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Here is a collection of links to some of the Oni-related videos posted on YouTube. Also see YouTube's Oni - Topic channel, which automatically collects Oni videos (with some false positives from games/users that have similar names).

Trailers

See Trailers for details on the Bungie trailers.

Public & TV footage

Multiplayer at E3, May 1999
Multiplayer at Macworld NY, July 1999: [1], [2]
Multiplayer at Macworld SF, Jan. 2000
Multiplayer at E3, May 2000: [3], [4], [5]
Electric Playground clip 1 (S4E7, 11 seconds)
Electric Playground clip 2 (S4E10, dedicated segment)
Oni teaser at Macworld NY, July 2000
Pre-beta PS2 footage

Documentaries and reviews

Oni - Trash or Treasure by Block's Gaming Reviews*
The Game Rockstar Kept Hidden by CrashDummyNes*
Oni: The Other Bungie Game by Critical Nobody
Oni - Analytical Overview by EonKool
ONI: Bungie and Rockstar's Collaboration Review┃History and Analysis by Evan Prince*
Gaming History: Oni "The other Best Game Bungie ever made" by GaminGHD
Bungie's Oni story Summarized ( Bungie classic ) by Ghostvirus
Oni Review (Bungie's Forgotten Game) by GmanLives
Oni: The best Bungie game and its seven-years-late mod scene by Joe Wintergreen
Oni: the best melee combat game ever by MediaKit
Bungie's Forgotten Franchise: The Story of Oni by mrixrt
Review: Oni by Nick H
Top 10 Forgotten Video Games from Great Developers by WatchMojo (Oni is #2)
Oni - Unlikely Review by Yuusha*

*These reviews are of the PS2 version, and consequently much more negative.

Intro and outro

See Intro and Outro for details on the two animated sequences.

Full playthroughs

These are complete playthroughs which do not exploit engine glitches in order to skip portions of the game. Some would be considered a longplay and some a "Let's Play".

Year	Title	Player	Length	Commentary	Difficulty	Mods	Platform
2010	Let's Play Oni	egoroffie	7.5	Live	Hard+Ultra Mode	None	PC
A smoothly-practiced playthrough with high-energy commentary from the player and his sister, using the Ultra Mode cheat to add to the difficulty.
2011	Oni Walkthrough	Darius320	5	None	Hard	None	PC
A silent playthrough on Hard difficulty by a very skilled player.
2012	Let's Play Oni	Stratafyre	4	Post	Normal?	None	PC
This is a lighthearted look at Oni by a skilled player using post-commentary.
2013	Oni Let's Play Brutal Edition	DeathFrown (f.k.a. tens)	6	None	Normal?+Brutal AI	Some	PC
This no-commentary playthrough features Brutal AI, SMP-Conversion and other mods.
2014	Oni AE - Gameplay	Tracker60	4	None	Hard+Brutal AI	Many	PC
This playthrough uses 36 AE mods, listed in the opening "trailer" video. These include Brutal AI, SMP-Conversion and many cosmetic mods.
2015	Let's Play Oni	veriax	9.5	Live	Normal	Some	PC
A playthrough with lively commentary. The player is returning to the game after having beaten it many years before and has installed several light AE mods to tweak the experience a bit.
2018	Oni (2001 video game) Modded	Nobody	6.5	None	Normal?+Brutal AI	Many	PC
The main goals of this playthrough were to run the game at maximum quality – 3440x1440@60fps with various graphical improvement mods for the AE – and to showcase what was done with the AE in general and the Brutal AI mods in particular. Thus the player mostly skips reading consoles.
2019	Let's Play Oni	Rampancy.net	22.5	Live	Normal	None	PC
This was a series of seven livestreams with a commentator and a player-commentator. The playthrough is slowed by lots of discussion between commentators and with the stream commenters, and the player is distracted and unfamiliar with the mechanics of the game. Definitely the playthrough with the highest death count: 146, according to their official counter. Towards the end of the game, the player uses cheats to help him finish.
2021	Chill Playthrough: Oni	IntrovertedOwl	15	Live	Hard	None	PS2
Played on Hard on PS2 by a first-time player! A focus is placed on exploring the melee combat system from a fighting game perspective. Runtime includes out-of-game chitchat and a post-game analysis; some unsuccessful attempts and retreads of the same areas have been edited out.
2022	Let's Play Oni	berryjon	6	Post	Normal?	None	PC
This playthrough uses subtitled commentary to take a more critical look at the game, with additional per-level essays HERE.
2022	Oni	Magnificent Beard	12	Live	Normal	None	PC
This livestream is a newcomer's very first experience with Oni. The player is a careful secret hunter who finds more goodies than most and notices the small details in the game. Frequent NSFW language when he gets overwhelmed by the game's difficulty.
2023	Rediscovering Oni	silverfox	12.5	Live	Normal	None	PC
A laidback livestream with webcam and Twitch chat. The streamer revisits Oni twenty years after his last time playing the game.
2024	Oni (Bungie) Playthrough	Thecrot Gamix	4	None	Hard/Easy	None	PC
This playthrough is rushed and a bit chaotic but showcases skilled gameplay. Story consoles are skipped but the player seeks out nearly every secret and nearly every enemy. The playthrough starts on Hard mode; later levels were accidentally played on Easy, but afterward Thecrot recorded the final level again on Hard.

Speedruns

The speedrun community for Oni only started in 2017; earlier speedruns were done by players such as Tracker in 2007 (1:51:17) and NMS in 2009 (1:11:48), but they were isolated efforts. Once the attention of experienced speedrunners was focused on finding the quickest paths through the game, they discovered some remarkable exploits in the game engine. Speedruns are organized into 3 categories based on the exploits allowed to be used: Classic, NMG and any%. The current world record (WR) is listed below for each category. Visit Oni's speedrun.com page for information and tools for performing your own run.

Classic

A "Classic" speedrun allows any glitch a player can exploit in the game without outside modification or Developer Mode. The glitches utilized include clipping through walls and preventing fall damage through "soft jumps". Cutscenes are not allowed to be skipped and the Training level must be played. This category is Real Time Attack, meaning that the run time includes cutscenes.

Current WR: 1:08:58 by xSoapBubble (RTA)

NMG

"NMG" means "No Major Glitches". Currently the only technique that's considered major and thus outlawed is the "soft jump", a technique for taking no damage from a fall. Clipping through walls is still allowed. Cutscenes can be skipped (this is done via the Daodan DLL), as can the Training level, leading to a shorter play time than Classic. This category is In Game Time, meaning only the time when the player has control is counted towards the run time. The actual time to perform the run will be around 4 minutes longer than the posted run time.

Current WR: 38:38 by xSoapBubble (IGT)

any%

"any%" is a traditional speedrunning term for "Any way you can complete the game, no matter how much you skip". In the Oni speedrunning community, it means that you can use the film-recording keys to fly and teleport through the levels. Cutscenes can be skipped, as can Training. This category is In Game Time and the actual time to perform a run takes about 1 minute longer than the posted run time.