Samanosuke pulling back the longbow weapon in the HD release of Onimusha Warlords. This is the story of the often forgotten Onimusha franchise. The series saw moderate success, created some strange spin-off titles, and ended the series with a bit of an odd duck. In March of 2001, Onimusha: Warlords was released for the PlayStation 2, starting an epic trilogy. While more than half of the game was fully developed using the PSOne, the project was scrapped to instead move to the more powerful PS2. This style of game development is likely why there have been few HD remasters or collections. It gave the games a Hollywood movie feel, as if these actors were merely playing a role in the game. The same method was used for most of the characters and the style carried on to other titles in the series. This means that while Samanosuke is a fictional character, he looks and speaks like Takeshi Kaneshiro. The game was also one of the few to take the actors voicing the characters and model them through face mapping and motion capture. Originally, the idea was to put the Resident Evil series into feudal-era Japan, where players would explore a large house filled with ninja-style traps. It has been edited to consider the recent remaster of Onimusha: Warlords on modern consoles. Thankfully I still had the piece in my files and we’ve chosen to re-upload it here on Forever Classic Games. Note - This article was originally featured as a guest piece on Retro Video Gamer but was lost in a site upgrade. Only recently did players receive the first game on modern consoles. Onimusha is one of the often forgotten intellectual properties, one that hasn’t seen a main series release since 2006. Unfortunately, some of these fantastic franchises are in danger of being lost to the annals of time, some of them barely spoken about, and others are toted like splendid banners. Capcom has a vast library of amazing games that they’ve helped release though their almost 40 years of business.
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