Its a great game with fun characters and a simple plot. The gameplay is samurai resident evil and it a lot of fun the remaster allowing analog controls makes it so much smoother to play. Switching weapons without going into the menu is also a god send. But there are a lot of moments when the game lags and freezes when it changes camera angles or starting a cut scene or going to the menu and it takes a thirty seconds to a minute to get going again. Its not a deal breaker but it hurts momentum and can be annoying when your really getting into it.

Onimusha es un juego que me ha gustado menos de lo que esperaba pero más de lo que debía una vez puesto en mis manos.
El motivo es únicamente por sus controles. Se queda en un hibrido entre tanque con algo más de movilidad. Y ahí es donde está mi rabia. Este juego más enfocado a ser un hack and slash tenía un potencial para ser un top de su generación. Con la mezcla de samurái y demonios, consigue una ambientación que te tiene todo el rato en su mundo. Es simplemente fantástico en esa parte.

Nota final: 8. Sí. Es más nota de lo que parece según mi humilde crítica, pero es que el juego en rasgos generales me ha gustado mucho.

I had vague recollection of playing this on the PS2 back in the day. I believe at that time I gave up on the game and instead went for the excellent sequels as the first was just too difficult for me as a child. Coming back to this game I can see why. Onimusha is not an easy game, but it is one crying for a remake or a reboot as the series is incredibly interesting. Set in Feudal Japan with demons rising out of the earth, shenanigans ensue and Samanosuke Akechi comes in to save the day. The layout of the game is incredibly similar to Devil May Cry and Resident Evil which is a treat if you're a Capcom fan. With interesting level design (you're basically in a haunted mansion, sound familiar?) beautiful art and tense combat, I really hope to see more of this series in the near future. My main complaint for this particular version is that for an HD remaster, we don't really get many extras for the price (not even button mapping which is a crime). Fingers crossed that we can at least get more HD remasters of this classic series.

It might be the nostalgia talking, but this was a great time. The pre-rendered environments, great hack n slash action, the unsettling music and a ton of demons. For some reason, despite it being very similar to Resident Evil, I never played this on the PS2. It was extremely my thing, but it just passed me by. I did play the sequel with Jean Reno, however. Although I can't remember if I finished that one.

Anyway, it took me about 3 hours to beat this, and while that's not a great deal of time, the fun I had doing it (aside from that awful gauntlet of puzzles about an hour in) mae it worth it. As I say, I think some of it is nostalgia talking, as some of the corridors gave me big Resi 1 vibes, and it really struck a chord with me.

It's probably been one of the more entertaining games I've played recently, and I think the time it's taken is a contributing factor. I would love some more of these ports/remasters. Not just Onimusha, but more of these pre-rendered action or horror games. I loved them back in the day. I'd happily pay however much I paid for this for more of the same.

Streamed my first playthrough of this game and loved fighting my way through. There are some stellar designs in this game, some great moments and bosses (some bad bosses too), fun combat, and overall it was a good intro to the Onimusha series.

I can't get enough of survival-horror, fixed-camera angle type games and if I discovered this game a bit earlier in life I think it could have become a huge favorite; maybe a game to speedrun.

part 1 edited video: https://youtu.be/NtZrSSI7o6M

Onimusha la verdad es que me termino gustando mas de lo que esperaba. El juego es bastante corto, lo comencé un día y cuando pare de jugar prácticamente lo deje antes del final. El combate es bastante simple la verdad, con 3 armas diferentes y un combo para cada una + un ataque especial diferente para cada una. Aun que el combate no esta tan mal, siento que podría ser mejor, con un sistema de lock-in mejor, separar el botón de esquive/dash de el lock-in, y mejorar igualmente el dash, ya que este se nota que esta mejor trabajado para los controles de tanque, lo cual pues se puede hacer cambiando al dpad por lo que al menos es algo que tiene un tipo se solución. Junto a esto, igualmente me hubiese gustado que se pudiese cancelar los ataques para hacer bloqueos (como en Yakuza).
Otro problema fuera del combate, es el hecho de no poder saltar cinemáticas in-game, lo que encuentro medio meado ya que cada vez que mueras ante un jefe o en el puzzle del agua, tienes que hacer el recorrido de vuelta, ver la cinemática y ver si ahora si pasas sin problemas.
Fuera de esos problemitas y cosillas que pudiesen ser mejor, es un juego con un apartado artistico, en mi opinion, bastante bonito, con fondos pre-render que siento que fueron bien reescalados para el remaster, escenas cgi que me parecieron GOD, un gameplay sencillo pero entretenido y una historia corta pero buena.
Es un juego que recomiendo bastante si no saber que jugar y tienes la tarde libre, ya que el juego no dura mucho mas que 4 horas y se nota que tiene rejugabilidad, por lo que en algún momento a lo mejor lo vuelvo a jugar para obtener todos los coleccionables.