Oni Review (Bungie's Forgotten Game)
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Oni is a third-person action video game developed by Bungie West, a division of Bungie. Released in 2001, it was Bungie West's only game. Gameplay consists of third-person shooting with hand-to-hand combat, with a focus on the latter. Originally planned just for the Mac OS and Windows, a PlayStation 2 port was concurrently developed by Rockstar Canada. The game's style was largely inspired by Ghost in the Shell and Akira and shares the same genre, being set in a cyberpunk world.
There are ten different guns in Oni, including handguns, rifles, rocket launchers, and energy weapons. Power-ups such as "hyposprays", which heal damage, and cloaking devices, which render the player invisible, can be found scattered throughout the levels or on corpses. Since the player can carry only one weapon at a time and ammunition is scarce, hand-to-hand combat is the most effective and common means of defeating enemies. The player can punch, kick, and throw enemies; progressing into later levels unlocks stronger moves and combos.
There are multiple classes of enemy, each with its own style of unarmed combat. Each class is subdivided into tiers of increasing strength. As in Bungie's earlier Marathon titles, tiers are color-coded, in this case by green (weakest), blue, and red (strongest). Also color-coded are the levels of health each opponent has, indicated by a flash when the player strikes or shoots them. Green flashes show the opponent has high health, red flashes show the enemy is near death.
Oni does not confine the player to fighting small groups of enemies in small arenas; each area is fully open to explore. The fourteen levels are of various sizes, some large enough to comprise an entire building. Bungie hired two architects to design the buildings.
The Oni engine implements a method of interpolation that tweens key frames, smoothing out the animation of complex martial-arts moves. However, frame slippage is a common problem when multiple non-player characters near the player are attacking.
Does this video make me a weeb?
Nope
Yes. You can come out of the closet.
Make a video for the SOLDIER OF FORTUNE series
Review the SiN Anime
yes
Fun fact: in the tutorial, when you watch another cadet spar with robots, the sequence is not scripted and sometimes the cadet *DIES*
Shinatama even sheepishly says "This wasn't supposed to happen!"
I remember seeing that more than once :p
Lol more often then not that cadet dies too lol
He shouldn't have been a bitch
I just played the game and thought he was just knocked out lol.
Oh yeah I remember that. Definitely a nice highlight to an otherwise throwaway moment. 👍👍
I see you dodged a situation of producing comments criticizing your pronunciation of Evangelion by using Neon Genesis, pretty clever
Loved this game as a kid.
Still loving it and playing some times)
Literally my favourite game as a kid. I didn’t stop playing this until I was 13 and couldn’t get it on a current platform
Same here
We need to really have a remake of this.
its possible now, i think. Hopefully Sony can push this being made.
@@sunileddu5847 Not really. The game is inspired by anime so it lacks it's own identity. The game itself wasn't award winning or popular. There isn't a community around Oni that warrants a remake. But if it's the game concept, then a Ghost In the Shell inspired game would be pretty nice.
Massive agree
@@kevCjm6dhhihiujkbbhjhvcfyhuiij The is a community albeit a small one.... There are quite a few mods out for this game that overhaul it in various ways or possibly add new weapons. Not a massive community per se~ but still a community.
Bungie owns the rights of Oni? Or other company?
My first Playstation 2 game! Got it as a bday gift not knowing anything about it. Absolutely loved it!
Oh hey, Wrestlelamia :D
A surprise to be sure; but a welcome one
@@Arkangelx98x Yep.
Same here
Is PS2 version any better than the PC one?
Only a Sonny Jim could refer to "Evangelion" as "Neon Genesis"
Tbh people would have probably just yelled at him for not pronouncing it "right"
the correct way
Ay-wan-gair-ee-on
better than Evan-Jelly-Lion
No, I say the former...
this is the game that got me into gaming. I remember how awesome the story was to me at the time and how much fun I had playing it.
Never played this game, but it looks freaking awesome.
@@John-X it is. its one one of those old school games where story and gameplay were developed with equal energy. this should've had an anime imo.
same!
Same. The game is nice. First I looked how my dad played this game, then i tried it, it was so interresting.
I love that EVERY CHARACTER have their own movesets, man they should remake this
2 years late but, hell yes. I remember using the character select cheat and having fun with playing through levels as baddies, or nonviolent NPCs and seeing how far I could make it. I liked the STATIC FIST guy most, dunno why. One time I played through a level as the robot girl when she was mostly torn apart but somehow could still at least hold a pistol, lmao. I feel like I almost made it into a horror game at that point.
