Okami 2 announced for DS! Titled Okami Legend: The Small Sun

2 September 2009

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Posted by:Josh

Capcom has officially announced Okami 2, entitled Okami Legend: The Small Sun (or Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyou in Japanese). It is being developed exclusively on Nintendo DS.

Why the DS? “The original idea was to take what makes this game special and expose it to more people. That was why we chose the Nintendo DS — being on a portable system will allow people to easily pick up and play it, and you can also use the touch pen as a brush.”

The game will take palce a few months after the original game left off. To quote IGN:

“Okamiden follows the events of the original Okami by a few months, in a world now restored to peace. Issun, Amaterasu’ guide from the original, accompanies Chibiterasu to Sakuya, the girl who called Okami to the world in the original. Sakuya asks Chibiterasu for some form of help.

You take control of Chibiterasu in a game whose fundamentals appear rooted in the original Okami. Just as you did in the original, you’ll be exploring the game’s brilliantly colored (well, for the DS) world while combatting monsters and solving puzzles. Much of the gameplay is being kept under wraps at present, but the combat system does appear to resemble that of the original.”

The developers also said this: “Around December last year, Matsushita came up to me and talked about making a new Okami that could be enjoyed in portable format,” Eshiro told Famitsu. “He’s very passionate about the game, and he already had a test version created by that time that was extremely high quality, fully capturing Okami’s unique visuals. Seeing that, I thought we were safe to make it an official project.”

“As you know, Okami’s visuals and game system are extmely unique,” added Matsushita.

Hopefully the game will live up to it’s console predecessor. At least the touch-screen and stylus controls will be a natural fit.