On the downside, the entirety of the game implodes because of this deliberate design flaw. On the plus side, you won't have to worry about forgetting to save your game. Instead, Oni notifies you that it has saved the game at various pre-determined points. It is important to inform you up-front that Oni doesn't allow the player to save the game in progress. You also won't know how terribly tedious this game becomes in the later parts. What you don't know is that there is only one cut-scene in the whole game that pays tribute to this. You probably know that Oni is inspired by Japanese anime-style artwork. You also won't know that she runs around warehouses stacked full of crates for the better part of the game. unless you've ever played computer games before. You won't know that she is supposed to single-handedly defeat the evil forces of chaos and destruction. Oni features a futuristic cop named Konoko - you know that already.

Thus, Oni was conceived and born to bridge the gap between action and adventure. Developers envisioned John Woo two-fisted shooting with Jackie Chan jumps and rolls, all made possible through the use of a third-person perspective.

This new genre promised to take the tired first-person games into new territories. Approximately three years ago, game developers realized that the unexpected success of the Tomb Raider series could be combined with the action of the console hit Goldeneye to create a new genre of game - the third-person action game.

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