Other Capcom games (pno3,viewtiful joe, killer 7) which aren’t really much like DMC? Although I think viewtiful joe has similar grading.
Or third party stuff like prince of persia? The combat of a lot of the generation is DMC derived/inspired.
Okay, that’s fair. I guess I’m also completely unfamiliar with Onimusha so I thought it was more similar to DMC based on this thread.
I’d easily take any of the Prince of Persia games of that era over these games though.
Neither have I.
But I have played Shadow of Rome. Maybe that’s the best?
I love thin veneers.
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I’ve watched a longplay of DMC1 so it’s only fair I extend the courtesy to the other
DMC, GTA3 and MGS2 were the reasons I bought a PS2 and I wasn’t disappointed iby any of those games. I thought DMC was dope back then. Haven’t played it since.
Onimusha was cool but I liked all the sequels more than the first, to be honest.
Still, I think both are good games. But sure, beat each other up over videogames and see if I care! 
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I’ve played DMC and not Onimusha so I voted DMC.
Been too long since I touched Onimusha to feel like I can compare properly. 1, I beat it with the Panda skin, done. 3 really eye-grabbing when it came out, solid, but kinda lost me by the end. Something bout the levels/areas being more nebulous with some jarring designs. Seeing Samanosuke’s story through was cool. Is that his name? I always mixed it up with Kenshin’s oaf buddy.
Onimusha was always grounded in RE while more modest with its aim, survival horror with samurai action. This thread’s got a lot less ups described for it, just plenty of friction gainst the D M Ceeeeeee.
DMC 1,3 I’ve played every few years - for also being grounded in RE it took action gaming somewhere new and made prints. Regardless of cultivating SICK STYLE. Next to Silent Hill 2, some of the first games that made me feel like the system would have a strangehold on my habits a while.
Do like Onimusha though and would revisit.
Again, I beat it with the Panda skin, done
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I definitely had a DMC phase back when I was a teen. I never played the third one even though I heard it’s the best. I remember being engrossed in the bizarre atmosphere. It feels like a fountain for vapor wave ideas: guns, demons, pizza, ruins, orbs.
I also had an Onimusha phase later in my teen years. I never played the third one even though I heard it’s the best. Takeshi Kaneshiro plays my favorite character in Fallen Angels and Chungking Express. I love him. I remember a moth lady boss showing up and hating her. Come to think of it, there’s also a frustrating moth lady boss in PS2’s Shinobi.
My real answer is Shinobi because Sega does what Capcan’t
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PS2 Shinobi (and Nightshade) is cool, but I think I’d still rank it behind Onimusha, but it’d be just barely trailing it. PS2 Shinobi has the advantage when it comes to aesthetics, though, because I think Hotsuma looks rad as hell. I read either in an artbook or a random ass Japanese website (so this could be bullshit) that Hotsuma’s design was inspired a bit by Spawn, but I think he looks way cooler than Spawn.
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PS2 Shinobi does rule.
I still love that the scarf was an accident that they kept in the game because it was sweet.
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I played through both Onimusha and DMC within the past year and a half or so and this isn’t even close. DMC has more style but is often borderline unplayable by… not even modern standards, it would have been problematic as hell by the end of the PS2’s lifespan. The camera at times is about as bad as you will see in a videogame. I’d say in the final third of the game most stages have maybe two normal enemies in them, which means it should have just been the boss fight and saved us some time. Some of those boss battles are just wretched.
Onimusha on the other hand is perfectly playable and while it often has similar fixed camera angles it is actually built with this in mind so it is never really a problem. There is one puzzle section that is tricky to figure out initially and will kill you if you run out of time, but that’s the only blatantly bad thing in there.
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I sort of daydream about whether or not there were plans to revive the Onimusha series that were put on hold because of Nioh
I also sometimes daydream about this mythical Onimusha reboot also being the spiritual successor to Dragon’s Dogma
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I wonder what the heck is the conversation at Capcom. Because they are doing fighters and RE stuff. But Deep Down is vaporware. Dragon’s Dogma has a legit following which would probably support a mid-budget sequel to profit. In the mean time, Nioh did well. SONY has that Samurai thing coming. Bloodborne happened. God of War is nearly here.
Seems like Capcom could easily release an Onimisha, DDogma, or DMC and be fiiiine. I mean, DMC5 is real. But also real far away. And right now, people are pretty frothy for character action or anything with some souls like tension.
You forgot about the real onimusha reboot no one played.
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I watched Onimusha, man what a boring videogame
Yeah watching the game seems like a bad idea. It is to be played alone.
I prefer Onimusha (in DMC the camera was so poor I struggled to escape the initial foyer) and really like the compact setting, but the combat and survival horror both felt pretty routine and undeveloped (especially after playing REmake not long before) – I was mainly there for the atmosphere.
I understand the Onimusha sequels are more about the combat(?), but I’m wondering if the atmosphere and mise en scene is still there?
As far as I remember from playing a little of both onimusha sequels the answer is, imo, nah.
Onimusha has a soundtrack by the person who did / did not do this old classic
and the others dont!
Oh I guess theres an onimusha 4?
Man, I’ve been thinking for years about a line I heard in a videogame. It went something like “My way doesn’t change with the times.” It was really badass and maybe it said “The way of the samurai doesn’t…” but either way I believe it was a samurai or a ronin type character that said it.
I thought for the longest time it was from an Onimusha game. But I can’t find that scene. Maybe it was from Way of the Samurai 1 or 2 but I don’t think so…
Anyone know what I’m taking about and if it was in Onimusha?
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