There's a really big difference between the style of writing in Prime 3 and what we saw of that character in 4 everyone is dogging on. Pretending otherwise is just dishonest.

I never could beat him in 1, so if I can in 2, its better by default

💀 i want to be able to finish games again goddamnit

After anime, the next generation would be video games, but I guess I'll give Way of the Sword benefit of the doubt that there's no way to represent that as the NEW next generation Onimusha.