Thank the omnipotent Flying Spaghetti Monster that the writer’s strike idiocy is now behind us; I can quit reading and becoming a better person and go back to slowly morphing into a pile of goo in front of my ginormous TV. One of my favorite things to watch is 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s awesome assault on America’s funnybones. Breaks my heart that a quality show like 30 Rock is somewhere in the 100’s in terms of people watching while 80% of America tunes in for crap reality and Jim Belushi “comedy” programmes. Sigh.

Dave Finkel is a writer on 30 Rock (got an Emmy for his work, in fact!) and also contributes to family-friendly gaming site What They Play. He’s got a lot of very nice things to say about Okami, including asserting that the game could actually (shock! gasp!) teach your kids something!!1

But here’s where Okami sets itself apart from the rest: it’s all based on actual Japanese mythos. The story telling is so vivid and fascinating, I found myself doing more research so that I could share these stories with my kid. There’s a soul at play here, and it is deeply resonant.

Read on for the rest of his very interesting take on Okami.

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