Throughout yesterday’s Recreation Awards, Capcom introduced a sequel to cult traditional 2006 action-adventure recreation Okami, and it boasts the involvement of one of many unique recreation’s most essential figures.
In a quick trailer proven in the course of the Recreation Awards, Capcom confirmed that Okami 2, which is at present recognized merely as “Okami Sequel”, is formally within the works, and that unique director Hideki Kamiya will return to direct the venture.
The sport’s new official web site sheds slightly extra mild on the venture too, though it would not give a lot away. In accordance with the positioning, Okami 2 is being developed by “studios that embrace numerous employees members of the unique Okami“, together with M-Two, Machine Head Works, and Kamiya’s personal Clovers.
In closing, Capcom says it “shall be a while” earlier than we get extra details about Amaterasu’s newest journey, however that the studio “actually hope[s] you look ahead to this venture”. I can solely converse for myself, however I am completely hyped for this.
The trailer itself is pretty transient as nicely. It options Amaterasu herself sprinting throughout a discipline whereas Okami‘s distinctive music performs, and she or he’s trailing stunning flowers behind her, similar to within the unique recreation.
We then see a flower with closed petals as a paintbrush traces a thick ink circle across the flower, upon which it immediately bursts into bloom. It is a reference to a paint gesture within the unique Okami, in case you have not performed it.
You may try the debut trailer for Okami 2 right here. I do not learn about you, however simply seeing this minute or so of footage made me weirdly emotional.
Okami 2 wasn’t all Capcom revealed in the course of the Recreation Awards, both.
In addition to a revival of 1 traditional PS2 franchise, we’re additionally getting one other within the type of Onimusha: Means of the Sword, a hack-and-slash motion recreation that appears prefer it owes greater than a small debt to FromSoftware’s Sekiro.
Reviving Onimusha makes a number of sense on condition that the animated collection primarily based on the video games debuted late final yr. You may verify the trailer out for Onimusha: Means of the Sword proper right here.
We’ll deliver you extra on each Okami 2 and Onimusha: Means of the Sword, in addition to all the pieces else Capcom is as much as proper now, as quickly as we get it. Keep tuned.