Of course, the Celestial Brush is invaluable in combat too the exclamation point on Amaterasu’s flurried melee attacks. It’s the classic Zelda school of game design, where each technique opens up new possibilities for exploration and treasure hunting. Want to get up into a tree? Grapple up there by drawing a line between the flower above it and Amaterasu. Need to traverse a stretch of water? Create a lily pad and hop on, then draw a gust of wind to blow Amaterasu to her destination. In the wider world, players use it to solve basic puzzles and get around. The Celestial Brush mechanic isn’t just a great thematic companion to the art style, but crucial to every aspect of the gameplay. By drawing the right icon, players can make dead trees bloom, repair broken bridges and machinery, slow down time and summon gusts of wind, spouts of water, bombs and more. Over the course of the game, Amaterasu learns 13 core brush techniques, and they’re nothing short of magical. It’s an unbelievably potent concept, and one that Okami absolutely delivers on.
Freeze frame the mountain scene I just described and you can draw a circle in the sky to turn night into day, or a crescent to turn day into night. In Okami, the world itself is a canvas, manipulated through the player’s most valuable tool: the Celestial Brush. It’s no accident that the sky has a thick paper texture and distant mountains are often little more than a few simple ink lines. The hand-drawn ink and watercolour styling of its world, for instance, flows elegantly through to its gameplay. Play One of the reasons Okami is such a success is that every element of its design complements every other element.
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