Onimusha: Warlords

enemy variety - 5.5 boss designs - 6.5 level design & puzzle - 6.0 writing - 6.0 dialogue - 6.5 story - 6.5 voice acting - 4.0 combat - 6.5 visuals - 7.5 music - 6.5 *issen system ✅

A stylish PS2 relic—where samurai swords, fixed-camera tank controls, and demon-slaying charm despite jank. The orb system and Nobunaga’s ghostly siege? Cool. The voice acting? So bad it’s good.

Onimusha has a lot of funny stuff from the awful dubbing it has to the fact it so obviously has Resident Evil's DNA in it. But what makes it so cool is its novelty. It's an action game that heavily restricts your movement and makes combat entirely about spacing which is executed nicely because you get so much out of basic actions and parrying feels good. The camera can be total ass at times and there's some setpieces that's boring padding but I just dig a lot of what this game does.