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This game is art.  Loving every minute of it.

Yea, I just started the other night. Would've written something about it, but A. Not Far Enough, B. Going to San Diego for 3 days. Bleh. Jew stuff.

Almost bought it last night.  Decided to pass and buy out the Atlus online store instead.  It's on the list, though.

I know you're probably just going to see relatives and do something at their temple, but I had this funny image from the lost book of Josiah, wherein the chosen people must journey to California in penitence for too much PS2 playing.

5766 really sucked, I hope 5767 is better.  Their new year starts on the first day of Ramadan this year, I am convinced this is a good omen and will herald a new era of peace in the middle east.  Maybe not.

Oh, he's probably going there so some Jewish great anutie is cooking something really yummy and old Uncle Moshe slips all the kids a $50 bill several times a day. 

8 hours in and just finished the first major dungeon.  I love this game.  No PS2 owner should be without it.  I keep wondering how cool this game might be to play with a Wii-mote.

Easily one of the most beautiful games I've played, console or computer.

It makes me feel very acutely how unfortunate it is that most games more or less have a similar visual aesthetic--this shows how wide the range of visual variation *could* be.

The only problem I have with it so far is that the concept of the game sometimes invites spending a lot of time, in the early going, trying to solve puzzles by painting things where the game really doesn't mean you to paint things. In the cave in Hana Valley, I just spend about twenty minutes trying to paint that round thing on the altar before I decided that wasn't what I was meant to do. Then I slashed the wooden gate open, and there we go.

But still: an amazing piece of work.

A friend of mine picked up the game when we went and got something to eat a couple days ago. I watched him play it and after getting used to the astoundingly irritating jibberjabber I came to the conclusion it was a really cool game. My friend has almost called in sick to work so he could keep playing, he can't put it down.

Yah, the phonetic garble that passes for speaking is annoying for about the first 5-10 minutes you hear it. Then you hardly recognize it at all and then you start to appreciate the nuances between the different characters speaking styles.

At least it's not Sims-Speak.  After about the fiftieth "mishuno!" you start walling people in rooms and letting them starve.

The jibber-jabber sounds to me very much like Animal Crossing, actually. Which is less annoying than Simglish, but is still a bit grating.

The jibber jabber sounded like a speeded up version of Shadow of the Collosus-speak to me. Heh.

This was one of the games I bought the other day.  I haven't started it yet.  I seem to be playing a game where Goofy is in my group and it's really pissing me off.  Someone at the game shop told me it was free roaming and that's a lie.  It's linear as hell.  I was looking for something more like Dragon Quest VIII.  Anyway, I'm glad to hear Okami isn't a furry game.  I was a wee bit worried.  Anyone know if Valkyrie Profile 2 is free roaming?

Valkyrie Profile 1 was...kinda. Don't know if VP2 is. Will know by tomorrow night. If you have a 360, Just Cause is some crazy free-roaming shit that no one seems to like.

But I like it.

Let me know about the Valkyrie one.  I guess the next FF is right around the corner.  I didn't play more than a few hours of the last one before my nephew nicked it.  I kind of got tired of them all.  They're better when they use the more realistic characters.  I can't stand the way the cartoony ones stand idle.  They look like someone who has that disease that makes you bob around inanely.  I don't mind people with the illness but I can't stand the cartoons mocking it. 

Ok... I don't know what the hell I'm talking about again.  Sorry.   :roll:

I picked up the Valkyrie one but haven't started it.  I got hooked on Okami.  What a fun game!

Okami is the shizzle. Love it. I especially like feeding all the wee animals.

Awsome game, proves that more polygons != better graphics.  This game is almost as visually stunning as Oblivion and in such a different way.

I'm all for bombing Japan again if it'll stop them from making games that require you to hit a single button for 20 fucking minutes before you can actually play it.

HELLO I WANT TO TRY OUT THE GAME THANKS ASSHOLES.

Art? I'd like to hit you over the head with Art, Rasix.

Ohh, did I fail to mention the intro is really long and tedius? 

And honestly, the game is too long. I haven't said this in a while about a game I've enjoyed this much but Okami is just too goddamned long.

It's still pretty, no?

Clover does not make short games.

And any more, Clover does not make any games.

Clover will be resurrected as something else within 4 months.

Crover?

The furries really know how to ruin a good thing.  :cry:

From DeviantArt:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/lonestar627/Misc/Okamifurry1.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/lonestar627/Misc/okamifurry2.jpg)

Jesus. Christ.

Can I ask how you found that in the first place?

I was looking for a better avatar than this:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/lonestar627/Games/okami_animation.gif)

Since I can't get it to work right on a black background, I Googled for Okami images....Only to find furries. After seeing the furries, it killed my desire to even use the avatar above. :(

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I'll believe you.. for now.