With a remaster of Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Future having been introduced final week, and Onimusha: Method of the Sword on the horizon, the long run is stuffed with pleasure for followers of the traditional Capcom collection. There’s nonetheless a niche within the fanbase’s coronary heart, nonetheless. The folks need an Onimusha 3: Demon Siege remaster too, in addition to Jean Reno’s return to the world of video video games.
Effectively it seems, Mr Reno is recreation as nicely! I reached out to Jean Reno by way of his agent following the Onimusha 2 remaster announcement to ask whether or not or not he’d be eager to return to reprise his position if an Onimusha 3 remaster had been within the playing cards.
Mentioned agent replied, telling me: “In fact, Jean could be happy to reprise his position in Onimusha 3.” For these unaware, Jean Reno (identified for his roles in movies resembling Leon the Skilled, The Huge Blue, and naturally Flushed Away) performed the pivotal position of Jacques Blanc, who swaps locations in time with the collection protagonist Samanosuke Akechi. This, briefly, sends Jean Reno again to Feudal Japan for all method of motion recreation goodness. It is sensible.
Reno’s willingness to reprise his position is fantastic information, and would proceed the temporary historical past of Onimusha voice actors returning for remastered variations. When the Onimusha: Warlords remaster was launched again in 2018, the unique mannequin and voice for Samanosuke, Takeshi Kaneshiro, got here again to re-record his strains. Onimusha has a stunning legacy of utilizing actors to voice and mannequin essential characters, which is why Reno was introduced in to document strains for Onimusha 3 all the best way again within the early 2000s.
It is also a surefire solution to maintain followers of the unique comfortable. Take the Useless Rising Remake, which whereas nice, postpone a portion of the fan base as a result of its recasting of each character. There are some good performances in there, certain, however followers of the unique are at all times going to have a smooth spot for the OG voices. As for Onimusha 3, Reno lent his voice and his face, so it might be a bit odd to not carry him again all issues thought-about.
Now, the world (together with Jean Reno) could have to attend some time for this to truly occur. There will be round a few seven 12 months hole between the discharge date of the Onimusha 1 remaster and the nonetheless pending 2025 launch date for Onimusha 2’s new look. Here is hoping that with Method of the Sword coming and quite a lot of noise being made in regards to the collection proper now, it will not take lengthy to get Onimusha 3 again in our palms.
The folks need it. Jean Reno desires it. The ball’s in your courtroom, Capcom!
