Ōkami

Ōkami​ is an action-adventure video game developed by Clover Studio and published by Capcom. It was released for Sony's PlayStation 2 video game console in 2006 in Japan and North America, and 2007 in Europe and Australia. Despite the closure of Clover Studio a few months after the game's initial release, a version for Nintendo's Wii console was developed and produced by Ready at Dawn and Capcom, which was released in North America in April 2008, in Europe in June 2008, and in Japan in October 2009.

Set sometime in classical Japanese history, Ōkami combines several Japanese myths, legends and folklore to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by the Shinto sun goddess, named Amaterasu, who took the form of a white wolf. It features a distinct sumi-e-inspired cel-shaded visual style and the Celestial Brush, a gesture-system to perform miracles.

Although it suffered from poor sales, Ōkami earned high acclaim from reviewers and earned, among other awards, the title of IGN's 2006 Game of the Year. The Wii version has earned similar praise though the motion control scheme has received mixed reviews from both critics and gamers. A sequel Ōkamiden: Chiisaki Taiyō has been announced by Capcom for release in 2010 on the Nintendo DS.

In Game Menus
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Frame Buffer Effect
Referring to, the game uses some sort of frame buffer effect that looks quite bad on high resolutions, creating pixelated ghosting and an annoying blurred look. Setting EFB Copy to RAM shows this effect accurately.



EFB to Texture is inaccurate, freezing the effect and leaving a ghost image of the frame when effect was disabled on. However, the character can still move underneath the ghosting, and it gives a glimpse of what the game could look like without the effect. It is considerably clearer and nicer, akin to what it should look like on the higher resolution. By switching from EFB to RAM to EFB to Texture with careful timing and camera work, it is possible to create a partial work around for the ghosting, as outlined in this forum post. This is the best that is possible at present, however it requires effort and isn't permanent.



Randomized Text Bug
This randomized text bug happens in textboxes, what happens is different texts are not used in the right order, which makes it very hard to understand. It almost looks like it's in another language, but it really isn't. The only solution to fix this problem in some builds earlier than is to turn on Texture Cache Accuracy. But Texture Cache Accuracy is not needed to be used in or later, since this problem has already been fixed. So to avoid this issue, use or later.



Celestial Brush Freeze
Using the Celestial Brush on the bridge, the river or any area that requires the rejuvination brush skill will not function without "Enable CPU access". However, with this enabled, Ōkami will freeze as soon as you use the Celestial Brushs' Rejuvination skill, but then unfreeze after 12 seconds or more. You can skip the bridge scene where Issun shows you the rejuvination skill. However, the game requires to use the rejuvination skill on the river and many other areas in the game. This crash prevents the game from advancing. It should be noted that older builds were able to bypass this crash, we were unable to bypass it in. When tested on while holding A (or whatever key you've set A button to) button for 12 seconds or more, you can proceed with any area that requires the rejuvination skill. In some earlier builds, it would stay frozen while holding down A and would unfreeze after 12 seconds after you let go of the A and B buttons.

Testing

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Gameplay Videos

 * Okami on Dolphin Wii/GC Emulator (720p HD) Full Speed