
There is no such thing as levelling up your character, but you do get the opportunity to level up your sword and collect additional ones. Having the screen constantly shift while figuring out where to go had me curse out loud a couple of times. While this approach may have worked to create an unsettling and creepy atmosphere, and to give players the feeling that dangers could lurk around any corner, this mechanic mostly induces frustration in me nowadays. This means that you could be walking towards the back of a landscape, only to have your character appear somewhere out of the side of your screen. When you reach the edge of a screen, the camera abruptly shifts to the next screen.



The game does not feature an open world environment, but is composed of interconnected static screens. Onimusha: Warlords actually looks a lot like a reskinned Resident Evil game, Capcom’s most successful series to date. The duo sets out on a quest to save the princess, and by extend the world. Samanosuke and his female kunoichi friend Kaede arrive at the castle, however they are too late to prevent princess Yuki from being abducted by demons. About a year later, Samanosuke receives a letter from princess Yuki, asking him to help her fight off a demon threat, supported by a supposedly resurrected Nobunaga. The warlord Nobunaga Oda scores an unexpected victory, but is killed shortly after.

The main character Samanosuke Akechi, who is part of the forces fighting against Nobunaga Oda, is seen overlooking the battlefield while he is being attacked. The game is set in the Sengoku period and starts of with an alternative take on the famous battle of Okehazama. But can a game that is almost two decades old compare to what gamers are used to nowadays? The beginning of the end Now, eighteen years later, Capcom saw it fit to re-release the classic semi-survival and horror, semi-samurai simulator that touches on the spiritual realm game for the new generation consoles. Onimusha: Warlords is a remaster of the first entry of the Onimusha series, first released in 2001 for Playstation 2.
