Abstrakt: That’s not to say that Okamiden isn’t a good game. This handheld iteration is, if nothing else, amusing. But the overall package—the good, the bad, and the seriously ugly—is not as impressive as it might have been seven years ago when the Nintendo DS...
Control scheme works very well on the DS touchscreen; fun combat; great boss battles; plenty of quests and collectibles; faithful to the source material.
Artwork takes a noticeable hit in quality on the DS hardware; puzzles are a bit too easy; too many loading screens.
Abstrakt: The greatest praise and the greatest condemnation you can heap on Okamiden is that it's the best non-Nintendo Zelda game on DS. In its strongest moments, the story is engrossing, the art style painterly, and boss fights diabolical. At the same time, it...
Abstrakt: The Wii's Okami was often compared to the Legend of Zelda games, and the comparison was apt. Okami was like if Twilight Princess has been Japan-ified to the fullest extent—complete with Japanese lore, a bizarre sense of humor, and a very small characte...
Gorgeous artistic design, Sympathetic, wellwritten characters, Engaging boss fights, Lots of hidden secrets.
Hohum combat and puzzles, Reuses most of Okami's abilities, Touchscreen controls aren't always responsive.
Okamiden doesn't distinguish itself from its revered predecessor, but great visual design and well-developed characters make it engaging nonetheless....
Okamiden has all the right ingredients for a spectacular adventure game, though it never quite reaches the heights of the titles it seeks to emulate. Even so, it shows tons of promise, and has me really excited for the future of this franchise in the m...
Fans of the original will be hard-pushed to complain about this fact, but it remains that the opening third of Okamiden repeats the traits of the original a tad too much, without ever adding anything drastically new or interesting. Once the story takes...
Action adventure with lots to explore; Celestial Brush mechanics/puzzles are great on the DS; fantastic sequel to Okami; Chibiterasu is so adorable.
Superlong story (and related cutscenes) can go on and on and on; camera and combat controls intermittently go insane.
Okamiden really is a game that follows in its elder's steps. It's the wonderful, beautiful world of Nippon once again, complete with interesting people, a fun adventure and a drawn out (haha, see what we did there?) story. Okamiden is basically Okami,...
