Capcom has brought the underrated classics games to the Playstation store. Okami was originally released on PS2 which is developed by Clover Studios who is best known for Viewiful Joe series. It's the last PS2 games for release in 2006 just before the console release of the seventh generation console PS3 in 2007. It received critical acclaim from critics which gives Okami the best overall score calling best adventures games ever in 2006. Unfortunely the Clover Studios did a poor job for game sales which sold less than the 200,000 copies which causes the developers declaring to shut down their studios in March 2007. In 2008, Capcom decided to port the original PS2 game for Nintendo Wii which is ported by developer company Ready at Dawn which is aiming for Wii gamers to increasing more attention to make it sold much better than the PS2 version sales but it still became least selling game in 2009. Capcom also ported the HD version of original PS2 which ported by Hexa Drive for PS3 version which is available on Playstation Store in October 2012.
Okami HD is a open world adventure game on PS3 which conteins HD scaling runs up to 1080p with clean visuals and better animations performance. It also supports the Playstation Move peripheral and trophy achievements.
This game is based on Japanese myths, legends and folklore and the story is about after the events 100 years ago, there is unknown man, who does not believe the legends, accidently took off the sword which prevents Orochi spreading the darkness on the lands of Nippon. Sakuya the guardian of Kamiki Village summons the Sun goddess wolf named Amaterasu to commanding her to restore the land to save a villagers from the Orochi with the help of tiny friend Issun to help Amaterasu.
The gameplay is simple, it's just like the Nintendo's adventure game such as Legend of Zelda which you can able to explore the world, buying items from shop, and talking to people conversations. The brush techinques are pretty interesting, you can draw something cool to perform the miracles which is very creative on this game but sometimes it may be unresponsive when trying to draw the right shapes of artwork to get the miracles working during the gameplay but maybe you will get used to it when learning to practice the brush techniques. The battle gameplay is pretty outstanding, the weapons are just the straight forward items with good attack systems and you may also change weapons from items menu. You can upgrade the character's health, ink, pouch and money bag to improve both abilities and limitations space. The puzzle is'nt hard to solve problems, you may find the game little fraustraighting but still worth challenging with fantastic levels.
The graphics is just how nice and beautiful with cel-shaded animation and watercolor style which is to make it look like Japanese ink washing animated with best looking character design, backgrounds, texures and visuals.
The music and sounds are perfectly well done. It's has the best Japanese culture music with emotions and joyful. The sound effects are excellent while the voice dialog lacks the actual English or Japanese speaking but instead ends up with gibberish voices but you get to understand by reading the text on bottom.
The special features comes with PS Move support, Trophy achievements and unlockable stuff.
Advantages
Outstanding gameplay
Fantastic Graphics
Brilliant Music
Interesting storyplot and characters
Disadvantages
Brush techniques issues
Lacks of actual voice acting
Final Verdict
Could it be a best adventure games yet?
Here is my bottom line.
Gameplay 9.5/10 - Outstanding controls for open world area, battle fight and puzzle solving.
Graphics 10/10 - Best looking graphics with cel shaded animation made of watercolor style.
Music and sound 9.9/10 - Brilliant music score and excellent sound effects.
Special Features 9.4/10 - PS Move support, trophy achievements and unlockable stuff.
Overall 9.7/10 - Okami HD is the epic and most fun adventure games for PS3. Too bad It did not appeal well to RPG gamers which the game didn't gain much attention. This game is definitely must buy for PS3 gamers while others who own PS2 or Wii should stick with original version.
Okami HD deserves to be the best open world adventures games of all times.
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