@@viscountrainbows2857 wow, how time has flown, this game is a masterpiece, I have hundreds of hours in it, it's a living but forgotten legend.
I will never forget him
*PLAYED THIS WHEN IT WAS FIRST RELEASED ON PC.*
Still have fond memories of this game - and it deserves a remaster.
SUPREME EMPEROR MITTENS played it on the Mac and kept playing through it over and over again.
Sadly Take-Two got the rights and hasn't done anything with them for 20 years.
TheOzumat if take two has it, that basically means the game is basically dead. Right?
I can't find this game 😭
Well.. I for one believe that Oni 2 would sell great because of Konoko's toned ass rendered in modern day graphics.
It worked for Nier Automata, I can't see why it can't work out for Oni.
Yeah, but you need an eastern developer » westerners these days can't design characters anymore :'(
@@OuhPii Not only that, they have to brag about it, and if you don't agree is because you hate women.
remember me would like a word with you.
@@mrsnippysnoopa8300 i think its safe to say remember me isnt modern anymore
Angel Studios was working on an Oni 2. But then Rockstar Games bought them outright, the game was cancelled, made them Rockstar San Diego, then, if the information I've come across is correct, the tech Angel Studios used for Oni 2 contributed to the creation of the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) that powered Grand Theft Auto IV & subsequent Rockstar games.
So when you break their spinal cord they automatically die, but when you snap their neck they'll get back up.
Half Life 3 confirm.
They might have twisty necks
Me: "hmm why don't I remember much of this game? I own it and I know I played it."
*Hears annoying "YOUUU LOSE!"*
Me: *PTSD INTENSIFIES*
I feel the same way with the vulcan driller robots in Descent. I've hated them since 3 or 4
These jokes: Unhilarious, unoriginal shit.
For me it was because I was a dumb child that didn't know what R3 was on a controller.
TFW no anime girl to crack ur back
It's called chiropractic adjustment and I could use one just about now
Lol thats exactly what I thought. 5:07 That shit sounded like it felt amazing for him, he just needed someone to crack his back to become a good guy.
:^(
Cracc ur Bacc*
that feel when you don't have to worry about her crack too hard and severing your torso in half, what is even the point in living if we are deprived of that kind of thing
"inspired" by GitS is putting it loosely.
They even gave Griffin the Chief Aramaki hairstyle ffs.
7:08 I have a problem with that opinion. Love the music. It got me into electronic.
Same here, my dude. I would occasionally find the soundtrack and listen to it again after finishing the game. Good for workouts too and has this kinda 90s cyberpunk-ish vibe to it. Love the game too, and I'm glad that this video reminded me of it after like 12 years.
Also, he def doesn't like this type of music he was too much subjective and calling rubish he was trashing one of best things that maked this game and fights even better and suited this futuristic world very good. And some other things that he complained also about combat he sound liked he played this game jsut few years ago for first time and he was not even good player. This was great childhood game one of best
@@foxskyfulOne of my first Ps2 games along with DMC. Game was harder than DMC but doable:
Fun Fact: If you use the invincibility cheat, you can actually jump level gates, walls, and survive rooftop falls and explore the city boundaries you're not supposed to be in. You can see the places are all textured with roads and buildings even though you're not supposed to see them. It makes me think this game was supposed to have semi open world levels but were cut down for whatever reason
Much faster to use the Mary Poppins cheat and fly wherever you want.
And if you fall off a jump that was supposed to kill you, you end up in a limbo of pure darkness with the suggestion of lighting. Also fun fact, in the level where you fight the big dude that comes back up with the jetpack if you knock him off the building, you can jump off the building, run back up, all the enemies respawn, but when you make it to the roof again, the game reads it as if you won the fight. I don't know if that's a programming error, or a joke by the devs who put the cheat in the first place.
TFW you screw up a planet so hard it becomes more livable than before.
You just need a Genesis device.
All jokes aside, why do I get the feeling that Gman's summarization of the game's setting (minus the un/inhabitable slip-up) is basically what we're likely to potentially go down, if no one's going to bother to get their shit straight?
That's basically what we want to do to Mars. Induce global warming on a scale so that it melts the ice caps, and makes it Earth-like.
