A youthful likeness of famous actor Toshiro Mifune will be used in ‘Onimusha: Way of the Sword’.
The latest entry in the long-running Onimusha series takes us to a corrupted Kyoto with youthful Toshiro Mifune as our guide.
Specifically, Toshiro Mifune’s likeness has been used for the main character of the game, Miyamoto Musashi, who in turn is a famous Japanese historical figure.
This is very much in line with prior Onimusha games, as Takeshi Kaneshiro’s likeness was used in the first game and Yusaku Matsuda’s likeness in the second.
The Onimusha games also use notable figures from Japanese history, and Miyamoto Musashi is arguably one of its most famous.
Musashi was a legendary swordsman and undefeated in combat, so much so that his duels with other samurai are the stuff of legend.
The latter is also noteworthy here, as Sasaki Ganryu is also present in this new Onimusha game as a rival antagonist who also wields an Oni Gauntlet.
Whether Musashi will defeat Kojiro in the same way he did historically remains to be seen, but I always find this repurposing of history both fun and interesting in the Onimusha games.
This new entry also looks very impressive, not only graphically but also functionally.
While the older Onimusha games took their functional guidance from the fixed camera setup in the Resident Evil games, this looks more like Nioh or Sekiro in terms of combat, and that’s a definite improvement.
It also seems that Onimusha: Way of the Sword will be playable at this year’s Gamescom in August, so it will be interesting to see what people think of the game after getting to play it properly.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword will be released in 2026 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, via Steam.
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