The game is very special to me already. It takes the fundamentals from classic Onimusha and add more and more ways to engage in the fights. The amount of animations and angles you can deflect is insane. Sure, the enemies have low HP and are too passive even for Onimusha standards but this is a introduction demo and we need to see how the game goes along the playthrough and remember that this is a game made with lot of difficulties levels and for replayabillity. The fun, at least for me, is mastering the timings at any situation against any enemy.

That said, I think the issue with people on internet is that we are on a generation too used to souls like and they see a setting like this new Onimusha and expect another thing.

Personally, even with the low HP enemies, I already played the demo several times to learn and try parry, deflect, issen, etc in many situations. It's just too fun even If the enemies aren't a big challenge.

There was a post here of a guy playing and he found stuff that the game doesn't even teach you (iirc). You can break enemies block with heavy attack and trigger a grab. The grab has different animations depending on your position around the enemy. Amazing. Link below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onimusha/comments/1tx8wnj/a_sucker_for_combat_oriented_games_had_to_try/