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Onimusha: Warlords

This enhanced HD version of Onimusha: Warlords now supports 16:9 wide screen resolution as well as the old 4:3 ratio. Improved controls now allow players to move and fight with analog-stick precision. The…

75 15 January 2019

Onimusha: Warlords is an adventure developed by Capcom Production Studio 2, released 15 January 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Onimusha: Warlords is

Onimusha: Warlords is an adventure game developed by Capcom Production Studio 2 and released in 2019. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Onimusha: Warlords is set in 16th century Japan during the period of the civil war dominated by Nobunaga Oda. You play Samanosuke Akechi, who dies during an attempt to stop the kidnapping of young princess Yuki, the sister to Yoshitatsu Saito. However, Akechi is given another chance at life, and is handed the gauntlet of the Ogres.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Onimusha: Warlords holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Onimusha: Warlords launched on 15 January 2019, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire and Apex Legends. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends.

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When did Onimusha: Warlords come out?
Onimusha: Warlords was released on 15 January 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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