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That level of success as an early PS2 title practically warranted a sequel, but it was also ported to the original Xbox in 2002 as Genma Onimusha, which included enhancements to pretty much every aspect of the game, including new areas, attacks and a new boss fight. Critically, Onimusha: Warlords did pretty well for itself too, earning a Metacritic score of 86. Given the other famous story about the combos in Street Fighter being an accident, Capcom have decent luck when it comes to just fluking their way into fantastic game mechanics.ĭigression aside, Onimusha: Warlords would prove to be a success for Capcom, selling over 2 million copies worldwide and over a million alone in Japan. That game would go on to become Devil May Cry, with Hideki Kamiya himself implementing the glitch that became an intended mechanic. It didn’t fit the style of game Onimusha was, but the designers found it to be entertaining and tried it in the then prototype for Resident Evil 4. Initially, a bug with the melee combat meant that demons were being juggled by attacks. Also, there’s a bunch of demons running around the place, so you’re given some magical assistance to ensure your head doesn’t get stomped.įighting these demons is where the more famous development story comes from.
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You play as the warrior Samanosuke, who is summoned to Inabayama Castle to try and prevent some evil-doers from reviving a villainous Nobunaga.
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The full game launched in 2001, with a plot focused around real-life figure Nobunaga Oda. When PS2 was announced, I was very excited about it and shifted the project to PS2.” I wanted to release this game on the best system available. In an interview with PSX Extreme, legendary developer and Warlords producer Keiji Inafune clarified the game’s development process, stating: “Onimusha was not originally developed for N64. The original PlayStation version was never released, but gameplay trailers for that initial version are available to watch online.

However, development began on the original PlayStation, before then being switched once again to the PS2. In Okamoto’s vision of the game, Onimusha: Warlords was planned for the Nintendo 64DD, the disk drive version of Nintendo’s famous console. Players would fight monsters and demons using katanas and shuriken rather than guns and grenades. The concept for Onimusha: Warlords emerged in 1997, as it was based on the idea of Capcom designer Yoshiki Okamoto, who wanted to create a Sengoku era Resident Evil game, complete with a “ninja house” filled with various booby traps and gimmicks. The development of the first Onimusha game, particularly in its inception, is quite the famous story already, at least in terms of the legacy it spawned. Today, we’re asking the question: will we ever see a new Onimusha game? With a whopping four games released on one generation of consoles, Onimusha made a huge impact on the gaming scene when it first debuted, but like most games we feature in the series, it seemed to disappear off the face of the earth not long afterwards. Arguably though, and in the case of one of the games mentioned above, factually, the whole genre was pioneered by one game: Onimusha. The PS2 was the console that arguably pioneered the hack and slash and character action genres for the generations to come, with massive hits like Devil May Cry, God Hand, God of War, Prince of Persia and more.
