Onimusha revival discussions 'happening at high levels' at Capcom

[berto]

Onimusha discussions 'are happening at high levels' confirms Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono

It's been a little over 15 years since Capcom first released the hugely popular and incredibly influential samurai action-adventure Onimusha: Warlords.

The original game was a massive hit on the PS2 and became the console's first game to sell over a million copies.

Though eventually its sales surpassed two million units worldwide.

But despite a flurry of sequels in a five-year spell, the series has been pretty much AWOL following the 2006 release Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams.

A possible revival for the game has been mentioned once or twice in recent years, but Capcom have not shown any hunger to revisit Onimusha.

So when provided with an opportunity to interview Capcom legend Yoshinori Ono - a man who worked extensively on the Onimusha series - Daily Star Online asked if there was any headway on bringing the beloved game back into the fold at Capcom for a next-gen reboot.

"Capcom as a company know we have many brands, IP’s and series that are beloved by players around the world and we always have fans asking us, when is this or that game coming back," Explained Ono.

"I've spoken internally with people who made Onimusha with me originally and talked about maybe how interesting it would be to revisit that series. But fans should know that we’re not further down that road than the discussion phase."

"Right now, I’m so focussed on Street Fighter V that I’m not really in a position to start that same level of battle that I had getting Street Fighter IV made. All I can do for now is reassure fans that conversations are happening at high levels."

"We realise the need for different series to maybe come back into the forefront and although there’s nothing to talk about right now, I’m sure in the future there will be news on variety of series that will keep the fans happy."

"Fan's favourites are going to come back."

dailystar.co.uk

 

[Innsmouth]

hmmm…I dunno. I just not sure how much faith I have in them. Besides before they announce they making it, its sadly only empty talks.

 

[berto]

I have the same concerns. The people that made OniMusha are not at Capcom anymore, at least most of them, so it's hard to know if the people who are there will be able to make something in the spirit of the series. Dawn of Dreams, I remember not liking, it felt different and not as fun as the other games.

 

[Frazz]

As a side note: the news of fan favourites coming back sounds promising as he can't be referring to Resident Evil, for example, as it has been quite active but the DMC franchise has technically been gone since 2008 so it could be something that is coming back.

On topic: I think Capcom shouldn't reboot Onimusha but do something like the RE HD collection and just make the game look great on current gen instead of changing the gameplay etc. I haven't played Onimusha since my PS2 died but I seem to remember that Onimusha 1 was quite like DMC1 and I'd like them to keep it like that. Basically I think that a straight up HD version would work better as it would probably cost less and the fans would be much happier with it. And I share the concern that Capcom may not be able to make a good Onimusha anymore due to the team being mostly (if not entirely) gone.

 

[berto]

On topic: I think Capcom shouldn't reboot Onimusha but do something like the RE HD collection and just make the game look great on current gen instead of changing the gameplay etc.

Agreed.

 

[Demi-fiend]

If it is a reboot, I'd give my right foot just to see NT to develop it.

"My name is Samanosuke."

 

[Sparda's Rebellion]

As a side note: the news of fan favourites coming back sounds promising as he can't be referring to Resident Evil, for example, as it has been quite active but the DMC franchise has technically been gone since 2008 so it could be something that is coming back.

On topic: I think Capcom shouldn't reboot Onimusha but do something like the RE HD collection and just make the game look great on current gen instead of changing the gameplay etc. I haven't played Onimusha since my PS2 died but I seem to remember that Onimusha 1 was quite like DMC1 and I'd like them to keep it like that. Basically I think that a straight up HD version would work better as it would probably cost less and the fans would be much happier with it. And I share the concern that Capcom may not be able to make a good Onimusha anymore due to the team being mostly (if not entirely) gone.

I agree, the way he said that doesn't sound like good news for Onimusha fans but I have a feeling that the "Fan's favourites are going to come back." is talking about DMC and probably Dead Rising considering what Capcom said was in their "Main Pipeline."

If it is a reboot, I'd give my right foot just to see NT to develop it.

"My name is Samanosuke."

It's funny, when I saw that they might be considering a reboot the first thing I thought was I wonder if they would consider Ninja Theory for that reboot? After all the **** that they got for DmC and from how badly they threw NT under the bus in their last Integrated Report, I highly doubt that they would go back to NT.