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The Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is an awesome complement to the Onimusha series. The provider sent me a product that was in great condition. Highly recommended.

If you liked the first three Onimusha...avoid this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Picked this game up the day it came out. Graphics are amazing. Gameplay is horrible. The characters and story is just too bizarre and I lost interest fast. If the first three held your interest you might enjoy this game, but its vastly different from its predecessors.

how can anyone call this game terrible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

first of all onimusha fans such as me appreciate how they brought the "what if's" (such as using more than one other person as a team) to life. its a great game with beautiful graphics and awsome play, the extra characters are sometimes better than the main character which makes it all that much more fun and interesting. is it the best onimusha? no, but it comes really close (none of them can beat 3). this game had me at the first boss completely amazing.

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

not as good as 3, but still apart of the series, so for that I still love it.

Decent hack'n'slash

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Decent let's-just-get-it-on game, I would cut out some of those cut scenes though, I'm not in to watching that.

absolutely terrible.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: May 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

wow.. i don't know what kind of crack reviewers are smoking, but this game sucks BIG TIME. the graphics are fine - what sucks is the gameplay. imagine playing devil may cry or ninja gaiden or god of war... WITH ALL OF THE FUN TAKEN OUT, and you've got a perfect idea of what onimusha: dawn of dreams is. no fast furious action. no rolling around the ground or jumping high. none of that. just standing still, swinging a sword as if these are still the days of NES. geez. this game is so boring i don't see how anyone can play over 15 minutes.

So much effort for such a big dissappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you liked this review, feel free to click my name and check out my others.

I have played the first Onimusha game from start to finish. You can check my other reviews to see what I thought of that one. I was hoping that 3 sequels later they would have fixed the glaring flaws in what would otherwise be some of the prettiest graphics for the PS2 console. They fixed only one of the problems from the first game.

First of all, my biggest complaint has got to be the play control, or the lack of it. Sure they fixed the "Tank Controls" so at least you don't have to rotate your character before making them walk forward. But it's still just a boring button masher. What fun is a game when you can practically close your eyes and just tap the X button repeatedly and win a great deal of the battles?

During the battles where a little more finesse and variation is required, I found the controls to be sticky and delayed to an annoying degree. Also considering this is a game where the hero has a few different swords he can play with, I was really annoyed that there was not quick way to switch back and forth. You have to press start and go through a menu system to select a different sword. What a stupid way to interface weapon selection in a combat game. If it were an RPG menus wouldn't matter, but in a hack n' slash? Come on guys try a little! I also have a personal beef that they choose not to add platforming. Ok seriously now, this is a game where we see the hero or other ancillary characters display superhuman feets of speed, strength and agility, and you mean to tell me they can't hop a 3 foot break between two rooftops or hop up just 1 friggin foot to reach a stepladder that had the bottom blown off? It's just lazy game design!

So let's get to the story. It's based loosely on Japanese lore and myth about dealing with warring factions in fuedal Japan, augmented by mysticism and zombies. It's a highly convoluted story. It's also full of cheesy dialogue and campy voice overs that you'd expect from most average anime features. I suppose that for many that might be reason enough to get the game but it's not a preference for me. Take that for what you will, you very well might like it. There's the token Onimusha trend of having people's diaries and random books of myth scattered about in the game to add detail to the world's mood and setting. To me this is a cop out way of avoiding cinematics, but then again, some of the journals really add nothing and only serve to further water down the game. I felt like I'd wasted time just picking them up and reading them.

I'll be 100% honest with you and openly state I did not play this game from start to finish. I probably played it for about 2 hours and then took the disc out to return to my brother whom I borrowed it from. Other than pretty graphics, this game offers me nothing worth investing hours of my time into. I rarely get flat out bored playing a game and this game managed to do it.

Considering my brother loves this game and he's over 30, I suppose there are people out there that this game was made for. People who are probably not die-hard gamers and who like really simple gameplay, impressive graphics, and cheesy anime storylines. Well here's your game, I'm honestly glad to know somebody enjoys the effort they put forth.

onimusha has betrayed it's fans

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a big let down by the guys making the onimusha series first off why is the black oni blond? he should be japanese not blond or half japanese, making the hero blond was probably just a gimick to attract american customers, and i also hate how they took the cheap way out and didn't base the image of the hero on a real person like the 3 earlier onimusha games.

(SPOILER)
there are also rumors that tenki is samanosuke but tenki in the game cut scense and intro doesn't move or sound like samanosuke used to do in the earlier games, the reason for this is that the actor that did the japanese voice for samanosuke in the earlier games doesn't work with capcom anymore because they are getting cheaper voice actors.

i am a hardcore fan of the three first onimusha games but i will definately stay away from this sorry excuse of a game.

one of the best game ever made!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

it's the best onimusha, excelente graphics and sound, I only have one disapoint the game is repetitive.!!

Not too shabby...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best Onimusha yet. If you can get past the fact that the main character looks like a goat.

The story is kinda predictable, but long. I think my second play-through was 19 hours. Character leveling is fun; it's kinda like an action-rpg in that sense.

The different characters are fun to play as. Better than goat-boy. Unfortunately, the action is pretty repetitive. If you can handle repitition and liked the past Onimusha games, you'll like this.

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