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Game:Okami
ESRB Rating:Teen
Consoles:Nintendo Wii
Playstation 2
Developer:Clover Studios; Ready at Dawn; published by Capcom
Genre:Action-adventure
U.S. Release Date:Apr. 15, 2008
Okami is set in Nippon classic history. In it, you play as the sun goddess Amaterasu, who inhabits the Nippon in the form of a white wolf. Guided by Issun, an inch-high wandering artist, Amaterasu journeys across Nippon on a quest to stop the evil Orochi, who, after being sealed away 100 years ago, has been released and is once again cursing the lands. Throughout their quest, the duo relies on a mysterious power known as the Celestial Brush, and as they travel they seek out the thirteen lost Brush Techniques.

The characters and story of Okami are loosely based on Shinto mythology. The game uses a graphical style based on sumi-e (basically, watercolors); small scenes (mostly the images shown when you see a particular enemy for the first time) use the ukiyo-e style. It was actually the watercolor style that inspired the Celestial Brush controls; Atsushi Inaba, CEO of Clover Studios, noted that "Once we fixed ourselves on a graphical style and got down to the brushwork, we thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if we could somehow get the player involved and participate in this artwork instead of just watching it?' That's how the idea of the Celestial Brush was born."

The game was originally made for the PS2 and was developed by Clover Studios; the Wii version is a port that was handled by Ready at Dawn. Other than the ability to skip cutscenes and the different controls, there are few notable differences between the two versions.
Image viewing script used is ThickBox 3.1, developed by Cody Lindley.
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