Wawku Shrine. Cannons start firing at you. Use the mist brush to slow them down and see the projectiles. Slash the purple projectiles and they will return to the cannon. Run right towards them then up through the door. Enter and cross the ice bridges that lead east. Use the torches to melt the ice that has blocked the door. Avoid the icicles and enter the large room.

There is a scale in the middle that must be balanced to advance. Melt the two ice blocks on the lower side to level out the scale. Cary the two smaller house plants to the scale that once had the ice blocks. Bloom them to make them grow. If you drop one, return to the original big tree and slash it. It will become pocket sized. When the scale is level, use the wind technique to blow the ice ball over to the trigger. Pick up the key and take it back to the main room for the lockjaw.

Past the lockjaw, melt the large ice block in the center. Start up the water spout that is in the center of the newly formed pond. Check the map for the cat paw. Run around the upper level to get to it and draw a path to the next floor.

On the second level, run around to the rapidly rotating blue wheel. Use mist to see the cannon bullets – kill them. Then, draw mist to slow down the blue wheels and jump across the platforms. Repeat this for the next three wheels.

Cross the bridge, save, then enter the door straight ahead. Jump twice over the rapidly spinning wheels then use the mist technique, it wont last long so you have to go fast.

In the next room continue south up the hill. Jump down and you will fight another flying face monster who blows flames, shoots daggers, and then vomits on you. I have been to parties with guys like him.

The apocalypse blizzard is caused by nothing more than a big snow blower. Destroy the machine to protect the town below. Read below how to:
- Draw a cherry bomb by the crack in the wall then run inside.
- Defeat the tree then blow away the leaves covering the floor.
- Note the symbols – they will make more sense in a minute.
- Melt the snow on the lever that is located on the left hand side of the machine.
- Use mist to slow down the faces.
- Pull the lever to stop each eye according to the picture back in the room.

When all the faces are aligned according to the floor in the adjacent room, a force field at the top of the snow machine will disappear. Then, a Faberge sweet potato flies off. Issun once again talks about this mystical 13th brush stroke. We have heard so much about this it better be good. Complete the constellation with 5 stars. The unlocked god plays a horn and all 13 gods show up and I get the Solar Flare weapon. The new brush power lets you freeze stuff? Damn, I was hoping it would let you raise the dead or shoot lasers or something.

Backtrack to the room with the save. Freeze the red spider that is right next to the bridge. Climb up on said bridge and proceed to the next spider. Freeze it and jump to the next platform (or up to the chest if you are feeling frisky). I know this sucks and I hate platform jumping puzzles just as much as you do but keep your head up because this one is not too long.

Melt the ice next to the cat. Vine over to that flower. Catwalk up to the next platform. Freeze the lower spider at its lowest point. Then, freeze the other spider when it is at its lowest point. You can refreeze the spider even if it is already frozen but starting to thaw. Jump up the next two platforms and there is one more spider to freeze and you are done.

In the next room, jump across the many gears. You can perform multiple back to back mist technique to slow the gears down long enough to let you cross.

In the next room, cross the spinning platforms. Freeze the burning one. You are jumped by one of those Haniwa soldiers called Dogu. Use the ice crystal to make short work of him. At the big chasm draw a line from the ice crystal across the room to the snowflakes. The snowflakes will freeze and create ice platforms. Jump across them. Once outside, run up to the next chasm and again draw in some ice platforms. Run up the hill and to the next door.

Use the wind technique to extinguish the afterburners. Mist the giant cannon, and then when he fires slash the red orbs to deflect them back at him. Do cannons even have gender? Fight the haniwa and enter the next room.

Tread lightly on the ice and kill that other male(?) cannon.
Save:

So a totally creepy clockwork owl appears and turns it’s head around and then winks at me. I just wet myself. 100 year-ago-me shows up and she looks glorious. It is like she is covered in sea anemone. She flicks ice right back at the robot owl. We both howl because if one dog in the neighborhood starts barking they all do.

