One of the highlights of this year's Game Awards show was Capcom revealing a sequel to the legendary action-adventure game Okami is now in development.
The original game's director Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry, Bayonetta) will return for this new project. No platforms or release date have been announced just yet, but it's mentioned how "it might be some time" before another update. For now, we have a teaser of this next entry, which you can check out above. It's described as a "new adventure in the same vein" as Okami.
"What will the new adventures of Amaterasu and company be like? It will be some time before we greet you again, but we really hope you look forward to this project."
The @OkamiOfficial Twitter account posted a message from Kamiya:
On the official game website it's also mentioned how this project is being co-developed between studios and will "include various staff members of the original Okami: M-TWO Inc., Machine Head Works Inc., and CLOVERS Inc. – which Hideki Kamiya is a member of."
The first Okami game was originally developed by Clover Studio and led to multiple ports including the more recent HD release for the Switch. We gave this title an "excellent" nine out of ten stars when it arrived on the hybrid platform in 2018, noting how it was "one of the easiest recommendations we can make for your Switch library".
"If you haven’t already gathered, Okami HD is an utterly fantastic piece of software, and we feel you’d be doing yourself a disservice to pass on it. For a mere twenty bucks, you can have access to a 40-hour adventure that emulates Zelda wonderfully, adds in plenty of memorable mechanics, features one of the most memorable art styles in gaming, and is completely playable on the go, to boot. Though it may be showing its age a bit visually and its combat is sometimes a little on the easy side, Okami is an important, fun, and notable landmark in gaming history"
One other Capcom announcement during The Game Awards this year was the news of Onimusha: Way of the Sword. There's no mention of a Nintendo release (for now), but if you are interested in seeing what this franchise has to offer, you could always check out the Onimusha: Warlords game which is available on the Switch. Push Square also has a story up.