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How real life swordsmen and a search for realism has changed the face of Onimusha in Way of the Sword
This is not Onimusha reimagined for 2025, but rather Onimusha filtered through 2025.
| Image credit: Capcom In a hands-off demo of live gameplay, you can see the distinct contours of the modern age grafted to systems lifted from the Onimusha series right back to the 2001 original. | Image credit: Capcom"These professional swordsmen would be trying moves on our motion capture setup and letting us bring a sense of believability to the sword elements," explains Nihei. Perhaps when we look at how Onimusha: Way of the Sword has been changed by the march of time, technology is indeed the most important - because of how Capcom's evolving motion capture capabilities had a knock-on effect on the rest of the game - and its protagonist, Musashi Miyamoto.
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