@@GhostLink92 that's mental i love it
@@ubiquitouspanda4466 Too bad that without a liquid mantle like earth has, and a spinning core like Earth also has, Mars won't have enough of a magnetic field to deflect solar wind and prevent water vapor from being blown away into space. Mars used to have these things, but its moon wasn't enough to produce the tidal forces necessary to keep convection going - again, like earth has.
That's the first time I heard someone refer to Evangelion as just "Neon Genesis".
its an australian thing
Also in germany most just say Neon Genesis
It gives a crisp impression
Most people I know don't say the Evangelion part
Wow never knew people thought that was normal I always say evangelion
My favorite game. I’ve grown with it. So much memories. Wonderful game and morale. At this day there is no equivalent game with such amazing combat which I consider the best at this day. And *CORRECTION* Konoko is not an Android it’s her friend Shinatama. Konoko’s real name Mai Hasegawa had an implant given same as Muro to survive in pollution but this implant gave incredible strength. And personally I think the music in Oni is superb. It’s really good to finish game or install mods to play as a Muro. He is absolute AOE hitter
He suffers from what I call Goku syndrome. "We've got to stop the androids." "You mean cybor..." "ANDROIDS!"
You don't need to install a mod to play as Muro. Just use the cheat code.
@@ImperfectV01D if u finish the game you can play with every characters,i think Barabas is much stronger than muro.
I'd love to see Oni get a modern remaster. I would totally get it on Switch. I had it both on PS2 and on PC.
There's the fan mod Anniversary edition.
Or rather Bungie should work with Sega and RGG studio to make a reboot/sequel.
@@rayyanali4471 yeah it'd be great.
Oni actually is pretty well for a first attempt, Bungie could probably make a great game on a second attempt learning from their mistakes.
@@samz8691 Too bad current bungie isnt the same bungie pre destiny
For some reason the PS2 version is now dirt cheap, while the PC one sells for relatively high price. At least where I live.
Oni with modern graphics and Yakuza-style combat would be dope.
Yakuza style minigame would be amusing...
True, the Yakuza devs at Sega would be a great choice to remaster or even remake Oni for current consoles and pc.
Timestreamer yeah with lots of blood
A cyberpunk ninja game with Yakuza combat, fuck you, now I'm angry we'll never have something like this.
couldn't think of a more autistic combat system to ruin this good game.
Ohh my god the sound tracks of the game is soo frickin good, you can literally feel the emotion through those key moments. The gun fight mechanic, most awesome map designs, the support futuristic storyline...God this brings back the childhood like nothing else
The colored hit animation is actually pretty ingenious. It keeps excessive screen clutter out of the game.
Old Bungie > New Bungie
Great video.
I normally would shit on Activition about how they ruined Bungie, but it's really Bungies fault for leaving Microsoft, even though i can understand why bungie left in the first place.
@@CallofDutyBlackOps28 bungie's fault for selling out to microsoft in the first place you mean.
@@AgentRedemption We got halo 1-3. no, it's their own fault for being themselves. we're really going to have to look at the new Destiny 2 DLC before i can say anything.
AgentRedemption They really didn't sellout to Microsoft. Bungie was a company that wanted to stay alive and make games, the only way to do that was through Microsoft.
Selling out doesn't mean making a bad deal or doing something for money. Selling out is when you give up a passion or something you believed in, only for greed or personal gain.
They actually did the opposite of seeking out because when Microsft asked them to make more games, they refused. Microsoft wanted them to make a Halo game every year like call of duty. They also wanted them to make a bunch of spin off games. They didn't even want to make Halo 3 odst or Halo reach, but they had no choice to due to contract. So they did that, then they bought themselves out of their contract and left to make Destiny. They would've made Destiny with Microsoft, but Microsoft refused. So they jumped ship.
Say what you will about Bungie, but they are not sellouts. When given the opportunity, they follow their passions. These guys created one of the biggest video game franchises of all time and then walked away from it. How can you call them sellouts for that?
@@AgentRedemption they did to make a name for themselves, so they could fund future projects,
I loved loved loved loved this game. It was my best game growing up. I played it over and over and over. I even have the original still.
Feels so nostalgic. I feel like its an underrated game with great AI!
thedayismine - enable cheats
liveforever - cant die
shapeshifter - can switch between ALL characters in the level
kangaroo - jump super high
go nuts, this game is mad fun, exploring the oddly huge, empty levels was eery at age 11
also the music is generally great and the gameplay is still excellent
I remember playing as the boss. It was weird after playing through such a difficult game.
