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For those who preordered the game at EB Games or GameStop, the game came with a limited edition art board/buddha. For those who preordered the game at EB Games or GameStop, the game came with a limited edition art board/buddha.
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Set in the Nippon region during some unspecified time period during the classical Japanese period, Okami combines several Japanese mythology stories and tales to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the wolf, Amaterasu.
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The quiet village of Kamiki, filled with beautiful cherry trees, had a price to pay in order to maintain their peace. Each and every year a festival is held, during which a maiden must be sacrificed to the eight-headed serpent, ], signalled by a white arrow being launched into the house of his chosen sacrifice. In the 100th year since Orochi's arrival, as the time for the sacrifice drew near, a pure white wolf the village dubbed "Shiranui" would appear and stalk the village's streets at night. A swordsman in the village, Nagi (known as ] in mythology), detested Shiranui, believing him to be one of Orochi's agents, and repeatedly tried to drive the wolf away. When the night of the festival finally arrived, Nagi's beloved, Nami (known as ] in mythology) was chosen to be slain. Determined both to save the woman he loved and to put an end to the village's burden, Nagi went to Orochi's lair to slay the beast. Alas, he was defeated and about to be killed when Shiranui stepped in and took over the battle. Using strange skills, the wolf battled valiantly against Orochi, but still could not defeat the serpent. The quiet village of Kamiki, filled with beautiful cherry trees, had a price to pay in order to maintain their peace. Each and every year a festival is held, during which a maiden must be sacrificed to the eight-headed serpent, ], signalled by a white arrow being launched into the house of his chosen sacrifice. In the 100th year since Orochi's arrival, as the time for the sacrifice drew near, a pure white wolf the village dubbed "Shiranui" would appear and stalk the village's streets at night. A swordsman in the village, Nagi (known as ] in mythology), detested Shiranui, believing him to be one of Orochi's agents, and repeatedly tried to drive the wolf away. When the night of the festival finally arrived, Nagi's beloved, Nami (known as ] in mythology) was chosen to be slain. Determined both to save the woman he loved and to put an end to the village's burden, Nagi went to Orochi's lair to slay the beast. Alas, he was defeated and about to be killed when Shiranui stepped in and took over the battle. Using strange skills, the wolf battled valiantly against Orochi, but still could not defeat the serpent.

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2006 video game
Ōkami
File:Okamibox.jpg
Developer(s)Clover Studio
Publisher(s)Capcom
Platform(s)PlayStation 2
ReleaseJapan April 20, 2006
United States of America September 19, 2006
PAL February 2007
Genre(s)Action/Adventure
Mode(s)Single player
For the subspecies of gray wolf, see Japanese Wolf.

Template:Nihongo title is a cel-shaded video game developed by Clover Studio for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was released on April 20, 2006 in Japan and September 19, 2006 in the United States and Canada. It is scheduled for release in Europe during February 2007. Ōkami's main character is the Shinto sun goddess named Amaterasu, who has taken the form of a white wolf. The title of the game is a pun; the word ōkami (狼) in Japanese means "wolf", however the kanji characters used as the title of this game (大神), also pronounced as Ōkami, mean "great deity", so the main character is a great wolf deity. The same characters (大神) are also used to write the full name of the goddess Amaterasu-ō-mi-kami.

A demo of the game is featured in Issue 103 of the Official PlayStation Magazine.

For those who preordered the game at EB Games or GameStop, the game came with a limited edition art board/buddha.

Story

Set in the Nippon region during some unspecified time period during the classical Japanese period, Okami combines several Japanese mythology stories and tales to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the wolf, Amaterasu.

Template:Spoiler The quiet village of Kamiki, filled with beautiful cherry trees, had a price to pay in order to maintain their peace. Each and every year a festival is held, during which a maiden must be sacrificed to the eight-headed serpent, Orochi, signalled by a white arrow being launched into the house of his chosen sacrifice. In the 100th year since Orochi's arrival, as the time for the sacrifice drew near, a pure white wolf the village dubbed "Shiranui" would appear and stalk the village's streets at night. A swordsman in the village, Nagi (known as Izanagi in mythology), detested Shiranui, believing him to be one of Orochi's agents, and repeatedly tried to drive the wolf away. When the night of the festival finally arrived, Nagi's beloved, Nami (known as Izanami in mythology) was chosen to be slain. Determined both to save the woman he loved and to put an end to the village's burden, Nagi went to Orochi's lair to slay the beast. Alas, he was defeated and about to be killed when Shiranui stepped in and took over the battle. Using strange skills, the wolf battled valiantly against Orochi, but still could not defeat the serpent.

Battered and beaten, Shiranui used the last of his power to summon a sword from the skies. Drawn to the weapon, Nagi struggled to his feet and took up the sword, leaping onto Orochi and defeating the creature. Shiranui, filled with poison and fur dyed crimson with his own blood, was carried back to the village by Nagi where he was praised as Kamiki's savior - and then died. A shrine was built in the image and honor of Shiranui, and the sword that had saved the village was interred in the "Moon Cave" where the battle had taken place, and used to seal Orochi away. 100 years of peace passed, and a man disturbs the sword at the "Moon Cave", unleashing Orochi, who is not quite as fictional as the intruder had believed. Orochi immediately begins covering the entire world in darkness and evil. In response, Sakuya the wood sprite, guardian of the village, goes to the shrine dedicated to Shiranui and brings the statue to life as Amaterasu, the Ōkami, reincarnation of Shiranui and sun goddess incarnated in the form of a white wolf.

