Denouement
A space ship comes down and it is piloted by Waka. The evil is gone forever. Okami climbs up into the ship and jumps up on Waka. You see, it all comes down to just a kid and his dog. Waka says “off to stormier seas” – which means sequel. Notice that Waka is carrying a guardian sapling – probably also for the sequel. Waka punches up some buttons and the space ship turns into an IMAX. Waka dials in the coordinates to the Celestial plain. Then Okami and Waka ship takes off and the Ark is right behind it.
Issun says he will spread the word about us and then he gets real Pat Robertson-ish: “you’re gonna have more believers than you know what to do with!” Watch out for Issun he will be going door to door and sending you religious pamphlets until you are sick of them. The ship heads off to a big floating island in the sky. It is significant artistically that they are heading off to a floating island. The art style mimicked by this game is called Ukiyo-e which translates into “pictures of the floating world.” The art style also commonly featured Mt. Fuji. The floating celestial plain bears a striking resemblance to Mt. Fuji. This floating Mt. Fuji is an allusion to Ukiyo-e style.
Credits Start.
The following event really happened on 11/4/2006: As soon as I beat the game and saw all the cinematics and made fun of Issun for being a religious zealot I got a knock on my door. I answered it and a Jehovah’s witness was there! The woman smiled, handed me a pamphlet and walked away. I scanned the front cover of the pamphlet (see www.gameintestine.com) – even the title of the pamphlet is strangely apropos. Are Jehovah’s witnesses monitoring our Okami play and arriving at doorstops as soon as completing it? Email me if you have similar experiences.
Final Cinematic: After the credits are done (which look like Okami is taking a walk through a shooting gallery) someone steps away from a piece of parchment. The person is the narrator and says “Live up to the heros I told you about.” I don’t mean to ruin the mystery behind this but it Issun. He is telling the story of Okami to “spread the word.” He is writing the Okami bible. Old Issun was the narrator from the beginning.
THE BACKSTORY EXPLAINED: The story of Waka and Okami is basically one of incompetence. The two of them were battling evil on the celestial plane when they decided to save the good souls by herding everyone onto an Ark. Like a pair of Mosses, they would lead the people to peace. But, they did not prevent evil from following them. Furthermore, Waka crash-landed the Ark on Earth. Evil gets to Earth and Waka and Okami have to clean up the mess. The flagrant negligence continues when Okami dies killing evil. She is put in carbonite for 100 years. Okami comes back without any memory of the past. She meets up with Waka and does finally defeats the evil. This lets the two of them leave the ship to a resting place that is free of evil. But, you ask, why was Waka such a douche bag to Okami? What beings are they going to return to the promise land if those beings were all killed by evil?
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