Okami: A Myth in the Making (a retrospective)
Can be described as a moving cell shaded Japanese watercolor painting. The description is not just for being pretty, either: the living Japanese art isn’t just part of the visuals. It’s entwined throughout the game.You play Amaterasu, a sun goddess in the shape of a white wolf on a quest to rid Nippon (native name for Japan) from the return of an ancient evil. I don’t want to use the word “epic” since most adventure games shoot for epic. It’s more like, you’re playing a mythological folktale. Everything you do from boss fights to sidequesting add to an old folktale being told right back to you. It adds to the theme of a world filled with bad omens, celestial beings and spirits, sprites and demons hiding from common folk. It’s a world where a near-forgotten goddess must fight against a darkness as old as time.
Okami .
See, Ammy is just a wolf to most people. A white wolf is an oddity, sure, but many are ignorant of what she is. Finishing their quests (fetching, racing, fighting x many monsters) nets you praise, which is the currency you need to level up life and your money pouch. What’s interesting is that few people think that it’s Ammy who’s helping. To them, you’re a wolf, maybe a wolf that brings good luck, but still a wolf. You help boys find the courage to become men, reunite lost loves, and help warriors find purpose in life. You’re effecting a great change in their lives, yet they don’t suspect it’s because of you. It reminds me of a Futurama episode where Bender meets a living star cluster which might or might not be “God.” According to his new star born buddy, “If you’ve done something right, people won’t be sure if you’ve done anything at all.” Ammy is subtle. She doesn’t announce herself with a burning bush or parting seas. Just by helping those around her.
But how does she play? Wonderfully. Again, it’s very much a Zelda style game. Beat a boss, and get an item that gets you to the new area. Only in Okami , your items are painting symbols. An extension of your growing god powers are “celestial brush” techniques. In the overworld and in combat, you can freeze the scene into a scroll ready for painting. With a few swishes of your brush, you can cut down enemies, slow time, and control the wind. This is just a small sample of Ammy’s powers, and towards the end there’s not a lot you can’t do.
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Platform holder Sony has for the first time spoken openly about the prospect of PS2 games being offered as digital downloads via the PlayStation Network.
MCV exclusively revealed in September of last year that Sony was already talking to third parties about plans to bring the PS2 back-catalogue to PSN, though the platform holder has never publicly acknowledged the leak.
“With the strength and volume of the rich PS2 line-up, there are obviously fans out there who would love to get their hands on these fan-favourite titles again,” SCEA’s director of hardware marketing John Koller told Examiner .
“We don’t have any news to share on that front at the moment, but keep in mind that digital distribution isn’t the only way to bring classic PS2 games over to PS3. God of War Collection is a great example of how technology like Blu-ray can be used to not only reintroduce PS2 classics.”
Koller went on to say that the expansion of PSN is a cornerstone of Sony’s PlayStation ambitions in 2010.
Article continues below“It will be a critical part of what we focus on this year,” he stated. “Digital distribution is something that will continually evolve, and we have the perfect platform in PSN to evolve along with it. We can also look forward to more classic PSOne games making resurgence through PSN.”
Sony announced earlier this month that it intends to integrate the PSN brand and functionality into some of its other consumer electronics lines.
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