Keep exploring and you'll find additional trees or patches of evil earth you can paint life back into, animals to feed and more. Trees sprout leaves, crystal clear water washes away the pollution and an oppressive cloud of evil energy is replaced by blue skies. When you clear out enough enemies, destroy a demon gate or topple a boss, you're rewarded by an animation that shows life returning to the world around you. When your adventure first begins, most of the beauty has been choked out of Nippon, leaving it a bland landscape of yellow grass, muddy water and bare trees.
Okami does this by literally breathing life into the world Ammy and Issun are fighting to save. While I might not enjoy cleaning the house, for instance, being able to look around afterward and see the difference a few hours of work has made is hugely gratifying. I'm one of those people who like to see an "In" pile on my desk become an "Out" pile. There's a whole lot to uncover in Okami and one of my favorite aspects of the game is how your progress is represented visually. Figuring out which techniques work best on the ever-increasing variety of demon enemies is a lot of fun, creating a reward loop that makes you truly feel like you're growing in power. You'll learn all sorts of new fighting techniques throughout your journey, as well as pick up a variety of weapons and gear to make you even stronger in combat.
While these brush techniques are an important part of exploration and combat, Okami offers plenty of other ways to build Ammy into a character worthy of her godly status. It takes a bit of practice to get the hang of but, once you learn to keep your hand steady, it's a hell of a lot of fun to physically draw your desired shape in the air and see it appear on the screen. My favorite way to play the game, though, is with a Joy-Con in each hand.
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You can still paint strokes using the analog stick or, in portable mode, you can simply use the touchscreen for even more precise control. It's an amazing way to interact with the game, and the Switch is even better suited to these mechanics than any other platform to date. You'll have more than a dozen brush techniques at your disposal before the game wraps up and the developer did a great job of integrating them into everything from exploration to combat. You can use a looping line to stir up a gust of wind or paint circles onto water to create lily pads. Sketch a circle in the sky and the sun will appear. Draw a slash across an enemy and they'll take damage. Given the fact that the world of Okami looks like a Japanese painting come to life, it's fitting that your key ability is to literally paint items and events into existence. When you're not too busy battling baddies, tackling wonderfully-designed bosses or closing off demon gates, you'll spend dozens of hours digging up treasures, uncovering hidden caves, fishing, helping other characters with side missions or interacting with the world in all sorts of creative ways.īeating at the heart of Okami is a mechanic I'm amazed other developers haven't tried to ape in the past decade, the Celestial Brush. The story itself is pretty linear but that's counterbalanced by big, open sections of the map you can explore and a massive number of things to discover. Combine the bright and colorful visuals with an absolutely glorious soundtrack and Okami remains a feast for the senses. I need to stress the fact that I've already played through Okami but, even still, the game managed to catch me off guard many times with just how beautiful it is. With your chatty pal on hand to help explain new mechanics or lead you toward points of interest, the lands of Nippon soon unfurl before you, brought to life in a gorgeous cell-shaded art style that took me by surprise time and time again. Since Ammy never speaks herself, Issun serves as an interpreter of sorts, relaying information to other characters and the player through his never-ending banter. Your companion on this quest is Issun, a minuscule traveling artist who hangs out with Ammy like a talkative flea.
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