Onimusha: Way of the Sword

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Thank you CAPCOM
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I've played almost all the Onimusha games and really liked them, the only faulty thing i found in some was the camera angle in some stages, you missed action and made the game more difficult and at some points unplayable. Yesterday i saw many cool things about this new entry that excited me.
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The gameplay looks awesome i hope it feels this way also with a controller, the cinematics are so good i was stunned. I watched both trailers English and Japanese and through my experience i noticed that the lip movement was in Japanese, when the main character told ''Yabai'' meaning ''dangerous'' in the English trailer says ''Not Good'' and has an Australian like accent. Check them out both and you will understand if you have seen many titles that came both in English and Japanese, also some experience through anime.
Now i will explain why i started this Thread by typing Thank You CAPCOM. This video game series is no stranger to using actors, both dead and alive, for its protagonists. Takeshi Kaneshiro played Samonosuke Akechi in Onimusha: Warlords, while subsequent installments used Yūsaku Matsuda (who died of bladder cancer in 1989 at the age of 40) and Jean Reno as face models for its protagonists.
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“The protagonist of this game is a fierce young samurai, constantly moving from one bloody and gritty fight to the next,” the game’s official website reads. “To cement this image of a striking samurai, Capcom has turned to none other than the late, iconic Japanese samurai movie legend Toshiro Mifune to star as the face model for this rendition of Miyamoto Musashi.”
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Toshiro Mifune died of multiple organ failure in 1997 at the age of 77, but the impenetrable barrier of death hasn’t stopped Capcom from digitally skinning the legendary actor’s likeness for Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Mifune’s appearance in Onimusha: Way of the Samurai was done with the full cooperation of Mifune Productions, the company the actor established in 1962 and which presumably owns his likeness today.
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I think this move will help the company selling more, the game looks really good i hope it also is in the gameplay. A must play for me 100% because i am a fan of the Onimusha Series and Toshiro Mifune. I almost forgot, Onimusha anime in late 2023, since Miyamoto Musashi (Legendary Ronin) appeared there as well. The show’s creators were similarly proud of the digital necromancy they performed to transpose Mifune’s face from the real world to animation in the marketing campaign leading up to its release.
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Can't wait for this one, i hope you enjoyed reading thanks. Please tell us about the Onimusma series and what you think about this new entry, or games you loved that the characters in them are real actors not only in voice but in appearance in any console new or old doesn't matter. Until my next Thread, see you.
 
I usually don't get excited about new games, but this one did get my attention. Onimusha was one of the first games I played on my PS2 and I just went back and beat it again last year. Big fan of Toshiro Mifune's movies which makes this even more interesting.

I am excited for this, but worried that I will be let down.
 
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I've always loved reading your format, giving us an interesting info. I'm also quite excited for this one, the trailer is just…wow
 
A new Onimusha's been a personal dream game for a while now, so I'm super excited for this.
 
The game looks good but I don't like the english voice acting , it sounds TERRIBLE.
Hopefully it'll have Japanese VA as a choice by default. Honestly even if the English VA is good, I'd still prefer Japanese for this, just feels right for Samurai media, you know?
 
I think this is one of the only upcoming games I'm excited to play. I'd like to see more gameplay, hopefully we'll get more soon. Capcom have been steering themselves in a decent direction lately, so I'm not as pessimistic about it as I'd have been in the past.
 
Sorry to bother you, but i have a question for the moderators. I tried to share my Thread to some pages and some special game groups but it seems the post doesn't get an image from the text but from comment's why? Is this normal or not? I thought i could share so more interesting people who love video games will join here in RetroGAMEtalk. Thank you for your time.

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Sorry to bother you, but i have a question for the moderators. I tried to share my Thread to some pages and some special game groups but it seems the post doesn't get an image from the text but from comment's why? Is this normal or not? I thought i could share so more interesting people who love video games will join here in RetroGAMEtalk. Thank you for your time.

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Seems like it's not a feature that comes by default with xenforo (...)
I've added an add-on that makes the first image of your thread the open graph image.
 
Definitely the AAA game I have the most excitement for at the moment. Super stoked to see what kind of inventive and silly ways we can interact with the enviornment. Them choosing to take an actual historical figure and change what their assumed personality was is kinda interesting too, I love when fiction does alt-history type stuff on any level.
 
Looks really neat so far, I might have to get newer hardware eventually.

Onimusha is one of my favorite series from that hardware generation and got me into Japanese history and martial arts. I always considered it a great lost opportunity that the many great hack‘n‘slash games on the ps2 never made the move beyond that generation. I also kind of wish the Onimusha movie hadn’t been cancelled way back.
 
Nice! I didn't know about this. Just found out yesterday that Onimusha 2 is getting a remaster/release, just like the first game. Got my fingers crossed for Dawn of Dreams eventually.
 
Nice! I didn't know about this. Just found out yesterday that Onimusha 2 is getting a remaster/release, just like the first game. Got my fingers crossed for Dawn of Dreams eventually.
I think licensing-wise Dawn of Dreams should be the easiest. Onimusha 3 might be difficult because Jean Reno has to sign off on his likeness as well and iirc he has said some unkind things about video games in the past. Keeping my fingers crossed though. Onimusha is one of the best franchises on the ps2, it’s a pleasure to see it come back from the dead.
 
thisi might tip me over the edge to actually getting a ps5 lol looks great, am new here, great write up, stoked to download a new anime too, thanks!
Now I am thinking exactly the same as you, buying a PS5 console.
 

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