Onimusha(TM) 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Dan Birlew (Author)

Book Description

Series: Signature (Brady) | Publication Date: August 6, 2002

BradyGames' Onimusha 2: Warlords Official Strategy Guide provides an exhaustive walkthrough, with beautifully rendered maps that cover every aspect of the adventure. The comprehensive Scenario Route Chart will help gamers complete the entire game, while game secrets will allow them to unlock bonus costumes and the mystery behind the Puzzle Phantom Realm. In addition, gamers will successfully finish the sub-characters' side quests, with complete coverage of Kotaro, Magoichi, and Ekei's quests. All details are revealed on the Man in Black mini-game, while in-depth coverage of the Gift Exchange feature provides methods for item trading and alliances.

This Signature Series guide features a special cover treatment, a Team Oni tear-out booklet and exclusive Onimusha 2 wall scroll--all in one, an interview with the game's director, Keiji Inafune, and more!

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BradyGames' Onimusha 2: Warlords Official Strategy Guide provides an exhaustive walkthrough, with beautifully rendered maps that cover every aspect of the adventure. The comprehensive Scenario Route Chart will help gamers complete the entire game, while game secrets will allow them to unlock bonus costumes and the mystery behind the Puzzle Phantom Realm. In addition, gamers will successfully finish the sub-characters' side quests, with complete coverage of Kotaro, Magoichi, and Ekei's quests. All details are revealed on the Man in Black mini-game, while in-depth coverage of the Gift Exchange feature provides methods for item trading and alliances.

This Signature Series guide features a special cover treatment, a Team Oni tear-out booklet and exclusive Onimusha 2 wall scroll--all in one, an interview with the game's director, Keiji Inafune, and more!

About the Author

Capcom Entertainment, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capcom, Co., Ltd. of Japan. A leading force in the multi-billion dollar interactive entertainment industry, Capcom's legacy spans 22 years of entertaining video gamers. Capcom develops, markets, and distributes home video games for the PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo 64 game consoles, Game Boy Systems, personal computers, and coin-operated games. Worldwide recognizable product lines include the Street Fighter, Mega Man, Breath of Fire, and the Resident Evil series. World headquarters in Osaka, Japan, the company also has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Sunnyvale, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Brady Games; 1st edition (August 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744001633
• ISBN-13: 978-0744001631
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #648,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dan Birlew is an author and video game expert who has been writing official, published video game strategy guides since 1999. His original career goals included acting and directing. Video games always excited Dan since he was seven years old, but at the age of twenty-six he began honing his playing skills with the goal of becoming an expert gamer. He enjoyed publishing online documents regarding games, known as "FAQs". Dan inadvertently created an online persona for himself when he wrote and self-published on the Internet a plot analysis of the highly popular survival horror video game, Silent Hill. "The game's story was somewhat vague, and demanded that someone try to explain it," says Birlew.

Upon receiving an overwhelming number of positive responses from other Silent Hill fans, and after some gentle nudging from his wife, Birlew decided to set aside his acting and directing activities to establish a career as a video game strategy guide author. He sent writing samples to several publishing companies. Based on the merits of his very first submission, he was hired by a major publisher within 24 hours. Birlew says, "It was as though I had won the lottery."

Birlew has authored over sixty published video game strategy guides and seeks other methods of publication, such as review columns, articles, and other non-fiction video game-related books. Birlew says of his passion for games, "I love exploring video games, the industry, the culture, the fans -- and there is so much of it about which I can analyze and write." He also bears a strong desire to publish fiction, and is currently working on a novel concerning the paranormal.

Dan Birlew is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas, and California. He now resides in Las Vegas with his wife of seventeen years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. Besides video games, Birlew also enjoys Japanese films and dining with his family and friends in the restaurants and clubs of Las Vegas.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great guide and is in-depth, September 17, 2002

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This review is from: Onimusha(TM) 2: Samurai's Destiny Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

If you're like me, then you like Dan Birlew and the BradyGAMES Signature Series guides. These guides are very in-depth and after the Devil May Cry guide got this off to a great start, the Onimusha 2 guide keeps it going. I'll give you tons of reason why this is the best Strategy Guide (in my opinion) then any other Onimusha guide out there.

First of all, like any guide (or hopefully any guide), there is the walkthrough. This walkthrough is very in-depth with ultra detailed maps that pin-point every item! The walkthough is precise and quite possibly one of the most in-depth organized walkthrough from BradyGAMES to date. The author does a great job explaining the strategies, and talks about the better approach for Offensive and defensive battle tatics against bosses.

The game basics section is for me especially. If you don't feel you get enough explanation on attacks etc. from the instruction booklet (like me) then the game basics section does a great job on explaining just how to get critical hits, when is best to attack and when its best to just haul you butt out of there.

There is also a list included for trading items. The only gripe I have with this list (and the guide) is that this trading list isn't in alphabetical order, meaning you'll be reading up and down the list just to find if the item is worth trading to another. But they do explain how to trade and tell you what you'll get too!

The alliances to form are listed in the back of the book in a flowchart. This shows you just what path to take! But it also explains just how you should form alliances as well. They tell you what the benefits are as well.

The secrets and sidequests and telling you how to use each character (combos and everything are explained). The side quest are brillantly outlined and easy to use. They tell you who gets what too. The secrets also explain a lot about the different difficulty levels and the Man in Black mini game.

Lastly, the guide completely covers the Oni mini game with a tear out wall scroll to go along with it. This is a great guide and if you're going to get Onimusha 2 then you should definitely get this book!

On the Positive side:
+Great Maps!
+Great Strategies!
+Crystal Clear screens with helpful captions
+Hey! Its Signature series
+Tricks of Trade revealed
+Side Quests explained
+Both mini-games explained
+Game Basics actually help you learn the game better then the manual.
+Interview with Keiji Inafune!

But on the downside
-The trading items list is out of order
-Some boss strategies are a little too focused on defense