Okami: An Unusual Game For Wii and PS2

In the Wii edition of Okami, your weapon is your Celestial brush, and your fighting style is using the Wii-mote to create your brush strokes. My experience was that you needed a steady, practiced hand for success. Anything less would lead to frustration. It did get easier with practice.

Rather than experience points, you gain praise. Praise is earned not only through helping villagers with quests, but also in restoring blighted land, causing trees to bloom, and feeding animals. The spirituality and peacefulness of this makes for a very relaxing mood, overall. You can spend this earned praise on expanding your lifebar, or maximum ink level, among others.

The violence was completely unrealistic and nothing I worry about my young children seeing. You either spin one of your weapons, such as the sun mandala that is on your back at the beginning, to hit the enemy, or you use your brush stroke abilities. Neither produces blood or wounds. As you defeat each enemy, their paper-doll-like model slices in half and turns to flowers.

There is some suggestive content. Your little bug-sized sidekick, who is greatly offended at being called a bug, first appears creating trouble by crawling around in a tree sprite's robe, as she twitches and wriggles, showing a lot of cleavage, trying to get him out. There are suggestive comments, as well, but my beginning readers and non-readers would have no way of knowing anything about those.

I love the spirituality, the beauty, and the mood. The game feels like such a peaceful escape. But it doesn't take itself terribly seriously. The writing is outright funny at times, and, throughout, the buggy little side-kick refers to this ancient goddess as "Ammy" and "furball."

Rated T for Teen for Crude Humor, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Blood and Gore, Fantasy Violence.

Okami Walkthroughs, Guides, and Maps for Wii

Okami Walkthroughs, Guides, and Maps for PS2

Your end-game evaluation of your accomplishments will determine what is unlocked.
Unlocked just by finishing the game:
Art Gallery
Jukebox
New Game+
Stray bead
Karmic Returner
Karmic Transformation 1
Karmic Transformation 2

Other Unlockables:
Invincibility - collect all 100 stray beads
Secret Theater - Play more than 31 hours
Karmic Transformation 3 - S-Rating for "Deaths"
Karmic Transformation 4 - S-Rating for "Enemies Defeated"
Karmic Transformation 5 - S-Rating for "Money Gained"
Karmic Transformation 6 - S-Rating for "Demon Fangs Found"
Karmic Transformation 7 - S-Rating for "Praise Earned"
Karmic Transformation 8 - S-Rating for "Praise Earned"
Karmic Transformation 9 - S-Rating for "Praise Earned"