History VideoGame / Toukiden

* AndIMustScream: The oni devour souls. Spiritually sensitive people such as Kikka can hear their constant screams.

* ArchivedArmy: The Mitama. You would be glad that they are on your side.

* BodyHorror: Some of the oni can be downright disgusting. An example is Kagachime, a big oni that seems to have crawled out from JunjiIto's nightmare: it's a combination of a giant snail and a fucking-ugly woman, with a pair of snakes as CombatTentacles.

* BossArenaRecovery: Sometimes, there are shrine with green or white aura within the boss area. You may need your ''oni-no-me'' to reveal them.

** [[OneHitKill One Hit Break]]: Your ''onichigiri'' move, which instantly breaks whatever breakable body part it hits. You can only do this after you've filled your soul gauge, after which it goes back to zero.
* BullfightBoss: Most of the big oni have a phase where it will charge blindly at you. If you've rendered their organ of locomotion ethereal, they will stumble at the end of the charge, leaving them open for ExtremeMeleeRevenge.
* CameraCentering[=/=]CameraLockOn: These features are really helpful for fighting effectively.

* ChargedAttack: Most weapons have one.

* CriticalStatusBuff: Some Mitama increases your attack and defense when you're near K.O. There is also an inversion of this, where the buff is when your LifeMeter is full.

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: How you defeat any big oni. Knowing where to hit will cut the number from 1000 to, say, ''800''. [[NightmareFuel When you think about it, it's a pretty damn awful way to die.]]

* LifeDrain: The aptly-named triangle-skill of the Attack mitama.

* LimitBreak: The aforementioned ''onichigiri'' move. (Do not confuse with onigiri, which is something else.)

* ManaMeter: The creme bar below your HP bar represents how much ''kiryoku'' you have, which is required to activate your weapons' special attacks. Your Mitama's powers doesn't use up your kiryoku, though.
** SprintMeter: It also doubles as stamina meter that gets drained when you sprint or roll.

* PowerFist: The fists in this game is amongst the most ridiculous examples in the history of videogame: they are bigger than their wielders. It's also Fugaku's WeaponOfChoice.

* PurelyAestheticGender: There are no difference whether you play as a male or female character, other than how certain equipments look when your character wear them.

* RespawnPoint: If you're K.O.-ed for any reason (perhaps because you were on the receiving end of a BullfightBoss) and is not brought back from K.O., you find yourself at the starting point of the zone. Take note: next to your starting point is a shrine that radiates white aura instead of green, it refills your Mitama powers. You can respawn up to three times per mission.

* WorldOfBadass: If you're a resident in Utakata, chance are you're a mononofu, or someone who helps the mononofu.

** AkechiMitsuhide: [[LuckManipulationMechanic Gamble-type]]. As well as his daughter Hosokawa Gracia (Healing).
** DateMasamune: [[HotBlooded Attack-type]].

** HattoriHanzo: Rapid-type.
** HondaTadakatsu: [[MightyGlacier Defense-type]].
** IshidaMitsunari: Gamble-type.
** MiyamotoMusashi: Attack-type.
** OdaNobunaga: [[LightningBruiser Space-type]].
** SanadaYukimura: Attack-type.
** SasakiKojiro: Rapid-type.
** SarutobiSasuke: Rapid-type.
** TakedaShingen: [[PerceptionFilter Stealth-type]].
** TokugawaIeyasu: Defense-type. As well as his grandchildren Tokugawa Iemitsu[[note]]the Shogun who issued [[ProperlyParanoid Country in Chains]] policy[[/note]] (Space) and Senhime (Healing). And his distant descendant Tokugawa Yoshimune[[note]]the Shogun who initiated a series of reforms, undoing certain aspects of Country in Chains[[/note]] (Attack).
** ToyotomiHideyoshi: Rapid-type.
** UesugiKenshin: Attack-type.
** YagyuJubei: Attack-type.
** TheShinsengumi: Kondo Isami (Attack), Hijikata Toshizo (Defense), Okita Soji (Attack), Saito Hajime (Rapid).

** FuumaKotaro: [[BladeSpam Rapid-type]].

* EvilEye[=/=]EnemyScan: Your ''oni-no-me'' (Demon Eyes). It reveals the oni's HP and BreakMeter, and certain hidden things. Using it drains your kiryoku, though.

* {{BFS}}: The swords in the game are like this. They are ''far'' longer than their wielders are tall, which is a good thing since most enemies that matter are far taller than the humans. It's also Ouka's WeaponOfChoice.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep‎: The local blacksmith is called 'Tatara', which means... 'the blacksmith'.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Takeikusa. Each of his arms is attuned to different elements (except Celestial).

* OurGiantsAreBigger: And they are so ludicrously big. There are few humanoid giants though, one of them being the big oni Kueyama.

* FriendlyFireproof: You would be thankful this game adhere to this principle, because attacks are flashy, incredibly damaging[[note]]were you able to hit yourself, you would have died in three to four hits[[/note]], and most of them seems to be designed to cover as much space as possible. If you actually hit your friends (maybe because you stand too close to each others to hit a certain organ), you do no damage.

* Bishounen: Ibuki. Perhaps Hayatori too, but as a {{ninja}} he never reveal his face. Your character can be one too.

** TheMedic: Equipping Healing-type Mitama allows you to heal your friends as well.

* PlayingWithFire: Some of the big oni, such as the aptly-named Hinomagatori.

* BigBadassWolf: The big oni Kazekiri.

* GenkiGirl: Hatsuho.
* GiantSpider: The big oni Mafuchi.

** AkechiMitsuhide: [[LuckManipulationMechanic Gamble-type]].

** TokugawaIeyasu: Defense-type.

** TheShinsengumi:

* OdaNobunaga: He's one of the Mitama you can equip.

* CameraCentering: One of the more helpful feature.

* PaletteSwap: Some oni, small or big. Most small oni have the "unclean" and "underworld" variants, which yields better item drop while making them marginally tougher.
* PlayingWithFire: Some of the big oni, such as the aptly-named Hinomagatori.

* SerialEscalation: So you can defeat a Mifuchi. How about ''two'' Mifuchi? How about Mifuchi, Kazekiri, and Kueyama at the same time?

The game was published on June 2013 in Japan by Tecmo Koei Corporation, to great success. This was one of the few games that [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap helped the sales]] of PSVita: the weekly amount of PSV sold quadrupled during the week this game was released.

* CoOpMultiplayer: Ad-hoc mode in both PSP and PSVita, as well as online-mode for PSVita only. Considering that past certain points the ArtificalStupidity of the NPC will really begin to shine, you would want to have human allies to tactically take down the oni.

* RelationshipValues: With NPC mononofu. Eventually, they will give you the InfinityMinusOne version of their WeaponOfChoice.