iirc, onimusha 3 was also the highest budget videogame ever when it came out
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Whoa, it cost more than Shenmue?? Or GTA3?? Guess those Jean Reno likeness rights donāt come cheap
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Bujingai notoriously used a certain Gackt. And is definitely trash action.
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(Most memorable part of this is probably 2:23:00, as they blast holes through the walls as they make their way across the inside of a strip mall, including a video rental store full of actual movie posters I doubt they paid for the rights to)
Watching this I can see an alternate past where one of my friends bought this at EB Games for $16, we stayed at his place until midnight playing it, and the avatarsā arm movements became a load bearing in-joke for years.
Somehow this was one of the final games made by the studio before they were reorganized into a new studio who would go on to make 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, and yet the two games share zero staff. Were there gremlins in the buildingās walls that were responsible for these games being Like This?
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wow. spectacularly inscrutable. so itās on rails and you control both guns individually with each stick? is that right? i donāt think iāve ever seen anything like that before.
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