{
  "id": 5369620,
  "title": "Onimusha: Way of the Sword is best when it's silly, and despite some gloomy open world slogging, sometimes even remembers it",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-is-best-when-its-silly-and-despite-some",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-03T17:00:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-is-best-when-its-silly-and-despite-some-gloomy-open-world-slogging-sometimes-even-remembers-it"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The opening minutes of Onimusha: Way of the Sword are glorious, in the sense that they’re utterly shambolic. Wandering ronin Musashi wakes up under a bridge, belts a wrong-footingly British \"WOT?!\" at some starving urchins eyeing up his rice ball, then proceeds to be chased around a muddy village by what feels like two thousand martial arts students, only occasionally stopping to boot a wooden…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "Onimusha: Way of the Sword has a hard mode, but it isn't unlocked from the start",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-has-a-hard-mode-but-it-isnt-unlocked-from",
        "published": "2026-09-03T12:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Polygon",
        "title": "How to break malice barriers in Onimusha Way of the Sword",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/how-to-break-malice-barriers-in-onimusha-way-of-the-sword",
        "published": "2026-09-03T12:01:14.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}