Shortly after showcasing Onimusha: Manner of the Sword at Gamescom 2025 earlier this month, Capcom has now launched a video giving us a take a look at the total demo of the title that was playable on the present flooring. The video, which you’ll try beneath, is available in at slightly below ten minutes, and incorporates a good mixture of motion, exploration, and fight, earlier than capping issues off with an epic boss struggle.
Whereas beginning issues off easy, the video reveals off gameplay getting a bit extra difficult when protagonist Musashi Miyamoto has to face off in opposition to common enemies in addition to ranged ones. By means of these encounters, the video additionally reveals off cool defensive strikes that gamers can pull off, like deflecting incoming arrows that may be returned to the enemy that fired at you to start with.
Different defensive choices are additionally showcased, together with the Issen counter, which might seemingly be used to deal an enormous quantity of harm to common enemies. Together with this, if gamers time their blocks and parries excellent, they’ll fend off assaults coming from nearly any course. A number of the different gameplay mechanics proven off embody the Oni Armament, which permits Musashi to twin wield blades to rapidly dispatch weaker foes.
Nearly each single side of gameplay is then put to the check when Musashi has to face off in opposition to the boss – Sasaki Ganryu – who acts as a rival character to Musashi. Very similar to Musashi, Sasaki also can make use of a mix of assorted melee assaults together with skills from his Oni Gauntlet. Because the boss struggle progresses, at one level, Musashi will get the prospect to focus on a particular weak level which can then impact how the remainder of the struggle performs out.
This was the identical demo that was described with a gameplay preview by the PlayStation Weblog earlier this month. Within the weblog, we received to examine how numerous in-game controls work, together with gentle assaults, heavy assaults, blocks, parries, and Issen counters.
Whereas the present flooring at Gamescom 2025 received to spend a while hands-on time with Onimusha: Manner of the Sword with this demo, Capcom had additionally launched a trailer through the occasion’s Opening Night time Stay present. The trailer centered on the completely different Genma that gamers should tackle all through the sport’s story. We additionally received to see a number of the greater challenges that Musashi must tackle, just like the legendary Yokai Nue, who can rain lightning down on the participant.
This demo additionally showcases the truth that Onimusha: Manner of the Sword won’t function an open world – a reality which was confirmed by director Satoru Nihei again in June. He additionally spoke about how Capcom was centered on offering a enjoyable expertise for gamers relatively than making the sport overly troublesome.
Onimusha: Manner of the Sword is in improvement for PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S, and is slated for launch a while in 2026. Within the meantime, learn concerning the trials and tribulations that Capcom confronted in its makes an attempt to get likeness rights for protagonist Musashi Miyamoto.
