Onirigi is a MMORPG which was released in Japan in 2013 and a year later an american version was released with english subtitles.

Onigiri is set in a fictional world in Japan where the land has been filled with various monsters who are attacking shrines and many other places.
At first you have the option to customise your character with a lack of options available and few outfits, later you pick your class, every class has different stats and weapons that can be used. Every class can't just use only one weapon like in other MMORPGs, but here you have a wider set of weapons which can be used depending on the player's playstyle and situation. The character's stats can be modified as you progress throughout the game using and allocating skill points. While playing the story, after some time you get companions, companions are useful if you're playing alone, which in 2023. is completely normal, as there aren't many players playing this.
Even though the gameplay in terms of combat looks awesome, the graphics are really bad and the perfomance is bad when in hometown, even though PlayStation 4 Pro is more than capable of running this game.
The user interfece is really bad, trying to get from an option to the other is a pain while using a controller. All outfits and boost items for your player and companions can be bought in the game store using premium currency which for F2P players is a pain to earn.
The subtitles are buggy sometimes, what happens is that the whole converstion starts to speed up and the voice starts to interfere with each other making many converations a mess.

All in all, this MMORPG has potential in combat and companions system, but the problems in graphics and perfomance made this game an outdated mess.

Reviewed on Jun 25, 2023


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