Okami (Wii) (Wii, PlayStation 2)

This game is a little weird but great! The drinking sake a young child wont even understand!

Clover Studio's swan song has been revived by Capcom for a "Wii-make", and while most of these go from mediocre (Rygar: The Battle of Argus) to atrocious (Mad Dog McCree? OH GOOD GOD), Okami is even more brilliant than it was on the Playstation 2. Plus, at $20-30 at most places, it's quite cheap, so you're getting more for your money. Anyways, enough about that. Okami is a tale that's infused to the brim with Japanese mythology. You play as Amaterasu, the sun goddess, who uses a calligraphy brush called the Celestial Brush in order to revive plants, repair bridges, and defeat enemies. Now, this does seem rather mundane, but it clearly isn't. There's also much comic relief in the character of Issun, the "one-inch man", who is basically your guide (like Navi to Link in Zelda: Ocarina of Time, only much less annoying). The graphics are based on sumi-e paintings, such as Hokusai's famous Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, and the overall effect is breathtaking. In terms of content, Okami's about as bad as your average shonen anime (but is much better, in my opinion). As can be expected, there's lots of hacking and slashing with the Celestial Brush, and while you can draw a line across a specific part of the body, basically dismembering it, the sumi-e art style lessens the impact quite a bit, even though there's some blood flowing. It's not like Dead Space or the Fallout games, where you can aim at a specific part of the body and graphically dismember it. Issun does provide the comic relief, but he uses some mildly foul language (though not enough to warn people about, such as "d*mn" and "h*ll") and he makes quite a few perverted remarks. Sakuya and Rao are two characters that have impressive (in the negative sense) amounts of cleavage. Finally, there's Orochi. He's a hard boss specifically because you have to make him drink a specific type of sake (Japanese rice wine, for the very few people who don't know). There are some other isolated instances of drinking and smoking pipes, but nothing too serious. Overall, Capcom and Ready At Dawn have brilliantly taken the genre-bending PS2 game/reason that video games are art and placed it on the Wii, basically unchanged. If you've never played this game before and have both a PS2 and a Wii, get this version, because it's so much more awesome to use the Celestial Brush with the Wii remote. Likewise, any fans of the original PS2 version should get the Wii version. And if you own a Wii and haven't played Okami before, what's wrong with you? Get this classic now! You absolutely won't regret it!

A great game! Awesome for the Wii!

This is perhaps the only good game that has a plot of sorts. It is lined with Japanese mythology, such as Susano-O and Amaterasu. Sure you got violence like cutting the imps in half for their floral finisher, but I have never really seen blood, except in the cutscenes. Either way, the monsters burst into flowers when they die. That gives out the message that you can use your powers for good or evil...but it radiates to do more good than evil. As for the pervert of Issun? It is not that big. Any guy I know would do the same thing with Rao, a large chested priestess. He is a a human male. Nothing wrong with that. Although Sakuya's dresses are a bit too perverted. But it has funny flitacoius scene when Issun meets the Queen and he falls off Ammy's head with little hearts. This game can encourage kids to learn about different people and their beliefs and a different culture's mythology, not just Greek or Roman. Plus, you have French talking Waka, whcih will encourage kids to learn French. The sake, It is a small part in the game, beside Orochi and power-ups. I myself did not know what sake was until I looked it up, so that would just fly over kid's heads like a airplane. Overall, it is my #1 game I have ever played and if you don't have it..GET IT! Totally worth the money.

First of all this game is like a zelda game like it has fun battles and puzzles. The good thing of this game is its eco friendly, the game is about like making the land tottally foresty. Anyway a great wii game. If your not sure just look it up

A white wolf saves the wold from darkness using a weapon and a paintbrush.Its a really cool game. too bad i only rented it =l

Okami is one of the best games made for the wii so far and ive beaten it three times, so i should know. and in those three times i never once saw ONE obsenity or words deemed as "inappropriate". even the drinking in it is not substantial. you they mention sake all but 5 times? and you get to beat a dragon by getting it drunk? i honestly dont see the harm in any of that.

ok awesome game! this is how to get past the block head on oni island. first once you find the block head on oni island turn back and go into that big room with the lightnig. then on the right wall there will be a plat form . youll have to jump up to get to see it. youll know when youll see it becus it has a bomb squigal on it. then when you brake the wall youll see a vine flower . go on it. then on the wall youll see on the sied a path with pots on it. walk past it till you see tobi . jump to him and then youll be past the block head! i know this is hard to under stand but hopefully you will get what im saying once you get there.