Oni
An intense action anime thriller comes to life in Oni. As an elite member of the tech crimes task force, Konoko is an agent on a mission to fight the evil Syndicate. But things are not always as they seem…
Oni is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Bungie West, released 26 January 2001 on PlayStation 2, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 21 cheat codes for it.
What Oni is
Oni is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Bungie West and released in 2001. It was published by Buka Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Oni.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The events of Oni take place in or after the year 2032. The game world is a dystopia, an Earth so polluted that little of it remains habitable. To solve international economic crises, all nations have combined into a single entity, the World Coalition Government. The government is Orwellian, telling the populace that what are actually dangerously toxic regions are wilderness preserves, and using its police forces, known publicly as the Technological Crimes Task Force (TCTF), to suppress opposition. The player character, code-named Konoko (voiced by Amanda Winn-Lee), full name later given as Mai Hasegawa, begins the game working for the TCTF. Soon, she learns her employers have been keeping…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Oni holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Players rate it 78, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Oni launched on 26 January 2001, within three weeks of Onimusha: Warlords, Louvre: The Final Curse and Gunbarich. It reviewed better than 2 of the 3.
Released around the same time: Onimusha: Warlords, Louvre: The Final Curse, Gunbarich.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 21 cheat entries for Oni — 21 cheat codes. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Every code labelled
Oni cheat codes
Enable cheat codes
Unlocks the cheat code entry
Open persist.dat in the Oni install folder with a hex editor, go to hexadecimal offset 44 and change the value to 07, save (back up the file first)
Cheats are also unlocked by completing the game; always back up persist.dat before editing
God mode
Makes Konoko immortal
With cheats enabled, press F1 to open the Diary screen and type liveforever
Type the code again on the Diary screen to toggle it off
Shapeshifter
Play as other characters with their moves and voices
With cheats enabled, press F1 and type shapeshifter, then press F8 in game to cycle characters
You get the character's looks, moves, voice and cues
One-hit kills
Kills enemies in one hit
With cheats enabled, press F1 and type touchofdeath
No warning
Quick answers
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