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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.

Bad to Worse

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.

Nothing but Hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Do not waste your money. Like many before, I agree the game had some amazing fighting and great Character Animation. But other than that the game play is absolutely TERRIBLE. The worst thing about this game is the environment. Other than running around in a box with some Half Life style crates the environments were completely empty, and boring. BADDDDDDD ART DIRECTION!

Fighting is awesome, overall gameplay ...(is really bad)!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: February 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is very strange. I've never seen such strong elements in an overall pretty lousy game. With the "strong elements" I mean the fights. These fights cause a huge adrenaline-rush. There are a lot of moves and it looks and plays very good. But there are a lot of bad things about this game...

For example, the overall gameplay is very bad. 18 levels long you'll have to pull a switch, go through an opened door, whack some baddies and pull a switch again and go through a door again and... you get my point.

This game has also got one of the worst save-options ever known to mankind. The game saves automatically at certain points, but you'll have to complete the level because if you restart the game the save-points are gone! This is only done because if you could save yourself you'll finish it in about 8 hours. But there's something even worse... after completing 10 levels I took a break and when I came back I accidentally pressed "new game". No problem, I thought, just load my old game again, but... The $^$#&#&^# game ERASED MY SAVES!!! The whole city trembled of the scream that left my mouth (hmmm... maybe only the neighbourhood ;)

The graphics are not bad, but very boring. The levels are completely non-interactive.

It's a shame that Bungie put such a beautiful fightingsystem in such a lousy game. So... don't buy this game! (....)

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.

poor game, but great combat

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The combat system is great. It's so nice how a fairly simple number of controls can be combined in so many ways. It's incredible to be surrounded by enemies, and be able to just work through them like in a movie, using the right combinations of moves to put them against each other and yourself out of danger.

That's why I gave this game an extra star, for the combat system alone. Hell if this even had multiplayer, that alone might warrent it another star. Too bad.

The story is very standard fare, no character development. But this is okay, I can deal with this in action games.

But the level design is horrible. Every level is the same exact thing: fight some guys, flip a switch, open a new door, repeat. No reason to explore, no puzzles or obstacles, nothing. I got so bored. For a pure action game, level design is critical.

In terms of strict realism, I guess the levels are pretty good, but then I look at Deus Ex, which had very realistic levels, but they were also extremely fun to play. In Oni there were constantly empty rooms that did absolutly nothing.

The save feature is bad, but you probably know this by now. To just barely get through a fight and be looking for health, to open a door and suddenly hit a new save spot (with no indication that it was there), where the only way to go is foward through a load of enemies is NOT fun.

In short: Great combat. Boring levels. Fustrating play. No multiplayer.

Cool game, but tough to learn

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've played a LOT of games, but this one is complicated to learn all the features and commands in order to execute smoothly. The game also lacks some better graphics in areas you'd expect. PASS on this one!

Great fighting sequences but lacking overall.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is really cool when there are enemies to fight,dynamics are amazing,but most of the time is spent running around opening doors,pulling switchs or activating computers.The plot is very confused as to what your missions are and there is not any variety in the game. Graphics are blocky and all the misssions look the same as do most of the characters in the game,the save game makes you repeat a lot of gameplay and there is no way to remap the keys.Control of your character would be much improved if you could remap the keys,default keys are to far apart and untuitive for fast paced action.On the plus side sound is okay and there are quite a few fighting moves which have been obviously been copied from the Matrix. Final word buy this game for the fights but you will get bored after about 1 hr of play.

Great gameplay, horrid levels

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: February 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

"Oni" is both the best and worst action game I have played in a while. As far as pure action goes it is one of the best out there. The story, which does a fairly good job of convaing the Anime feel, is fairly bland and has been done before (If "Deus Ex" had an anime style, it would be this game.) However the combat itself is second to none. Being able to pull off Street Figther 2-like moves in a living, interactive world is new and enjoyable. However "Oni" biggest flaw is in this world. Level desing is awful. Levels are mindnubbingly boring. Anyone expecting a dark and gritty setting, like something out of "Akira" or "Ghost in the Shell" will be disappointed. They all look the same and are mostly devoid of life. Also a problem with the levels is the typs of puzzles they hold. Hit a switch, open a door, hit another switch, open another door, repeat. You could do this in doom many many years ago. After a few hours it becomes almost unbareable. Controls are not bad, use of ranged wepons take some getting used to but the system as a whole is fine. That said however it baffles me as to how they leave out an option to remap keys?! All that said I still would consider this game worth your money. The action is qiute simply some of the bast in the PC market today. The first time you block a jumping attack, counter with a leg sweep, land a complex combo, throw an opponent down a fight of stairs and then finish him off from above with a plasma rifle it is gameplay unlike any other. This game is a landmark game, however it is still not a very good. When and if this engine is licenced to other companies or a sequal is put together this game will truly get the respect it deserves.

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