What m super jump ? So that's how we supposed to get that shit on top of tower in the airport ?
nostalgia!! had to beat the game once to enable the cheats!
my god it reminds of jedi knight 2 for some reason (UI, movement, environments)
"Bartender? BARTENDER!?"
dezyLmedia “Never trust a bartender with bad grammar”
You and me both.
@@dezyLmedia "I'm not a Jedi, just a guy with a Lightsaber and some questions"
Except for, you know, JK2 being better in every way. lol
I mean, I don't want to shit on ONI at all, but thems the breaks.
This game was so radically unique when it came out. It was the only action fighting game in a 3D kinda world. If it would have just been fleshed out and finished it would have made a huge splash since nothing was even close to it at the time.
"Do nothing to block" is growing increasingly common in fighting games, because it's the logical conclusion of the idea that attacking leaves you open to counterattack.
ikr
It was also used in the Jedi Knight / Jedi Academy games, which don't feature a dedicated block button.
As an avid lover of both Oni and Jedi Outcast/Academy I'm perfectly fine with this. It's an unnecessary button unless you have directional blocking or a timed block mechanic (the latter I think is just cheap anyway)
@@Yorikoificationagreed, unless you have a parrying mechanic tied to the block, it's really a wasted button.
One of the best brawler in existence in my opinion
Bungie must remaster this game. With pretty graphics and redesign it can be a dope game
Hey Nooby, GodHand on ps2 is way freaking better!
Hey, i said "one of the best" not "THE best"
You may be 12 feet tall, but your eyes need a hell of a care
@@ORBrunner I agree, they should remaster this game.
@@12feettall6 Aaaaaaand that game needs a remaster as well.
@The NegroNinja when I say 'remake' I'm talking about like the Odin's
Spear remake. ( just for those who never played the original or the remake. Vanillaware kept the story the same, redid the battle system, added to the stages, etc.)
That “Schwacked!” Never fails to make me laugh.
Great review. I think you did the game justice and showed how awesome the fighting system is. One of the highlights of this game is actually the cheat code “shapeshifter” that lets you play as all the enemy characters like the ninjas with full unique move sets.
In my opinion, this is one of the best games to ever be created. The animations are amazing, the fighting's amazing, the combos are amazing, the guns are amazing, the textures in "Character retextures Mega Pack" are decent. The music is totally epic. I can't stop listening to the Main Theme. It's so good.
This is one of my favorite games, period.
i still play this game , a true classic , deserve a total reboot tho
as long as they don't dumb down the combat system...
Probably needs to be done by a Japanese dev. Most Western AAA gaming companies cannot be trusted to remake/reboot this faithfully.
Would be interested in a remaster for PS4, Steam, and Switch. Maybe even a nice physical copy too.
TheAnimationEz I wish I could play this again, played the crap out of this when it came out.
How?
>bungie's forgotten game
that's not minotaur
Pathways into darkness? Anyone?
Salokin Marathon
Salokin a dark souls of its time. So challenging
I've heard of all of these except minotaur.
@@einzelfeuer_2855 it never got finished
The main reason why people find Oni frustrating is because it's HARD
And it's hard not because of bad design, but because of finely crafted, souls-like combat mechanics that are difficult to master and have a sharp learning curve.
But once you got the hang of it you get that same feeling of accomplishment - you face formerly super difficult fights and turn them into a poetry of ass-kicking!
That's why Oni has a cult following!
The only thing frustating are the checkpoint and the fact that gun totally destroy you so you need to waste minutes
He complains about enemies hitting him and grabbing him. Wtf is this reviewer. Just dont show your back to them. Its not rocket science.
@@rawrharhar you can do anything agaisnt grabbings tho
The only way to dodge those is to simply spam the slide attack, which is imo the only way to win the game because I never got hit in melee but my life was always low thanks to all the ranged guns, tbh I dont even get how people manage to finish this game if they get hit in melee at all, in later levels there are like 4 medikit in the whole level and everyone carry a guns
The checkpoints for this game are horrible
Mate, you did not just say that this game had "Soulslike combat mechanics". Oni came out in 2001, 10 YEARS before Dark Souls 1. It does in no way have goddamn "soulslike" mechanics neither. All of you mofos need to seriously fuck off calling any melee combat game that is hard to have "soulslike" mechsnics
I loved this game. I still have the anniversary edition installed now. It was a fun challenge that gave rise to changing strategies to deal with certain enemies in different environments. Would love to see a remake of it on a more modern game engine that could effortlessly fix some of the problems like level design and enemy AI easily maknig it a near perfect game.
