I'm no video game expert but Oni reaches new levels in addictive for me, it's one of those games you just dont get sick of. You simply love every morsel. The story is a mish-mash of the Star Wars series and Highlander but it is that cle she of agression, revenge and betrayal on a family backdrop that makes it something to love doing over and over again. The game is hardly daunting to progress through, you can pretty much leisurely spin kick your way by through some killer action sequences, be prepared for a 'more of the same' finish that is nevertheless the most gripping chapter.
Oni is basically the story of TCTF agent Konoko who in investigating certain companies starts to unearth some illegal technology. While pursuing such she is confronted by an ultra-cool looking crime boss named Muro and his syndicate. As Konoko starts to pick up details of the case her own past also starts to surface and things start to point to fowl play on the part of her boss Griffin. She begins to discover that she is in fact much superior in combat potential to any but one other person. Outlawed by the TCTF she endeavours to search for answers about her past and Muros alone through constant confrontations. Featured bad guys include first Barabys, a yellow suited half-robot who in head and shoulders looks dead set like the de-helmeted Darth Vader, and aside from your doppleganger and your former boss, a Black Ninja which acts like Darth Maul, sounds like Darth Vader and looks like a cross between the two. He is in fact the games most formidable adversary, beating him requires a good bit of practise.
As for the troops littering the game through and through, there is first some military looking guys in kaki atire and some red and silver equivalents. Each character also has his own troop clone (not literally 'clone' in the story). Barabys has these ogre-like deep voiced assaulants in two different colour atires, Konoko constantly comes across red and blue suited chicks that look like her including a boss that is identical, and the black ninja has these speed kicking elusives in two different colours, all these similarities are probably to save in the programming. Players will enjoy a dream sequence serving as an early precursor to the climax, in much the same way Luke was confronted by Darth Vader in a sub-real experience before fighting him later on in pursuing his quest to reach fulfillment, every time Konoko takes out a bad guy, Barabys, the Black Ninja and Muro she has a power-up from a special gem inside her.
As you play through the game you add to a chapter log in order to re-visit any of dozens of the particular parts of the game. There is usually four save points to a chapter and each time you reach a save point the game is automatically saved with whatever changes in health, ammo or weapon have been made. The fun of this game the sheer brilliance of the fight scenes, a 3D take on the classic punch-em-up walk throughs that were so plentifull in thier day. Of course no one can be told how the full fun of Oni is.......you have to experience it for yourself.
19/10
