Oni: The Other Bungie Game - Critical Nobody 

You should do a playthrough and review for The Legend of Dragoon for Ps1. It's a 4 disk long, 40 hour minimum game, with great story, great and painted levels, and incredible music. You can pick it up on the Playstation Store on PS3.

It's definitely long been among Bungie's older titles I've been meaning to visit along with Marathon (There's also their RTS series Myth made & released prior to Bungie West's Oni, but RTS has never been my thing, though the earliest prototype for Halo was in-fact an RTS that was "Myth, but Sci-Fi"). For all of the attempts at adapting Ghost in the Shell for video games go, Oni may be one of the best examples of one alongside source-mod NEOTOKYO° (Binary Domain perhaps another). The combat definitely remains the most appealing aspect, and with the music composed by Martin O'Donnell & Michael Salvatori (The very same two that composed Myth then Halo & onward) as TotalAudio along with the group Power of Seven, it definitely holds my interest in that respect. And as far as games attempting the anime-aesthetic prior to Jet Set Radio's Cel-Shading techniques go, Oni's characters certainly hold up nicely today (Bungie even has a tidbit on exchanges between Lorraine McLees, a senior artist for Bungie & the Bungie West team on Konoko's character design at the time: halo.bungie.net/inside/history.aspx?link=oni ), especially compared to Monolith's LithTech shooter Shogo: Mobile Armoured Division (A delightful oddity, that one). But this has definitely been the first I've heard about the cheat codes for the game. I do indeed miss having those in games these days (Having a dev-command guide-sized list of cheat codes for the older Grand Theft Auto games was made them so much fun for me). But as far as I know, for all of the references to Marathon Halo makes and the 'The Siege of Madrigal' track from Myth that was always placed in secret across the series (Even as an unlisted track in Halo: Combat Evolved's soundtrack CD release, which my copy has), the only reference to Oni I know of is the game's Office of Naval Intelligence (The acronym obviously; O.N.I.).

PSA: "Fruits Basket" currently has a remake airing with the original English voice actors and it will cover the whole story, much like "Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood".

The music part of it was fine in my opinion. Because they were stingy on the music probably in the same way dark souls did. To give those moments when you DO hear it more impactful. My favorite weapon is the plasma rifle. Hands down, because it has splash damage, can be used at multiple ranges including close (if your careful and don't accidentally damage yourself with the splash damage) Also, fire based weapon. Because why not?

Man you don't even KNOWWW THIS GAME IS MY FAVOURITE I have played it in 2002 and still visit it once in a while. It if very fun and I wish for a remaster soon. If you didn't try this game you missed a lot

I wish there were more good hand to hand combat multiplayer games. While it’s not the same for honor has a ton of potential but is way too niche

@@insertnamehere3363 I love that game and simultaneously despite it

There was a time where there was at least one multiplayer head to head fighting mod(if not more than one) with additional playable characters and the community to play such mod or mods had a decent number of people in it(never messed with it myself, but I found out about it looking up stuff about the game back in the day). Not sure of the current status, though.

Flatline is a morbidly hilarious name. I did love this game as a kid even if the janky level design was a bit counterintuitive and not lit well enough for me to see past my own feet in some levels. But the character select cheat and a touch of invincibility led to so much replay value that points toward something that could have been legendary, if Bungie were allowed the time to let it cook. I bought this game on a whim as a preteen, and I'll tell ya, I got much more mileage out of this than Shaman King, which I got on the same day. I beat the latter in like, 3 hours. Oh dear lord was that GARBAJJJJJ. I'm still salty that the cover art was a blatant lie as you can neither dual weild nor use a shotgun or AK-47 in the game at all, but sure, I guess at the end of the day I could cope. I could only play so much Budokai and Ultimate Ninja for my dose of video game weeb shit

I think, if Oni get a remaster with 2020's tecnology, It could make game complete with multiplayer, maps... Really, It would be like Cyberpunk game, as it propose.

VelvetEagleI That made me cringe when he said he didn’t like them. I don’t think he gets how beautiful the art is right off the bat.

Felt like a deliberately provocative statement. I'm sure there's plenty of stuff he likes that everyone else considers boring, though.

PorkPieDodger it was kinda like a hey you make fun of my stuff let me poke fun at your precious anime

@@greenhowie Oh no! Someone has a different opinion from me! Get over yourselves.

@@Fazer_600Thanks, that comment single-handedly changed human nature and now we live in a utopia.

Fear Effect is a cult classic among fans

@@quymoto that statement applies to anything that has fans

It was good times, they tried to do it respectfully and with passion for the original anime source materials. Today? I wouldn't trust most Western gaming companies with Japanese stuff. Too much greed, laziness, and political baloney now.

@ghost "that statement applies to anything that has fans" Are you trying to downplay the definition of a cult classic? Anyway, Oni's fandom has been pretty loud if small. Can't say the same for Gekido.

@@bzchoy Downplay what? Saying that fans of game X like game X has to be the most pointless statement ever. Of course its own fans like it.

