Just a quick one

[taotrooper]

You know why I disappeared for the last few days? My Okamiden copy arrived on Wednesday, two days early again :D Still not finished, though.

I feel very dirty for saying it, but going in with very low expectations this game is going much better than expected so far. I MEAN, there are still WTFs and all, but I have yet to find a butchery that makes me throw my DS to the wall and raegquit. If anything, I like that Benkei's quest for fish makes sense now and they even throw a reference to the original legend. Yeah, I'm all for tiny details. But they better justify the Tao Troopers' disappearance or I'm cutting a bitch! They're also giving me brand new Moon Tribe canon I need to mull over.

The stylus as the Celestial Brush is the best thing ever. Too bad about the d-pad controls and the camera being horribly awkward, but it's still hella fun. It's good that there's a skip button for cutscenes, but the automatic scrolling text is such a bad idea (sneeze and you missed a line).

Oh, and I fucking love Kagu! Kurow was a given because me likes the lunars, but this girl is so amazing.

I think, if I do a reaction post of it, I'll save it for the second playthrough. Pokémon is very straight-forward, but I always end up overthinking Okamiland stuff and I want to play more quickly.

Comments

[brojob.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to read this about Okamiden, I've been waiting for an opportunity to go out and buy it for a long time now! Okami is all about the overthinking, though, so I would be more than happy to just DISCUSS DISCUSS DISCUSS if I get my hands on the game.

By the way, how are the graphics? Fairly standard for a Nintendo DS?

[stud-monkey.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear since I've been staring longingly at Okamiden ever since it came out and the only thing keeping me back was the fear that it would, well, suck. Not like I wouldn't have caved because HNNGHHH Chibiterasu. WHY SO CUTE

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I've seen people not impressed with the game, however. I mean, I went in with very low expectations and assuming it would be a shitty game, so maybe there's that. If you expect something as good as the original I suppose it could be disappointing. But yeah, there's a fairly amount of stuff to discuss!

I actually think they're quite great! The screencaps on Internet look more pixelated than the actual thing IMO. Plus, I got teary-eyed when I first restored an area, so I think that says a lot about how nice it looks for a NDS game.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm playing with very low expectations so it could be YMMV. Lots better than I expected, though. I didn't cave in because of the cute, although I still squeed over the cuteness (not of the puppy wolf but the children: OH SHIT A GIRL WITH FANS AND A LITTLE MERMAID AND A FRUITY BABY WAKA.)