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Onimusha Returns...As A Browser Game

by Matthew Kato on March 12, 2012 at 09:32 AM

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We miss the Japanese feudal action of Capcom's Onimusha series, and we're going to miss it even more now that the company has announced Onimusha Soul for PC browsers and smartphones.

The game casts players as daimyo (a feudal lord) in Japan's warring states period, and the RPG allows co-op as well as competitive play with Capcom's Unity 3 engine.

Onimusha Soul appears on June 28 in Japan for PC and this fall for smartphones. Although there's nothing stopping U.S. fans from hitting the site when the game comes out, knowing Japanese will separate the competent players from the clueless.

[via Joystiq]

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by Joseph Breen Monday, March 12, 2012 at 09:37 AM

*golfclap*
by Blake Monday, March 12, 2012 at 09:43 AM

I'm sorry, but did Capcom suffer a sever head injury at some point during the last few years? I'm not against browser games or anything, but why bring back a franchise that is probably only known by serious fans and turn it into a browser game?
by Aaron Quixote Monday, March 12, 2012 at 09:46 AM

I'll reserve judgment until I get a chance to play it, but my hopes are not high.
by new traditionalist Monday, March 12, 2012 at 09:47 AM

it could be good, but at the same time it's not a full blow 'nother game.
by rekoin Monday, March 12, 2012 at 09:56 AM

i might check up on this, i nvr played it and will now.
by Meta77 Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:10 AM

glad i know some japanese. thank you anime.
by Opfer der Seele Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:12 AM

So there was no one that thought it might be a better idea to make a new console entry in the series?
by Zennethe Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:15 AM

I'd all but given up on a new addition to this series... and I doubt this will do justice to the previous games in any way. I hope I'm wrong but... not very confident in this idea.
by Boyzby Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:33 AM

Too bad it isn't an HD collection or another game in the series. Maybe this is a way to gauge how many people would be interesting in those, which I most certainly am.
by With One Last Breath Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM

*Sigh*.... I got excited just reading the title. The Onimusha series is my absolute favorite & I'd love nothing more then to see the return of the series or hell, even an HD remake would suffice.
by grimmfeather Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:44 AM

I'm not going to get my hopes up, but I'm definitely going to check this out when it releases. It's been too long since the last Onimusha game.
by VGAPixel Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:52 AM

Lets hope Capcom is using this as a test to see if there is still interest in the franchise
by freak24 Monday, March 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM

This sounds cool. I wonder if I'll have to resort to Google Translate to translate the Japanese text in the game. I wish there was some more description about the game itself in this article and a little less complaining about how it's only coming to browsers and smartphones.
by Warrior Monday, March 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM

Um.... It oughta be on a console than PC and smartphones.
by lirthie Monday, March 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM

http://moourl.com/hj8of
by Aswitch Monday, March 12, 2012 at 11:45 AM

boo. there better be a console game coming with this.
by darth_bane Monday, March 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM

I hope this is the first step there doing so they can bring back this ip. Onimusha was one of my favorite game series of last gen.
by Tommy H. Monday, March 12, 2012 at 12:20 PM

Just gimme an HD remake. :D
by Rainbow Dash Monday, March 12, 2012 at 12:35 PM

My heart sunk when I saw that it was a browser game, but Unity engine is a legitimate engine. There's still a chance that this will be a good game.
by DennisMacCharlie Monday, March 12, 2012 at 01:23 PM

Onimusha 2 is one of my all time favorite games. And the entire series is great. I really wish Capcom would bring a full fledged game back, instead of some of their recent games. I mean, most of their recent games arent bad, but i get excited thinking about the possbilities of a current gen Onimusha.