We have been greater than just a little stunned when Hideki Kamiya and Capcom popped up at The Sport Awards to announce an Okami sequel. Shocked, however excited. The title continues to be in early improvement and we all know little or no about it, however in a latest interview with IGN, a few of its creatives started to clarify what we are able to anticipate from the sequel and the way it’ll match with the sequence’ earlier entries.
All through the interview with Kamiya, Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, and Machine Head Works producer Kiyohiko Sakata, the trio discuss with the upcoming sequel as “a continuation of the story that we noticed within the authentic sport”. However, as any Okami fan will be capable of inform you, we have already seen a follow-up (of kinds) within the 2011 DS follow-up, Okamiden.
If this new sequel is constant the story of the unique sport, the place does the transportable entry issue into the equation? The brief reply, it appears, is that it does not.
After clarifying that it was Amaterasu we see within the sequel’s transient teaser trailer, IGN’s Rebekah Valentine requested whether or not the crew goes to “acknowledge” Okamiden within the upcoming title. Hirabayashi-san responded, noting that the sequence’ DS entry has each its followers and its detractors — for whom the follow-up maybe did not meet expectations — so the crew is seeking to the subsequent title as a continuation of the correct “authentic base Ōkami,” moderately than one to its extra divisive follow-up:
We all know that there are followers on the market that like the sport, in fact. And we additionally know the suggestions on the sport on the market, of how the story was taken and the way maybe components of the story weren’t aligning with what folks have been anticipating. With that, we even have the sequel now that, as we defined earlier than, is a continuation from the story of the unique base Ōkami. That is how we’ll phrase it.
Regardless of following a special protagonist for many of the sport, Okamiden was set immediately after the primary title and stored a lot of its predecessor’s hallmarks (the visuals, the ‘celestial brush’, the… wolf). Calling it a correct “sequel” by no means actually rang true, but it surely’s fascinating to see that Capcom is seemingly sidestepping the complete storyline for the upcoming entry. Give the folks what they need and all, eh?
Though we think about that we’ll have to attend a very good whereas till we get to see the upcoming Okami sequel, we’re already crossing our fingers that Change 2 is part of the launch plans. Mmm, mouse-controlled paint brush…