BOSS: SILVER DEMON NECHKU

Let 100-year-old-you do most of the work
Deflect all the attacks of Nechku

flavor_flav After the owl is knocked around a bit Oki comes in slashing the face of the other demon. The owl has a giant clock on his chest – lets just call him Flava Flav. Then Oki turns into a wolf. TRIPLE WOLF FIGHT! Oki slashes at 100-year-old-me. I wonder if real time Okami feel that? Oki lunges at the demons and time stops as if Zack Morris had said “Time Out.” 100-year-old-me sacrifices herself again and then falls off the endg of a cliff. Oki has to decide between killing demons or saving gods. If someone asks you to save a god… you say yes! Oki saves us and his sword finally starts to glow. Oki says “it was not until I stopped being selfish that it would glow.” But wasn’t the whole reason he took the sword a selfless act of saving his people? Shouldn’t it have started glowing the instant he stole it?

Pick up the gear that fell off robo-owl and take it to Oki. The whole floor lowers. Oki stays behind to watch over 100-year-old-me but I don’t know what he could do.

Run straight ahead and into the formerly locked door. Canons are located on each side of a chasm ready for a fight. Fire all the cannons on your side to destroy all the other evil canons. Can cannons be evil? Draw frost lines across to get some ice platforms. Some of the evil cannons may not have been destroyed, so kill them by slowing them down and slashing the purple projectiles back at them. When all the evil canons are gone, the door will unlock.

Before heading through the door, melt the giant ice block to uncover an ice ball. Use the wind technique to blow it into the next room. This is difficult, but it is helpful to know that you can draw a second wind gust while the first one is still going. When the ball is in the next room, draw lines off of it to freeze the gears. First go to the north side of the room to get the key (bomb the ground first). Then, go to the opposite side of the room for the door.

The owls are back.

BOSS: LECHKU AND NECHKU

Watch the owls heads because they will pull stuff out of them and then throw them at you.
The “stuff” they pull out is as follows, what you should do is in parenthesis.
Lightning rod (electrocute it), a bud (bloom it), beehive (slash it), purple projectiles (slash them), bomb (draw fire line to it).
After affect the “stuff” the owls will be stunned. Oki will run up to you and ask for help firing him onto its face.
While Oki is on owl-face duty, run up and slash that owl. It will bring him to ground level. Then, let the wolf savagery commence on that owl.
If one of the owls spins around real fast, it will dive at you and grab with its talons causing a lot of damage. To avoid this, press R2 a lot to roll out of the way. Be ready for the second owl to do the same.
If they spin really, really fast, dodge them and use the wind brush technique

Cinematic: A giant cloud of black is formed. Blight, Ninetails, the evil owl twins all come together and went to the “Ark of Yamato”. The 100-year-old-you (Shiranui) is all bloody and looks like Shit-ranui and goes back to the past in order to die as a hero. This means that the real legend in which Shiranui dies fighting Orochi is not entirely true. Shiranui actually survived the battle against Orochi and followed us into the future to help fight the creepy owl clock twins. Her mortal wounds were suffered when she sacrificed herself to save Oki. Even in ancient Japan the gods are sacrificial Christ figures.

With the demons defeated, and the blizzard stopped, we return to Ezofuji. The prayer is said by Lika and the mountains erupt. Everyone is happy and Oki is accepted back into the tribe. The sword went back to the pedestal. Then, completely unexpectedly, Laochi Lake melts. Al Gore feels a disturbance in the force and creates more slides.

LuckyCharms The “Ark of Yamato” then starts to float and shoots out a pixy dust rainbow. I don’t know how scary it could be as there is a magical rainbow leading you up to the ark. Issun recaps everything that had done together like it is the end of a TV show. Issun says he has to go. Okami follows him and Issun repeats again and again that he must go. Its like that scene in every pet movie where the kid tell his dog to run away but the dog won’t and then the kid starts crying/yelling and pushing the dog away. Then the dog slowly slinks off into the wilderness.

Waka is back and says this is a path to the heavens. Issun leaves. But how many of you want to place bets that Issun will pull a Han Solo and come back at the end boss when we need him most. Waka then tells us that to board the Ark we must be worthy. Haven’t there already been about 10 doors that we can enter only if we are worthy? Waka then starts giving quotes from inspirations posters: “It is resolve that determines the value of your life.” Okami enters the arc without Issun.

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