Okami pays more than passing homage to traditional Japanese folklore, and has some winning humour which hasn’t lost its amusement in translation. Battling well and earning money (Yen) allows you to buy items from merchants that can enhance both your offensive capabilities including healing goods, better weapons, tools, and key items for completing quests. Each battle is assessed in terms of time taken and damage dealt, and bigger monetary rewards are granted for better performance. The combat is a satisfying mix of button mashing and brush wielding – different enemies require you pick the right tactic to take them down. There are plenty of brush techniques that you learn along the way (by meeting celestial brush gods) and each is incorporated effectively into the gameplay.īecause the Celestial Brush is so powerful, the ink for drawing is limited by the amount available in special ink wells, which stops you solely using Brush techniques to defeat enemies when you don’t use the brush, however, ink is restored over time. In combat the brush can be used to slash through enemy shields allowing you to deliver a killing blow or deflect an enemy’s projectiles back at it. Having a Celestial Brush soon becomes second nature as you can do things like change night into day by drawing a sun or moon, bring various aspects of the landscape to life, or create yourself a boat-like lily pad to sail over water or chop life giving fruit from high branches. A quick press of R1 freezes time and allows you to draw things which will progress your quests be it to repair wrecked machinery, slow down time, bring forth gusts of wind, make water burst forth, or deliver an explosive surprise by creating bombs. The eye-popping hand-drawn ink and watercolour style looks amazing in HD, and really captures the zen feel of ancient Japan, while the control scheme is both easy to pick up and yet allows for some complex gameplay options.Īll the action plays out on an interactive canvas, and onto which you can paint using your Celestial Brush. For example, you can choose to feed other animals that you meet such as birds and rabbits, and being a friend reaps rewards in the karma they bless you with (which you can use to power up your stats). There are often positive options other than just attacking everything you meet. The impact of Okami can be seen in many games including the gorgeous Flower and Tearaway which both borrow from the creativity found here.īeing a powerful white wolf deity certainly has its perks, as you work through the various areas of the world, killing monsters, solving problems, and helping the people you meet they will in return start to worship which allows you to become more powerful and add new miracle abilities to your repertoire. Possibly my least favourite game ever made.With a gameplay that riffs on classic Zelda like adventuring and treasure hunting, your quest is to restore the world by destroying monsters who have stolen the colour from it. Sitting through 5 hours of Hatsune Miku, mixed up with a bit of Hello Kitty and a bit of Hannah Montana thrown in for good measure would have been 5 hours better spent than this. I gave it a 1 for looking nice but there was nothing else to like for me to rate it higher. Then the brush that doesn't work very well at all I can't understand the high scores. By annoying I mean unbearable, wanted to rip it from the screen and smash it in. Annoying character with you the whole time. So boring, I like boring adventure games but this was a joke. It is by far one of the worst games I have ever played. I was really excited to play it, I played it for about 5 hours the first night and woke up the next day and put it on eBay. I haven't played this in years and never will again but couldn't believe the reviews. I haven't played this This is exactly my type of game, cool animation, something new with the brush control and a nice adventure run around. This is exactly my type of game, cool animation, something new with the brush control and a nice adventure run around.
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