Pretty graphics and unique concept are great but it's overly easy and lacks creativity with use of gameplay mechanics.

User Rating: 3 | Okami (French) PS2
By Link5863 | Review Date:
I wasn't aware fun = circling trees, feeding random animals, and pointless wandering in between the small parts of the game that actually have some interesting gameplay elements in them for hours. Pausing the game to draw on the screen breaks up the flow of the game and it's novelty quickly wears off and turns into a gimmick. The creativity of it after a few hours turns uncreative when you can only draw a few specific things to make things appear on the screen, deal with very simplistic puzzles that don't require much thought, and gain drawing abilities that are only used for obvious instances which shows lack of creativity for the designers. It's also something that would have been better off as a point and click sort of mechanic with a menu instead of having to essentially pause the game, draw a symbol or brush stroke that may not even work the first time you do it and then have it happen.

The gimmick would have been fine if the game only lasted for 2 boss fights (especially since you thought the first one was the main boss which it's not) but the game is overly long as they drag the game out for over 20 hours of play time dealing with 4 main bosses total. I never completed the game as I was fully sick of it after the 9 Tailed Fox boss and made my way into the mountains. I playing the game, getting bored and stopped 3 separate times, trying my best to give the game all the chance in the world since I like it's premise, and each time I became annoyed and left.

At the end of the day all the game has going for itself is that it's pretty and the story is unique. Which is all anybody seems to care about these days even though the gameplay is tedious. Not that the story is "good", just that it's unique.

With the lack of creativity in it's puzzles it can also be said that the game is overly easy. I can only remember dieing once against that weirdo with the sword in the forest, which for me personally was a sudden jump in difficulty which was never really repeated.

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