That "You lose!" voice and the arghhh noise he made when she suplexed him are terrible. LOL
😂😂😂😂💪
I wonder if that's Doug Zartman.
Yo, you didn't mention the cheat that lets you switch to any character in the level. And it gives you access to their moveset.
Lol nice
Back when I played the game that was the coolest feature of the game. My favorite level was the one where you fought the cyber ninja, because I liked playing as him. His move set was super fun to mess with.
@@Deadsnake989 Yeah, that cheat was so fun, it should be accessible from the main menu.
Bungie really went balls out and made separate movesets for every single enemy type, with unique punches, kicks, combos, grapples, disarms and supers.
And some of them easily overshadow Konoko's, like cyber ninja or Muro.
BackFromSpace That’s because this games was gonna have multiplayer but it got canned
Hell yeah, dude! That is *still* one of my favourite cheat codes of all time. It was so much fun experimenting with different move sets.
can't believe he didn't show off.....the dream level
Loved this game on the PC back in the day and had no idea it was by Bungie. A modern reimagining could be great as the combat was solid, fluid. Just fun. It's surprising we haven't had more games in this style as it works very well. Co-op would be great.
Only just found this channel a few days ago but I think I must have already watched over 4 hours of your stuff. Thank you for the nostalgia my dude.
"Has the hair color like someone who attends a speedrunning event".-GGGMANLIVES 2019
Cheeky remark there mate. Can't help but appreciate that joke there.
What a nostalgia trip. I used to play this gem on Mac a shit ton and I loved every second. One interesting note is that there were was to cheat and play as all of the npcs, which was awesome because they had almost complete movesets that you could play around with, I assume maybe there was some sort of multiplayer planned at some point since some of them seem almost designed to be used by a player.
This is the first game I played on pc. I was 6 years old then. Took me like 4 years to complete it. I love this game, brings back so many memories.
Obligatory to review the Marathon trilogy now, if you're into super dark cool scifi with heavy plot about rampant AIs and aliens, doet!
I remember when the first game came out and reviews mentioned that it gave them motion sickness, lol
The Marathon Trilogy is their best achievement for me.
I still remember the story to this day and it has stayed with me for years. The Marathon trilogy has one of the best stories i have ever experienced in an FPS game and has kept me guessing ever since i finished the games.
Durandal was a real bastard and I felt sad for Leela in the end, since you don't interact with her after the first game and you find out in Marathon 2, that she was left to rot in the Phor homeworld.
To put it in Durandal's words: "Poor Leela, she deserved better".
Erc0re is right, the Marathon trilogy deserves an episode. If it weren't for those games, Oni and Halo wouldn't exist since the Marathon games ended up putting Bungie on the map and making them famous.
I still remember that the manual of the first Marathon game had a message from Bungie on one of the pages, asking the users to not pirate the game, since a lot of work and effort had gone into creating it and that if they didn't get to make any money from it, they would shut their doors and no more games would be made.
@@RayGarraty1985 The conclusion to the Tycho Arc:
marathon.bungie.org/story/sphtkr.html#Fatum%20Iustum%20Stultorum
It portrays Durandal as such an awesome, evil genius.
@@logdog6762 Or rather, the conclusion of Marathon 2: Durandal.
These terminals are from Marathon 2. The Tycho arc doesn't begin until Marathon: Infinity, on the level "Rise Robot Rise", where the player finds himself captured by Tycho and working for him after the events of Marathon or Marathon 2, rather than working for Durandal, the AI that he was working for in Marathon 2.
Man...Marathon: Infinity is so confusing, it makes my head spin. There's a video on CZcams that explains the entire story of Marathon: Infinity. Look it up, grab the popcorn and be prepared to say "WTF??".😀
@@RayGarraty1985 It's been a few years I played the Marathon games, all I can remember is the rampant A.I.'s died and came back to life like members of a Dungeons and Dragons party.
FUN FACT: Larry Bundy Jr. AKA Guru Larry was responsible for the ingame character portraits.
When you mention Bungie, I think of Marathon & this game. Oni was the reason I wanted a PS2. I absolutely love thus flawed gem, it's one of my absolute favorites. The combat was sooo much fun, but god if it doesn't give your hands major, crippling, and permanently damaging cramps.
That would probably be the last place I'd expect to see Larry. Quite impressive.
VC Donovan except he has
Thanks for the shout out.
