The Perfect Game

I never believed it can happen.

Until not long ago, many of the games I played (both PC and PS)
were nice. Some were better than the others. Some were very
good and some were great games.

But in every game there were some little (or not so little) things
that I didn't like.

Until I played this game:


In the beginning it was very weird as the game has unique style
and unique interface.

However, every passing day I came to like it more and more.

The graphics is... different.. but brilliant.

There is no speech. Only strange mumbles. But each and every
character/monster has its own unique mumble and somehow
they made it sound cool.

The "heart" of the game is the brush. To perform something,
you're using brush to draw something. Starting in drawing simple
circle to make the sun appear and turn the night into day,
and ending in complicated brush abilities that aid you in battle,
for example drawing bomb that hit your enemies. This whole
concept in very unique and the most brilliant idea I've seen in
my life.

Music is great as well, although I played over 70 hours, the
music was never boring.

Story: perfect. Complicated. Sad. Revealed over time, part
after part. Lots of surprises all way long. Not like the usual
"one hero that save the world" type of story.

Duration: the longest game I've seen. over 70 hours of real
game play and I could have spent much much more without
complaining. No boring minute, always new stuff to do and find.

Complexity: Well, for others it can be too easy. However I don't
like hard game with too many puzzles. There are tons of puzzles
but none is really difficult, so for me it's heaven.

Battle System: Perfect+.
You can choose weapon, each working differently.
Battle is very flowing, monsters are sometimes very nasty
but even so, it's very hard to die.
There are tons of monsters, never the same.
There are lots of "bosses" as well, each can be defeated only
be special brush work.
And of course, the drawing technique make the battles really
exciting and give you countless options.

There are dozens of side quests and hundreds of hidden stuff.

All in all, perfect game - and I can't stand showing off a little:





edit: oh, and the game's ending... one HUGE battle
against "final boss" - over one hour of hard core fight.
exciting ending story, and long ending scene. did I say perfect?

edit2: oh, and the game is funny, most of the time: the
wolf (who is actually the Sun God of the world) has bouncing
companion who is vulgar and like hot chicks!

What's the name of the game?

Okami

http://www.capcom.com/okami/

Got awesome reviews when it first came out.

indeed. and I can surely see why!!

<tempting_voice>Start playing the game too and get some rep! </tempting_voice>

Looks really interesting, Shadow...definitely the most unique game I've ever seen. May have to check it out some time when I'm not so busy

you better do that soon!

I told my wife about it (she's a gamer) and she sounded interested as well

go ahead and get (buy) it, I can give you some cool tips and tricks.

I just might do that...I'm still in college so my time goes away real quick, but wouldn't be too bad to play every now and then on the weekends