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After practically 20 years, Okami is again. Announced at The Game Awards 2024, Okami Sequel is the working title for the follow-up to 2006’s Okami, a critically acclaimed action-adventure recreation beloved for its painterly visuals and exquisite retelling of Japanese mythology. As of proper now, there isn’t a launch date for the title, however a quick teaser trailer reveals us the return of its signature animation type and its fundamental character, the solar goddess Okami Amaterasu.
Additionally returning to Okami is its creator, Hideki Kamiya, who will serve as soon as once more as the sport’s director. Identified for his work on the primary few Resident Evil video games and for creating a few of Capcom’s most-iconic series–series equivalent to Satan Might Cry, Bayonetta, and Okami–Kamiya is an extremely outstanding determine within the gaming trade. Late final 12 months, he introduced his departure from long-time studio Platinum Video games, stating he wanted to observe his “beliefs as a recreation creator.” It now appears as if this may need been to reunite with Capcom for the Okami sequel.
Based mostly on the Japanese legend of Amaterasu, Okami follows the solar goddess as she takes on the type of a wolf in an effort to save Japan from encroaching darkness. Again in 2006, GameSpot known as Okami a “recreation so nicely crafted from high to backside that it is sure to impress nearly anybody who offers it an opportunity” in our evaluate.
But Okami 2 was not the one main reveal at The Game Awards 2024. We additionally acquired a take a look at The Final of Us studio’s subsequent recreation, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and CD Projekt Crimson’s The Witcher 4. Be sure you try our protection of all of The Game Awards’ largest bulletins, in addition to which studios had been the evening’s large winners.