$19.99Okami HD A World Painted With a Brush
Restore a land steeped in myth, one stroke at a time, in a story-rich adventure full of color and heart.
Is Okami HD worth it?
Okami HD is worth it if…
- you have the patience for a slow, hand-holding opening that opens up into a grand adventure
- you love Japanese folklore, mythology and worlds built from old folk tales
- you want an adventure where the art style is the point, not an afterthought
- you would enjoy being a benevolent wolf goddess who helps people and feeds animals
- you can live with a 30 fps cap and some clunky old-game habits
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The Celestial Brush: paint the world back to life
The signature trick of Okami is that the world is your canvas. Pause the action, and the screen turns into a painting you can draw on. Draw a line across a broken bridge and it mends. Sketch a circle on a withered tree and blossoms burst out. A single stroke can turn day to night, cut a demon in half, or whip up a gust of wind. As the story unfolds you collect more brush techniques, and the same stroke that slices an enemy in combat can also conjure a lily pad to walk on water. Drawing a bomb next to a monster never stops being satisfying, even when the brush occasionally misreads your handwriting.
A folklore-soaked world worth lingering in
Nippon is built from Japanese myth and old folk tales, and it shows everywhere: Shinto spirits in the groves, treasure chests holding incense burners and lacquerware, a cast of villagers and yokai with real personality. It looked striking twenty years ago and it still does, especially now in high resolution. The soundtrack carries the same care, and the story builds from helping one village to a journey with a genuinely moving ending. You can also turn the whole Oina tribe into dogs, if benevolent godhood needs a silly outlet.
