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BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is fun not only do u fight using a hot chick with martial arts u get to fight with weapons each weapon serves their own purpose you can fire poisonous gas into a room and u can run away and wait for ur enemies to die you can shock someone you have a 45. that fires just like a real gun ofcourse it feels real and yes it hard and the controling isnt too bad at all .. to all the haters rating this game its because they have no skillz ... ooo and the cheats are awesome u can shape shift into the guys are u are fighting soo soo cool def. not very replayable but for 2 or 3 bucks of buying this game ITS DEF. WORTH IT !!!!!!!!!!!

Only fun if you cheat

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

OK. This game is very difficult if you try to use the PS2 controller. I bought this game new, and after hating it for the first 6 hours, tried to sell back to a gamestop. They offered me 50 cents! So, I kept it. On a shelf collecting dust. This was back in 2005.

Fast Forward to Oct 2006. While searching online for a joystick for my PS2, I found the MaxShooter keyboard adapter for the PS2. You plug a keyboard and mouse into this little box, and it [the box] emulates the PS2 controller. So, I bought this little device ($20). You have to program it, but that takes all of about 2 minutes. Anyways, I'm getting a little off subject. The point is I bought a MaxShooter mouse and keyboard adapter for the PS2, and programmed it to play ONI.

OH WOW! It this game ever fun now! HOLY COW, The graphics are awsome, Konoko's moves are mind blowing. The fluidity of her moves are so amazing. This has to the best game ever! The story is unparalled to anything I've ever watched. There are entire cities that you can walk around in!!!

I MEAN, THIS GAME ROCKS...so long as you don't use the PS2 controller.

So, if you have this game and hate it, invest the $20 in the maxShooter mouse and keyboard adapter for your PS2, and I guarantee that this game will knock your socks off.

PROS: Huge levels, lots of puzzels (you have to lure your enemies otherwise they overwhelm you), great use of weapons. Konoko's fighting style is totally awsome. You have an advantage in that you can see around corners which makes sneaking up on enemies so much easier. Riveting story. With friggin' awsome cutscenes. AND, some people have been giving this game smack about being so realistic...well, now the realism is the best thing about it. I especially like how you can side step enemies, swirl around behind them, and beat the living snot out of them. OH, AND SPOILER. YOU LEARN A TORNADO KICK THAT IS SO COOL

CONS: There is one level where you are at an airport, the poor PS2 can barely handle that level. Everything moves more or less in slow-mo because the PS2 is having to render the airplanes. its just too much for the PS2 to handle. Sometimes the screen gets really dark. I mean, I have to turn off all my lights just to see what's on the screen. But that only happened twice

BIGGEST CON: the game is udderly impossible with a regular PS2 controller. You have to buy this MaxShooter adapter

So, with that being said. I hope more people try this game (with this Max Shooter). If you have trouble programming the device, I can email you the instructions on what I did. You can try it out and if you like it fine, else, also fine. So, here's my email. kearney_taaffe@hotmail.com

Fun? No. Really f*cking frustrating? Yes.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: May 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Before Bungie made Halo (the most overrated game of all time, aside from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City), they proved that they most definitely were NOT the "greatest developers of all time" (as any ignorant XBOX fanboy will tell you) with this little-known blunder of a Third-person-shooter/fighter. Little known for a good reason, it seems.

This is one of the most aggravating games I've played in a long time. Not the "good" type of aggravating that you get from playing a game like Contra, where it's fun as hell, even if you die (and which results in that ultimate feeling of "awesome" when you finally DO beat it). Oni is the type of aggravating where 75% of the frustration and difficulty comes from the game itself, not because you aren't good at it.

Games like Oni are why I have very little respect for most American developers. "Hey guys, I have an idea! Let's forget about making a game that's actually FUN, Let's concentrate instead on making a game as realistic as possible. SO realistic in fact, that it greatly hinders the gameplay, and defeats the main purpose of playing a video game! Oh sure, some people may say it's boring, but who cares? They'll be too blown away by the fact that the game is just like real life!"

That forumla does not work at all in making a good game. Let's list the reasons why:

-The movement controls are designed to be like a first person shooter, with the left stick for movement, and the right stick for turning. That would be cool if this was a first person shooter. But in a third person game with much faster action (not to mention jumping and fighting game moves too), this just becomes ridiculous. People with less than 4 hands will find this game's controls poorly designed and nearly impossible to master.

-You can only carry one weapon at a time. How lame is that? Some may say this makes it more strategic, but take a look at Half-Life: You can carry as many weapons as you want, and it's still full of strategy.

