I have a hard on for Okami

[Signa]

I was absolutely thrilled to find out last month that Okami is being ported to PC. The Steam store posted the page for it and now I have added it to my collection. Unfortunately, it's not going to be playable until December 12th, so I have a lot more time to wait than patience.

Okami is my second favorite game of all time, and arguably the best Zelda game ever made. If it wasn't for Breath of the Wild being so damn good, I'd say it absolutely was better than any other Zelda game.

So everyone, have you played Okami? Did you like it as much as I did? What was the best and worst parts for you?

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Loved it~ Was a fantastic game. I have it on my Wii game shelf right now. Should get to playing it again eventually...

 

[ChupathingyX]

Played it for the first time earlier this year (the PS3 HD version) and I loved it.

The only noteworthy problems I had with it was the shaky pacing at times and the overall rather easy difficulty.

 

[Zhukov]

I tried it once.

It was terrible.

The intro was 23 motherfucking minutes of unskippable cutscene during which it repeated the same damn story twice for no apparent reason and sat me through an eternity of sloooooowly scrolling unskippable text accompanied by jibberish dialogue.

Got through all that to be greeted with the kind of nothing-special gameplay I would expect from a random $15 game on Steam.

Uninstalled it in disgust.

 

[Casual Shinji]

It's a great game, but I have a harder time getting into it now because I have a lower tolerance for textboxes, and unlike Zelda Okami doesn't exactly know how to keep those brief. The game also kind of wears out its welcome after the big capital chapter, where it moves away completely from all the characters we've come to love and the main plot about Orochi.

I might still pick it up once it hits the PS4, but then I don't know of I want to support Capcom's desperate whoring for cash. None of their remasters feel like they even have any real work put into them.

 

[Warhound]

It's not better than Zelda.

Most things are better than Zelda.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

I tried it once.

It was terrible.

The intro was 23 motherfucking minutes of unskippable cutscene during which it repeated the same damn story twice for no apparent reason and sat me through an eternity of sloooooowly scrolling unskippable text accompanied by jibberish dialogue.

Got through all that to be greeted with the kind of nothing-special gameplay I would expect from a random $15 game on Steam.

Uninstalled it in disgust.

Well, aren't you special.

Personally, I'm torn between getting the PC version and the PS4 version, because with the latter I can show it off to the rest of my family as well, more easily than with my PC. On the other hand, it might be cheaper, I haven't seen the price for the PS4 version in my country yet.

I played it on both the Wii and PS3 and I loved it both times, though I never managed to finish it.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

It's not better than Zelda.

It's better than some Zeldas.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

I won't deny that. I just vehemently disagree with the OP that it's arguably the best Zelda or even close to it.

In which case would you mind telling us exactly what the best Zelda is, in your opinion?

 

[Signa]

I won't deny that. I just vehemently disagree with the OP that it's arguably the best Zelda or even close to it.

In which case would you mind telling us exactly what the best Zelda is, in your opinion?

I was just going to ask the same thing. I doubt Okami would have been nearly as good without previous Zeldas to influence it, but any other 3D Zelda I can think of was shorter and just had less going for it overall. You might even argue that it lacks that "classic" feel most Zeldas have, but comparing the adventures you go through in each game, I'm going to say Okami did it better each time.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Oh, PC port? That sounds pretty good. If you can swap between controller and mouse, that would be perfect for both the action gameplay and when you need to do precise brush strokes.

It was a damn good game, IMO.

 

[anthony87]

Haven't been able to play through an entire Zelda game yet without getting bored.

Beat Okami twice.

Okami is best Zelda confirmed.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I love Okami.

Yeah, it's a blabbery game but I like the characters and the story so much I never found it annoying. I've played the game in full twice on PS2 and the only three things I'd criticize are 1) Issun's tendency to solve puzzles for you, 2) how finicky some of the brushtrokes can be - the infinity symbol registers maybe 1 every 3 attempts - and 3) the third act is the less interesting one, emotional ending notwithstanding.

It's a pretty easy game but I don't consider that a flaw in a game if it's fun anyway.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I love it ... but then again I love dogs, wolves and coyotes. Haven't een the latter in real life, but they look adorable.

