Nagi traveled to the cave where the creature lived, and attacked it until most forces abandoned him. However, one villager called Nagi finally decided to try to defeat Orochi, as he could not stand the fact that the girl he loved would be offered to the beast. The creature would visit the village regularly, claiming the life of a young girl as a sacrifice. The introduction of the game narrates an ancient legend that took place on the world of the game 100 years ago: For a long time the Kamiki village suffered under the threat of the eight-headed monster Orochi. Counting with that base, it is not surprising that the main plot of the game follows a very familiar pattern of a cataclysmic threat that can only be overcome by a legendary hero with an unlikely origin. Many of its characters are directly based on fantastic figures from classic fables, and the visual style evokes the Japanese watercolor and wood carving art of the Ukiyo-e style. Okami bases its premise on the traditional Japanese folk tales and art style.
And all of this in a way that makes sense as part of the lore of the story. This virtual tool allows players to not only witness the beauty of the world, but also interact with it in a way that makes them participant of shaping the environment they see, creating new elements, and changing those that appear on screen. The team at Clover Studio managed to avoid this implementing a gameplay feature that would end up defining the game just as much as its singular art style: the Celestial Brush. We are talking about a game that offers players simple objectives in order to help them appreciate the incredible beauty they will find in their path.īut the risk of reducing a videogame to a mere visual spectacle is that the actual interaction with the player becomes a boring afterthought. This small detail helps in a huge way to understand where Okami is coming from and what is trying to accomplish. One of the earlier prototypes simply showed the figure of a wolf running in nature, with flowers magically appearing behind this figure. The concept for Okami was originally built upon the idea of depicting nature.
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