Amaterasu must search Nippon for the 13 brush spirits to gain the power to defeat Orochi and heal the land. In fact, it is shortly discovered that the 100th anniversary of the original defeat of Orochi, celebrated now by a festival held at Kamiki villiage, is quickly approaching while Amaterasu is in the process of removing the curse from other parts of the land. Returning just in time for the night of the festival, events begin to unfold exactly as they did 100 years ago: Orochi summons an arrow to indicate the chosen sacrifice: Kushi, the sake maker in Kamiki and romantic interest of Susano, a descendant of the great warrior Nagi. As it was 100 years ago, both Amaterasu and Susano return to the Moon Cave to defeat Orochi again and rescue Kamiki; as Orochi finally dies, a black evil spirit is seen to rise from the body and drift northword, but not unnoticed by Amaterasu. Later, after returning to the elated Kamiki village, it is discovered that Susano himself was the one that disturbed the sword to begin with, as he despised as not being able to live up to reputation of being the descendant of Nagi, and was trying to get that sword to prove it to himself that he could live up to that claim.

After leaving Kamiki again, Amaterasu continues to search for more brush techniques and to investiage that mysterious spirit that left Orochi's body. Along the way, she encounters two more similar spirit foes - Blight, which had taken residence inside the Emperor and caused him to breath out a strange mist that was slowly killing the people and lands nearby, and Ninetails (a kitsune), who was continuing to send evil spirits out from a mysterious island in order to try to take over the land. After both are defeated by Amaterasu, the same type of black spirit leaves the bodies and drifts northward. Amaterasu, demended to stop this once and for all, heads to the snow-covered parts of the land.

There, a legend of a mysterious "Ark of Yamoto" is discovered. The Ark seems to have fallen from the heavens 200 years ago and crashed into a frozen lake, and open up to reveal hordes of evil demons that immediately becan to spread across the land. Some of these demons would go on to become Blight, Lechku, Nechku and Ninetails, and thus the black forms seen heading northward after their defeat would be these demons returning to their point of origin. Further discovery indicates that before the Ark crashed, a race called Celestial Beings had found the Ark and thought it would usable for transporting around the Celestial Plains, but it was found out too late that the Ark already had residents, and was effectively a prison ship for the evil demons. All but one of the Celestial Beings were killed before the Ark crashed, the last one fleeing the destruction. Amaterasu, with the help of many others, is able to defeat all the remaining demon foes, including those she previously fought before but have returned here.

Gameplay

Ōkami has the player controlling the main character, Amaterasu, in a cel-shaded environment. The gameplay style is very similar as a mix of action, platform, and puzzle.

Players can bring the game to a pause and call up a canvas, where the player can draw onto the screen using the left analog stick to control the Celestial Brush. This is used in combat, puzzles, and as general gameplay. For example, the player can create strong wind by drawing a loop, cut enemies by drawing a line through them, or create bridges by painting one amongst many other abilities. However, in traditional gaming fashion, not all of the abilities are possessed from the beginning of the game and must be collected.

Not all abilities in the game are earned as you linearly progress through the game however. Some of the higher grade abilities of certain elements must be collected through side-quests, such as buying new techniques from the dojo.

Weapons

The Imperial Regalia of Japan are used as weapons in the game:

  • The reflector (or mirror) is used as an attacking disc, stored on Amaterasu's back (main weapon form). It can also be used as a counter attacking shield on physical contact based attacks (secondary weapon form), whereby Amaterasu will intercept the enemy attack and bring them into the air before slamming them into the ground. There are five mirror based weapons in total in the game.
  • The rosaries (or beads) are introduced as long-ranged weapons, spat out of Amaterasu's mouth (secondary weapon form). They can also be linked together to form a whip (main weapon form), dealing high damage through high number count combos. There are five Jewel based weapons in total in the game.
  • The glaive (or sword) is somehow controlled by Amaterasu to be wielded in midair and used to perform a number of slashing moves (main weapon form), or can be used for a straight charge into the enemy (secondary weapon form). There are five sword-based weapons in total in the game.
  • In the game, the different weapons can be combined to create different attacks. (ex. The mirror and the jewels)

Screenshots

Reaction

Reviews

Awards


Okami also received several awards during its presentation at E3 2005:

  • 1UP: Best PS2 Game, 2nd Best Game of Show, 3rd Best Action Game
  • GameInformer: 1st Billy's Top 10 Favorite Games of E3
  • GameSpy: 5th place overall
  • G4TV's X-play: Most Original Game
  • IGN: Best PS2 Game of Show, runner-up for Best of Show and Most Innovative Design
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Trivia

  • An NPC aptly named "Animal Lover" lost his rabbit named "Inaba." Inaba is the last name of Okami's head producer, Atsushi Inaba.
  • The game makes several references to previous Capcom titles such as Viewtiful Joe and Devil May Cry.
  • When Mrs. Orange prepares her cake, she does a Shun Goku Satsu, which is a nod to the powerful super move found in most Capcom fighting games.
  • When digging in spots that glow, Clover Studio's symbol will appear. Even its music during the introductory movie for Clover is played.

Reference

  1. http://www.capcom.com/release_dates.xpml Capcom Release Date Info

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