Just to get the point across, here is another worthy piece: The music ranges from uplifting to creepy, saddening to heartfelt, and are composed by Rei Kondo, Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Akari Groves, and arranged by Yoshinobu Takeshita. Just so you know, the context for this one is getting a giant serpent demon drunk and killing it. And if you do not think traditional music can be epic, check out this track: The game is fully orchestrated, with tracks that evoke thoughts of traditional Japanese music. The populace can save themselves, right? An amazing soundtrackĪ lot of older games have synthesized soundtracks. In a sense, this makes the game quite like the Zelda series. However, should you find them all you are rewarded with an absurdly powerful item.Īs such, there is much more to do in Nippon than follow the plotline. and Some of the beads are rather challenging to obtain. There are also collectibles in the form of stray beads, of which there are 100, and sun fragments (3 to a unit of health and 15 in all). Upgrades include health, inkpots (how much you can draw with the celestial brush before waiting), astral pouches (when filled, save you from death once), and the amount of yen you can carry. You gain praise, the faith of humanity in the gods, and can spend it on upgrades. There are tangible rewards to going out of your way on sidequests, minigames and such, rejuvenating leftover patches of cursed land, and even feeding local animals. In the digging minigame, you help protect a human companion and dig deeper into the earth as they search for a source of water. Sometimes it is a simple fetch quest and sometimes it leads to a minigame. Īs you travel throughout the land of Nippon, you will find many people in need of aid. Many of the characters, and even enemies, are based off of gods and demons from Shinto folklore. In your travels you meet an extensive cast of characters, ranging from the tiny, amusing, yet rather perverted wandering artist Issun, and the incomptetent warrior Susano.
PlayStation 2 screenshot from Moby Games. Most will see Amaterasu only as a white wolf.while a rare few will see Amaterasu for what she truly is.Īmaterasu finds the bumbling warrior Susano in his house, taking a nap. Sakuya gives the goddess the task of freeing Nippon from the curse and bringing justice to those who would do its inhabitants harm.Īs you endeavor to save Nippon you soon discover few believe in the gods anymore. The world is being cursed by an unknown force, entire swaths of land left lifeless and uninhabitable. Īmaterasu, the Shinto Japanese sun goddess, is incarnated in the form of a white wolf when the tree-spirit Sakuya awakens her. This power to change, and ultimately rejuvenate and heal the world is woven into the story.Īmaterasu is reborn in the form of a white wolf in Okami HD. Some brush techniques change the time of day, or may cause trees and flowers that are not cursed to bloom. How Amaterasu may change the world is only limited by the brush techniques she knows, and available inkpots, and she regains them both slowly over the course of the game. When pressing the proper button (R2 on the PlayStation 2 or 3, and B on the Wii) the game will create a canvas of your current view of the world.From there, you can literally draw into the world new things, such as lilypads, and even cherry bombs. The celestial brush allows Amaterasu (the main character) to defeat monsters and change the world around her.Ī screenshot of Okami HD of a player using the power slash technique on a wooden gate barring the way. The world of Nippon is rendered in such a way largely due to the primary game mechanic: a brush, which the player uses to alter the world. The graphics also have aged incredibly well over time and fit the game well, given the style of play. Other games have used handpainted styles since, but none have emulated the stylized, sumi-e painting type graphics. This is to be expected, however Okami's graphics are based on traditional Japanese artwork. Okami HD is a PlayStation 3 port of the original game with improved, high-definition graphics. The scenery, especially the black inked lines that define objects like trees and the wind, seem like the work of an artist that has painted the world in a stunning selection of watercolors.Ī Okami HD screenshot of Kusa Village from Game sradar. While they are an added bonus, there are still games, such as Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal that still hold nostalgia and enjoyment for us even with their low-grade graphics.
If you are on the fence about it, or are even new to Okami, here are a few reasons you should consider playing the original, or its Wii or PlayStation 3 port:
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