A masterpiece that you shouldn't miss.

User Rating: 10 | Okami (French) PS2
By VorKlad | Review Date:
When I first played this game I wasn’t expecting it to be this good. It attracts for the good visuals and its unique game play, but that’s the beginning of the awesomeness. You play as Amaterasu, a wolf god that defeated an evil demon one thousand years ago. Nothing new thus far, but is well connected with the Japanese mythology. Around Amaterasu there is a lot of characters, ones to play an important role in the story, like the so-called best warrior in Nippon Susano, a character that would deserve a game for him alone or Issun, an ant-sized artist drawer that is our voice trough the game. Many others like the inhabitants of all the villages or cities we visit will have side-quests or games to help us during the entire game, all with the purpose of defeating the demon that tortured Kamiki village for centuries, and is alive again.

The music is awesome, over a hundred melodies and compositions, one of the best soundtracks I’ve heard on any game. You’ll be transported to the ancient Japan. In the sound aspect of the game the only flaw is that there is no voice acting for the characters, they speak a very strange babbling language. In the first hours of the game maybe results a little annoying, but once you get accustomed it won’t bother anymore.

It’s in the game play where we have the most beautiful innovation of the game, the celestial brush. Amaterasu had 13 brush techniques in the past, that now you have to learn again to help you fight Orochi. These skills are represented like painting a picture. You activate them with a button, the screen changes and a brush appears, now you draw something, a straight line to attack, or a circle to turn the night into day. Later in the game you gain the rest of the techniques, having to combine them to advance trough the dungeons and quests. You will get the power to sprout lily pads, transport water, fire and many more. And all this is very easy to do, so the diversion grows fast.

In the graphic aspect Clover has used a cell-shading style, and I think that fits perfectly the spirit of the game. The areas engulfed with evil are perfect and creepy, and when you restore them a visual explosion of colours fills the screen in one of the most amazing scenes you can see. All the enemies are well portrayed, and the variety is high. Some of the final bosses are gigantic masterpieces.

If all of this wasn’t proof enough that Okami is a fantastic game, we can add that his length is great, in your first walk-trough you can go further than 50 hours, trying to get all the items and rewards, finding all the animals to feed, fishing every fish in the game or buying all the weapons and artifacts. And we can bring a lot of things to a second time helping to get the things we missed in the first.

Now go to your store and buy Okami, you’ll never regret entering this tale.

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