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Werner Punz wrote:

 > Not to much, hey it is August.
 >
 > One thing I did was to buy myself a really cheap used PS3 to catch up on
 > PS3 titles.
 > The first game I now have been playing on this system is an old love of
 > mine which I never finished on the Wii and which simply never really
 > will run properly on PC emulators
 >
 > Okami, the PS3 is the only system which has this game in HD and as I
 > said no emulator really emulates this game perfectly yet.
 > (Tried it on a Wii emulator and a PS2 emu, the PS2 emu runs somewhat
 > better but some spells are a pain due to positioning problems caused by
 > the emu).
 >
 > Also Capcom basically has written this game off and will never port it
 > to another system again, I guess. Also although the developers want to
 > do a big sequel (there is a small one for the NDS) it wont happen, I 
guess.
 >
 > A short description of a game. Okami originated on the PS2 in its last
 > days and is one of the gems of this system. It is basically a Zelda
 > clone from Clover Studios (which is now Platinum games)
 > but the thing is it is better than Zelda in many aspects.
 >
 > You basically play a wolf godess and the entire game focues around
 > beating the usual evil which has overtaken the land of Nippon.
 > The art style is cell shaded japanese paintings and the games fights and
 > puzzles solving is centered around spells, which you can cast by drawing
 > symbols to a paper (similar to what Arx Fatalis did)
 >
 > The game itself is a uniuque mix of artstyle and 3d zeldaish gameplay.
 >
 > Unfortunately it is such a nieche game that almost no one played it.
 > Capcom tried to recover the costs by porting it to several systems.
 > The PS2 the PS3 and the Wii. With the PS3 version being the only HD
 > version so far in existence.
 >
 > Unfortunately this game will never see a pc port, the spellcasting
 > system would be perfect for the mouse and there are not to many Zeldaish
 > games on the PC anyway, so it is playing it on the console for now.
 >
 > If you have the chance check out this game, it is worth it.
 >
 >
 > Werner


I played this back in the day on the PS2, it was very good and had 
beautiful graphics, but it's typical console length and feel other than 
the drawing spells gimmick.   I haven't really played any zelda since 
the original (other than one I only played for an hour or two I hated on 
the game cube) but it didn't remind me of that.  I'd put a number of PS2 
games above it, God of War (now THAT should be on the PC!) GTA III & VC, 
Ico, and probably a few others.

- Justisaur