Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Is Onimusha Coming Back?

Looks like someone has spotted Capcom getting itself a new trademark for Onimusha and it doesn't appear to be the usual trademark renewal that companies use to protect their IPs. With this it looks likely that Capcom wants to do something with the samurai franchise.

This just leaves me wondering what it might be. As much as I want to believe that it'll be something in the same vein as the other games in the series, it's hard not to get cynical and assume that we'll wind up with an Onimusha pachinko machine or mobile game.

Capcom already got our hopes up once when word got out that a new Breath of Fire was in the works, only for people to have their hopes dashed when they found out that it was a very generic mobile game.

So, as much as I really would like to be excited, for now I'll temper it with a cold dose of reality and assume that it's just one more series that I really enjoyed in the past that will likely get mutilated into some sort of money grab based on a reasonably popular franchise. That being said, I certainly wouldn't complain if I was proven wrong here.