In an unimaginable shock nobody noticed coming, a giant orchestra and a person with a giant drum took the stage at The Recreation Awards 2024 to disclose Hideki Kamiya’s studio’s new sport. And it is not an new IP – a lot to our delight, it is an precise, actual sequel to Okami. Okami 2.
We did not see a lot of what Okami 2 truly will probably be throughout the present. The reveal consisted of some attractive music from the aforementioned orchestra and drummer, and a teaser of presumably Amaterasu operating by a discipline towards the horizon. Extra to come back quickly, one should hope!
Capcom has been seeding the bottom for a brand new Okami, quietly, for some time now. Earlier this 12 months, it polled followers to see in the event that they had been all in favour of an Okami sequel, alongside sequels for Lifeless Rising, Mega Man, Breath of Hearth, Dino Disaster, and extra. We have additionally been listening to from Kamiya himself these days that he is been asking Capcom for the chance to make each Okami 2 and Viewtiful Joe 3, and that he believes the unique Okami crew was “weak” and “not a dream crew” – suggesting he might have assembled one thing he is somewhat extra proud of this time round.
Even when Kamiya believed the unique crew wasn’t nearly as good because it might have been, we nonetheless beloved the unique Okami. We gave the Wii model a 9/10 method again within the day, calling it “one of the vital bold and totally gratifying Wii titles to this point.”
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Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You’ll find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Received a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
