I was immediatly surprised to find okami at 40 bucks. I'm somewhat am used to paying 50 bucks for a new game, so just a ten dollors less is something that caught me off guard.
aside from the beautiful art direction, Okami was always something that caught my attention. I guess it's been wha? like 3 years since it's been previewed on gamespot, so the hype has been building, on each time I'm viewing it it looks magnificent and amazing and it made me wonder "what is holding up this game?" Capcom has recently been holding back a lot of games, like Resident Evil 4, Killer 7, Viewtiful Joe, ect. Capcom is a company known for milking a series to death, but I'm always used for them to holding onto a date..... although I wasn't asking for Final Fight Streetwise or Megaman spin off series. But still Okami is a well desirved wait.

I'll admit I've been replaying a lot of Legend of Zelda Orcarina of Time , so immediatly I can easily compare Okami with Zelda and not fear that backlash of overhyping the game. Aside from that, I think I will just talk about the immediate reaction to it. I've been just feeling this urge to play this game more and more, and I think that's because of the game's immediate accessablity. Although on the other side of it, it also feels really well thought out gameplay since you can always stop everything to paint. So there is never a moment where I feel stressed out over the heat of battle and forced to draw a symbol while my fingers are all jittery like Castlevania Dawn of Sorrows. Also with that, it's a joy to listen to NPC history, problems and requests they are all well written that add more depth to the story. Much like animal crossing....... yeah I do often keep thinking of other games, but not in a bad way, I think Okami borrows a lot of ideas from a lot of games and makes it own game. As I was saying, much Like Animal Crossing, the NPC characters are all well written and the translation is amazing. I'm heavily enjoying Issun, the sassy little loud mouth "wandering artist" that helps lighten up the game.

maybe I'm in the urge to play Legend of Zelda, but instead I feel "why do I want Zelda at this point?" HA! I probably won't say that in two months, but yeah, Okami is very emmersive and makes me thank god I have a PS2 to enjoy this game.I'm going to save wirting about the game for later because I do intend to write a review on it.