(no subject)

[cipher_six]

Well, Marty and I went out yesterday to reserve a Wii. Unfortunately (and not surprisingly), by the time we got to our local GameStop, there were no Wii units left to reserve. The store manager told us they only had 18 to reserve, and that the people had camped out to get them first thing in the morning. 18? Is that low expectations for sales, or maybe just a bit of this?

Well, a couple of good things did come out of our trip. We reserved FFXII: The Collectors Edition, which looks to be pretty cool, and we found this AWESOMELY GORGEOUS game called "Okami." A friend of mine online had told me about it, and I was looking for it but I couldn't remember the name, only that it involved the player playing as Amaterasu in Wolf form, and painting Japanese-style in the game.

I saw the game guide for it and just about freaked out. I asked the clerk if they had it, and he said "definately." He told me it was an awesome game, too, and so I bought it along with the game guide (it has gorgeous artwork in it).

The game itself is pretty awesome. You play as Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. You've come to rescue Nippon in the form of a white wolf, and you will use your skills both as a fighter and as an artist to restore the balance in the world. You can paint bridges, suns, and flowers with your brush and make them magically appear. And when you move, flowers and grasses spring up beneath your feet a la the Spirit of the Forest in "Princess Mononoke." Its eeffing awesome. Here are some scans I made of the actual guide:



Screenshots:
http://www.cloverstudio.co.jp/img/title_pic/okami_ss/okami_07.jpg
http://www.futuregamez.net/ps2games/okami/okami3.jpg
http://modetwo.net/users/nachimir/vga/media/okami-001.jpg

Developer website:
http://www.o-kami.jp/

Gamespy preview (has video footage):
http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/okami/708264p1.html

The only thing that I DIDN'T like was the voice-effects. There is a LOT of text in this game, and the characters "read" it a la "Animal Crossing" with garbled nonsense vocalizations. In "Animal Crossing," at least the intonations vary and it doesn't get too annoying. In this game, all of the "words" sound alike and there is little emotional inflection at all, so the "talking" gets really annoying, really fast. I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to shut it off, but for now, I just deal with it or hit mute. That is the ONLY thing I can find wrong with this game. Its just that awesome.

Go out and get it if you can~!

Comments

[mappyman.livejournal.com]

I like how Capcom added small bits from their other games.

Like how the town mayor's wife uses Street Fighter II's Akuma "Demon Super" on the oven to make cherry pies, and that other dude does the Viewtiful Joe pose.

the game is so prettttyyy!

[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

Yeah~! I noticed that, too, but I thought it was just me. <3 I made Leah go out and get herself a copy, too. :D

[leahfu.livejournal.com]

mike noted that it looks like windwaker which was AWESOME. i had been looking at the game everytime we would go to bestbuy(from once every week to two weeks) for like the past month and a half...not really sinking in what the game was about and what not....BUT *SQUEE!* it rocks!