I helped work on the anniversary edition.
"get beaten like a western Sydney housewife"
Harsh!
Do the enemies really say "you lose" when they kill you? I find it hilarious lol
Yeah, that is a taunt from the game, not a sound effect added for the video.
Enemies have all sorts of taunts really, even their special attacks have names, like Cannonball or Lion Axe, that they yell out loud as they perform those moves!
The whole combat system is really like a homage to 80s and early 90s fighting animes
Yes they do. You can also taunt enemies. Konoko says stuff like "So fair..." and "You gonna' get beat by a girl!"
Other taunts are "How do you like that butt kicking" "She was weak..." and the most frustrating after they defeat you "Justice is DONE..."
NEUTRALIZED
"Beaten like a Western Sydney house wife." One of the wildest analogies EVER!!!
lazarus30001 i know nothing about Sydney really, so this analogy flew over my head. Am i assuming right, that western Sydney is the bad side of town?
@@jl.7739 I just liked how out of left field that analogy was. Not sure if West Sydney is that unpleasent, but I bet GmanLives knows ;-)
@@jl.7739 Bogan central mate
This was the first game I really got into, so it holds a special place in my heart. I had the opportunity to play the anniversary patch a while back, and the most hilarious parts are probably the sound assets that got reused in the Halo games.
Revolutionary for its time, first bungie game I ever played. You give commands to the NPCs, keeping them alive was my favorite part.
Oni is better Ghost in the Shell game than any offical GitS game,
Oni and Myth trilogy were awesome and forgotten. Wish they come back again on GOG and Steam.
Lot of devs had old forgotten gems because guess what - developers like video games from different genres and can make some good stuff.
Westwood is another good example of that.
I tried running myth on a x64 machine. I actually had to fill like 1024mb of my ram with some other processes for it to run. What a fucking nightmare.
@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 have you tried Magma patches? Games work like a charm on Win7 64bit
PCGaming wikia is the first place to come when you want to play old games
I prefer the PS1 GitS game over this but I doubt I would like that game much now.
@@civilwarfare101 Was there ever any PC one?
@@bogdanbogdanoff5164
The F2P multiplayer game was.
Oni was one of the first video games I remember ever playing, it's one of my favorites to this day and I play it every year.
You know, I bet the developers of Crackdown got ideas from this game. It's very similar, law enforcement protagonist fighting against criminals.
This was a nice little nostalgia trip. I wonder how many other games I've forgotten
Game looks fun. Should be remastered or remade. Imagine that toned ass in today's graphics :3
It wasn't fun. It "looked" fun, that's called hype. It was a massively hyped game, just completely sucked.
Don't listen to the haters. It's flawed as hell, but still worth playing. I'd love a next-gen reboot, but in the mean time a very active PC mod community continues to updated the game, fix problems and add content. Google "Oni Anniversary Edition"
@@michaelschwartz8730 But where can you get it on PC?
@@onigames7309 I lost my disc ages ago, but found it here. Since it's been out of print for so long, I'm pretty sure this is legal, but I'm not a lawyer:
www.myabandonware.com/game/oni-c5c
@@aussieexpat I still play it in 2020 and I still have fun my friend
You know despite this being a very anime styled game it looks incredibly nice for gameplay. I might actually try to get this.
You got something against anime my guy?
Take a look at Ghost in the Shell for PS1. It has completely different gameplay, but may fall into the same category for you.
@@izanamiisoverpowered6802 A man of culture I see
Is that something negative?
9:20 a way to beat the taser is, unintuitively, to be in a jump when you get into range or when it recharges. In that case you just fall to the ground instead of standing there dazed, which doesn't deal extra damage, leaves you less vulnerable than standing, and you snap out of it faster.
Wow, I can't believe I remember all those levels! I was 16. Nostalgic
I had tonnes of fun with this game back in the day. On pc, you could use cheats to shift into any character you like, and could use ALL their moves as well, which was pretty spectacular as it greatly increased the replayability and allowed you to discover moves and finishers you normally never encounter in the game. You could even shift into bosses like Barbarass, the Ninja and the antagonist (forgot his name)
I wonder why they don't make these 3rd person adventure shooters/brawlers anymore like Oni, Bloodrayne, Matrix...
Texelion 3D prints i think this Genre was taken over by open world third person action adventures. Mad max, Spider-Man, horizon zero dawn etc. I would love to see a new oni game with refined combat
@@jl.7739 I guess Insomniac's Spider-Man could fit the bill if you gave him a gun.
