In an unimaginable shock nobody noticed coming, a giant orchestra and a person with a giant drum took the stage at The Game Awards 2024 to disclose Hideki Kamiya’s studio’s new recreation. And it isn’t an new IP – a lot to our delight, it is an precise, actual sequel to Okami. Okami 2.
We did not see a lot of what Okami 2 really shall be throughout the present. The reveal consisted of some attractive music from the aforementioned orchestra and drummer, and a teaser of presumably Amaterasu operating by a discipline towards the horizon. Extra to return quickly, one should hope!
Capcom has been seeding the bottom for a brand new Okami, quietly, for some time now. Earlier this 12 months, it polled followers to see in the event that they have been fascinated with an Okami sequel, alongside sequels for Lifeless Rising, Mega Man, Breath of Fireplace, Dino Disaster, and extra. We have additionally been listening to from Kamiya himself recently that he is been asking Capcom for the chance to (*2*), and that he believes the unique Okami crew was “weak” and “not a dream crew” – suggesting he might have assembled one thing he is somewhat extra proud of this time round.
Even when Kamiya believed the unique crew wasn’t nearly as good because it may have been, we nonetheless liked the unique Okami. We gave the Wii model a 9/10 manner again within the day, calling it “one of the crucial bold and totally pleasant Wii titles thus far.”
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