-Hypo Sprays, the game's way of recovering your health, don't have an immediate effect. Instead of having your health meter instantly rise to full, it sloooooooooowly works it's way up to the top of the meter. If you get attacked while you're recovering, you've lost it all. Bye bye.

-There's no block button. Blocking attacks supposedly occurs when you face the enemy and don't press anything, but 9 out of 10 times, this won't save your ass.

-The game goes WAAAAAY overboard with weapon limitations. The Mecury Bow, for instance, has a 5 second recharge time and fires a whopping...2 rounds before it's out of ammo. Even though it kills most enemies in one hit, it still isn't enough to justify
something like that.

-You can only jump from about 10 feet off the ground before you take damage from falling. Once again, this is just going way overboard.

-You have to press a button to pick up items on the ground instead of just walking into the item and getting it. Need I say more?

-There's a HUGE gun in the game which one of the bosses weilds. Once you beat him, you can use this weapon for yourself. The problem is, you (literally!) can only run about 1 mile an hour while you're wielding this thing. It makes getting from one end of a hall to the other feel like a drive across the country.

There are some good things about Oni, like the good voice acting, the stylish cel-shaded graphics, and the comic book feel of the game, but it's overshadowed by all the horribly annoying gameplay flaws. Not worth it.

Hardcore Gamers-Buy__Others-Beware

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After renting this game at Blockbuster for a week, my brother decided that this was a good game, and that the problem with the controls he had been having for a while would vanish after being played. This has not happened.

The game engine in itself is a beauty. It's moves are absoulutely incredible, reminding me of the much more recent Enter the Matrix game. They could do the same things before Enter The Matrix.

The problem, however, is that the controls are ill-fitting. If you have enough time to do a serious learning course with this game, maybe this is for you. My brother and I each played for 6 hours. Neither of us felt we were making progress with the controls at all. We deemed the game "junk" and have not played it since that date, a few years ago.

Aside from that it is good, but that is a serious setback. Personally, I feel the game is worth around $3-5 to the non-hard-core gamer.

In conclusion, unless you are a huge fan, just wait for an
ONI 2.

Original, Not Innovative

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

...is ONI.

You see, I actually borrowed this game from the library for PC, after hearing several bad reviews about it (seeing if they were right, heh). However, after burning it and playing it, I was engulfed in ONI's world...for an hour or so. Then it became difficult, unless you abused the several combos that were built in the game, which made it extremely easy.

But all in all, ONI seems to be a normal adventure game. Sure, you're in a third-person perspective and you fire guns and everything. Maybe the storyline is a little original. ONI would be extraordinary...if it were not for the fact that most games have that "extraordinary" ONI touch. Tch. Skip it, unless you want to be entertained for an hour. Then dump it.

awesome game but could be better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Oni is one of the first ps2 games ever to start off which means this is before it started to get the extremely beautiful graphics but this game has good graphics for ps2 at the time. Brought to you by the infamous Rockstar games that brought you such titles such as GTA Vice City and Midnight Club 2,it chronicles the career of Konoko an officer who learns that she is part of an experiment started by her late father and when she starts to uncover the truth about what she is everyone turns on her. Now she must fight for the truth and her life.Great plot with good anime cinematics the whole thing is reminiscent of ghost in the shell. The game play goes from descent to somewhat difficult at times and the game does have a few glitches but all in all it is a good game that just didn't realize its full potential.

oni-good game but too many glitches

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game was the first ps2 game i ever owned. overall it is a good game with a complex story and fun levels. My only critisim is that there are too many glitches. for example- you are playing the game and all of the sudden glitch it stops. This is a nusence because there is nothing you can do about it. If i were you i would deffinetly rent this game before i bought it .

luvved it on PC and Playstation even better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What a great game this is. The only reason I don't give it a five is the lack of multiplayer mode, so that you could use all the aforementioned 'complex' moves you learned on somebody else. But it has a great story line, great artwork, great combat feel, and good looking heroine.... what more could you want, especially for the price these daze.... BUT I WOULD PAY 40 BUCKS FOR A MULTIPLAYER VERSION..... ( hint to Rockstar )

this game is worst than going 2 school

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: April 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

oni is the word boring it suks so much
bad graphics you spend 30 minutes just learning how 2 walk
i bought it in amazon it onli cost me 5 pounds like $9 still
is not worth no dime
plz dont buy this game u will thank me later

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The most awesome game. i have played it for over 6 months and i still cant stop. buy this game. it kicks ***

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