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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

Solidly entertaining, but has been surpassed by competitors

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Onimusha 3 is a third person action game with a camera that is locked in place, providing 'cinematic' angles for the action. It is very reminiscent in this regard to its progenitors--the Resident Evil series--and competitors--Devil May Cry, and, more recently, God of War. Unlike the early Resident Evil games, and the previous two Onimusha games, the environments in this game are not pre-rendered. Even so, the backgrounds are quite pretty in this game, especially for a PS2 game, and the animations and character models are top notch for their time.
The story is a fairly convoluted tale of time travel and magical connections through space time, linking Paris of 2004 with Japan of the 5th century or so. You as the player take control of two characters (well, three, but two main characters), one a French police officer from 2004 who gets sent back to ancient Japan, and the other a famed warrior from Japan who has spent his life fighting the evil Genma lords. Those evil beings are threatening both worlds, past and present, and only through cross-time cooperation can the heroes save the day.
This rather unique and interesting method of setting up the story gave the developers the chance to put in place several time-jumping puzzles. Nothing too difficult, but at least you probably will not have seen them before in typical single-timeline games (ie most of them).
The real meat of the game is in the combat, and here Onimusha 3 does not quite live up to games in its genre that came before--the original Devil May Cry--or those that have come out since--God of War, and Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox. The combat is not bad at all, and is certainly more satisfying than the first Prince of Persia, for example. But it lacks the same level of buttery smooth responsiveness and quickness of Dante in Devil May Cry or Kratos in God of War.
Still, even with the above caveat, I can recommend Onimusha 3 for anyone who likes these type of action games. It is satisfyingly long, has only one truly irritating character (that little boy's voice drove me up the wall sometimes) in a cast that is otherwise quite excellent and made up of movie-level voice talent like Jean Reno, and should keep you occupied for a while. The normal mode of difficulty is not overly hard, and tough guys who eat Devil May Cry 3 and Ninja Gaiden for breakfast will want to up the difficulty when they start out.
A great ending to the series...if it is, indeed, the end...

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.

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.

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