full 3D.

You can really tell that Onimusha was pitched as a Samurai Resident Evil game since it wears that identity on its sleeve. However, now there’s a remaster of it, so the time is right to give it a try Your evil is no match for my bushido! RESIDENT EVIL: SENGOKU JIDAI Years later, I had even bought a copy for PS2 from a game rental store that was sadly closing down, but I somehow never once slotted it in to give it a run through. I saw Onimusha’s commercials frequently enough at the time that it stuck in my mind, but I never played it. It would be a few years before I finally branched out and embraced all games, regardless of what filthy console they’re played on. Around the time of Onimusha Warlord’s release, I was still firmly a Nintendo Fangirl.

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