Town Rebirth
Because of your totally awesome brush powers, the town has been reborn. Everything has been restored back to normal. Kamiki Village has been isolated by the evil that is engulfing this land. Continue down the path to investigate and find a solution.
Explore the nearby area, but when you first get to the village, everyone is totally stoned, not in a Seattle kinda way but cursed kinda way. Run through the village until you get to a gigantic boulder. When you try to talk to the man who is stuck in front of it, you will be directed up the hill. Follow the arrow.
At the top of the hill, pull out the Ocarina, I mean celestial brush and draw circle in the sky. The circle becomes a sun. This sun is significant to the Japanese iconography. Japan translates to “Sun’s Origin”, the country is also nicknamed "land of the rising sun." Even the dot of the Japanese flag represents the sun. So this sun we drew is a little wink to the game players that this is a Japanese story. If this were a game about America you would draw a giant star in the sky. Of course, after you draw that star, old glory would appear while the Battle Hymn Republic slowly swelled. Then a red, a white and finally a blue painted B1 bomber would fly by to the din of a 21 Patriot Missile Salute.
It turns out that Amastura is the name of the sun god who also happens to be you. Issun will start calling you “Ammi” because if you were to make a nickname out of Okami you would get “Commie” and then everyone in red state America would totally flip out. I don’t like the name Ammi so I am going to continue to call her Okami. It is a female in Japanese Mythology by the way. Check the Mythology Guide written by ahoujed, it is so well researched that I assume it must have been written for a school book report.
You run into a Man bouncing a fruit on his head who is named Mr. Orange. All of a sudden some monkies with Chinese menus stapled to their faces appear and challenge you to a fight. Attack them by using the square button on the controller. The monkeys really are not that hard to defeat. When you are finished, a screen comes up that tells you how much gold you earned during this fight. This is a tax statement you will need to keep track of this when it comes time to fill out your 1040s.
After beating the monkeys a lake appears. It turns out that those demon monkeys were preventing this water feature. In return for my water creation I get Praise. Praise it turns out is a currency in this game, however I think that praise should be a more common collectable. Okami throughout this game will become a little too praise hungry. Based on all the random deeds she will be doing in the name of “praise” it almost feel like she is running for political office.
The praise is used to buy upgrades for Okami. In the first part of this game, I recommend upgrading your hearts I mean solar cells to at least 4 or 5. Then buy a single ink upgrade. The money pouch should not be upgraded until mid game – right around the 10 or 15 hour mark. The rest of the upgrades are up to you.
In addition to praise Okami receives a feedbag of seeds. The seed bag is used to feed the nearby birds. Press the circle button then select the seeds.
Cinematic: the bird eats and I watch. This cinematic looks like that scene in every romantic comedy where the two stars run into each other in a park and then kiss for the first time. But don’t worry. The dog and bird do not kiss. You can press start or just watch them rotate.
Continue down the path again back into the town. The following missions play out like an episode of Petty Coat Junction. You help out the village drunk, help repair farm equipment, dig up turnips with the village kid. Oh and did I mention that everyone has their own theme music.
Go back to the large rock that is located at the far edge of the village. The man trapped there explains how he has no idea why the boulder is stuck there.
A Baboon boss appears but this time he plays a giant base. Like most bassists he slaps his ass and is easy to beat up. Attack him when you get the chance and if he turns a pale color use your celestial brush to slash him for massive damage. Since everyone hates bassists, you get praise when you defeat him.
The man by the rock tells me that only the town warrior Susano can remove this rock. Go get Susano, his house is located just to the west and it is probably not a coincidence that it resembles a samurai helmet. Inside his house is a large blue pot. Smash it and drop down the hatch under it. The wacky music sounds like the “sorry you lost” music for any game show. Susano is asleep but a head butt will wake him. He claims that it is his “Meditation” room but I wonder if that is because he is really “meditating” about that sake lady. Talk to him and you will end up carrying him out of there. Take him to the huge rock so that he can break it.
Susano says he will do it but will have to return to his house to train. When you go back to check on him, he has fallen asleep behind his hut. His strength comes from Sake. You need to get him some. The mark of a truly great god is one that will encourage a drunk to drink more. Not only do you (as a god) encourage his consumption, but you go on the Sake run for him. You think this is strange, in a few more levels you go to a frat party and do keg stands.
Sake, since most of my readers are probably 12 (only losers drink under age), is a Japanese alcohol made of fermented Rice. Don’t feel like you are missing out, because the stuff tastes like someone poured you a glass of water that was run through a Brita filter made of dish rags, dust bunnies, and flowers.
Go west to a small rice field and talk to the sake lady. She would love to give you the Sake but first she has to polish the rice. Use the restore brush stroke to complete the broken water wheel. It is easiest to go across the river to get a view of the wheel. It will take a couple tries to get the game to recognize your drawing.
She will give you "Vista of the Gods" Sake. Press the bite button to pick it up (more games need a bite button). Take it over to Susano. Not since Christ turned water to wine have we had such heavenly sent spirits.
Susano is ready for his training. After each of his sword swings, use the celestial brush to slash the targets because Susano can’t even break training dummies. Some gods use their powers to move the heavens or to end oppression, but Okami is the type of god that uses her powers to erase inadequacies. When complete, Susano lifts the sword up like he is Bob’s Big boy. Wasn’t there a statue just like that?
Back at the large boulder, Susano approaches thinking that he can destroy it. You have to help him once again. The boulder breaks and the path is clear.
Note: Pay close attention to the next scene because you will see a tooter.
Skankuya appears looking even skankier than last time. Did you see it? Notice the extra boob jiggle animation. She can’t muster a reward because She doesn’t have the strength to make a flower bloom – is this an innuendo?
She explains the Guardian Saplings: trees that collect praise and adoration to give her strength. So she is a praise junkie as much as Okami. There are several other saplings that feed off the main one. She has actually set praise franchises around Nippon - much like a Starbucks.
My mission is to clear out the saplings in order to get her praise. This is actually a lot like ghost writing - I do all the work but she gets all the praise.
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