How you will do this is by slaying demons and absorbing their spirits in order to upgrade your powers and beat the game before all is lost. So the story is that you are the samurai Samanosuke who is tasked with saving the princess from a demonic uprising. But even if it’s your first outing then after maybe five minutes you’ll have the hang of things and be happily killing demons left and right. You can use the D-pad if you want but just keep in mind this is a game from between classic Resident Evil and the Devil May Cry games and if you can play either of those then you’ll get along with this just fine.

Resident Evil dealt with this by being slower with tank controls made so that you always run forward while pressing up but since Onimusha requires more dexterity for melee combat they had to compromise in order to let you fight. By this I mean that with the joystick you will find yourself letting go of it to let your character reset the direction they are walking more often than you’d like. The game features pretenders backgrounds and camera angles like Resident Evil but something I noticed is that because it’s designed more for combat that the camera angle changes aren’t as well thought out. Well to get things going it’s fair to say that Onimusha is as fun as ever to play. So does this type of game still hold up and if you haven’t heard of Onimusha before then you might also be wondering if this classic game is something you’d be interested in? Well now it’s almost two decades later and the first game is getting an HD port to modern platforms with Onimusha: Warlords. Maybe most surprising is that this was actually a good combination and went on to be well received by gamers at the time. Among some of Capcom’s top franchises from the PS2 era is the Onimusha series which took inspiration from Resident Evil and combined tank controls with a hack n slash game.

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