Jedi Knight is another one. I miss it when western dev made their own combat that was copying off Arkham.
David Lopez he doesn’t have a gun but all the gadgets kind of substitute guns. “Shoot at enemies to neutralize them” but I get what you mean, he doesn’t kill.
uhh and what the hell is the Shadow of Mordor, whole Batman Arkham series, Remember Me, Darksiders series ...
there are plenty of 3rd person melee combat focused games
I loved this game as a ten year old-ish kid, it got real dark and trippy around half-way point. Also remember being stuck on certain parts for weeks because I couldn't figure out basic moves as a non-english speaking kid such as double running (yes, sometimes would struggle even in the tutorial but after that it was smooth sailing).
Wow. This takes me back. I thought my brother and I were the only people who played this.
I remember when this game was originally revealed. The main selling point was inverse kinematics.
she is NOT an android. she is actually an -SPOILER- which is something I haven't seen since in a game
Fun Fact: Konoko’s original concept art mock-up by Alex Okita (as well as the pre-rendered E3 1998 trailer) featured her w/ telltale “SLD markings” that are also seen on Shinatama, an actual android. (Interestingly, Konoko’s VA, Amanda Winn-Lee, was also the English VA for Alita/Gally in the 1993 Battle Angel OVA, which was probably why Bungie chose her to voice their character.)
She is a WHAT!?! M8
she is a...…… -comment has been redacted for attempted SPOILER, we apologies for the inconvenience- this has been a public service announcement
@@DpNemo that's it, i'm hacking the database.
its your funeral. but I really recommend you to play the game. its good
Loved this game on my ps2. I loved the fact that there was a code that let you play as all the enimies in the game. Their trick to figuring out how to do their moves was simple. Just do all konokos moves and you would figure them out. Man that was, fun back in the day.
The only store in my Town had an Oni poster up behind the counter, from the day It opened since last year, when the Activity whent out of business, i literally grow up in that shop, from 10 yo to 33, becoming good friend with the owner, now, every time i Walk by i see the inside of that empty room, and Still the Oni poster folded in half against the shelves.
Had this on an old demo. Never could find it here in Belgium back in the day. Never played it apart from the demo. I should give it a go finally roflmao
You've got plenty of games from Larian and the best beer in the world tho 😏
“Most of the world is inhabitable.”
“Great, no problems!”
This game NEEDS a reboot with next gen graphics. Most fun I've had as a kid in a vid game.
The chrysalis part where she fell into the acid and all her external parts were replaced by the chrysalis was a fan favourite. Fuck this game was also challenging at times as well.
EDIT: A few years later we received the holy grail of PS2 games - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a true triumph. If you don't agree, then fuck your couch.
GITS:SAC on PS2 rocks!
you can play as other NPCs in the game and they all have their own unique combos and moves.
This was a great game. I remember this as well.
This game was waaaay ahead of its time, I played it a a couple of years back and it still holds up quite well just from a gameplay aspect.
For the time, those animations are really, really good. Hell, they're pretty damn good by modern standards. Just look at the way the movement animations transition so smoothly - there are plenty of big budget modern games who don't manage this.
For a second I was afraid we won't get a mom joke. We did so I have to leave a like.
By the way in 2022 there is still has active modding community.
It has unrivalled combat system with minimum required keys. (crouch, jump, left and right clicks, shift and wsad)
Only things missing in combat system is escape from graps and active block/parry system. But this can be countered by marvelous evade system.
“Taking on one or two guys at once is fine, but after that it becomes a bit of a mess.” Really was expecting to get a SCHWACKED here
So glad someone else mentioned Marathon!
1:20 - Actually the Marketing stuff is a result of Bungie dressing the character up and the Publisher making the character naked. If I recall.
And the game itself was inspired by 1995's Ghost in the Shell far more than just general anime.
2:00 - *She's not.. an Android.*
And Kusanagi isn't an Android either but that's a more philosophical discussion.
But in short, Kusanagi is a Cyborg and Konoko is ( *SPOILER* ) spliced.
7:12 - I love the Airport Theme that starts with the slings and then goes forward.
I like the soundtrack. Plenty of good songs.
7:49 - Just stand still. It's simple as fmuck.
8:40 - I never had any problems with the combos. It's what made the game fun.
But I will agree that the special moves like Double Spinning Kick had a finnicky timing.
