Remaining Warriors

Get ready for some serious designer padding.  Rather than granting you access to the cave where this Crimson Helm resides, I have to tack down three more dogs.  Not only that, but Dog 6 suffers from some major scavenger hunting.  With that said, now is the time to go the bathroom, grab a beer (or milk if appropriate), put on a little mood music and hunker down for some shameless game clock stretching.

Dog 6: Canine Warrior Tei

Princess Fuse circled the locations of the three additional dogs on your map.  Go to Sasa Sanctuary, which is located at the extreme North of Taka Field. The sanctuary is a spa run by the sparrow clan.  An eye patch wearing (awesome) sparrow named Big Daddy Jamba, won’t let me pass until I find his daughter. 

The sparrow is being held by the animal hating, white trash couple called the Cutters.  They want to eat her.  The couple is located in the center of the field. 

I find the Cutters endearing.  Sure they live in squalor, but everyone else in this game has such painfully traditional Japanese houses that I think we need someone to give the f-you to the rest of the neighborhood.

When you enter their filth pit, watch out because the old man will slash at you.  For fun, let him hit you a couple times – it makes me laugh.  Also, head over to the well and examine it.  Issun cautions that the water may give you the runs.  I think this was the first honest-to-okami poop joke in video game history.  Send me an email if you know of any other game, but I think this is the first.

Run around to the back of their shack and run up the fallen log. Note the depression on the roof.  Draw a bomb on it.  From there jump down and talk to the old lady.  She will talk about moonlight being bad.  If it is day time when you are at the shack go do something else and return here at night.  If it is night, hit triangle and drag here into the moonlight.  Note the wall – it is just like Cat Stevens said “moonshadow.”

The couple will turn into birds and you will fight them simultaneously.  The fastest way to defeat them is let them dive bomb you and use the snarling beast as a shield.  It will tear them up real fast. 

You kill the old people and free the bird – FREEBIRD!  So what moralistic lesson can be gleamed from Okami’s slaughtering these old people?  How are people going to interpret this action in Okami’s bible?  The cutters were bad?  Well, they were just carnivores.  Their house was dirty?  Does that mean keep your room clean or god will damn you.

After the battle, the sparrow daughter Chun appears.  She gives Okami a hug. I just want to stop right here and say that there is nothing cuter than two animals hugging.  No! Scratch that.  There is nothing cuter than two animals from different species hugging.  It is so cute that pandas appear wretched to me now.

Chun needs an escort back to the Inn.  Run back to the sanctuary, don’t worry, she will keep up.  If you get attacked by demon monkeys, she will wait for you.

Cinematic:  Okami brings back the sparrow girl.  The birds sound like robots.  She bombards Big Papa with hugs.  Cute yes, but not as cute as her hugging a dog, am I right?  Big Papa opens the door for you.  Continue through gate and past the curtains. 

The Sanctuary is a hotel run by sparrows.  Go to the end of the room and up the elevator.  The big papa is waiting in the thrown room for you.  He lets you take everything in the chests.  Clean him out even though most of the stuff seems like yard sale fodder – example: A wooden bear?

Check out each room in the inn as there is stuff to steal from guests. Return to the ground floor and exit out the side door.  It leads to a hot spring.

In a sub-sub-plot, the spring has run dry. A bird is dancing/praying with flame sticks in an effort to bring it back.  After talking to the bird, Mr. Bamboo shows up.  Follow his directions to play a digging mini game.

Cinematic: The spring returns and the bird will "dance the hot spring hop forever more!"

New Constellation: Draw 3 stars to make a jug that is filled with a snake.  The snake whimpers like a dog?  Name: Nuregami, God of water.  First test: putting out a flaming bird.

When you have doused it, draw a water line straight up from the splashing water and you will be shot up to the high ledge. 

The giant bamboo seesaw is actually used to scare off deer.  Issun mentions that its sole purpose is to make sound but that is false.  It is a deer scare - I first saw it in Animal crossing.  I also saw at the Japanese Friendship Gardens in Balboa Park in San Diego .  There was one there too but they called it a boar scare.  Draw a water spout to the giant deer scare.  It will open the door.  Enter it and go up the long pathway.  The mist with the bamboo overhang is quite pretty. Now in a sub-sub-sub-plot a bird named Tai is crying because her dog Take is lost.  Out comes the tracker.  Go up the long path to some disco bamboo.  Bamboo always flashes when a dog is inside it. Time it so that you go to brush mode and slash the bamboo in mid flash. 

After extracting him from the bamboo, fight Canine Warrior Gi.  The battle is almost the same as the last dog you fought. 

Cinematic: His “duty” orb flies over me like it is part of a Skittles rainbow.  Mr Bamboo stops by because he hears a ruckus.  He gives you a mermaid coin.

