To The Capital
You happen upon Ryoshima Coast which looks pretty crappy and curse-y. Follow the path to the northern edge of the pass. There is a dead end but it has a bomb crack. So, cherry bomb it. Continue around the path of the hill to the top of the hill and see a very bad looking guardian sapling. It needs to be “pepped up” which is Issun speak for “watered.”
Jump all the way down to the bottom where you bombed the rocks. There is a small pond and a giant sake pot. Draw a water line from the lake to the sake. Then, from the sake to the dried out pond that is located one step up from there. Climb up the next set of cliffs to the next dry basin. If you position Okami right, the camera will swing around and you can draw a water line from the pond to the dry basin. Continue this technique of bailing water up the cliff until you get it around the Guardian sapling. When it rises up it will grow to quite a turgid state and be ready to be bloomed. So draw a circle around it. Bloomimation: typical flower stuff. A pirate ship did you see that?! Man I hope we have an adventure just like the Goonies.
Sorry to get your hopes up about the old pirate ship but we can’t do anything with it at this point. So continue west to Sei-an City.
Sei-an City Commoners Quarters – The city is all hazy. The town is shrouded in a thick (what I think is a kinda romantic) looking haze. The haze is a magic one that cause everyone in the town to bitch and moan about the haze. This town is a total half empty crowd of whiners. Talk to a few people to get the general idea. Everyone and I mean everyone is like “blah blah blah haze haze haze”.
When they aren’t talking about the haze, they are blaming the rest of their problems on some sort of Water Dragon. If this where a real-life society, “water dragon” would be replaced with the word “immigrants.” Could we just skip saving this town I am not sure they are worth it.
Jump down and explore the empty canals because they are full of stuff. In one of the dead ends you will run into Master Carpenter Naguri.
Naguri is the only person left working on the canal and trying to restore the water to save the town. Lake Beewa’s drain plug is what is preventing the water. If you talk to him enough he will ask if you want to help him dig. See the notes below before saying yes.
Note: Before you start Naguri’s minigame, make sure you have cleared out the canal of the treasures because you will loose them after it is done.
Note: This mini-game requires a lot of ink. If you have not upgraded your ink in a while it is probably good to have 6 or 7 spots open by now.
The digging mini-game is just like that time we restored the spring in Sasa Sanctuary. The goal is to get Okami and Naguri to the bottom row of the black stones. The easiest way to get there is to go to the far right side and start the digging there. Naguri can not jump across the purple ones, so use your wind technique to float him across. When he gets down to the bedrock he will tell you where to dig.
The canal is restored and travel across the bridge into the nicer part of town. Issun says that the queen lives there and she has not been doing anything about the mist. See, even Issun is getting into the mist bitching.
Wandering Warrior Monk Benkei: He says that he came to this city to get the “Living Sword” that is in the depths of Lake Beewa. The warrior monk is preventing anyone from crossing until he fishes out his sword. In order to fish it out he needs the special white sword in town. But he can’t afford it. He is hinting that you should go buy it for him.
Go back to the commoner area of town and the tool dealer is right at the gate. He sells a rod called the Blinding Snow – get that one. Run back and give it to him. He holds it over the water, talk to him and Issun first calls him Hoodhead then says we should help him. Really, we should not be doing this for Hoodhead. If we draw this man a line we really are only helping him today. However, if we would just show him how to draw a line we could help him for a lifetime. Or something like that.
Just like our time with the kid, catch two fish then the big one will come out. The fish in question is called the Cutlass Fish. Due to a misunderstanding by Hoodhead, the “living Sword” is actually a fish (I bet this was all a very clever pun in the Japanese version but it does not translate very well here). Would it still be a “living sword” after you have fished and slashed it?
Hoodhead says thanks anyway and lets you cross the bridge.
Cinematic of a tornado. Issun says that it is coming out of the imperial palace. It looks like Donnie Darko lives at the Imperial Palace.
Waka is back. He is here looking for something but says that he likes it “Quick and Easy.” That would be in the Red-light district, not in the Aristocrat District. Waka is here looking for a path to the heavens – talk to Robert Plant about that. He recommends that we clarify the mist then gives the prophesy “Go through the hole in the wall, little ones!”
Across the bridge a bunch of people are complaining about the mist and waiting to see Miss Rao who is beautiful and can apparently ease their worry about the mist.
Go in and hear Miss Rao speak. When you talk to her you may want to turn down your sound because your mom may think you are deep into a porno. She is a regent who serves Queen Himiko. The programmers decided to upgrade the breast engine that they created for Skankuya.
She doubts that you beat the dragon so you have to show her a miracle. I just drew a circle because that is half of my prayer repertoire - it seemed to work. She needs help and Issun says she is “stacked to the ceiling” which really wouldn’t be that good of a quality if you think about it. And why is Issun so into this rack, he is half an inch tall, isn’t every rack enormous to him? She lost her Prayer Slips and needs us to go get the papers, get the papers.
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