okami_boxart

PS2 Boxart

Okami is a game that came out in 2006 for PS2 (2008 for Wii) that didn’t have the greatest sale figures. It’s also a game I got just before Christmas of last year that I fell in love with immensely. It’s not your typical strategy, puzzle, platformer, but instead, it’s a game so enriched with Japanese history, visuals, mythology and culture that if you didn’t have even the smallest idea of anything dealing with Japan, it’d blissfully fly over your head and you’d be none the wiser. Instead of your typical anime-esque human caricature as a lead, this time, you use a god — but not just any god, you’re in control of a wolf… god… with paintbrush abilities. I’ll allow that to sink in. More >