Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny

Like a new year’s line of automobiles, Onimusha 2 has a sleeker look, more bells and whistles, and improved standard features over its predecessor model, "Warlords."

Quite simply, Onimusha 2 is one of the year’s best offerings on the PS2.

Early on, Onimusha 2 showed promise and appeared to be the innovative follow-up that it so desperately needed to be. However, as the game went on, and the entertaining gameplay aspects disappeared, my enthusiasm for the game withered. [Sept 2002, p.77]

As is the problem with most games built with pre-rendered backgrounds, there are going to be a lot of times where the game camera is going to leave you open for cheap shots as you move from one angle to another.

While a definite step forward in the series, Onimusha 2 doesn't really introduce much that's too remarkably new. [Sept 2002, p.27]

Has the same drawbacks as its predecessor, including some frustrating camera angles and a relative short main quest.

This time around there is more character interaction, more action, more techniques, and THANKFULLY the game is much longer.

Still one of my favorite games! Remember playing this all the time and completed it way more times then I can remember. It blew my mind how everything was improved, to the combat, weapons, story and shopping system. Still get my PS2 out to play this today!

A fine game, above average. Cool graphics, very interesting atmosphere, nice mechanics, boring story.

This is one of my favorites of all time, its one of those games I'm always playing frequently because of nostalgia, because i like the gameplay despite being so basic, because i like the bad voice acting and how frustration how some boss fights can be, this is one of the first PS2 games i played but for one reason or another, I have not beat this game despite playing it at least once a year every year. The game runs absolutely perfectly on the PS2, there is seldom any hiccupping in the framerate, its very enjoyable in that regard, the combat despite being basic it is very enjoyable and its nice to upgrade your weapons and equipment. I do not like the social interaction and friendship mechanic the game has, that can make easy or harder boss fights where NPCs you meet along the way can come and help you out. Im sure ill beat it someday but i have fun whenever i have one of those weekends where i just want to play it from the beginning and see where i can take it in one sitting.

I don't have so much to say about this game because it plays just like the original just a bit less character all around , What do I mean well the main character Jubilee is Wooden boring but Luckily for him the characters that is beside him has some character but he still legs a bit too much , I think the gift-giving and the way that they tried to to make multiple story branges is just kind of a mess and I hate using it , I would say I had a good time with the game but Experiments on gameplay Day Made in this game just not for me

Wow this game is overrated, I can not even begin to belive how did it get a ten from some of the plebs over here, The story is really really BAD the voice acting is even worst! When i heard his mom I couldn't believe it is not a comedy.... This is a game i really really regret finishing...