"onimusha 3 - demon siege"

lots of blood. very fast. very fun. that's how my first hour and a half with onimusha 3 has been like. i couldn't care for the first onimusha game because...well, i kept on getting stuck at the first boss. i subsequently swapped the game with justin for...sega tennis. anyway, we're back with the current incarnation, which stars takeshi kaneshiro as samonosuke, and jean reno as jacques.

the onimusha storyline is supposed to be intricate and whatnot, but since i haven't played the first two, i'm a bit bummed. it doesn't matter...the game's just bloody bloody. you can set the gore settings, don't worry...you queasy chickens, you.

one grouse i have with the game is that jean reno doesn't voiceover his own english lines. he does it in french, but i think he's more than competent to deliver his english lines. silly capcom. it would also be cooler if the japanese-based characters spoke japanese. subtitles aren't that bad.

there goes the authenticity. but it's still bloody fun.