Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Remaster Preview: An Ideal Entry Point

Believe it or not, it’s already been over six years since Capcom’s 2019 remaster of the first Onimusha title, Onimusha: Warlords, arrived on store shelves. While the retouched classic ultimately sold 300,000 copies across all platforms (well below the over 2 million copies that the original PlayStation 2 version sold in 2000), in that same month Capcom would also go on to release its remake of Resident Evil 2 to immense critical acclaim, selling 3 million copies worldwide in its first week.

Remakes, reboots and remasters of old IP, especially those from Capcom, were just as white-hot then as they are now, and given Capcom’s 2019 trajectory, it seemed a remaster of 2002’s Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny would soon be inevitable.

Clearly, Capcom has a different concept of the word “soon,” as the wait of over half a decade for Onimusha 2’s long-overdue glow-up has been a tad longer than anyone could have imagined. Now it’s almost here, and the Osaka-based publisher’s decision... Read more