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Okami

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"Okami is based on the Japanese legend of the sun god, Amaterasu, whom you control throughout the game in the form of a white wolf. A truly epic journey awaits this wolf, who wields divine power quite literally as an artist wields a brush. Despite its unusual premise and other unique qualities, Okami is in many ways a textbook action adventure game. It takes its cues from the Legend of Zelda series in particular and achieves similarly outstanding results. Much like in those games, in Okami you'll traverse a vast countryside filled with intrigue, meet a variety of interesting characters, delve into dungeons chock-full of various traps and fearsome-looking creatures, and become more and more powerful as you go. All the while, Okami's stunning good looks give it the appearance of a cross between a cartoon and a traditional Japanese ink-and-watercolor painting, and perhaps best of all, the game keeps going and going for much longer than most other games like it."
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Release Date: 9/19/2006
Publisher: None/Unknown
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Overall Rating: exceptional

Bottom Line: My favourite game available for any system, anywhere. Period.
I don't normally do reviews, but Okami deserves it. It's underplayed here in North America, but it's a beautiful game and incredibly fun. The difficulty level is fairly low, which makes the enemies and situations easy, but this is overcome by harder unlockable enemies later on that are so difficult it's surprising that they are in the same game. The characters are charming and heart warming, and I didn't find anything in the game that I didn't like. And that's all there is to say, really.
Learning Curve: Takes a second
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