I played it on the Wii, and I fell in love with it as well. It's hard to describe why I love it, but it has pretty good controls, phenomenal artwork, fun animations, and all the truly beautiful touches like how things just spring to life as you run underfoot. Everything feels vibrant and beautiful and while incredibly tropish, the theme takes on a sense of a good folklore tale.

Plus how many games do you know where you get to play a goddess and bite things? Humour was also cute.

 

[Urgh76]

What sold me about Okami was the length of it.

There was such an amazing amount of detail poured into the first part of the overall world, and even then it continued to surprise with such a vibrant fleshed out atmosphere. I genuinely felt like Orochi was the final boss, and was completely prepared for Okami to have ended there. But then it didn't. And that was only a third of the game, the rest having that same amount of care and detail throughout it.

So yeah, Okami's good, I would've been happy paying $30 for just the first third of the game.

 

[gorfias]

So yeah, Okami's good, I would've been happy paying $30 for just the first third of the game.

Picked up the Wii version for about $15. I'll be playing it on the Wii U. (I did have it for the Wii already and my kid left it at someone else's house, never to be seen again) I started it before. Looking forward to getting back into it.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I have had a hard on for okami for so many years, ever since 2005 basically.


Don't particularly care bout it being on pc though, the platform doesn't make the game, the game makes the platform.

 

[meiam]

Okami is indeed a very long game, it's practically two regular game length worth of content.

My only complaint (okay two, the voice get annoying after 40 hours) is that its just too easy, especially the combat. I never really felt like I had to figure out a puzzle/fight/boss, it was just hot knife trough butter the entire time.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

In which case would you mind telling us exactly what the best Zelda is, in your opinion?

I was just going to ask the same thing. I doubt Okami would have been nearly as good without previous Zeldas to influence it, but any other 3D Zelda I can think of was shorter and just had less going for it overall. You might even argue that it lacks that "classic" feel most Zeldas have, but comparing the adventures you go through in each game, I'm going to say Okami did it better each time.

Disagree. I don't think Okami is as good as any of the first four 3D Zeldas, including the disappointing Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, which are still pretty good compared to most other games. I never played Skyward Sword or Breath of the Wild and have no strong feelings for the 2D games. I only got as far as one maiden in A Link to the Past before I got confusing by the direction. The only 2D one I came close to beating was Minish Cap. I screwed up my save file in the second to last dungeon. Okami's gameplay isn't that special and the game loses what steam it has towards the end. I think I gave up on my second playthrough in the snow area near the end, because I got bored.

You didn't answer the question, though. What, in your opinion, is the best Zelda game?

 

[Signa]

I won't deny that. I just vehemently disagree with the OP that it's arguably the best Zelda or even close to it.

In which case would you mind telling us exactly what the best Zelda is, in your opinion?

I was just going to ask the same thing. I doubt Okami would have been nearly as good without previous Zeldas to influence it, but any other 3D Zelda I can think of was shorter and just had less going for it overall. You might even argue that it lacks that "classic" feel most Zeldas have, but comparing the adventures you go through in each game, I'm going to say Okami did it better each time.

Disagree. I don't think Okami is as good as any of the first four 3D Zeldas, including the disappointing Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, which are still pretty good compared to most other games. I never played Skyward Sword or Breath of the Wild and have no strong feelings for the 2D games. I only got as far as one maiden in A Link to the Past before I got confusing by the direction. The only 2D one I came close to beating was Minish Cap. I screwed up my save file in the second to last dungeon. Okami's gameplay isn't that special and the game loses what steam it has towards the end. I think I gave up on my second playthrough in the snow area near the end, because I got bored.

The way you wrote all that sounds almost like you didn't like any Zeldas, and you still thought Okami was worse. I had to read it a few times to see you were praising the 3D Zeldas by saying you didn't care for the 2D games.

For me, of the 4 3D Zeldas, OOT is probably the best due to being the pioneer of the genre while still being really good for the standard the rest of the series set. TP perfected OOT, but it loses points for just coping itself. MM and WW are great in their own rights, but MM isn't really a Zelda game (It's Groundhogs Day: The Game), and WW was great, but ultimately forgettable, because I have to force myself to remember it when I'm thinking about Zelda games. Going beyond those first 4, SS was an absolute garbage heap, and BOTW is barely "Zelda" but really good too.

Okami is a better wolf game than TP, and TP was a perfected OOT and everything else is just shades of gray in comparison to OOT. Ergo, Okami is the best Zelda game.