Okami’s depth is astonishing, meaning you’ll be retracing your footsteps and inevitably getting distracted to squeeze every drop of potential out of Nippon’s dense world. With each brushstroke you learn new areas and objects become accessible, ones that you’ll have first stumbled across earlier, bemused at how you could ever find a way in. But every single one will keep you coming back for more.
You’ll be taken to truly unexpected (and frankly bizarre) places which I won’t spoil here. The people (and creatures) you meet are just as unexpected: there are dog warriors, an inn run by sparrows, a dojo master whose head rotates upside down, imp chefs, as well as many other colourful characters who will continue to surprise and delight through the entire, very, very long storyline. Instead every single boss that you fight leads you deeper and deeper into what’s causing the curse that has enveloped Nippon. While Okami’s story is linear, it’s bubbling with mischief as it resists the idea that there’s a single big bad entity to defeat. But the Celestial Brush will give you those ‘ah-HA!’ moments as you figure out yet another way combine brush techniques to reduce your foes to dust. You can use Divine Instruments if you like, which is the fancy name for Okami’s weapons that fall into three types: swords, strings of beads which act like whips, or reflectors (which act similarly to swords). That divine inkbrush is your main weapon and gives you the ability to draw symbols that summon lightning, bombs, wind, slow time, let you use vines to catapult yourself into the sky, create lilypads… it makes you a god. A mixture of platforming, fighting, mini-games, and puzzles await, all meant to be tackled with the Celestial Brush. As the sun god Amaterasu, you’ll have to lift the curse by defeating monsters and bringing the Guardian Saplings back to life, mystical trees which restore nature to its rampant, glorious self in key regions and expels the infectious darkness. Okami begins with the unleashing of a terrible darkness that’s corrupts almost all of Nippon (otherwise known as feudal Japan). Without going into too much detail about the main questline, what I can reveal is that you really won’t see what’s coming when it comes to the story. Expect the unexpected when it comes to.well, everything
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