Small appreciation post for one of the special challenge boss in the demo.

First day I fought him I could not even reduce 25% off his health bar. I thought it was impossible for me.

Tried again the next day and tried to learn his patterns. Parry when I needed an opening to heal or to cut off his next attack which I struggled with, deflect the easy attacks to reduce his stamina faster, dodge the running attacks, Issen the jump attacks. Basically using every technique I have at the right place.

Now I am no hit running the same boss. This is the kind of challenge I needed, where I am learning with each failure. Although I have played elden ring and dark souls, and they had similar formula but they were mostly dodge only, this game feels so good to have deflect, parry, dodge, Issen. I hope more future games use similar formula.

Already turning out to be my GOTY alongside potential GTA.

3 more days guys

Long story short I want this game on switch as I will primarily play it on tv but probably get slot of replay value in hand held but my brain is telling me Xbox just because it will look and run better. So what say y'all, who's buying it what where and why?

This is a question for those of you who had to choose. Obviously some people will just buy several

I think the combat seems like something genuinely special. I play a lot of action games and the animations in this one give it a real fluid and cinematic feel.

What's your reasoning?

I really don’t understand the difference

Around the release of Onimusha 3 there was a series of mini-weapons that were released in Japan. Thanks to the early days of Ebay I was able to get ahold of a few and they have been proudly displayed in my collection ever since. I've been waiting 20 years for a new Onimusha and I'm looking forward to Way of the Sword releasing this week!

Hi legends, I am extremely hyped for this game and cannot wait to play it! The only extremely minor thing I have that I want to mention (not really even a complaint, just a funny little thing) is that the health bar of enemies is yellow, and stamina red. Obviously, my brain has been trained for years from other games that health is red :D When playing the demo, I cannot even remember how many times I mixed up the two - when fighting the secret boss for the first time and getting his stamina low quite quickly, I was like wow, this is not even that hard, he is almost dead - then I realised :D Anyone else being confused? I am sure we will adjust quite quickly, but I thought it was funny.

Hey all,

I'm very new to the Onimusha series, this will be my first game.

I just played the demo and really enjoyed it - instant preorder for sure.

I appreciate there will be higher difficulty levels but should I expect it to be something similar to Sekiro or Elden Ring in terms of difficulty? Or are Capcom deliberately going in a different direction to differentiate the game?

Thanks

I played Onimusha 1-3 when they were released back in the day. Beat Onimusha 3 when I was in high school. And I beat all three of them countless times because they were among my favorite games. I still love them and think about them a lot.

How is the new game for people like me who will be 20 years removed from playing these games? Will it feel natural and nostalgic? Is it totally different? Good mix of new and old? Total improvement? Completely different? I just want to know what to expect from someone who to this day still thinks the OG trilogy was perfect.

New to the series, saw the gameplay and was hooked. Can I jump into this without needing to play all the previous games?

I'd like to get the steelbook edition if I can upgrade to deluxe

I love the original onimusha games, I love action games, I enjoyed the demo, but reviews seem to be very varying. Many said tho that the structure is pretty meh. I was a bit astounded that its semi open world and that tasks and mini bosses are repeated many times. I dont like 99% of open world games tho. I really hoped for a game with linear level structure and good replayability. No I am a bit conflicted between I loved everything I saw and played in the demo and the reviews that criticize things I also often dislike about games.

Its honestly a difficult decision because I will only have money for 1 game this month and normally I would go for control resonant, especially because I fear remedy is more dependend on sales, than capcom. But I love the setting, the style , voice acting and combat. On the other hand capcom games do get cheaper relatively quickly.

What do you think waiting or day 1 buy?

Did of the reviews change your expectations?

I got a physical copy of way of the sword on Xbox early and it’s not letting me play it and it says I don’t own the game even though I have the disc inserted and literally downloaded it. I’m installing a pre download for it at the moment hoping that will let me play the game. Any ideas on how I can play it if the pre download doesn’t work?

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Hey all. So I ordered way of the sword from Best Buy. The game will be released on 09/04 but Best Buy said will be shipped by that day. So does that mean they will ship early and I will get it on the 4th? Or they start shipping on the 4th and it should arrive aftwr the 4th? Did anyone preorder from Best Buy and familiar ?Sorry if it’s a dumb question since I haven’t preordered a brand new game on release since ps2 days, I usually wait for games to be on sad but for Onimusha’s return, I ll make an exception

I hope Musashi has A variety of Comebacks like Dante and Leon. Some we’ve already heard in the Demo, like “I Hope YOU Do!!” And then there were 3-4 in the Byakuya Fight as well. Its so cool, your character taunting and aura farming in the middle of tough situations. I think thats one of the things that make these characters GOATed. What do you think?