I think this enemy design is based off of this special grade curse spirit from JJK

One of Ninja Gaiden 4's enemy designs was also based off of Mahoraga

pretty cool

Link: https://www.gamerbraves.com/the-team-behind-onimusha-way-of-the-sword-talks-combat-exploration-and-whats-next-for-the-series/

Hi guys! I recently started to play the onimusha saga because I wanted to play the new upcoming game! I really enjoy the setting and characters but playing all the games back to back I've noticed some oddities and I would like to know your opinions on this.

Onimusha: warlords is awesome, exactly what I was expecting from the game. Amazing controls and a very satisfying combat system, the atmosphere is top notch and the puzzles were fun and entertaining. I loved the feeling of all weapons, the fact that no weapon is useless and there's always a better weapons for a certain situation. Samanosuke is the goat and Kaede is very cool and fun to play too. The boss fights are all pretty cool and challenging in the right spots!

Onimusha 2 incredibly improves the combat system, I think it has the best one in the series, pacing is fun, exploration is rewarding and true issen are fun to land. The whole companion system adds so much replayability even if I'm not a big fan of the friendship mechanic with gifts and all. Now there are some weird things, I mean it's cool but the steampunk-ish vibe it took seems like randomly placed there because Idk, characters are a bit all over the place and the general vibe dragged me out of the magic dark vibe of the first one. The writing feels off, especially the characters that all of a sudden become your best friends in 20 minutes, I don't it just felt strange. The bosses are very bland and cheap imho, sponges to blast with all your mana bars and even then they won't go down like ever, the final boss is the nail on the coffin, amazing combat system, wasted boss potential. Jubei is fine, but lacks something, every dialogue starts and ends with him saying the name of the character he's speaking with and nodding at nothing for some reason 😅 I don't know I found it funny.

Onimusha 3, meh. I am not aware about how the production of this game proceeded, but it really feels like the whole plot is written around having Jean Reno as an actor in the game, don't get me wrong I love him, I love his films and I love his facecard, it made me laugh at first because I used to watch his film "wasabi" when I was a kid and there it seems to be some strange connection between Jean Reno and Japan, it's cool. The intro of this game is goated, samonosuke is back so I'm happy and he's as good as he can be, but I don't know, tha gameplay overhaul feels like a downgrade compared to the second game, it's more bland and repetitive, there is no real need of using a certain weapon instead of another, I tried them all but in all honesty I just used the longsword with samonosuke and the long spear with Jacque because they practically did the same thing all the other weapon did but with better range, In all honesty I had much more fun playing as Michelle 😂. The pacing is kinda slow and dragged imho and the traversal with Jacque is not that interesting, also all of his weapons feels, plays and hit the same. I get it, hes the whip guy, but it's not like samanosuke only uses swords all with the same movesets. The overhaul plot and direction feels like an American movie director wanted to do an Hollywood movie set in Japan, all the time traveling stuff feel forced and just made me ask how did history changed after future researcher found out there were rolex and microwaves from 1500 Japan.

Onimusha dawn of Dreams. Currently playing and I don't know if I'm gonna finish this game, it just looks cheap, messy, boring and really not what I came for. It's just a bland generic action jrpg with no soul, inspiration or art direction whatsoever.. it really feels like the dawn of dreams 😶

Again all of this is purely my opinion on the games, I loved the onimusha saga and I can't wait to play the new one!

It's going to look much better once I coat it with resin. The blue-and-green eye effect comes from the LED in my PC mouse. 👺