Okamiden

To be honest, so far I've been enjoying the brush, keychain and pillow more than the game itself. . .

To be honest, so far I've been enjoying the brush, keychain and pillow more than the game itself. . .

Keychain and pillow? Where the heck did you buy it?

Keychain and pillow? Where the heck did you buy it?

If you pre-ordered from Capcom you got a keychain.



And you can/could (I think they're out now) order this cute little thing from Japan's Capcom online store.

http://blog.ningin.com/2010/07/06/cute-a...-okamiden/

Finished it just now, and well...

 Spoiler

Dammit Capcom, stop sequel hoaring. That's obviously a setup for another game with the information you left out and the way it was told.

 Further Details, real spoilers here: of this and of the original

So now that the origin of darkness, vessel and all are gone from the plane of mortals. The only way for them to add on to this would be working on the celestial plane. But then that leaves out Kuni's adventures. So even though a sequel is obvious at this point, I'm not sure how they'll work it out.
Another question. What was Yami's vessel of light? By appearances, I'd say that it was one of the spirits of the brush in the form of a seal.

And a gripe. Manpuku was entirely unnecessary. The story was getting good, past all the introductions and beginning to reveal bits of information that was left out of the original. Then, BAM. Oh hey, another character. With no real values.

As for how I'd rate the game. I'd improve what I said earlier about it being "silver" to about a 91%. The story made a nice recovery for the most part, and the music was grand as the original. It had style, but also some shortcomings in gameplay and overall stylus detection during cutscenes. The package as a whole was definitely worth my money though.

Hmm, on second thought I'd knock it back down to a 87% because of those shortcomings. Too much love for the Original can be blinding sometimes.

Finished the game myself just the other day, too.

Overall, I've very pleased with it. I'd prefer to have the sequel to such a great game on one of the big consoles, like PS3, so it could've been even better, but for what it was, Okamiden was definitely worth the buy. A solid sequel to Okami, and I love how it intertwined itself with the original's story.

I was actually quite surprised at how hard some of the bosses were. I never died in the game, but some of the bosses really gave me a beating. I never had that happen in the first game.

Later on, there are way too many characters and it just feels a bit hectic, but I could live with it. The fact that your ink pots don't refill was also a little weird at first, but I got used to it pretty quick and almost never had the problem of running out, even during ink pot-heavy parts. There was slow-down at times in the game, too, which got somewhat annoying, but thankfully those slow-downs only lasted for a few seconds at most. I was personally also hoping for more new, or unique Celestial Brush techniques, which it did not deliver on, but with the obvious (and aggravating) sequel-baiting the game did, there may be another chance for them to do so.

Overall, I'd say the game gets a 8.8 out of 10.

I also gotta say... this is probably the cutest game I have ever played. Chibiterasu is just so adorable. I found myself "awww"ing way too often.

I'd love to get this but I really don't know where the hell my DS is, and my little brother doesn't know where the hell he put his either. Same reason I can't continue with Black or White. I made it up to about the 4th gym in the Japanese version long ago but can't find my DS at all to continue.

I'm just running up the robot right now but I got the red lamp on my ds so I had to let it charge. I've been jumping between this and Pokemon a lot so I haven't beaten it yet like I typically would have. I also need a new battery for my DS but since I'm going to get a 3DS I don't see the point in investing.