It doesn't give you enough Hypo to heal yourself with, as in you don't get any at all. No leath stations like in Marathon ether. You are expected to beat the game and trying to find these Hypo gels to heal Konoko as she is being beaten to death by everyone, are you mad?!?!

its completely unneccessary as you get better with the game's mechanics. If you simply use the overheal the first chance you get, you'll stay overhealed with hypos to spare in most of the levels without needing to use them for healing at all@@ChaseMC215

Same. That game was awesome.

My man. Closest we got to a Black Company game.

Great set of games.

Haha man those molotov cocktails were reckless. I loved those dwarves more than I have any right to.

I remember Myth: The Fallen Lords for the GURPS adaption: "Callous Near sighted dwarves with hand grenades".

LOL! Yaaa! I first got introduced to that show back when I was 14. . . I'm 30 now 😅. But Ya, What maybe know as Detective Conan is called "Case Closed"... At least here in the USA where I'm from.

Sweet profile pic. Medabots were epic!

Probably to avoid problem with Detective Comic (DC)

IIRC it's because of an issue regarding the trademark. Apparently another company has a trademark on using "Conan" for media here in the States, and I believe it's related either to Conan the Barbarian or the late night talk show host Conan O'Brien. Because of that the US distributor of the series called it "Case Closed" since it still fit the show's genre of being a detective series. Amusingly the aforementioned Conan O'Brien became aware of the series when he visited Japan a while back and even visited the theme park attractions associated with it at Universal Studios Japan.

We still call it "Detective Conan" in the States, but yeah, officially it's known as "Case Closed".

One of those weird games in my older brothers old binder- cd case that i saw while looking for Spyro. So glad i tried it lol. And Smugglers Run!! Oh man what a fun game! That would be a great remake. The multiplayer was always intense

I'd say I'm low-mid tier at best, but thanks for the compliment.

They expect you to unlock these moves? Performing them is already a pain since it's 3D, this ain't Mortal Kombat, guys!!

@@ChaseMC215 Tekken is 3D...

​​@@Vulgarth1 Except you have a move list and a practice mode. Oni does not have a practice mode, they don't even show you how the moves are done in the tutorial mission

@@ChaseMC215 The manual did, and the practise stage is any level.

im still a nerd without anime and magic the gathering :D

..he didn't mention Ninja Scroll (not the BS 'Resurrection' sequel), Black Lagoon, Planetes or Oedo 808 Cyberpolice...

GOG tried to revive this game, but there are legal issues (rights are split between multiple parties).

Myth 2 had that nasty uninstall bug that wipes the C drive though. That nearly bankrupted Bungie because they had to recall the game and resell the game with the patched version. Thank god Microsoft saved them, but at what cost?

Or maybe he shouldn't judge a movie based on what it's not. GitS isn't an action romp, and I don't think it's fair on the show if you go into it with such a closed-minded viewpoint when its focus lies elsewhere. You don't play Banjo Kazooie expecting a tough-as-nails linear platformer, do you? So why would you do the same to a film or series that's centered around political intrigue, existentialism and sociatal problems in a cyberpunk setting? It's his own fault for getting flack for that, and anyone consuming any film of their own volition should judge the film for what it is and how well or poorly it achieves that, instead of making assumptions about what film it is with next to no research, then bitching about it after the fact. If we're going by that logic, then Metal Gear Rising sucks because its story isn't serious enough, ignoring all other qualities that game has because I wanted a good story damn it.

@@NintendanGX hey man, you may have heard a whooshing as you were typing this post. That was the reference going over your head. All I'm saying is that we all need to respect each other's different tastes in Media. Ironically if you disassemble the strawman you've built around me, we're saying the same thing. Not everyone is going to like what you like and that's okay habibi.

@@NintendanGX I think he should be crucified for calling Akira boring, but even I think your comment is fucking insane.

Bungie West was the California-based developer behind Oni, with Rockstar Canada (Now Rockstar Toronto) porting it to PlayStation 2 (Bungie was working on the Myth games, then the earlier versions of Halo). After Microsoft bought Bungie in late 2000, Bungie West was folded into Bungie Studios back in Chicago with the relocated staff helping with Halo: Combat Evolved. Here's a little summary from Bungie themselves (Even with a back & forth between Lorraine McLees, long-time artist for Bungie, and the Bungie West team on Konoko's character design): halo.bungie.net/inside/history.aspx?link=oni Angel Studios was working on Oni 2, but then were acquired by Rockstar Games to become Rockstar San Diego (With information to suggest Angel's AGE engine used for the game was what Rockstar sought after and it playing a large part in becoming the RAGE engine that powered Grand Theft Auto IV & beyond).

@@Bizargh oh alright.

Which saved Bungie? Halo did with some help from Microsoft. Bungie was about to go bankrupt due to them having to recall a version of Myth 2 that contained the uninstall bug that causes the uninstaller to delete the C drive, they had to sell a new version with the bug patched out, and that was way too much, they were losing money because of them desperately fixing the bug.

There was oni 2 but got canceled

@@thebulldozer7318 It was going to be developed by Angel Studios (now known commonly as Rockstar San Diego). And Bungie can'g make oni 2 because thry sold tbe rights to Take Two of all companies.

ahahah same here!! :D

what a shame.