About this episode

The episode revisits the origins of Onimusha: Warlords as Capcom prepares to reboot the franchise.

As Capcom gears up to soft reboot dormant franchise Onimusha, we look back a quarter of a century to its origins, 2001's Onimusha: Warlords. Leon, Chris Worthington, James and Michiel suck Genma souls like it's Luigi's haunted hotel in this tricky, Spenceresque Sengoku Mansion. We also talk about the game's interface, systems, challenge and - with contributions from the listeners - some of the changes made to both the Xbox version and the more recent remaster.

People in this episode

Host: Leon

Guests: Chris Worthington, James, Michiel

Topics covered

• Onimusha
• video game history
• game mechanics
• remasters
• listener contributions

Keywords

• Onimusha
• Warlords
• Capcom
• video games
• remaster
• game mechanics
• Sengoku Mansion
• listener contributions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Capcom

Books & works: Onimusha: Warlords, Luigi's haunted hotel, Xbox version, remaster

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