First look at Okami

Okami coverYesterday Okami was released in Europe and I guess I was the first one to ask for it in my local retailer since they still had it boxed :-(

So by now I've played it for about 2 hours. The first hour was a little bit strange since the game wasn't all that colorful as I had expected because that part of the world where the game starts is still completely occupied by evil and the "liberation" of it is basically a tutorial.

This post was written by zerok on Feb. 10, 2007 at 10:03 p.m. and tagged with , , .

Right after the first few minutes you also meet your constant sidekick Issun, a louse (although never call him a louse!) who is more or less your communication channel to the humans around you. Probably because it would have looked strange if a wolf could talk ... although I'm not really sure why a talking louse is any less strange.

Anyway. After the first hour or so you will have liberated your village and the world will finally have a sun again, making the whole region look way more friendly and colorful. And this is now where I am currently.

Great game so far, apart from the stupid speech-replacement :-? If you think that what you hear in games like Zelda is bad and annoying ... Okami definitely tops that. But probably the most frightening thing about it is, that I already got used to it ...

Btw.: Amped 3 still rocks ;-) I'm now done with the story and also have more than half of the achievements, so I guess I can start writing a review now.