The closer I get to the top of my list, the more verbose I expect my text on each game to become. We’re closing on Lungfishopolis’s two year anniversary, and I can’t speak highly enough of each game listed here. 16- Okami (Clover Studio, Playstation 2, 2006) Okami is squarely within the genre carved out […]

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I’m a huge fan of Okami. The Nintendo DS spinoff Okamiden is due for release in 2011, and the trailer looks fantastic.

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Now that the end is in sight in terms of 2009’s video games, I thought I’d look back at all the games I played this year. I’ll definitely be playing Scribblenauts, Dragon Age: Origins, and Borderlands before the year’s over, and I may also be playing Uncharted 2 or Brutal Legend. But they’re all games that I’ll […]

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Although the version of Okami I played was a Wii remake of the Playstation 2 game, I loved it. It was not only the best-looking Wii game I’ve ever seen, it was potentially the best-looking videogame I’ve ever seen. This is because the designers didn’t shoot for photorealism, instead opting for a beautiful hand drawn […]

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At the beginning of the year, when the Wii version of Okami was released, someone noticed something odd about the cover art on the box – there was an IGN watermark on the Okami art! Shortly thereafter, Capcom announced “Okami Cover Artwork Redemption” – basically, they planned to cover up their colossal mistake via distraction. […]

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Recently, I fired up the copy of Okami that’s been sitting on my shelf for months, gathering dust and cat hair. After the initial half hour of text-reading, when the game actually started, I was completely shocked at how good it looked. This is a Wii game, ported from the original Gamecube version – it’s […]

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