9:25 - You didn't react fast enough. You should had slid.
9:40 - Again, double spinning kick clears all enemies in your vicinity.
Aside from that. You can pick in 8 different directions. You have enough moves.
9:54 - That's a lie or just plain wrong. I've run past enemies and I've seen others do it as well.
10:20 - I think that's incorrect. Healing and Ammo carries over but not weapons. If I recall.
I could be wrong though but I certainly remember it doing so.
11:00 - I love the level design. Wtf are you talking about?
Not everything needs to be a tight maze of convoluted shit.
11:56 - As far as I am concerned. It's no different than compared to the good ol' days when we collected keys.
Except Keys were far more annoying since they could be hidden away in some bullshit secret wall or something.
14:06 - I think it's amazing. I think it's fantastic and extremely responsive for the most part.
With good music, good level design, and a lot of entertainment for the hours you'll spend with it.
Final - Overall I found this review to be rather disappointing but it's what I expected by now.
As well as things just being blatantly wrong - She's not an Android.
You are kinda going weeb my dude.
loved oni back at the time, one of my most replayed games XD at the end i managed to do the game completely without suffering a single hit, beside from endboss, he was cheatin!
ps konoko is not an android, she was a human improved with a symbiont named daodan crysalis....the last boss was same.
I requested review of this game back when you had next to no subscribers and it's finally here - thanks :)
I remember hearing about this game when it was in development for the MAC! I remember an issue of MacAddict magazine with Oni on the front, but I forget if they included a demo on the disc that month or if it was just a written preview. I remember Halo was originally planned as a Mac game too.
If you ask me it should've got remade or a sequel, the game looks very interesting and the gameplay got potential if they tweaked it a bit more. I don't think it's a good idea to completely abandon it but what can you do.
I played the shit out of this on PC, even though I was just starting to come out of my weeb phase in 2001. I kept coming back to it for the melee-focused combat, at least until Sleeping Dogs came along
The combat was awesome!!!
Never played the full game, but i remember trying Oni in a game shop in Jyväskylä in 2001. Kinda miss going to game stores to try out games...
FIRST GAME I EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE. I still remember as a child who did not even know how to use a computer back then I played this game. What I did was press anything on the keyboard and move around and then I was stuck how to open the tutorial door. I proceeded to run my hand through the keyboard until I got the keybind to use the door to open it. I ran back down to my family screaming in joy like I had achieved a great thing in my life. Halo was also my first FPS game also on PC. My uncle bought PC games on pirate for his PC and let me play on it after he was done as I did not even know how to turn on the PC on my own.
Maybe when the time is right, bungie might actually remake or make a sequel for this game, especially when Bungie is on the road of redemption.
I don't think Bungie holds the rights to ONI anymore.
I think Rockstar owns the rights to _Oni_ or at least used to. They were afterall going to make a sequel back in the day.
Enter the Matrix is a bad example. A better comparison would be Dead to Rights.
WHat's bad about it
MightySavagE
It didn’t perfect the blend of martial arts, disarms and gunplay like Dead to Rights did. And Dead to Rights is just a better example overall. Plays more like Oni.
@The NegroNinja EtM and PoN are very much alike - you're just more powerful in PoN. Saying EtM is 'bad" example is just ridiculous (because there is that one series that is bit more alike!)
MightySavagE
It just is. He probably hasn’t played Dead to Rights so I don’t fault him for saying that, just pointing it out. Enter the Matrix is very rubbery and loose. Oni is a tighter game like DtR.
@@Kullen64 its still based on third person shooting and hand to hand combat
Oni was hands down one of my favorite games growing up. I'd like a remake but I don't trust devs at this point.
I always just have this game on my PC sitting around, I find it's great for a 10-minute stress relief now and then.
Rockstar owns this IP and it's in desperate need of a new game. If they still had a sense of humor they could easily make a good anime parody game out of it.
Pls no. We all need a new decent GitS game WITHOUT humor.
My first love story, whilst I was 10 years old.
The backbreaker was my favorite. Also loved to jump and roll midair to stomp on downed enemies. I still think of the combat mechanics of this game to this day. What a fantastic game. And when you could pull off the hammer heel kick (punch punch kick) it was SO satisfying!
Oh man. I played the heck out of this on Mac OS. Great game.
YES THAT WAS IT HILY SHIT I FOUND IT IVE PLAYED IT FINALLY
Yes yes oni thanku. I was dying for this thank you. (And I was screaming)