Okami was a 2006 sport of the yr winner that by no means achieved sale success in-line with its critical-acclaim. It’s becoming then, if nonetheless utterly bonkers, {that a} sequel to the Legend of Zelda-inspired journey sport would get introduced at this yr’s Recreation Awards. A musical medley on stage revealed we’re getting Okami 2 from the unique director virtually 20 years later.
What made gamers fall in love with the unique sport again within the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii days was its evocative artwork impressed by Japanese folklore and its progressive painterly mechanics that had gamers emulate brush strokes throughout the display screen to resolve puzzles and fight enemies. There’s by no means been something fairly prefer it since, till possibly now.
It was directed by Hideki Kamiya as a part of Clover Studio. A Capcom veteran, he had additionally beforehand directed Resident Evil 2 and Satan Could Cry. Following the sport’s launch, he and different artistic leads on the firm departed to discovered Platinum Video games the place he made the Bayonetta sequence and different motion video games. On the Recreation Awards, Keighley revealed that Kamiya has returned to Capcom to steer a brand new studio referred to as Clovers that’s engaged on the sequel.
“One factor I wish to clarify is that I didn’t stop PlatinumGames in order that I may make a selected sport elsewhere, or that I stop the corporate to work with a particular associate underneath higher situations,” he informed IGN in an interview final yr after leaving his earlier firm. “I hear baseless rumors saying that I’ll be working with this or that particular person, however nothing has been determined but. Once I left PlatinumGames, I genuinely had no different plans lined up. After I stop, I spent a while simply mendacity round watching motion pictures and TV reveals. However after I began to consider it, I discovered I already had a transparent concept of a sport I wish to make. I can’t begin placing these concepts into motion but, however I’ve began to consider methods to probably make it occur. That mentioned, making video games not often goes the best way you imagined, so I need to discover my choices and discover the route that works greatest for me.”
Within the years since its launch, Okami obtained a religious successor referred to as Ōkamiden on the Nintendo DS and later an HD port which is presently out there on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Change, and PC. We nonetheless don’t know a lot about Okami 2 and it sounds prefer it may nonetheless be early days. The unique sport was so particular and followers have waited so lengthy that I’m positive they’ll be content material to sit down patiently for just a few extra years to play the sequel.
