It only took 20 years but it's here! Okami sequel announced.

[Dreiko]

Amaterasu is female but the wolf she embodies, Shiranui, is male, he's referred to as such numerous times. You can see it in his pee humiliation attack even haha.

Basically they're an isshin-doutai being. Two selves within a single body. That's why she behaves like an actual wolf most of the time. That's actually Shiranui being in control. Amaterasu is not at all bestial like that.

The way I conceptualized it was that you only really play as Ammy when you pause and paint and when you make story decisions. Everything else is mostly Shiranui or a combination of the two. Shiranui is basically aware of her will and so he carries it out, but he does so with his own personality and mannerisms...or wolferisms I should say.


Oh and Yatsu DOES mention that he can see Amaterasu's true form and it being a "fair maiden" btw. So her being hot when in her actual manifestation and not while embodying a male wolf is canon. Which makes sense considering this is Okami too:

 

[Silvanus]

Amaterasu is female but the wolf she embodies, Shiranui, is male, he's referred to as such numerous times. You can see it in his pee humiliation attack even haha.

Basically they're an isshin-doutai being. Two selves within a single body. That's why she behaves like an actual wolf most of the time. That's actually Shiranui being in control. Amaterasu is not at all bestial like that.

The way I conceptualized it was that you only really play as Ammy when you pause and paint and when you make story decisions. Everything else is mostly Shiranui or a combination of the two. Shiranui is basically aware of her will and so he carries it out, but he does so with his own personality and mannerisms...or wolferisms I should say.

Oh and Yatsu DOES mention that he can see Amaterasu's true form and it being a "fair maiden" btw. So her being hot when in her actual manifestation and not while embodying a male wolf is canon. Which makes sense considering this is Okami too:

Hang on, I think you're misremembering this. "Shiranui" and Amaterasu are the same being from different time periods and at different levels of power. "Shiranui", which is a term for ghostly fire, is just the superstitious name the Kamiki villagers give her when they misinterpret her as a familiar of Orochi.

The Amaterasu of the past travels forward in time to assist her future self against Lechku and Nechku, while the Amaterasu of the future travels back in time to assist her past self against Orochi. After past-Ammy* is wounded by Nechku, she returns to her time and convalesces in Kamiki until she reincarnates at the start of the game.

The "male" terms are largely from the rushed translation, and female wolves also cock their legs to piss.

 

[Worgen]

Amaterasu is female but the wolf she embodies, Shiranui, is male, he's referred to as such numerous times. You can see it in his pee humiliation attack even haha.

So Amaterasu is trans?

 

[Dreiko]

Hang on, I think you're misremembering this. "Shiranui" and Amaterasu are the same being from different time periods and at different levels of power. "Shiranui", which is a term for ghostly fire, is just the superstitious name the Kamiki villagers give her when they misinterpret her as a familiar of Orochi.

The Amaterasu of the past travels forward in time to assist her future self against Lechku and Nechku, while the Amaterasu of the future travels back in time to assist her past self against Orochi. After past-Orochi is wounded by Nechku, she convalesces in Kamiki until she reincarnates at the start of the game.

The "male" terms are largely from the rushed translation, and female wolves also cock their legs to piss.

Shiranui was definitely a being before being tapped by amaterasu to do her bidding. The villagers see you how you look when you run out of ink which is Shiranui without the divine powers and all the red markings, as just the white wolf.

So Amaterasu is trans?

Amaterasu herself has a real female form, she's basically similar to us, the player, in manifesting her will through a male wolf. You can play as character of a different sex without identifying as that sex yourself.

 

[Silvanus]

Shiranui was definitely a being before being tapped by amaterasu to do her bidding. The villagers see you how you look when you run out of ink which is Shiranui without the divine powers and all the red markings, as just the white wolf.

She wasn't "tapped" by Amaterasu at all-- she is Amaterasu.

Notice what when "Shiranui" arrives in the future, she does have the divine red markings and solar disc. There is no separate being, a white wolf without those markings. Both "Shiranui" and Amaterasu exhibit them, because they're one and the same.

She simply lacks them when power has been exhausted.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[CriticalGaming]

They need to make a cheap port of the original game on modern systems before this launches.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

They need to make a cheap port of the original game on modern systems before this launches.

You're welcome.

 

[BrawlMan]

They need to make a cheap port of the original game on modern systems before this launches.

You're welcome.

Also on sale for $5 on PSN too.

OKAMI HD

Experience the critically acclaimed masterpiece with its renowned Sumi-e ink art style in breathtaking high resolution. Take on the role of Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess who inhabits the form of a legendary white wolf, on a quest to defeat Orochi, an eight-headed demon and tyrannical...

store.playstation.com

 

[CriticalGaming]

You're welcome.

oh well....okay then.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

oh well....okay then.

Sorry about being flippant before. I didn't realize you actually didn't know they'd already done one.

If Steam's inconvenient I'm sure it's on all the 8th-gen platforms, and should be backwards-compatible with the 9th-gen ones too.

 

[BrawlMan]

Sorry about being flippant before. I didn't realize you actually didn't know they'd already done one.

If Steam's inconvenient I'm sure it's on all the 8th-gen platforms, and should be backwards-compatible with the 9th-gen ones too.

They are. Hence why I have the PSN store link. Don't bother going to Amazon, they're out of stock for most 8th gen versions of the game.

 

[Silvanus]

I managed to grab the HD version for about £4 on a Switch sale the other day, to replay in preparation.

 

[Chimpzy]

I managed to grab the HD version for about £4 on a Switch sale the other day, to replay in preparation.

That's a steal for the original trilogy. It's sort of an in-joke among fans that Okami is actually three games in one.

 

[Silvanus]

That's a steal for the original trilogy. It's sort of an in-joke among fans that Okami is actually three games in one.

As in... the village/ Orochi bit, the capital city/ sea bit, and then the snowy bit?

 

[Chimpzy]

As in... the village/ Orochi bit, the capital city/ sea bit, and then the snowy bit?

Yeah.

Spoiler

First you fight Orochi, which feels like it could be the finale. But nope, cuz that wasn't actually the real true Orochi. So it keeps going. Then you beat True Orochi, which must be the finale, it's the true form of the big bad after all.

 

[meiam]

Yeah I do remember going "WTF that's not the end?!" has a kid.

Finally, a sequel with a female protagonist where nobody's going to ***** about her not being as sexy as before.

Well, then again....

I dunno, the furry community can be something...

 

[BrawlMan]

Yeah I do remember going "WTF that's not the end?!" has a kid.



I dunno, the furry community can be something...

The Furry community is the least weird, and they're practically normal compared to the anti woke fuckers. Even without the comparison, they're still relatively normal and healthy about what they're into.