![]() ![]() ![]() The story boils down to a conventional battle of good against evil but effectively sets up a series of remarkable, self-contained subplots that are all seamlessly interconnected. There's a lot of dialogue throughout the game, which makes for plenty of reading since all the characters speak in gibberish that sounds just vaguely Japanese. The story unfolds mostly through frequent, nicely animated cutscenes. Their journey begins by purging the evil from a small village but expands to encompass all corners of Japan, and beyond. Will history repeat itself, or is there an even more sinister plot at work here? At the beginning of the game, Amaterasu is joined by a pint-sized creature named Issun, a bold and smart-alecky little guy who does all the talking for the both of them. Apparently, it's all the doing of a massive eight-headed serpent that was killed 100 years ago and has been reborn. The story is simple: Amaterasu, reborn as a white wolf, has a mission to rid medieval Japan of a demonic curse that's swept across the nation. The story plays out like a modernized anime version of a myth, except with a far more original visual style than what most anime brings to bear. Though Okami's premise and characters are steeped in Japanese folklore, you don't need to be familiar with the source material to appreciate this game-you just need a bit of an open mind. Okami boasts an extraordinary visual style, but there's much more to it than all the pretty graphics.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's All the while, Okami's stunning good looks give it the appearance of a cross between a cartoon and a traditional Japanese ink-and-watercolor painting, and perhaps best of all, the game keeps going and going for much longer than most other games like it. Much like in those games, in Okami you'll traverse a vast countryside filled with intrigue, meet a variety of interesting characters, delve into dungeons chock-full of various traps and fearsome-looking creatures, and become more and more powerful as you go. It takes its cues from the Legend of Zelda series in particular and achieves similarly outstanding results. ![]() Despite its unusual premise and other unique qualities, Okami is in many ways a textbook action adventure game. A truly epic journey awaits this wolf, who wields divine power quite literally as an artist wields a brush. Okami is based on the Japanese legend of the sun god, Amaterasu, whom you control throughout the game in the form of a white wolf. I cannot wait to use this little prick as a stress ball to throw against the walls, now THAT will make him ever so slightly interesting and fun.It's only fitting that a game about a god should have an awe-inspiring presentation such as this. I bought a plushie of Amaterasu before buying the game, and it came with Issun, as an extra. But nowadays ? It's an uninteresting slog that keeps holding your hand like a toddler in his first game. ![]() Maybe this game was good back when it first came out. Which is simply hitting the attack key 4 times. It's bad to the point where you can buy a combo. Like mentioned before, the combat is awful, removing it would make it a net positive, you simply repeat very basic combos and sometimes use your brush. But that'd be expecting too much from this game. Still not perfect, as I don't think the "mother of all gods" would just start sleeping during a boring conversation, or would bear with Issun instead of smiting him. The only good character is Amaterasu, because she stays silent and still gets her point across quickly, concisely and even humorously. Yet treats you like a worthless, drooling 3yo while being incredibly cringe in his dialog, speaking French at random to sound "cool" and calling you "baby" like any weirdo would do back in the 1990's. I only reached up to Waka, some warrior guy who knows you're basically the top god as soon as he sees you. But Susano ends up freeing that same villain out of sheer stupidity. Susano, an old(?), lazy and completely useless alcoholic who thinks he's tough stuff because he's the descendant of an ancient hero who sealed the main villain. Issun the creepy mysoginistic perv treating you like a drooling 3yo, constantly interrupting everything to add his "witty" comments and give "hints" for what to do, or in other words, bash the solution of the "puzzles" into your skull. The game is incredibly slow-paced, the visuals require third-party mods to be even playable, the combat is abysmal and the writing somehow is the worst offender of this list.Īlmost all characters have potential to be the most obnoxious character created. I simply don't understand why this game is recommended, except because of nostalgia. ![]()
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