this looks WAY cooler than twilight princess does. I was really dissapointed with TP. Is this one as.. boring?

Okami had it's boring Nintendo-esque scenes considering there was no voice acting mixed with terribly long dialog scenes.

Seriously, this game is more talkative than the Paper Mario series.  It's also surprisingly long (like... 30 hours).

See, I'd care about this port if Capcom hadn't shut down Cloverwhatsit.
I am angry at capcom for doing that.

Can you speed up and/or skip the damned dialogue this time around? I can't stand Okami because there is way too much talking to have the text be that slow.

Oh damn! I might have to look into investing into this. I never played the original and it always intrigued me, so!

Are the graphics any better (not that the Wii can really punch out anything SUPER IMPRESSIVE, but you know...) for this version, just out curiosity?

darkjak has heard so much sarcasm here on GW that he assumes every positive comment is sarcasm.

i bought this cos of the universal acclaim for the ps2 but i hated it. the dialogue was a big part of that, i mean, the story was so nonsensically cliched and formulaic for about 10 seconds i thought it was actually a funny joke. and how much of the utterly thoughtless drivel there fucking was jeez louise. now i see here you can skip cutscenes and dialogue and i guess that's an improvement but i don't really care?

supposedly the gameplay is fun and yeah at least the battles were nice and smooth, they didn't get in the way, but i found that i didn't really like how unobtrusive they were because i didn't want to do anything else the game had to offer. it was all so bland.

the only thing interesting the game had was it's style and really that isn't even so interesting because it's just cel-shading with a crusty overlay. i saw that already in wind waker, minus the overlay, and i saw all of the gameplay and everything else in the game in wind waker already. but i kind of liked wind waker for some reason, and i disliked this a lot.

it's like someone trying to imitate all of nintendo's boring shit and then throwing a bunch of superficial aesthetic changes onto it which only make it more boring.

so i'm suggesting don't get it and ignore the game.

*points at "Skip" option shown on the 1st screenie*

Damn, didn't even notice that. Thanks for pointing it out. Still, the game doesn't really feel like a very Clover game.

Okami sucks

I sort of agree with jamicus.  I was really surprised by the enormous amount of acclaim this game has gotten.  I thought it was okay and everything, and it had a great sense of style and some truly neat ideas.  Unfortunately was such a chore and a pain in the ass to play that I couldn't stick with it for very long.

I am interested in the game just because of the contrast between the acclaim it gets and the "OH MY GOD-THIS IS FUCKING CLICHE!!!" It at least makes me feel that if I play it I'll get something unique from it (even if it turns out to be a waste of my time).

Although I heard the wii controls are more obtrusive than they are intuitivie. Is this completely unfounded, something you have to get used to, or is it just a badly implimented chore? I don't want to pass up getting a used PS2 version for cheap (especially since I cycle PS2 games and sell them back all the time. I like my PS2 being the one system I designate to "mediocre/outdated games I play through just for the hell of it") unless it's REALLY worth it.

From what I hear, most of the wii controls are pretty decent. The brush is infinitely better on the wii, although I hear mainly that it is impossible to use the dodge controls. The IGN review shows this.

I wonder how the fuck these people get their jobs at IGN. The reviewer that reviewed Okami is so fucking bad. He has terrible vocal skills and is the most boring guy ever. The review itself is okay though.

I wonder how the fuck these people get their jobs at IGN. The reviewer that reviewed Okami is so fucking bad. He has terrible vocal skills and is the most boring guy ever. The review itself is okay though.

In a recent interview on some podcast I listen to (lol podcast), one of the former regulars on the podcast who had gotten a job at an enthusiast site and had come back for an interview was talking about this.  He says that there is a fairly large group of people with strong writing skills, but that most of them are more interested in working for the news media and not the enthusiast media.  The overlap between strong writers, people that love video games, and people who want to write about video games for a living is a pretty small, and therefore gaming media tends to get a few bad journalists.

However, I'm of the opinion that IGN reviews are generally not nearly as bad as people say.  I think that "lol IGN reviewers suck" is sort of an internet meme; whenever a journalist there makes the smallest mistake or has a single run-on sentence, he gets blasted by the readership.  Compared to other sites (like 1Up or the blogs), IGN tends to stand out pretty well.

I am interested in the game just because of the contrast between the acclaim it gets and the "OH MY GOD-THIS IS FUCKING CLICHE!!!" It at least makes me feel that if I play it I'll get something unique from it (even if it turns out to be a waste of my time).

The "acclaim" is completely vocal because the original Okami sold about 70,000 copies.  This one might do better because it's on a Nintendo console but I have my doubts.