Coinop arcade mentality.
Western distributors assumed you would be renting instead of buying. Games were made harder so you would have to keep renting or buy it to beat it.
Capcom did this a lot in the early 2000s, actually >DMC1 was made harder in the US, as well as having the controls changed for the Western localisations (triangle was made to be the jump button). The HD Collection used the Japanese version of 1 as a basis, leading fans to find the game far easier. >Chaos Legion was released with the difficulty ramped up in the west, Japan got that version under the title of Chaos Legion International >Mega Man X7 had the US version, and only the US version, increase the amount of damage every boss took in the game by double, making it even more of a tedious slog >DMC3's US release speaks for itself.
Localizers used to do this constantly - tamper with gameplay and make things harder. In some cases they broke games. Working Designs made one of their pc engine cd games so hard in the USA you literally can't finish it coz they gave a boss too much HP or something.
they knew westoids only play the first 30 minutes of any new game before dropping it and watching the rest on youtube, so it doesn't really matter
I don't remember this game being especially difficult and I played it when I was like 14 and dumb as frick.
i beat this shit when i was like 14 in the US. none of these games are hard
is onimusha even worth it after the 2nd game
Onimusha 3 is pretty great although I like 2 and 1 better
Have they wrongly named the hard difficulty as normal yet again?
it was the opposite for me. jap version was too easy, so I went back to the ntsc version. Only issue with this game is the grind
Coinop arcade mentality.
Western distributors assumed you would be renting instead of buying. Games were made harder so you would have to keep renting or buy it to beat it.
>blonde-haired blue-eyed samurai
Uuhhhh is that just part of his oni lineage or something?
yes. Claudius' Memo you pick up in the final chapter mentions it.
Thought that would be the case. I remember Junpei having heterochromia too.
Presumably yes, since there's the actual Spaniard in the party as well who utterly mogs all the puny japanlets.
Portuguese, actually. My mistake.
like there's a difference
I just didnt like it. Felt like it had stepped too far from what I really enjoyed about Onimusha which it had arguably been doing since 3 or even 2.
Capcom did this a lot in the early 2000s, actually
>DMC1 was made harder in the US, as well as having the controls changed for the Western localisations (triangle was made to be the jump button). The HD Collection used the Japanese version of 1 as a basis, leading fans to find the game far easier.
>Chaos Legion was released with the difficulty ramped up in the west, Japan got that version under the title of Chaos Legion International
>Mega Man X7 had the US version, and only the US version, increase the amount of damage every boss took in the game by double, making it even more of a tedious slog
>DMC3's US release speaks for itself.
Localizers used to do this constantly - tamper with gameplay and make things harder. In some cases they broke games. Working Designs made one of their pc engine cd games so hard in the USA you literally can't finish it coz they gave a boss too much HP or something.
Wait what, in what way is it harder than the Japanese version? Oni difficulty?
enemies have far more HP and you need you grind a lot
>they will never rerelease onimusha 2/3 because they don't have the image rights of jean reno and the oni 2 guy anymore
Just get the PS2 version. I think 4 is the most expensive and it's only like $40.