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Onimusha: Warlords (2001)

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Genma Onimusha is an Xbox (original Xbox) port of Onimusha Warlords which was originally released for the Playstation 2 in 2001. The Xbox port contains many updates to the game like enhanced graphics, new 5.1 Dolby Digital audio, altered areas, costumes, a new charge attack ability, & green souls the player can absorb. When the player absorbs enough green souls, they can use them to temporarily render themselves invulnerable & slowly regenerate health. If an enemy absorbs a green soul, they will go beserk & they are more poweful than before. Genma Onimusha is also more challenging then the original PS2 version of Onimusha Warlords. The music in both Onimusha Warlords & Genma Onimusha was credited to Mamoru Samuragochi, but Takashi Niigaki revealed in February 2014 that he had ghostwritten the music credited to Samuragochi throughout his career which is why the music was changed for the rerelease of Onimusha Warlords in 2019 (2018 in Japan first). Personally, I like the original music in the PS2 & Xbox version of Onimusha Warlords better than the late 2010s release of Onimusha Warlords, but some of the music in the new Onimusha Warlords soundtrack was good too. In the Onimusha series, the player can perform critical hits on enemies to gain more souls. This technique is called "Issen" & you have to press the attack button before an enemy lands a blow. I do this at times in the game, so you'll see me stand still while watching an enemy's moves trying to critical or issen them. When I successfully issen them, you'll see a flash on the screen & the enemy will die instantly. Unlike the original PS2 version of Onimusha Warlords, Genma Onimusha allows you to skip cutscenes. You'll notice some frame rate issues throughout the video, but it isn't constant. Here's the story from the game's instruction booklet: Destiny - Eiroku 3 (AD 1560) Summer.... Yoshimoto Imagawa, a powerful warlord of Suruga, leads an immense army from Suruga toward Kyoto (in those days the capital of Japan). Yoshimoto's ambition is to unify Japan and crown himself it's sole king. On the March, the army halts on the plain of Okehazama in Owari to rest for the night. This changes Yoshimoto's - and Japan's - destiny forever. A troop of only 2,000 soldiers, led by Nobunaga Oda, a warlord of Owari, makes a surprise attack on Yoshimoto's camp. In a desperate battle, Nobunaga's legions defeat the invaders and slay Yoshimoto. (This historical event is known as the Battle of Okehazama.) Just as Nobunaga is exhulting his victory, an arrow from one of Yoshimoto's soldiers pierces his throat. He falls to the ground in a death struggle. A young man watches this from a remote hill. His name is Samanosuke Akechi. He is marked by destiny.... One year later... Strange incidents are occurring in Inabayama Castle in the Mino prefecture. Soldiers and workers are disappearing without a trace. Worried by these inexplicable events, Princess Yuki sends a plea for help to Samanosuke. At once, he races to the castle. But he arrives too late. Yuki has been kidnapped! At the same time, enemy troops are attacking the castle. Leading the army - risen from certain death and astride on a fierce warhorse - is Nobunaga! It's time for action! Samanosuke vows to rescue Yuki with the help of his partner kunoichi (female ninja) Kaede and defeat Nobunaga and his army of demon warriors.

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