For anyone still sleeping on this gem, Eurogamer has brewed some coffee and you need to smell it:
“The danger with Okami is that people will be so busy looking at how pretty it is, they’ll fail to appreciate just how brilliant it is underneath as well. Okami is an astounding videogame. Its world is living and organic, infused with ideas of mythology and natural beauty and influenced by several areas of the Japanese aesthetic, from sumi-e to architecture to religious and ritual tradition, as well as by other games as diverse as Zelda and Devil May Cry.”
“Okami should not be a little-known classic. It is an item of culture, informed by thousands of years of Japanese art and mythology and fashioned into perhaps the most thoroughly beautiful thing that gaming has to offer.”
“It’s as well-designed as Zelda, as involving as Final Fantasy, and as beautiful as anything you’ve ever seen; it belongs with the best of the Zelda series at the very apex of its genre.”
There’s news that Grand Theft Auto IV just surpassed Call of Duty IV as the most played game on Xbox Live. No doubt most of you, along with many of us here at Capcom, have been contributing to their success. However, is GTA4 something you want to play all the time? Can it satisfy all your gaming urges? Can it help you achieve zen?
Tim Agne doesn’t think so. Over on the mlive.com blog, Tim writes:
But an odd thing happened to me last week, and I feel the need to share it. I came home from work primed to uncork a gaming binge, but GTA IV just wasn’t screaming at me. I didn’t want to unload a workday’s worth of frustrations in an explosive catharsis of car wrecks and homicides. I needed something more relaxing, more chill, more Zen.
Given the fan reaction to the new alternative cover art for Okami on the Wii, we should offer alternative covers on every one of our titles! Unfortunately, some of our loyal Capcom fans live overseas and will not be able to be sent the alternative covers. To set that right, since everyone should enjoy Amaterasu’s beauty, we’ve put together the following links to high quality images of each of the covers.
Right click on the following links and save the images to your computer. Be aware, each image is over 10MB in size so that they will look fantastic when printed out and placed in your copy of Okami for the Wii. You can see snapshots of what each of the alternate images look like in our flickr pool here.
I can honestly say that my worst day at Capcom was this Monday. After releasing Okami for the Wii last week to some great reviews (Metacritic Average: 88), one of our Okami diehard fans discovered that the folks who work here at Capcom are, in fact, human and can make mistakes.
As fans know, the real art of Okami is on the game disc itself, but given the artistic nature of this game, we’d like the outside of the box to match the beauty contained within. To that end, we’re offering a free make-good gift to our fans. If you purchased Okami for the Wii, for a limited time, you can choose from one of the three art pieces below and Capcom will ship a high-quality version of the box cover straight to your door.
Each piece is sized to fit perfectly into your Okami Wii box and will transform your copy into the best-looking game on your shelf. Just head to http://www.capcom.com/artredemption/, fill out the form, and go back to playing Okami while you patiently wait for your new, improved art to make its way to you.
Thanks again for being a fan of both Capcom and Okami! Now get back to painting!
Those guys at Gametrailers, with their fancy equipment and actual skills, have once again done what we wish we could have done: They’ve made a video comparison between the awesomeness that is Okami Wii, released this earlier this week, and it’s original DNA clone, Okami PS2. If this video, and the awesome prospect of Celestial Brushing with the Wiimote doesn’t convince you to buy Okami Wii, your video game heart must be black, or at least some shade of dark gray.
I’ve been meaning to post this, but webcomic VG Cats had a strip one day, probably in celebration of a game that totally should have had Mega Man in it, called “100 Kirbies”, dedicated to the “what if” forms that Kirby could take on if he had to chance to suck them down like so many Slurpies.
How many incarnations can you recognize above? (Hint: They’re all Capcom related)
After you’re done with that lineup, check out the full strip. Scroll to the bottom of strip if you’re wondering which Kirby each is.
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.
We love Okami! In honor of The Best Game You’ve Never Played, we sent out thank you cards - handmade from recycled fibers and embedded with seeds - to the fans who preordered the game in the Capcom Store. When planted, savory and tasty sage plants will spring forth! An exclusive Okami postage stamp featuring Amaterasu was included on the envelope and inside the card was a coupon code for free shipping on a future purchase.
Are you sorry now that you didn’t pre-order this beautiful game? Well here’s your chance to get a little love from the Capcom Store. For one week, that’s April 15th through April 21st, we are offering the following coupon code: OKAMIWII08. Use it to purchase Okami for the Wii and get free economy shipping on your entire order. Yes! Your entire order. This is your opportunity to pick up a great game AND some of the other cool items you’ve been eyeing. The only requirement is that you purchase Okami for the Wii and use the coupon code. The coupon is only good for one use per customer but feel free to share it with as many people as you want. Okay! Stop reading this and click here to buy the game already. Sheesh! What are you waiting for?
Recently, right on our very own forums, fans repeatedly expressed some displeasure at the caliber of third party games coming out on the Nintendo Wii. One of the many points often heard is that the Wii is often on the receiving end of many ports, particular PS2 ports. However, one exception to this complaint has been the upcoming Okami for the Wii. As Wii Fanboy puts it, Okami is “the perfect example of how porting games can be a force for good”.
To that end, they interviewed Didier Malenfant, president and co-founder of Ready At Dawn, the folks responsible for the awesome port of Okami. They asked him to dish on such things as his side of the “how Okami came to be” story, why you should play the Wii version of Okami even if you have played the PS2 version previously, and how they dealt with the pressure of porting an award winning and critically acclaimed game.
What helped the most was the fact that we were all huge fans of the game ourselves to begin with. You don’t take a game as beautiful as Okami and think that you can mess with it, try to add content that doesn’t belong there or something. We have so much respect for the original game that we decided from the get-go that this was going to be a labor of love. The goal was to reproduce the experience as closely as possible. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it basically.
Thank the omnipotent 
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