Oni

Certainly, I did not think I would ever write a comment to a video game on IMDb, but this one has really gotten me amazed. It is an impressive futuristic anime that can be played through. An active anime, so to say.

Even now, in 2007, I am playing it with pleasure and don't need any 2007 highly sophisticated PC action title (that will require "Geforce 9" or whatever to run properly, I guess).

What I like about this game is beautiful simplicity. Everything is to the point. Every weapon is useful. Every character is neat. Every outfit is cool. Every fighting move is groovy. Every gadget is slick. Every animation sequence is great. Every landscape is "cyberpunky". And every piece of music is catchy. It's a kind of game that will look good no matter how many years pass. Quality at its best.

Even some minor graphics drawbacks (the enemies' dead bodies that occasionally get through the walls and sometimes tend to disappear, the info consoles which look too microscopic when high resolution is chosen, and occasional flickering that happens in certain places of the environment) cannot spoil the overall brilliance.

I don't know if the English version of this game is cool, but the Russian-speaking localization is ultra-cool with perfect voice selection and incredibly funny taunts all through the game.

It's very sad that another version of this game never appeared (with mature audience material). I would surely play both versions then.

10 out of 10. Thank you for attention.