Would you look at me funny if I said that Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny is still one of the best looking games to ever exist? There's something about the textures of the PS2 era that still look amazing to me, and this Onimusha 2 remaster does a stellar job ensuring it's shown here in all its glory – just crisped up. Sure, there's a lot that has aged this supernatural samurai hack and slash, but it's certainly not hard to look at.
I know conceptually that, say, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach has a kind of absurd graphical fidelity that puts Onimusha 2, released in 2002, to shame. I'm not completely deluded. But this game still looks so good that if any modern release just looked like this, I'd be more than happy with it. Maybe I'm just an aging gamer, but there's a charm to the era's stabs at realism where stylization has to meet it halfway. But I also still think Shenmue is breathtaking so take it with a pinch of salt (from Tom's Hot Dog Stand, of course).
