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Onimusha 3: Demon Siege

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A awesome game, the best in the Onimusha series, at least I think it is. Found it new here, arrived ahead of time and in excellent condition. Love playing this game.

very happy customer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

my item arrived in brand new condition and i was very happy with my purchase. i enjoyed playing it very much

Like killing things with swords? I sure do.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The story isn't too bad and the gameplay is very excellent. The cutscenes showed people getting brutally sliced by japanese demons so I thought that was pretty cool. A very nice samurai game.

Demon Siege

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Sadly this was meant to be the final game of the intended trilogy. The people at Capcom made a bad decision by using known actors as models for the main characters. Their should have been at least two more bosses. I finished the game rather quickly since I'm used to the gameplay (I own the first two Onimusha titles as well). This being the planned finale for the trilogy, it did not cater enough to those dedicated players who have been active with the beginning of the series. Bummer. I still give 3 stars because its basic gameplay and concept I've liked since Oni-1.

jesus christ

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a terrible game. I am a /huge/ fan of the first two Onimushas, and their smashing, wild successes tricked me into buying this one. The controls, the characters, the story, the additions, the settings, the sounds, the graphics -- everything is wrong or off or outright terrible. Don't make my mistake.

I've also watched a friend play all of Onimusha 4. If you've played the first two and you're looking for more, it's safe to purchase that one. It's not nearly as good as the first two, and in some ways it's different enough that it probably should be even called part of the Onimusha series, but at least it doesn't suck. Skip this product; it's for your own good.

I gave it 2 stars overall because it contains Samanosuke, and he deserves some amount of credit for simply existing.

Average

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game plays fairly average to me, I was expecting something far more interesting, instead I get a game with repetitive gameplay and a much linear story. Its not a terrible game its just that theres nothing innovative enough to impress me.

Much more repetitive than it should be

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm disappointed in this game. I think it's repetitive and difficult, but it looks as though I am in the minority as nearly all the other reviews I can see are raving about it. This third game in the Onimusha series seems to me to be the least developed in regards to it's story. The first two games had me really interested in Samunouske (or the bloke in the second one) and the war they were raging against evil Nobunaga, but this time round I just don't care. The time travel plot seems completely arbitrary, it's just a way to spice up the game with a new location (Paris) and have dual characters. Where or whoever you happen to be in the game though, there's basically very little to do except hack and slash at everything you see until they are all dead and then move onto the next area. In my opinion this makes it little more than a progressive beat-em-up...at one point in the Paris sewers, I was almost convinced I was playing Zombie Revenge! OK, it is a little more sophisticated than that, but the core gameplay is seriously one dimensional.

It's also pretty unforgiving as far as control goes, and I started to get really hacked off around the time I reached Mont Saint Michel. The enemies are pretty good fighters and clearing a room of 10 or so can be a tough job. It's made harder and more frustrating by a fixed camera, which can make you lose your sense of who you are aiming at, and a poor auto-target system that makes the character turn to face an enemy that may sometimes NOT be the one you intended to take a swing at, so that on some occasions I went into my attack pattern facing thin air while the enemy I had intended to hit had plenty of time to come up and paste me from behind. The scenery also has the annoying habit of having invisible boundaries that cause you to get stuck in "corners" you can't see, which can mean you promptly end up on the floor. The recovery control for getting up after a fall is also awful.

I haven't even got started on training mode yet. This little mini game seems fun at first but I completely failed to understansd critical evades, deflect attack critical hits, and some kind of ten-string critical chain attack that I have never even seen. The timing and on-screen prompts for these attacks working are non-existant as far as I'm concerned. I can't master any of them, and am now wondering whether it is worth trying to finish the game if my characters have no advanced skills to help them! Being able to jump would be a godsend, but despite the complex attack combos created, this simple option was completely ignored.

All this of course may be just a cover-up for the fact that I am not very good at this game. It's probably partly true, but I never liked beat-em-ups, where it's all about timing and lightning-fast accurate button sequences, and I didn't think I had bought one with this game. But now I'm starting to think that I have. All the important critical attacks are probably required to get the most fun out of this game, but they are all escaping me totally and I'm stuck swinging my weapons around like a crazed loon, which as any seasoned player will tell you, is not going to get you much further than the easiest stages. If I cared a little for the story, I might try harder, but I don't. The characters are all very shallow...they all play the same, just kitted out with different weapons.

The game does look great, although as usual the play areas are conveniently defined by silly little conventions that stop you from straying outside the required street or patch of land, most notably those lame little boundaries around the Arc de Triomphe. The opening CGI movie is breathtaking, very realistic. The music is also ok, but Jacques, his son Henri and Michelle all get their native French tongues replaced with"Hollywood blockbuster" American accents once they meet Samunouske, and the fairy helper Ako grants that they must all be allowed to understand each other, and this really grated on me.

Sorry to be a fly in the ointment, but I'm really bored of this game. Whacking dozens and dozens of constantly re-spawning demons is making my thumbs sore, and the gorgeous graphics are not doing enough to bring me back to this for much longer.

The return of Samanosuke

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Onimusha 3: Demon Siege - Circa 2004

GOOD:
- A nicely styled samurai horror/fantasy, with some modern day France stuff
- An original story, with some time travel elements
- Cool swordsman type combat, newer refined combat (since last game)
- Some nice unlockable mini-games
- Play as two (sometimes three) different characters at certain points of the game
- Lot's more varity in environments

BAD:
- Some might say this game plays and looks dated, but that's really up to opinion
- Not for those who don't like survival horror games (but this ones is closer to an adventure game then survival horror)
- The story sort of goes out the window and is more unbelievable then the past two games, the entire magic meets samurai meets time travel meets modern day mercenary thing is not for every one

IF IT FITS YOUR TASTE:
- A Samurai game that plays like a action survival horror
- Magic and fantasy are a pretty big part of the story
- Don't really need to play pervious games to enjoy this one, pervious games have very little to do with this game
- Switch back and forth between the two main characters

GAME ITS MOST ASSOCATED TOO:
- Onimusha: Warlords
- Onimusha 2: Samurai Destiny
- Resident Evil: Code Veronica X

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- Yes the other playable character is modeled after the actor Jean Reno

No jump button, No kick button

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Before I purchased this, I thought that it was going to be one of the best action games ever. After playing, I was disappointed. It's a very "AVERAGE" game, that doesn't have anything special to make it stand out from other games.

I found it very weird that there is no jump function. The only way to kill air-born enemies is to shoot them with a bow n arrow. This can be tedious since you have to stop and stand still, then use the lock on target button.

And since there is no jump, you can NOT jump in the air and perform hard landing attacks.

There is also no kick button. Kicks would have added a little more variety to the attacks.

You should buy God of War instead. It's a LOT more fun and exciting than onimusha 3.

Not so good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: September 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

when i got this game i thought it was going to be cool but it wasent it sucked balls thats all i have to say.

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