OKAMI HD

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Designated Bark Button

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You can piss on demons

This is my number one favourite game and I have played it on several platforms. Totalling over 20 times.
PS2
PS3
PS4
PC
20/10 will definitely play again and again.
Edit: Thought I'd explain why it's my favourite game. I originally played it while I was off from school after a spine operation when I was fourteen. I borrowed it from a friend on PS2. I played it for the first time and got stuck on a bigger fight (first fight with Waka) so took a break and then came back and absolutely fell in love with the game after my next attempt. The characters, the story, the art is just beautiful and unique. The ending makes me cry every time and I just feel like I learn something new or find something different every time I played this game. I think I played it through over ten times on the PS2. about 5 times on PS3, 1 time on PC (on stream) and a few more times on PS4. Now I have a PS5 I'm going to see if I can download it on there and reply a few more times on PS5. I really recommend this game if you love a beautiful heartfelt story with fun and quirky characters. Its easier to play with a controller though, I'll be honest haha!

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I really want to like this game, and I definitely do. But with so, so many games there are to play these days, Okami is a little hard to keep one's patience on if you're not nostalgic for it. There's a lot of design speed bumps that are minor inconveniences, but add up to being sort of frustrating. This sucks because the game is ultimately marvelous.
Such minor issues include;
-Certain cutscenes have veeeery slow dialogue, likely due to the original release having a default speed for all the the dialogue that was quite slow.
-Combat is good, but our main character is a little floaty when it comes to swinging certain weapons.
- Some quests don't continue until you complete other seemingly unrelated quests. While that's just games sometimes, the pacing of what you have to do in what order sometimes deflates the story's or action's momentum. If you don't get in the habit of reading signs, you'll become minorly lost.
- The plot is sometimes a little hard to follow. Not through poor writing, but it tells a story that might be hard to wrap your head around depending on your sensibilities related to gods, mystic powers and dogs. In western culture, myths and lore are something you tend not to get directly involved in, insofar as you don't alter the endings of these myths. But here you regularly will, and that tripped me up several times while trying to follow along.
It's frustrating because I love this game's aesthetics, humor, general sense of whimsy and exploration/sense of adventure. The there's some parts you might be annoyed by evben outside of what I've mentioned (our talking companion maybe snarks too much, depending on who you are), but I would recommend it. Just be sure to be mentally prepared for some mental hiccups.