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42 Hours Mostly Well Spent

I finished off Okami this morning, these were the final stats

Play Time: 42 Hours, 16 Minutes, 8 Seconds (It seemed like half of that was clicking through unvoiced story parts)
Days Passed: 62 (In game, it took me 10 real days)
Saves: 71 (Excellent save system, 30 slots to use, never had to backtrack though)
Deaths: 0 (I would imagine most people don't "die" in this game. Your astral pouch saves you even if you run out of health)
Enemies Defeated: 555 (Combat was mostly fun due to the brush techniques and good enemy variety, although fighting the same bosses multiple times with no variety to their attacks seemed like a lame way to extend game length)
Money Gained: 2,677,266 Yen (1 Million of that came from beating the final boss, you find most of the items you need so most yen is spent on weapons and "secret" brush techniques)
Demon Fangs Found: 16 (Another form of currency in game, but I never had enough to buy anything of value from the vendor that accepted them)
Praise Earned: 3,525 (Sort of experience points used to buy extra Sun Pieces to expand your health bar, extra Ink Pots to expand the amount of ink your brush can use, additional Astral Pouches which save you from death (had 2 and never used them) and a bigger money pouch so you can hold more the 99,999 yen at a time.)
Sun Pieces: 15 (Health Meter, out of a max of 20)
Ink Pots: 8 (Holds the ink used with the Celestial Brush, not sure what the max is, but you do run out during heavy combat a lot)
Stray Beads Found: 33 (out of a total of 99, if you find them all you get a super weapon for a second playthrough, most of them are hidden and/or off the main story path.)

Slicin' Fools With My Mad Brush Skills Son!
Slicin' Fools With My Mad Brush Skills Son!






















I understand the praise for the game. It's a well made adventure with a unique art style (if you don't mind the overly Japanese nature) and some fresh gameplay controls. My only issue with the game is the time investment needed to complete it. Clover wanted to tell a big story and that required a ton of exposition scenes. Instead of cut-scenes with voice acting, they used semi-animated storyboards with characters spouting gibberish with text overlays that had to be clicked through. That got tiring 25 or 30 hours in, especially since the story didn't evolve much from the first half. Then again, there isn't much that hasn't been done in these kinds of games. At least you play as a wolf instead of some effeminette boy with a fruity haircut. If you have the time to play it, its definitely worth picking up. At the prices it can be had for these days, its one of the best values in gaming. I played it on my PS3 and it looked great, I only wish it were widescreen, maybe it was and I couldn't figure it out. I'm glad I played it, but I'm glad that it's over too.

Time to dive back into my pile of unplayed games and knock a few more off before Christmas. I'm thinking Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is up next. That seems like a good pallette cleanser after a 40 hour RPG.
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