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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Lets make a game with a boring and overused plot (Evil global government) remove the ability to save games when you want, plug in recycled bad guys and an awkward fighting system. We will call it Oni. PS - No Multiplayer!

What are they thinking?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: February 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Just played this game at a friends. I'm glad I didn't buy it like I was going to. The premise of the game is good, and I like the animation and graphics, however this game features the worst controls ever. To move your character you use one set of controls forward and back, and you use left and right for orientation. There is no side to side,or Strafing, movement. Aiming weapons is done with the mouse and is all but impossible to do. So if your looking for an easily controlled adventure game this is not it. Hopefully the control setup for the PS2 version of this game will be much better.

Excellent graphics and fighting skills :-)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You will never get bored with Oni, because it offered lot more fun than you just expected from the rest of the action games.

Comparing with NOLF, No One Live Forever, it has multiplayers accessed on its game server, but Oni is a single player pc game without having NOLF's online features. NOLF and Oni were my most favorite pc games in the year of 2001.

Oni is composed of 14 major levels with excellent graphics and music design. The game level modes are easy, normal, hard. Recently, I finished with all 14 levels and got a cheatcode at the last level ending. I would like to share it with all the Oni fans in here.

Press: F1, Type: shapeshifter, you will see, "Character Changed Enable." Press: ESC, Then Press: F8 repeatly to pick your most favorite fighter during the game.

There were more than 30 characters on this game. They were powerful bad guys, strong security agents and civillians. Each types of these characters had different sets of fighting skills. Here I am not talking about the skills of using powerful weapons, instead, I meant their powerful "Jet Li" kinds of fatal martial moves...I don't think I need to describe them even further.

You look like you are ready to rock the Oni world now. Have fun :-)

Ridiculous

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is has many things wrong with it. First of all, the controls are some of the worst that I have ever seen. There is no smooth movement in Oni. It is very choppy, making it hard to control your character. Second, the camera angles are horrific: there are parts were the camera decides to zoom and unzoom, especially when fighting and it makes it very hard to see who you are fighting. The graphics are halfway decent but nothing worth looking at. The best thing about this game is that I kept the receipt.

Oni, a game, a story,

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have one major problemo with this game......no way to change controls. I love the animation, and the game play, and even those "lifeless levels" that other reviews have talked about.

I'm on the last level, and i cant beat Muro.....i hate this guy

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Yikes! i would say this is the best game out there, but it isnt

Worth the money.

Oni Is The Best 3rd Person Action Game I've Ever Played!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Oni is the best game I've seen in awhile! The blend of martial arts fighting and weapons fighting is the best I've ever seen. The anime touch to it makes it even better, especially for the anime fans. The fighting moves are simple to use and learn. The story isn't all too complex, but hey, it's a video game, not a novel! The only thing I don't like about this game is that it doesn't allow you to save it when you want. It only saves once you get to a certain place in the level. However, it does give the game a certain level of fun difficulty to it. This game definately deserves and commands for several sequels after it, with room for more and better moves/improvements! Buy this game! You won't be disappointed! Trust me!!!

This game rocks!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If your into really great combat games this a great one. It is my favorite game!The only thing wrong was the saving. The rest is awsome!

Awesome, yet lacking..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Oni is a pretty unique game - take one part Street Fighter, one part Tomb Raider, and you get a 3D hand-to-hand combat/huge weaponry game. Although the graphics aren't the greatest, they stay consistant throughout the game and add to the overall atmosphere. The game makes up for them in the combat moves and animations, however.

All animations are very fluid, and even the most complex move is easy to pull off in the middle of a fight. In an Anime style, the storyline has many twists and turns, and excellent character development. However, a few gaps in the storyline time-frame make it seem disjointed and a bit lacking in content. Although it's still easy to follow, it could have been fine-tuned a bit more.

The problems that most reviews write about - controls and save points - really aren't that big of an issue. The controls, customizable by manually editing a file in the game directory, are laid out by default to the simplest fashion. They take a bit of getting used to (made easier by the training missions at the beginning of the game), but soon become second nature, allowing you to pull off the most intricate moves and combinations with a few simple keystrokes.

The main downfall of the game is it's length. Although the replay value is very very high, since each level is playable again and again, since the fighting changes with the many available combos, the game itself isn't very long; I completed it in a little under 10 hours. Although the game files seem very modular and the story leaves plenty of possibility for an upgrade or sequel (hint hint, Bungie, milk your awesome new engine for all it's worth), there still could have been a lot more done with this installment of the game. Overall, the game is very well done, but still has some downfalls.

Love the moves!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The moves are great... gameplay is great. Level design is lacking. One extra point... you CAN remap the keys! They use a text file in the game directory. I don't have it handy to provide the file name, but as I recall, it's an obvious name... something like "keymap.txt".

Bungie's worst PC game since the port of Marathon

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Oni should have a lot of appeal: it's got a pseudo-anime look, well-done 3D characters, a great hand-to-hand fighting system. Unfortunately, it's got a horrible aiming system for many of the guns, an idiotic save game system, and wildly varying difficulty. And the character design for Konoko in the anime opening is 1) ugly, 2) varies within the movie itself, and 3) looks nothing like the character as drawn either on the box or the 3D polygonal Konoko. Most of all, this game has none of the gameplay magic found in Bungie's other games, particularly Myth and Myth II.

A little explanation of the problems. The save game system is easy enough: you don't know when it's going to save, there are relatively few save points, and the save points frequently don't tie into the game world, so you'll be stuck fighting some difficult point over again if you die. The aiming system for guns varies with the gun, but for the pistols and submachine guns, it's virtually impossible to hit anyone (thankfully, that's true of the enemies, too). There's also almost no ammo to be found in the game world. It's easier to lure enemies around a corner and go hand-to-hand. More fun, too. The difficulty level is annoying: at first, it's pathetically easy; later on, you start facing three or four enemies, some of whom appear out of nowhere while you're fighting.

Frankly, Bungie bungled this game. Coulda been great; came out poor.

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