Oni is not, in its entirety, a particularly good game. It just so happens to contain one or two great things. Released just ten months before a true landmark game, Halo: Combat Evolved, it paints a picture of astonishing innovation in such a short period of time. Oni feels half rooted in the games of the previous decade, Tomb Raider especially, while Halo would go on to usher a new definition of what mainstream action games could be.
On the face of it, is a clear Ghost in the Shell knockoff, an attempt to capture the essence of the 1995 anime classic. It isn’t really successful at all, evoking neither the melancholy tone or its dense, fully realized world, nor transporting the film’s action into videogames. In fact, I am shocked that no game has ever