Let’s just take a moment to recap the ridiculousness of that last task:

Need a dog > go to sanctuary > rescue a bird from carnivores > participate in a digging mini game > rejuvenate a spring > fail to convince a bird to take her dog > fight a dog > return orb to a princess. 

  -- Dog 7: Canine Warrior Hayabusa -–

The second dog is located in Shinshu field.  The easiest, fastest way there is to use Mr. Bamboo’s mermaid coin (if you already used it, the merchant at Kusa Village sells them).  There is a portal located just south of Kusa Village. 

The second dog is Hayabusa (the ninja dog) and is in Okami’s home town of Kamiki village.  The dog is just lying there not moving.  Repeatedly talk to him and he will respond that he is not talking until you break its hole digging record.

Start digging at the lady's turnips (that wasn’t supposed to sound dirty).  Slash her every time she gets near.  She is quite tenacious so you may have to use an inkfinity stone.  When you dig up the last turnip, bite it and take it to the kid Mushi.  He has a dragon fly tied to a string.  Why do I dislike every kid in this game so much?

The dog talks and it turns out Hayabusa is just his gamer name, he really is Canine Warror Chu.  “Chuyabusa” won’t go with me until the festival is over.  If you keep talking to him, he will pick a fight with you.

After defeating him, Chuyabusa tells you how he is not even the real Chuyabusa.  He is a Falsabusa.  The real one was assigned to protect Mushi, but got sick.  Falsabusa was passing by and just happened to look like the dying dog.  He agreed to fill in and continues to protect the boy to this day.  Telenovias have more plausible plots than this one. Falsabusa is going to stay and protect the boy but gives me the “Loyalty Orb”.

  -- Dog 8: Canine Warrior Hayabusa -–

Use the mermaid spring to warp Agata Forest.  Talk to the Kokari (the rabit head brat).  He has lost his dog, again.     We must go to Hitoshio Springs to learn about a fish.  The springs are located at the highest point of the Agata Forest. 

Kushi, the sake lady, is there and needs to make “8 purification Sake”.  This is the ancient drink of legend.  She needs the spring water to make it but is having trouble getting it into the bucket.  As the patron saint of petty miracles it is your responsibility.  Use your brush technique to draw a path form the water to the bucket.

She is happy with your help, but monkeys attack.  Susano shows up but as usual he is in over head.  He attacks them and says un-intentionally funny things such as "Leave My KUSHI ALONE."  Slash through Susano’s attacks.  He thinks it is evil that possessed his blade and runs off.  Kushi gets a little sad because Susano ran off without helping her carry the barrel.  Tonight Susano will regret not helping himself to a little Kushi.

Leave Kushi to carry the gigantic vat back to town and return to the great abyss to meet Kokari. Talk to the kid and a giant fish leaps out of the water and it actually looks kid of funny because a dog is slowly pawing to get out of its mouth. The dog is Ume and has now been eaten twice in one game.  Talk to Kokari again and he will ask you to help catch the fish. 

Catch two fish using the same old fishing technique.  The unimaginatively titled “Whopper” will come out.  Nothing different about catching the Whopper, he just struggles more.  We tell the kid to keep fishing because it is his calling. The kid is sad because the fish ate his dog and will never see it again.  This would be touching except that you know that the dog will come bounding out of its mouth any second now. 

The moon comes back – remember back when the kid said that the fish ate the moon and it does not shine in Agata Forest.  Now it does.

There is another constellation.  Complete it to see a rabbit wielding a huge mallet.  Typical spiritual flim-flam.  But then the rabbit makes the scariest sound I have ever heard in video game-dome.  It sounds like a baby demon is trying to claw its way from a cursed womb.  It also doesn’t help that the rabbit is scowling at me.  I get the power of the moon which means I can now cycle day into night using the Ocarina, I mean brush. 

In case you forgot the sad canine tragedy, the dog comes shooting out.  He is one of the Canine Warrior and his superhero name is actually Jin.  Issun says the dog is ugly and now we have to fight him. 

 After defeating him, he says that he must stay with the boy but gives up his orb.  Okami gets another skittle.  This one is called “Justice Orb.”  You now have the complete set of collectable sacred orbs.  Return to prices Fuse.

You meet princess Fuse and tell her that the other dogs will stay behind because they did not have the “orbs” to fight.  Okami, on the other had, does have more than enough “orbs.”

I hand over the orbs and now she can fully “taste the Rainbow.”  It does not last long because the power orbs come back to me.  Okami was chosen by the orbs to fight Crimson Helm.

Comments (2)

	1. Written by kwakerjak on 19-03-2007 04:41 - Guest
	Re: Poop jokes in video games.    How about Conker's Bad Fur Day? I'll admit that I never played it, for the very reason that I was informed that it had a large number of gratuitous poop jokes. Report

	2. Written by zukalous on 19-03-2007 05:18 - Guest
	Ya, that is true. I never played it either but I have hear that it is kinda ronch. Report

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