Where the Hell is Onimusha?
The Onimusha series was born out of an accident, and before you joke about how most of us are born that way, allow me to explain. When creating the 2D backgrounds for future Resident Evil games back in the PS1 era, Shinji Mikami (the director of the RE series) experimented with designing Japanese mansions as opposed to the Western Mansions featured in the game. The result was excellent, but the idea was scrapped because it didn't fit in with the series's lore. However, these 2D images inspired the creation of a Sengoku (Japan's warring states period, 1500-1615) Resident Evil by Yoshiki Okamoto. Seeing promise in the idea, Keiji Inafune OKed the development of the game for the PS1. Being in the Sengoku era, the game borrowed a lot from established Japanese mythology about the first conqueror of Japan, Nobunaga Oda, also known as the demon king. Based on that, Onimusha was designed as an alternate history take, where Oda really does command an army of demons (Oni in Japa...