Source: CAPCOM Europe’s YouTube channel
CAPCOM revealed a new trailer for its Onimusha: Way of the Sword game during the pre-show for this year’s gamescom Opening Night Live event on Tuesday, previewing the swordplay action.
A playable demo is available now.
The remastered Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny game launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in May2025. A remaster of Onimusha: Warlords was released in January 2019.
CAPCOMdebuted the Onimusha Sengoku-era survival action game series in 2001. The games in the series retell stories from the Sengoku era but with supernatural elements.
Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny originally launched for PlayStation 2 in Japan in March 2002, inNorth America in August 2002, and in Europe in October 2002.
The game seriespreviously inspired the Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams CG film in 2006. The film compiles the CG-animated footage from CAPCOM’s Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams PlayStation 2 video game and alsoadds extra animated scenes.
An anime based on the franchise debuted worldwide on Netflix in November 2023. Shin’ya Sugai directed the anime at Sublimation. Famed director Takashi Miike (live-action Ichi the Killer, Blade of the Immortal, Crows Zero, JoJo’sBizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Terraformars) served as the supervising director.