Onimusha: Way of the Sword Review
Onimusha is a game series I never really engaged with, probably because by the time I got a PlayStation 2 in 2008 they hadn’t had a new game release in two years. Well they haven’t had a new/notable game release since either, until this year with the new Onimusha: Way of the Sword, which joins the ever crowded 2026 fall release schedule of parry-based action adventure titles. As such I will be reviewing Way of the Sword more as a fan of those sorts of games rather than comparing it to the Onimusha games that came before, just as a warning. So yes, Way of the Sword is yet another game where the combat is focused around parry attacks and depleting the stamina of your opponents. These have been all the rage and/or a plague on the game industry since the Batman Arkham and Nioh franchises popularized it and, in…